My antiX Core + Mate has some problem

[Member emer]

I am quite new on antiX. I followed an instruction from Youtube to build my own antiX + Mate edition. Everything seems good but I still have some problems. (Maybe will find more latter) First one, I can’t lunch ‘Computer’ on my desktop as it showed as below: (there also had problem about Trashcan, it can’t be recycled and the icon has no change when I don’t want delete them directory)

Second, the system can’t automount any USB devices. I’d configured the settings using ‘Automount Configuration’ tool as below:

The type of the USB device is NTFS or FAT32.

Sorry I am not good at English so I posted some pictures. I installed this special edition on some old PC, tablet-PC, EPC and semi-mordem PC. If I can solve these bugs, it will be a good Linux Distro to share more people.

Thanks in advance!

• This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by emer.

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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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1. check to see if gvfs and gvfs-backends are installed. Those govern the “computer” and “trash” links. They aren’t standard.

2. if using mate/caja, don’t bother with the automount-antiX settings. although I don’t think they will hurt, the auto-display of the mounted media may not pop up unless you change the default file manager in the antiX-control-center “Preferred Applications” to caja. But really if you are running mate, I wouldn’t bother with automount-antiX and just configure it to not automount. Then caja/mate-desktop will handle all that once gvfs and gvfs-backend are installed.

[Member emer]

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dolphin_oracle wrote:

1. check to see if gvfs and gvfs-backends are installed. Those govern the “computer” and “trash” links. They aren’t standard.

2. if using mate/caja, don’t bother with the automount-antiX settings. although I don’t think they will hurt, the auto-display of the mounted media may not pop up unless you change the default file manager in the antiX-control-center “Preferred Applications” to caja. But really if you are running mate, I wouldn’t bother with automount-antiX and just configure it to not automount. Then caja/mate-desktop will handle all that once gvfs and gvfs-backend are installed.

1. They (gvfs and gvfs-backends) were installed but not functional.
2. The only default file manager is caja because I installed the Mate environment from antiX Core. So I uncheck everything of the automount-antix but still can’t automount. My another Mate environment remastered from antiX full and use mata-package-installer to install Mate still can’t automount, too.

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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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stable or testing repos?

[Member emer]

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dolphin_oracle wrote:

stable or testing repos?

stable

I saw your video on Youtube. There had a note like that but you did not explain:

sudo vi /usr/local/share/excludes.list 
Add this to the file：root/.local/share/Trash

[Member bullfrog]

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also had the same issues still have not found an answer. hope you have better luck

[Anonymous]

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trashcan

antiX core is provided for the benefit of experts who prefer to DIY build-yer-own ( and is documented / represented as such )

Here’s a topic (antiX subforum at MX Linux forum) from about a week ago: No recycle bin?

About a year back, someone lovingly crafted a “Howto” and posted it to the forum (can be found, with effort, within the oldforums archive).
Guess what?
In response to the lovingly crafted HowTo, several people complained “the instructions are too long / difficult”.
explained, step by step… yes, it’s quite a long read. Furthermore, the process requires exacting attention to detail(s).

MX Linux has “Trashcan” pre-installed and has antiX liveboot + persistence goodies baked in.
For some folks, MX stands as the reasonable distro to choose, vs frustrating themselves with a “much assembly required” antiX core DIY project.

I can’t lunch ‘Computer’ on my desktop

Yes, understood. Here’s the thing, though ~~ repeatedly spoonfeeding a brand-new, just-for-you, answer regarding “how to fix” that issue… is a disservice.
Websearch.
Watch the howto video 4 times. Sit up straight, pay attention to detail, take notes.

video on Youtube. There had a note like that but you did not explain:

sudo vi /usr/local/share/excludes.list
Add this to the file：root/.local/share/Trash

…and we arrive at a point where someone must recursively explain:
• The excludes.list(s) (more than one exist) are only applicable in liveboot or frugal scenarios
• Frugal… is “like bagels and lox… without the lox”
• root/.local/share/Trash …is only applicable if (OMG, I’m not inadvertently encouraging someone to login to desktop session using root account am I ?!?)…

[Anonymous]

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Although I believe that the most correct answer is:
Q. the trashbinrecyclehickything is missing?
A. Correct. antiX contains no “Trash” mechanism.

…here’s a link to an oldforums archive HowTo topic: oldforums archive topic (posted: 2013): “A Trashcan (Recycle Bin) for antiX-Full”

caveats:

— note the date! (posted: 2013) the details may, or may not, still be correct

— installation of the ”spacefm plugin” doesn’t change the fact that file deletions performed via terminal emulator command line are not “sent to trashcan”.

— YMMV. The File::Delete actions of some GUI applications (including some file managers) do not respect/utilize “Trash”

caveat specific to caja file manager (ref: Feb2017 post in iso-snapshot-t6829.html)
— for whatever reason, when launched as “supersuser”, caja will put files in the “Trash” _but_ the trash isn’t accessible through the usual methods. So the trash icons look empty but the trash isn’t empty.

overheard:
“i ran out of space on my partition(not the root one). when i pressed show/hide hidden files it shown .Trash-1000 in it 25 giga of torrents.
i guess transmission saves torrents to trash after delete. there is no other explication because i didn’t install anything with trash.”

explication… and a side order of fries

[Member bullfrog]

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I didn’t care if the trash can worked it was only relevant to the computer icon issue because it gave the same error message and I did search the internet for information on how to fix the issue. I didn’t ask on the forum until later but I didn’t find any answers just that others had similar issues but no fixes. What is this video you are talking about?

[Anonymous]

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When emer replied to dolphin_oracle “I saw your video on Youtube” didn’t mention which specific video.
d_o’s youtube channel is runwiththedolphin
and I found 2 videos having “Trashcan” in their title:
video: “antiX — Unified Trashcan for Rox and SpaceFM”
video: “antiX 13.1 — Trashcan for SpaceFM”

I did search the internet for information on how to fix the issue

Wow. Just… wow

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websearch (via startpage.com) for query “caja cannot handle computer locations”
In the top search result, on the first page…

( which corroborates what d_o stated in post#2 )

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