I think I was composing my post and sent it just after you posted.

rjm,

On the task bar at the bottom, go to antiX Control Center>then to Disks>Mount connected devices> you will then get a pop-up box>click on list, then identify your thumb drive and replace the /dev/sr0 or whatever is in the Device box with your thumb drive /sdb1, etc.
example:
/dev/sr0 replace with
/dev/sdb1
change the mount point to /media.

you will then be able to open the media and manipulate your drive.

cheers,
ohh

oldhoghead wrote:rjm,

On the task bar at the bottom, go to antiX Control Center>then to Disks>Mount connected devices> you will then get a pop-up box>click on list, then identify your thumb drive and replace the /dev/sr0 or whatever is in the Device box with your thumb drive /sdb1, etc.
example:
/dev/sr0 replace with
/dev/sdb1
change the mount point to /media.

you will then be able to open the media and manipulate your drive.

cheers,
ohh

I did that it seems to work thank you very much... Only problem I have left is the screen blanking I wish there was a startup command to turn it off or something, it is annoying blanking every ten minutes... also I can't seem to find a way to switch my clock to 12 hour time it is stuck on 24 hour format....

you can see my post above. You can turn the screen blanking off in the control center (session>set screen blanking). For some reason the"off" feature doesn't hold between boots, so I just set my blank time for a very long interval (480 minutes), which will hold over through a reboot.

if you are using the icewm window manager (the antix default), you can change your clock format in /home/user/.icewm/preferences and find the a line like this:
and change it to
The same code will work in fluxbox, but you right-click on the fluxbox toolbar clock and select"Edit Clock Format". You change the text options in the little popup box.

If you're using antiX with icewm window manager, here's how I set my clock to show 08:11 PM
Control center > Edit Icewm > preferences: Scroll down to TaskBarShowClock. It's at line 59.
Change TimeFormat to look like this: TimeFormat="%I:%M %p"
There is a space between %M and %p.

%I - sets the clock to 12 hour format and sets the hour
: - is the colon that separates hours from minutes
%M - is for minutes
- [SPACE] gives you some space between the time and AM/PM
%p - shows AM/PM

Or my favorite format %A %r. Iirc you can find all the clock format options by doing a"man date" in terminal. As for the screen blanking... it seems to hold across reboots for me, but I will do a fresh install to see if I can replicate and repair that issue

dolphin_oracle wrote:you can see my post above. You can turn the screen blanking off in the control center (session>set screen blanking). For some reason the"off" feature doesn't hold between boots, so I just set my blank time for a very long interval (480 minutes), which will hold over through a reboot.

if you are using the icewm window manager (the antix default), you can change your clock format in /home/user/.icewm/preferences and find the a line like this:

Code: Select all

TimeFormat="%H:%M"

and change it to

Code: Select all

TimeFormat="%I:%M %p"

The same code will work in fluxbox, but you right-click on the fluxbox toolbar clock and select"Edit Clock Format". You change the text options in the little popup box.

I am running rox jwm i believe, neither of the above but will look around and see if i can set it in there...

in jwm, the file you are looking for is /home/user/.jwm/tray . Look for this area.



The formating is the same as for icewm and fluxbox for the date/time format (actually a standard!).

dolphin_oracle wrote:in jwm, the file you are looking for is /home/user/.jwm/tray . Look for this area.

screenshot.jpg

The formating is the same as for icewm and fluxbox for the date/time format (actually a standard!).

Thanks I found that section yesterday and tried your above commands and it works...

I tried 360 and 480 on the screen blanking and it does not hold for me between reboots...

I had to download a few other browsers to try out seems the ice weasel uses too much ram and crashes...
but i found 3 others that seemed to work nice without sucking my little bit of ram I have dry...
Midori, netsurf and iceape all work without crashing with small amounts of ram....