Antix linux установка xfce

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Installing antiX, a Minimalist Mediumweight Linux, and Xfce4
Here’s How I Installed antiX
Warming Up the Net
Installing XFCE4
Continuing the Install
Wifi, 1990s Style
Bash, not sh
Changing the Window Theme
antiX + Xfce4 on a Dual Core is Fast
Xfce Forum
#2 2019-03-25 22:58:05
Re: AntiX 17.4 Full, how to install Xfce with everything 100% working
#3 2019-03-26 00:42:02
Re: AntiX 17.4 Full, how to install Xfce with everything 100% working
#4 2019-03-26 01:50:10
Re: AntiX 17.4 Full, how to install Xfce with everything 100% working

Installing antiX, a Minimalist Mediumweight Linux, and Xfce4

I just sold my first thing on Simbi, and it was an old laptop computer (that I really like, but was getting very little use). Simbi let’s you “sell” things for a fake currency called “simbi”. Simbi are a kind of time-bank/time-dollar DIY currency, except instead of being run by a hippie time bank, some startup got something like a million dollars to create a website where people trade services for this fake money. I’m using it to sell things that are difficult to sell locally, for various reasons, mainly that they are kind of “niche”. This computer I “sold” didn’t have Windows CDs, so that was my niche. There’s also my own laziness about driving to sell things.

If you follow this link to simbi.com, I’ll get a referral bonus of simbi when you do something to either spend or receive simbi.

So, I had forgotten that the last install of Xubuntu I did, 16.04LTS, was booting really slowly, like 3 minutes to get to a login. I totally forgot this. Ugh. It was so unpleasant. So I tried to reinstall, but was having some weird problem with booting into the live installer, as well. I have no idea what the problem was: systemd? LightDM? It was hanging somewhere in there, waiting for some long timeouts.

I went looking for another distro. antiX jumped out, because they named the latest release “Heather Heyer,” for the woman who was killed by the fascists in VA. They also proclaimed, right at the top, that they didn’t use systemd.

We were on the same page, on both things. I got so irritated at systemd that, one time, I actually complained, at length, to a friend about the headaches of Debian and Ubuntu trying to replace the SysV init with Upstart and Systemd. I’m sure he was as annoyed, and baffled, as you are, about having to know this about me.

Here’s How I Installed antiX

Downloading antiX took around 15 minutes on bittorrent. Not bad. The -net version, which is the smallest, is under 200MB.

I had to use “dd” to burn the .iso file to the USB stick, because the Ubuntu USB boot maker doesn’t recognize the image.

dd if=whateveryoudownload.iso of=/dev/sd?

Where “?” is replaced with the letter of the drive you want to burn to. (Use “mount” to list all the available disks.)

Booting into antiX was almost instantaneous. I think it took under 10 seconds. All the BIOS stuff took far longer than actually booting into antiX.

Warming Up the Net

You need to connect the computer to Ethernet, to get a network connection.

Then, you should update apt to warm up all the network caches:

My first attempt to install failed, and my second failed as well. Warming up the caches helped smooth the downloading.

This -net distro doesn’t come with the usual network tools. It’s really bare. The instructions said to run cli-installer, so I did that. It’s an old “slackware” style installer. When you try installing, you will need a few attempts to get it right.

I set up the disk with a few gigs for swap, and the rest for the system. (Sorry, no instructions on partitioning here.)

I don’t recall the prompts, but use logic and the defaults. The installer downloaded some things, and then copied them to the hard disk.

Then it tried to run GRUB. I recall the installer tried to run GRUB once, but failed; then the installer ran it later, and it worked. It installed a bootloader onto the MBR of the disk, just like in the old days.

So I can read the repository.

Installing XFCE4

I’m doing this from memory, so it might be wrong. As root, do this:

apt install xserver-xorg acpi-support xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfwm4 lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter

I definitely didn’t do it in that order, but I suspect that order will work better than what I did.

Continuing the Install

If there are any problems, you should log in as root, then go to /home/youruser and look at .xsession-errors to see what’s going on. Look for some permission or ownership issues with some files X wants to modify.

Open a terminal and sudo -s to get a root shell:

apt install iceweasel vim-gtk gksu xfce4-indicator-plugin

That installs Firefox. In Debian it’s called iceweasel. I like vim. I am not sure if gksu is needed, but I added it to avoid headaches if gksudo is used.

apt install synaptic policykit-1-gnome

That installs the Synaptic package manager and the PolicyKit agent.

