A few questions....

Squishy · posted: 2010-01-05 05:25

Hi guys, brand spanking new AntiX user here. I've had a few issues with AntiX so far and I was hoping you could be some help...

First of all, when I installed AntiX onto my system I used the standard GRUB bootup options, assuming that the installer would see all the installations present on the system. I have 3 partitions, Windows Pro, Puppy and AntiX. However, GRUB only sees AntiX and Windows, and doesn't see Puppy at all. How do I sort that out?

Second, I'm having trouble installing a few things through the Synaptic Package Manager (something I was delighted to see, and was the main reason I'm interested in AntiX!). I've tried Opera - it downloaded all the necessary files and seemed to install it... but where did it install to? Its not in any of the menus! Same thing for VLC media player.

Finally, I wanted to try out the XFCE desktop environment (aside: does it use the Thunar file system? I'm not a fan of Rox), and installed it through the meta-installer. I logged out, logged back in with XFCE and an error message popped up too quickly for me to see and it jumped back to terminal then to the logon screen again. Any idea whats going on there?

oldhoghead · posted: 2010-01-05 12:46

Hello Squishy,

Welcome to antiX,

First of all, when I installed AntiX onto my system I used the standard GRUB bootup options, assuming that the installer would see all the installations present on the system. I have 3 partitions, Windows Pro, Puppy and AntiX. However, GRUB only sees AntiX and Windows, and doesn't see Puppy at all. How do I sort that out?

I have made a habit of printing out the working menu.lst and checking it against any new rewrite to grub, It seems every distro handles the grub write to the mbr differently. So with that in mind, if you know the correct syntax for your puppy, then just insert it in the /boot/menu.lst, you should be able as root to look at your puppy partition to copy and paste the correct boot stanza.

Second, I'm having trouble installing a few things through the Synaptic Package Manager (something I was delighted to see, and was the main reason I'm interested in AntiX!). I've tried Opera - it downloaded all the necessary files and seemed to install it... but where did it install to? Its not in any of the menus! Same thing for VLC media player.

If you are using the latest 8.5 beta 3, then it is an easy fix, in IceWM click on the menu, or right click anywhere on the desktop, then click on Desktop--> IceWM--> Update Menu(Auto)

I'll let someone who knows the correct proceedure take care of the last one, as it used to be the .xinitrc file that needed to be tweaked.

cheers,
oldhoghead

secipolla · posted: 2010-01-05 13:32

In case you're using antiX 8.2, VLC is under Applications>Applications>View (or Viewers)>VLC and Opera should be under Applications>Applications>Network>Browsers (or something similar)>Opera.

If you want to put them under the Multimedia and Network main menu categories you have to edit by hand ~/.icewm/menu (or open Control Center > Edit IceWM >Menu tab), the sintax is:
prog"Name" icon command
So for VLC it would be
prog"VLC" vlc vlc
(the icon must be in /usr/share/pixmaps or otherwise you have to put the whole path to it instead of just the leaf name; you can also put a dash '-' to leave without icons). If the command 'vlc' doesn't work, use 'qvlc'.
It's similar for Opera.
There's also an app to edit the menu. I think it's under Desktop>IceWM>Eidt menu. In this case open it then open file (choose menu) and edit it likewise (but it's graphical).

For Puppy, do you have a frugal or a full install? If frugal (inside a folder), it usually is

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title Puppy
root (hd0,x)
kernel /subdir/vmlinuz
initrd /subdir/initrd.gz

Change (hd0,x) for the proper one and 'subdir' for the subfolder where Puppy files are.

For full install:

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title Puppy Linux full-install (on /dev/hda6)
  root (hd0,5)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=normal

Source:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.puppylinux.com/hard-puppy.htm"
linktext was:"http://www.puppylinux.com/hard-puppy.htm"
====================================
" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false

For xfce, I've heard that the metapackage install is somewhat problematic but if you search this forum you'll find similar problems as yours and maybe a solution too.
Just to inform you, you can install xfce wihtout any issues by

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apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies

or installing the same packages through Synaptic.

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2010-01-05 14:13

I would also like to point out that Thunar works just fine without installing the full XFCE suite. Also, pcmanfm is similar in usage to thunar and is installed by default on antix.

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apt-get install thunar

nt351 · posted: 2010-02-17 20:05

question
For instance: Rutilt asks for root password, the whole desktop fades
How to prevent it ?

Do I need lighttpd, may I remove it ?

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-02-17 20:11

lighttpd is for web pages, like apache, so you can remove.

I think that fading is supposed to be a feature of gksu - to show that a root password is required.
No idea how to disable.

secipolla · posted: 2010-02-17 20:18

lighttpd is a server app (man lighttpd for an explanation, apt-cache show lighttpd for an overview). If you don't need it you can remove it.
Also you can open Control center > System (I think) > Set Services and disable lighttpd starting up automatically.

I don't have an idea about the fading effect but it's caused by the command gksu (or gksudo).

- I posted this at the same time as anti so it'll be kind of a confirmation (of ignorance too __{{emoticon}}__ )

nt351 · posted: 2010-02-24 01:36

Homework assignment completed

The desktop grabbing feature of gksu may be optioned out by adding '-g' to command line
In /usr/bin/su-to-root add '-g'

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gksu -g -u"$PRIV""$COMMAND"

nt351 · posted: 2010-05-28 23:01

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cannot remove: stale NFS file handle

I have a laptop. What is NFS handle doing on my machine ? how did it get there ?

(In the meantime, ran fsck and corrected all those out of order inodes)

nt351 · posted: 2010-11-25 22:33

Predicament:-- a few days ago -- through no fault of my own, of course -- somehow permissions changed on my machine, and now, as user I am unable to start XWindows.
this is what it has the nerve to say to me

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xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)

/dev/tty0 is there, fine and healthy, thank you -- 'root,tty crw' when i change it to 'rw' for user, too, it still complains that it is unable to establish communication with Xserver. Just to test, I set up a new user, but he can't start Xserver, either. I did not do anything wrong, (how could I) and since there is no one else here, it must have been the ghost in the machine.

question:-- what to do, what to do ? to restore permissions

nt351 · posted: 2011-11-21 18:42

On a Linux only machine, may I remove Fuse, or is it needed for something other than ntfs-3g ?

BitJam · posted: 2011-11-21 19:42

nt351 wrote:On a Linux only machine, may I remove Fuse, or is it needed for something other than ntfs-3g ?

There are other uses for Fuse but they are much less common. It is very likely you don't need Fuse.