topic title: a few newbie questions
Posts: 1
Puffin1
Joined: 13 Jan 2013
#1
Hiya

I only use my netbook as a music source for my hifi. It's connected via USB-cable and DAC to the amplifier.
It's an Asus EeePC 1011PX (Atom N455 1.66, 2 GB RAM).

At the moment, I have Xubuntu 12.04 on it (Xfce), and listen to music with Rhythmbox, which I like very much.
I'm quite happy with the whole system.
It boots in about 38 seconds, including the automatically starting Rhythmbox.
(Without Rhythmbox it's about 35 seconds.)

This leads me to my first question:
Would it be possible to boot significantly faster with AntiX?

Some more questions:
- With which desktop environment does AntiX boot fastest?
- Does Rhythmbox run well on AntiX?
- Would it also be possible to have Rhythmbox start automatically at bootup?
- Would AntiX find the DAC well?

Thanks a lot.

Puffin1
Posts: 137
duncan_mk
Joined: 19 Sep 2012
#2
Welcome to antiX. I use it on a Dell mini Netbook (specced pretty much the same as your Asus except only 1Gb RAM) and find it excellent.
Would it be possible to boot significantly faster with AntiX?
Probably not! Your speeds with Xbuntu tally pretty closely with mine.
- With which desktop environment does AntiX boot fastest?
I use an extremely vanilla IceWM (a solid, single colour wallpaper, no icons on screen except on the toolbar, conky & that's it) and this boots blindingly fast from login.
- Would it also be possible to have Rhythmbox start automatically at bootup?
Certainly, the toolbar has an icon with a crossed tools logo: that is the antiX Control Centre. Click on that, select whatever desktop you've chosen (Edit IceWM) and the Geany editor will open with a clutch of documents displayed in Tabs. Select Startup and go to the foot of the page - you will find some entriesw a bit like this:

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(sleep 5 && volumeicon) &
(sleep 5 && toram-eject) &
(sleep 3 && clipit) &
(sleep 3 && tasque --quiet) &
Simply add Rhythymbox to the list.

The Control Centre should (and I say should 'cos mine seems to be playing up a bit) enable you to select your default file manager from here: Controll Centre ==> Session ==> Edit Login Options

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#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# .xinitrc file
#
# AUTO-GENERATED by change-default-desktop on Wed Oct 10 08:45:05 BST 2012
#
# This file was auto-generated.  If you want to customize it you MUST
# DELETE the line above or your changes will be lost on the next boot.
#
# Alternatively, simply put your changes in .xinitrc-custom.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------

[ -x ~/.xinitrc-custom ] && ~/.xinitrc-custom

[ -f ~/.Xmodmap ] && xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

case"$1" in
    Rox-icewm|rox-icewm)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="rox-icewm"
        echo"rox-icewm" > $HOME/.wallpaper/session
        rox --pinboard=antiX-ice
        exec icewm-session
        ;;
    icewm)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="icewm"
        echo"icewm" > $HOME/.wallpaper/session
        sed -i -e"s/rox --pinboard=antiX-ice &/#rox --pinboard=antiX-ice &/" $HOME/.icewm/startup
        exec icewm-session
        ;;
    Rox-fluxbox|rox-fluxbox)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="rox-fluxbox"
        echo"rox-fluxbox" > $HOME/.wallpaper/session
        rox --pinboard=antiX-fb
        exec startfluxbox
        ;;
    fluxbox)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="fluxbox"
        echo"fluxbox" > $HOME/.wallpaper/session
        sed -i -e"s/rox --pinboard=antiX-fb &/#rox --pinboard=antiX-fb &/" $HOME/.fluxbox/startup
        exec startfluxbox
        ;;
    dwm)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="dwm"
        exec dwm
        ;;
    Rox-jwm|rox-jwm)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="rox-jwm"
        echo"rox-jwm" > $HOME/.wallpaper/session
        rox --pinboard=antiX-jwm
        exec jwm
        ;;
    jwm)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="jwm"
        echo"jwm" > $HOME/.wallpaper/session
        sed -i -e"s/rox --pinboard=antiX-jwm &/#rox --pinboard=antiX-jwm &/" $HOME/.jwm/startup
        exec jwm
        ;;
    wmii)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="wmii"
        exec wmii
        ;;

    # Default: icewm
    *)
        export DESKTOP_CODE="icewm"
        echo"icewm" > $HOME/.wallpaper/session
        sed -i -e"s/rox --pinboard=antiX-ice &/#rox --pinboard=antiX-ice &/" $HOME/.icewm/startup
        exec icewm-session
        ;;
esac
Then cut and paste your choice for default to the foot of the page (as above).

Can't help you with DAC or Rhythmbox I'm afraid - I'm functionally illiterate as far as AV is concerned. |Sorry you had to wait so long for a reply __{{emoticon}}__

dmk