Logout and login. That forces the PolicyKit agent to run. (It raises the password dialog for Synatic.)

Wifi, 1990s Style

The Fujitsu uses the Intel chipset, so wifi is done like this. I’m not using the slicker tool called Network Manager. The wifi controls are under the “Internet” menu in the applications menu.

apt install wicd firmware-iwlwifi

I think you need to reboot after installing this, but I may be wrong.

Try out Wicd. Applications -> Internet -> Wicd Network Manager. It’s hella ugly, but gets the job done.

Bash, not sh

I forgot to note to change the user’s shell.

sudo chsh -s /bin/bash yourusernamehere

Changing the Window Theme

There are window themes to make things look a little more to your liking. I like Breeze.

apt install xfwm4-themes xfwm4-theme-breeze

After setting up the theme, I spent an hour playing with installing CUPS for making PDFs, Okular, and a few other apps. PulseAudio needed to be installed, too. I won’t put the instructions here, because I just poked around Synaptic to find these common programs.

antiX + Xfce4 on a Dual Core is Fast

I swear, this old dual core Pentium from the mid 2000s feels faster than my current desktop, which is a pretty old quad core AMD. The antiX + Xfce4 envrionment is lean and fast. The browser lags a bit, but it plays videos.

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The URL above summarizes my question. Help would be much appreciated!

P.S. Thank you Devs for making such a great desktop environment!

Last edited by TouchOdeath (2019-03-27 21:04:14)

#2 2019-03-25 22:58:05

Re: AntiX 17.4 Full, how to install Xfce with everything 100% working

For the missing icons, make sure that you at least have the gnome icon theme installed. You might also want to install other icon themes if you want the nicer icons. Look in Appearance > Icons tab and make sure there is an Icon theme selected.

As for mugshot, after you’ve installed the application, does clicking on the «users screen» (not sure what that is), does mugshot open then? If not, try running it in a terminal window to see what happens. If you are looking for the mugshot icon, I believe it’s called «About Me» in the Settings submenu or in the Settings Manager (if the distro configures it do appear there).

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#3 2019-03-26 00:42:02

Re: AntiX 17.4 Full, how to install Xfce with everything 100% working

I’m guessing the install string that I had was correct then. I’ve decided to go with MX Linux instead. If you decide not to answer this thats fine. Thank you for your help, much appreciated!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File «/usr/bin/mugshot», line 36, in
mugshot.main()
File «/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mugshot/__init__.py», line 47, in main
window = MugshotWindow.MugshotWindow()
File «/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mugshot_lib/Window.py», line 52, in __new__
new_object.finish_initializing(builder)
File «/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mugshot/MugshotWindow.py», line 228, in finish_initializing
self.init_user_details()
File «/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mugshot/MugshotWindow.py», line 271, in init_user_details
user_details = self.get_user_details()
File «/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mugshot/MugshotWindow.py», line 654, in get_user_details
as_data = self.get_accounts_service_data()
File «/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mugshot/MugshotWindow.py», line 706, in get_accounts_service_data
name = self.split_name(name)
File «/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mugshot/MugshotWindow.py», line 686, in split_name
parts = name.split()
AttributeError: ‘bool’ object has no attribute ‘split’

I guess who cares about mugshot really. The command users-admin works.. so thats what matters.

«In the ‘Settings’ there is a lot of applications missing. Here are a few applications missing: Under Hardware: Power Manager, Bluetooth, Removable drives and media. Under System: Firewall. «

For the firewall. AntiX uses gufw. Why it doesn’t show up under settings.. you got me.

Last edited by TouchOdeath (2019-03-26 01:32:32)

#4 2019-03-26 01:50:10

Re: AntiX 17.4 Full, how to install Xfce with everything 100% working

I’m guessing the install string that I had was correct then.

sudo apt install accountsservice

For the missing icons, AntiX, for some reason, ships with a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file that hardwires certain settings. This is causing your icon issue in Xfce. Rename those two files and log out and back in again.

Here are a few applications missing: Under Hardware: Power Manager,

Install a bluetooth manager like blueman — Xfce does not provide one.

Removable drives and media.

AntiX is missing the desktop file. Here is the one shipped with Xfce. Create a file called «thunar-volman-settings.desktop» in ~/.local/share/applications with that content (Note: remove the two preceding underscores before Name and Comment).

Install a firewall gui management app — Xfce does not provide one.

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