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So…the antiX download page assures me that as programs are installed the menu is updated….and that appears to be a feature yet to be developed….
I installed Thunderbird, Imagemagik, VLC etc. no trace of them in any menu….yes I know how to call them on the run command in the menu, or command line, yes I really would like to avoid a thousand calls of minutia every time someone else sits down to a family computer, heck there are dozens of applications installed at initial setup that no one knows are on the computer (in fact they presume they’re not since this is billed as a “modest” installation).

Is there a simple way to generate a list of available (locally) programs and provide an executable link…..making a de-facto “start” point?

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Which version of antiX are you using?
How did you install the apps you mentioned?

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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[Member Red_Fir]

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19.2
I installed them through the “Software Installer”,
Imagemagik by itself, Tbird and VLC concurrently

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What flavor? Full or base?
It works for me on every computer I have set up with antiX, including a selfbuilt antiX core with fluxbox.
If you run in terminal:
sudo desktop-menu --write-out-global
Does an error pop up? Do the programs you mention now appear in the menu?

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no errors
no additions to menu.
Full version.

When “Terminal” is invoked I get the error “Error parsing command line options: Unknown option -ls”

[Member Xecure]

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Did any package get uninstalled? Anything related to desktop-session-antix or any python package?

Edit: packages needed to get the menu to autoupdate (already installed in antiX base and full):
desktop-defaults-base-antix xdg-utils python-gtk2 python-xdg desktop-session-antix

Also, if people want to search for programs easier, they can use App Select.

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not deliberately!
only thing uninstalled were extraneous language packs and those via “Software Installer”

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FWIW the Desktop in use is the Rox-Icewm

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Check if any of these packages is missing:
sudo apt install desktop-defaults-base-antix xdg-utils python-gtk2 python-xdg desktop-session-antix
Check the file ~/.desktop-session/log and see if you spot any errors there.
xdg-open ~/.desktop-session/log

The Terminal error is probably related to some changes or aliases added to bashrc. Has anything like that been changed?

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also FWIW logging out and running the F1 key around to IceWM Session attempting to login results in a crash back to SLiM and a new login attempt

Space IceWM gives me an desktop icon for Arduino….not installed in this distro but on the desktop for the Mint 19.3 that dual boots on this machine

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all packages up to date

session log gives this warning

** (x-terminal-emulator:30695): WARNING **: 12:45:49.605: Failed to connect to session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
IceWM: Warning: Exec ‘icewm-menu-fdo’ failed: No such file or directory
IceWM: Warning: ‘icewm-menu-fdo’ produces no output
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr
IceWM: Warning: Exec ‘icewm-menu-fdo’ failed: No such file or directory
IceWM: Warning: ‘icewm-menu-fdo’ produces no output

** (x-terminal-emulator:32189): WARNING **: 12:51:34.981: Error parsing command line options: Unknown option -ls

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Red_Fir wrote:

gives me an desktop icon for Arduino….not installed in this distro but on the desktop for the Mint 19.3 that dual boots on this machine

Are you sharing a /home partition?
What I mean, are you using the same /home folder/partition for both LM and antiX?
Is your .bashrc from LM?

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yes home and swap are shared, mint 19.3, and Linux Lite, and antiX

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Mint is on its own 120G ssd, Linux Lite and antiX share a 120G ssd ./home and swap are on a 500G hd

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Using antiX, create a new user just for testing purposes (you can delete it later) using Control centre > Maintenance > user manager.
Log in to your new user. Let us reinstall mupdf (if you kept it installed)
sudo apt install --reinstall mupdf
See that at the end you get this:

Writing Menu: fluxbox
Writing Menu: icewm
Writing Menu: jwm

Now check the menu. Are the other programs you installed there now?

Edit: I suspect that some files did not copy themselfs from /etc/skel (probably the .desktop-session one, the .icewm one, and maybe some other files. The content in .bashrc or .bash_aliases must contain a variable/command that has problems (or needs something spacial to be installed) in antiX, but that error message is not a real problem.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Xecure. Reason: Specifying antiX
• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Xecure. Reason: My suspitions

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