This morning I upgraded from AntiX15.1 to AntiX16. With the upgrade I kept my old home folder to retain data and configuration files. The computer is an HP Mini 210 notebook. I have two problems so far, one big, one small.

1. When starting my desktop session, the user desktop session startup file (configured in the Control Center) is not being read. It is the same file from 15.1, in the same location. It is set up to invoke volumeicon, wicd-client, xfce4-power-manager, and synclient (for touchpad taming). (I started volumeicon and wicd-client using the menu Run command and they worked fine, so I'm pretty sure that the startup file not being read is the problem.)

Has the location of this file been changed in 16? Is there some configuration setting that needs to be changed? I viewed DO's video on Anti16 and recall some mention of a new default desktop session startup file.

Possibly related: In 15.1 conky would start by default. That no longer seems to be the case, at least consistently. What should I do to have it appear at startup?

2. In 15.1 I used as wallpaper a white Debian logo on a blueish-grey background I found on the web. In 16 it is displayed OK, except that there is now a sort of halo effect going outward from the center. So something has changed with the display software. At startup the halo effect goes on and off a time or two.

One other niggle: The Control Center is wider than before, with extra space between the tabs on the left and the first column of buttons. This is an annoyance on my small 1024 x 600 screen.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Cheers,
Andy N1KSN

I've found a work-a-round for the desktop session startup file not executing on login. I added a line to the fluxbox startup file calling it just prior to the final exec fluxbox line.

I still have the odd halo effect on my wallpaper. Every now and then it isn't there, somehow depending on the login. Also, the effect sometimes toggles back and forth quickly when the screen is active. Weird.

Andy

Yes, session management files have changed for antix16.
I have no idea what, or how much, breakage would be introduced by migrating your ~/.config files from antix15.

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As for dimensions of ControlCenter window,
first, try this:
in fluxbox, after you've opened ControlCenter and drag/resized it to your preferred dimensions and/or preferred relative position,
right-click its window titlebar, mouseover"Remember..." in the context menu and, in the flyout menu, tick"Position" and"Dimensions".
Note: This has its limits ~~ if you drag the window down to overly-small dimensions, text-n-icons displayed in the window will
wrap or overlap and become a visual mess.

If the above doesn't suit you, consider launching lxappearance and choosing a smaller point size for the default font...
...or go shopping, install a font package from debian repos which will provide one or more fontsets having"narrow" variants.

Here's another alternative for you to consider. Edit:
$sudo geany /usr/local/bin/antixcc.sh

search/replace all instances of with {your choice of px width for the icon images, instead of the implicit default size} search/replace all instances of with {26 or some value smaller than the current 32}I tested. By applying these quick edits, cc window opens to smaller size and I'm able to drag/resize it down to 560x190px.
(YMMV. lxappearance shows"Sans 10" as my current default gtk font, and my monitor DPI is set to 96)

Thanks for the reply, skidoo. I tried the fluxbox window remember thing and it worked, although there were limits on how much I cold shrink the Control Center window.

As for the session startup file, I hope there is a fix that does not require a reinstall with a reformat of my home partition. I use a separate home partition just so I can retain old user files through a new installation. With the exception of the problems with startup file and video rendering of my preferred wallpaper everything else works just fine.

Again, thanks.
Andy

You could try copying the files in etc/skel to your home/username directory.

Also, the control centre in antiX-16 has been renamed so tou would need to install that plus a few other debs to get to antiX-16.

When I get time, I'll post an upgrade path from antiX-15 to antiX-16. Probably by the end of next week as I'm getting ready to work in the UK for 3 months

My guess (as not having downloaded v16) is that during the straight copy you lost the exec bit on the startup file. Maybe ~/. desktop-session/log will help confirm

I had already installed AntiX16, so I just copied the / etc/skel/.desktop-session files to my ~/.desktop-session after putting my customizations in startup. That solved the desktop session startup execution problem. I did not copy any more of the files in / etc/skel to my home folder so as not to tempt fate.

The odd halo effect on my wallpaper remains, so I changed my wallpaper for now to AntiX Sleek.

Thanks for all the responses.

Andy