Xfce 4.14 for antiX

[Anonymous]

Hi Friends! Is it possible to get Xfce 4.14 in antiX probably from MX.

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The forum software mangles the command text.
Any displayed “curly single quotationmark” seen here should be typed as an apostrophe character.

$ sudo bash -c ‘echo “deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list’
$ wget http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/c/checkaptgpg/checkaptgpg_19.10.08mx19+1_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i checkaptgpg_19.10.08mx19+1_all.deb
$ sudo checkaptgpg
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-appfinder xfce4-panel
### THE NEXT LINE IS OPTIONAL
$ sudo apt install xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-terminal thunar-volman
$ sudo sed -ie ‘s/^login_cmd.*/login_cmd %session/’ /etc/slim.conf
$ sudo apt update
$ rm checkaptgpg_19.10.08mx19+1_all.deb
$ sudo bash -c ‘echo “#deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list’
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The above series of commands will install Xfce (4.14, from MX Linux) onto antiX 19 Full system.
Immediately afterward, you will be able to choose Xfce session from the SLiM login screen.

This post does not represent an offer to provide ongoing support for your antiX + Xfce adventure.
I do not know ~~ you may additionally wish to (or may need to) ALSO install:
gvfs
gvfs-backends
thunar-archive-plugin
thunar-media-tags-plugin
xfce4-sensors-plugin
xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin
xfce4-systemload-plugin
xfce4-battery-plugin
xfce4-clipman-plugin
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
xfce4-cpugraph-plugin
xfce4-fsguard-plugin
xfce4-genmon-plugin
xfce4-mount-plugin
xfce4-diskperf-plugin
xfce4-verve-plugin
xfce4-wavelan-plugin
xfce4-weather-plugin
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
If so, install the additional items prior to disabling the MX repo within /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
(disabling is the tailend step in the series of commands, above)

Wait for others to advise, but I suspect you could create a file under /etc/apt/preferences.d/
and “pin” the MX repo so that only select packages will be sourced from that repo
(but, forewarning: doing so may prevent installation of certain items via packageinstaller)

Package: xfce4*
Pin: origin “mxrepo.com”
Pin-Priority: 100

Package: thunar*
Pin: origin “mxrepo.com”
Pin-Priority: 100

Package: *
Pin: origin “mxrepo.com”
Pin-Priority: 50

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Thanks @skidoo for the detailed instructions. Will try with a fresh base frugal later today and report.I understand that we don’t receive updates for xfce afterwards because we remove mx repo after installing xfce 4.14.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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you will also need xfwm, which doesn’t follow the usual xfce4-* naming convention.

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d_o, that’s already handled here:
$ sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-appfinder xfce4-panel

^—v
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
exo-utils gtk2-engines-xfce libgarcon-1-0 libgarcon-common
libkeybinder-3.0-0 libthunarx-3-0 libupower-glib3 libwnck-common libwnck22
libxfce4panel-2.0-4 libxfce4ui-utils thunar thunar-data
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin xfce4-session xfce4-settings xfdesktop4
xfdesktop4-data xfwm4

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@skidoo
The first command returns

$ sudo bash -c ‘echo “deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list’
bash: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list’: Permission denied

so I manually put mx.list into sources.list.d and followed other steps and installed xfce 4.14.
Then this command returns

$ sudo sed -ie ‘s/^login_cmd.*/login_cmd %session/’ /etc/slim.conf
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: �

Upon reboot selecting xfce session in slim ‘failed to exec login command’.So I booted into other wm and from there select into xfce.Conky totally distorted in xfce.Otherwise xfce 4.14 working ok with some glitches here and there.

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@skidoo
The first command returns

$ sudo bash -c ‘echo “deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list’
bash: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list’: Permission denied

so I manually put mx.list into sources.list.d and followed other steps and installed xfce 4.14.
Then this command returns

$ sudo sed -ie ‘s/^login_cmd.*/login_cmd %session/’ /etc/slim.conf
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: �

Upon reboot selecting xfce session in slim ‘failed to exec login command’.So I booted into other wm and from there select into xfce.Conky totally distorted in xfce.Otherwise xfce 4.14 working ok with some glitches here and there.

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@skidoo
The first command returns

$ sudo bash -c ‘echo “deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list’
bash: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list’: Permission denied

so I manually put mx.list into sources.list.d and followed other steps and installed xfce 4.14.
Then this command returns

$ sudo sed -ie ‘s/^login_cmd.*/login_cmd %session/’ /etc/slim.conf
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: �

Upon reboot selecting xfce session in slim ‘failed to exec login command’.So I booted into other wm and from there select into xfce.Sometimes slim login to xfce automatically.Conky totally distorted in xfce.Otherwise xfce 4.14 working ok with some glitches here and there.

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After d_o mentioned xfwm, I retested & successfully confirmed the series of commands in post #1.
I also added bolded warnings about the text displayed by forum being mangled ~~ unsuitable for copy/paste

There should be no harm from re-running those commands, even now that Xfce is “kinda, sorta, but quirky” already installed.

QWERTY keyboard
asdfghjkl;’
Key to the right of semicolon.
For me, an unshifted keypress produces an apostrophe (single-quote) character.
A shifted keypress produces a doublequote character.

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test: do “code” tags preserve type single and double quotation mark characters?
single ' double "
Yay! Today they do. Who can guess what we’ll get at the next update of the forum software…
Really, as a general rule though, copying text from a webpage (or from a rich-text document)
and pasting to the commandline is a bad (risky) practice.

sudo bash -c 'echo "deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list'
wget http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/c/checkaptgpg/checkaptgpg_19.10.08mx19+1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i checkaptgpg_19.10.08mx19+1_all.deb
sudo checkaptgpg
sudo apt update
sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-appfinder xfce4-panel
###   THE NEXT LINE IS OPTIONAL
sudo apt install xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-terminal thunar-volman
sudo sed -ie 's/^login_cmd.*/login_cmd %session/' /etc/slim.conf
sudo apt update
rm checkaptgpg_19.10.08mx19+1_all.deb
sudo bash -c 'echo "#deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list'

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Anonymous wrote:

Really, as a general rule though, copying text from a webpage (or from a rich-text document)
and pasting to the commandline is a bad (risky) practice.

Lession learned.This time all the commands run correct.Can select and login to Xfce session from slim.:)

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