Hello there,

I'm new to the distro but I installed it the other day and was very impressed. There was only one thing that I did not manage to sort out: which dock can you get working with AntiX?

I tried:

: Docky (worked but you cannot auto hide since there is no composting)
: Cairo (did not load)
: DockBarX (did not load)
: DockX (loaded but then crashed)
: Others (could not get them working, including AWN)

So is there a general issue with AntiX or perhaps just IceWM and docks? Is there a dock that people do use with it?

Thanks in advance

I use wbar, which I believe should be in our repo and available via apt-get. Though those are most likely fairly old, and I cannot remember if there are 64 bit packages there. I will rebuild the packages to the newest version and add them this weekend.

I did a bit of searching around the forum and the web generally before I tried any docks: and wbar was the first I tried. It did seem to work fine: but after a reboot something happened and I was unable to get it going again. I'm using the 32 bit version of the distro by the way. Are there any good guides for using wbar out there?

Not sure about a guide:
"wbar" starts wbar
"man wbar" gives the manual page of all the options wbar takes
"~/.wbar" is where all the settings are stored (perhaps there is a bad one set so it will not start)
"wbar-config" start wbar configuration utility
and adding to startup you probably will want a sleep of 3 seconds or so like:
sleep 3 && wbar &

Google wbarconf for getting a gui editor for wbar. Dave and I used to play tag with wbar a while back. I just run straight fluxbox lately but I have played with wbar in fluxbox in AntiX.

Kinda a OK wiki to learn wbar from, (they use openbox instead of Fluxbox)


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/wbar"
linktext was:"http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/wbar"
====================================

Imo, the wbar, and wbar-config thing makes it easy enough to do...regular things. even I could get it working!

I got IceDock going in the end. Not sure what the issue was with me for wbar: got this working nicely with another distro (Porteus, running Razor-QT which can be a bit of a struggle to install software with, but is a very fast USB pendrive distro).