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BobC
I’m an ex Windows guy. I still have to use it at work, but at home I only touch it if I really must.
I’m guessing that you are running antiX from virtualbox without having run the install, because if you had installed it, you would have needed to choose the password. Therefore, I think you are signed on as demo and the password for demo is demo.
The pinning thing… There are many ways to make particular documents easily accessible.
1. Put them in a folder and click on them in the file manager
2. On antiX’s main menu there is a Personal menu and you can add options to it.
3. Put them on the desktop, like the install option is.
4. Use Geany and just leave them open and save all when you change any. There is also a Notepad++ version for Linux but I haven’t used it much.
5. There are many other ways. Check out a youtube channel by Dolphin Oracle for an easy painless way to learn many things about running antiX.
If you just want to “run” the operating system as a normal user type, MX is probably easier the better choice as it would be easy to adapt to. If you are always wanting to tweak things and looking for blazing performance out of old hardware, then antiX will suit you better, long run, IMO.
I think you should use your virtualbox setup to find and try different programs and decide for yourself which you want to run. They are all free for your investment in time. Use the web to hunt and then use Control Centre, System, Snyaptic to add new packages. There are 40,000 or 50,000 to choose from, I think, and if you install one it should automatically install any other packages it needs and add itself to the menu as part of the process.
I am wondering about running the live version from USB, because I think unless you install it or turn persistence on, I don’t think your changes will get saved. I would suggest finding that out quickly before you lose anything important.
- This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by BobC.
Anonymous
another posibility:
DesktopMenu }} Desktop }} RoxPanel On/Off
By default the panel displays quick-open folder icons for “Home” and “Apps”.
You could create one or more ~/Documents subfolders, and drag icons for those subfolders from file manager window to the panel. If single-click is configured for rox, one click on a panel icon plus one click to open any file within the subfolder. That degree of quick accessibility seems nearly equivalent to, any maybe superior to, the “pinning” available in windows desktopmenu.Yup!
10 points @skidoo 🙂
skidoo answered it while I was preparing the screenshot …
The pinning thing …
PPC
Sorry I didn’t get what you meant by “pin”…
Here an alternate way to “pin” a text file:
1- in the default antiX desktop (rox-IceWM) just open the file manager (Rox in the example I’m giving),
2- right click it, choose “new”- “blank file”.
3- Name the file whatever you want (don’t forget the .txt extension so it’s easily opened in other operating systems. It shows up on the file manager window.
4- Just Drag and drop it to the place where you want it in the desktop.It’s exactly the same procedure for dragging and dropping a already exinting file.
In case you want to create your text file in your windows partition, so you can read and alter it easily from Windows (sorry, I belive windows 10 does not read/write linux formatated partitions out of the box, but I’m not a windows user, maybe they changed that).
Adapt the previous procedure, mounting the windows partition before, and creating the text file there…
Then try right clicking the file and create a “shortcut”. Drag the shortcut from the file manager window to the Desktop (sorry I’m not in my antiX box right now, but I assume you can do this even in a windows partition).P.
Here is a video on using rox filer (which is already installed) that shows how to put the folders and documents you want to “pin” right there on the screen to click.
- This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by anticapitalista. Reason: shrunk video
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