Antix M8 : Post-installation problems

Pierre771 · posted: 2009-11-05 17:44

Good evening

M8 : everything OK

I didn't found how to obtain the Wicd tray icon at startup in fluxbox

Can you help me please ?

Thanks

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-11-05 17:54

In the .fluxbox/startup file, comment out this section

wicd-client &

Pierre771 · posted: 2009-11-05 18:34

Everything is OK.

Thanks

Pierre771 · posted: 2009-11-05 21:24

Good evening

there is a small problem : many things (not everything) are in English such as : Iceweasel in spite of the package iceweasel-l10n-fr (installed), aMSN, Leafpad, Thunar and many other things (the fluxbox menu for example). Synaptic is in French.

Thank you and good night

Pierre771 · posted: 2009-11-05 21:30

post error cf above

secipolla · posted: 2009-11-05 21:51

I think you'll have to do like with 8.2 to turn French the default locale. Even so some apps may not have been translated.

You will need to change /etc/default/locale to read: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
and /etc/profile to add at the end
export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

lagopus · posted: 2009-11-06 00:20

Pierre,

Avec la 8.2 un très gros effort a été fait pour la localisation.
J'ai été très (heureusement) surpris du résultat obtenu, et par le travail abattu par anticapitalista pour traduire en particulier les scripts, le centre de contrôle.
Les menus fluxbox ne sont pas traduits en effet, mais les menus icewm le sont, à 95% très correctement.

Tous peuvent participer à ce travail.
J'espère que tu feras une longue route avec antiX.

Yves

Pierre771 · posted: 2009-11-06 06:37

secipolla wrote:/etc/default/locale to read: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
and /etc/profile to add at the end
export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

The first was already at the good value. The second no.

The problem was fixed. Thanks.

Yves : je te réponds dans un moment, à tout à l'heure.

Pierre771 · 06 Nov 2009, 07:30 #9 2009-11-06 07:30

lagopus wrote:Pierre,

Avec la 8.2 un très gros effort a été fait pour la localisation.
J'ai été très (heureusement) surpris du résultat obtenu, et par le travail abattu par anticapitalista pour traduire en particulier les scripts, le centre de contrôle.
Les menus fluxbox ne sont pas traduits en effet, mais les menus icewm le sont, à 95% très correctement.

Tous peuvent participer à ce travail.
J'espère que tu feras une longue route avec antiX.

Yves

Te réponds en MP.

Pierre771 · posted: 2009-11-06 13:37

Hello

How could Slim execute by default another desktop than fluxbox ? At the moment, it needs a manual manip.

Thanks

OU812 · posted: 2009-11-06 13:43

Use the control center

control center > x window > edit login options

Change this line

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*)
    exec icewm-session
    ;;

To the name of you window manager of choice.

john

Pierre771 · posted: 2009-11-06 14:52

Hello

My default is fluxbox (I installed the basic version)

I installed Lxde and Icewm

I don't find the control center.

Two questions about icewm : I don't find the parameters.

I don't have the Wicd tray icon (Wicd-client).

I can deconnect only by ending the session and come back to Slim.

Thanks

secipolla · posted: 2009-11-06 15:36

Pierre, if you want to use Icewm you will have to be patient and configure it. In antiX full it comes already configured.

For Icewm manual, open /usr/share/doc/icewm/html/icewm.html

The parameters for Icewm are in /usr/share/icewm/.
First create a folder in your user folder called .icewm (with a dot '.' in front - it will only show up if you enable hiden objects), then copy keys, menu, preferences, toolbar and winoptions from /usr/share/icewm/ to it.
Then you can tweak Icewm's preferences as you like.

For you to be able to reboot and shutdown first you have to edit .icewm/preferences. Open it with leafpad, press ctrl+f and search for shutdown. Then leave it like this

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#  Command to shutdown the system
ShutdownCommand="sudo halt"

#  Command to reboot the system
RebootCommand="sudo reboot"

and save.

Then you have to edit /etc/sudoers so it won't ask for a password when you reboot or shutdown.
Open a terminal as root or type

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su root

in a normal terminal, then

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visudo

then add this line

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%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot

press ctrl+o to save, confirm and then ctrl+x to exit.

To have the Wicd tray icon do this: create another file inside ~/.icewm and call it startup (so it will be ~/.icewm/startup) with this content

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#!/bin/bash

sleep 2 && wicd-client &

then open rox file manager and go to ~/.icewm, right-click the startup file, select properties and check the 'Exec' boxes in 'User', 'Group' and 'World'.

Then logout and log back in for the changes to take action.

For the Control Center, if you have an antiX full cd, boot into it, go to /usr/local/bin and find antixcc-fr.sh then copy it to /usr/local/bin of your installed antiX. And to make it appear in the toolbar, open ~/.icewm/toolbar and add

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prog"Centre de contrôle" /usr/share/icons/gTangish-2.0a1/32x32/categories/preferences-desktop.png antixcc-fr.sh

Pierre771

Thanks for this long and detailed explanation !

secipolla · posted: 2009-11-06 15:43

You're welcome. If you don't have the antix full cd then I may upload antixcc-fr.sh for you.