BitJam wrote:That's bizarre.

I looked in the .desktop file and it contains:

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Categories=PackageManager;GTK;System;Settings;

ISTM we need to have"PackageManager" or"System" override"Settings".

according to this, you already do override:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://github.com/Antix-Linux/Build-iso/blob/master/Themes/full/misc/synaptic.desktop#L170"
linktext was:"https://github.com/Antix-Linux/Build-is ... sktop#L170"
====================================

Those"theme" files are written within the build chroot after packages have been downloaded+installed, right?
So how does synaptic.desktop wind up populated with"Categories=PackageManager;GTK;System;Settings;"
???

UNetbootin is omitted from the Systems Tools category

unetbootin accessible via the ControlCenter, IIRC. Click the various tabs and check out the contents.

However, on both the frugal boot from the usb flash drive and the full install, when booting the 32bit version on two diferent 32bit computers i get a"Loading cpufreq kernel modules failed" message during boot, this happens for version 17b2 and 17b3 but not the current 16.2

FWIW, on my PentiumD system (X86_FAMILY_15_MODEL_4) I've always seen that message, regardless of distro, regardless of 32 or 64 bit OS.
I never thought to mention this; I just presumed either the CPU or the BIOS was incompatible.

Using lxappearance, switch away from using the default (Arc) theme.
In my testing, the screen text immediately becomes noticeably sharper (more crisp) as soon as I select an alternate theme, even ArcDark.
When I switch back to Arc, the screen text immediately becomes less crisp.

I recall encountering similar problems, specific to Arc, when betatesting MX16... but other testers couldn't reproduce.

Thanks for all the feedback, bug reports.

RC1 will fix the bugs found including the synaptic menu entry error.

Looking forward to it!

@skidoo: I think ArcDark is the best dark theme I have ever seen, and seems to work well on almost everything.

skidoo wrote:

UNetbootin is omitted from the Systems Tools category

unetbootin accessible via the ControlCenter, IIRC. Click the various tabs and check out the contents.

I can't find UNetbootin in the Control Center.
Please direct me to where it is.
Thanks

it is not included on antiX-17 betas

I'm still losing the console themeing on all consoles after installation. The font seems to take, but not the side border graphics. This is with a 64 bit b3 base install. Here's a relevant (I think) error message from dmesg
I'll try to do a fresh install later and see if I just broke something.

Also, in control panel, antiX installer remains even after an install. which is a little strange. same goes for antix-cli-cc

ie: brightness tool - THANK YOU!

ie: streamlight notification area icon ... almost certainly related to gtk version and yad. Other yad icons have similar problem, even just" yad --notification" to get the standard yad icon in the systray. Haven't found any magic bullets yet, and seems limited to icewm as has been previously mentioned and noted in release notes.

more later!

d.o.

dolphin_oracle wrote:I'll try to do a fresh install later and see if I just broke something.

Also, in control panel, antiX installer remains even after an install. which is a little strange. same goes for antix-cli-cc

Thanks d.o.! No need for a re-install. I'll email you some ideas for a fix.

skidoo wrote:About 2yrs back, I requested addition of an early bailout opportunity in the persist-save gui workflow and Bitjam added it.
The early dialog simply (and perhaps confusingly) presents"Shall we proceed?" along with OK/Cancel buttons.

I had intended to followup locally (in order to avoid creating a translation burden) by injecting text into that dialog,
encouraging users to shutdown web browser, SaveAll any open WIP documents before proceeding...

...but was (am) stymied howto inject an additional textbox into the yad dialog.

ah hahaha if it wuzza snake it woulda bit me...

17-B3 CPU usage in rest is 7%
16.2 CPU in rest is 4%

Can i change?

change what?

koolstofje wrote:17-B3 CPU usage in rest is 7%
16.2 CPU in rest is 4%

Can i change?

Are you running live or installed? You can try to beat this back by using the htop program and then using the <F6> key to sort by PERCENT_CPU. If you don't have any extra programs running then the next place to look is unneeded services being launched at start up. The command to control these services is sysv-rc-conf which needs to be run in a console. It is probably also available in the Control Centre.

If you run htop on both systems you may be able to identify what has changed. OTOH, the difference may be due to changes inside of programs that you (we) don't have control over. Every year, the same programs take up more and more space and use more and more CPU. The growth seems to be keeping up with Moore's Law.

17b3 working without troubles on my Dell D620 laptop. Even WiFi works with WiCd without having to do anything...

$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 6.3.0)
Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2
Distro: antiX-17.b3_x64-full Heather Heyer 18 August 2017
Machine: Device: portable System: Dell product: Latitude D620
Mobo: Dell model: 0FT292 BIOS: Dell v: A08 date: 04/03/2007
Battery BAT0: charge: 51.0 Wh 128.1% condition: 39.8/51.0 Wh (78%)
model: Panasonic DELL J825J8 status: Full
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 T5500 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 6661
clock speeds: max: 1667 MHz 1: 1000 MHz 2: 1000 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel Resolution: 1440x900@60.03hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM GLX Version: 2.1 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
driver: tg3 v: 3.137 bus-ID: 09:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
driver: b43-pci-bridge bus-ID: 0c:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 164.1GB (2.5% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HM160HI size: 160.0GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: UDisk size: 4.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.6G used: 23M (2%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.24GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 143 Uptime: 6 min Memory: 456.2/1993.5MB
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.21
demo@antix1:~