Empty tiny window at startup, what is it?

pasuuna · posted: 2012-05-11 10:57

Hi!

When I start up my laptop I get an empty tiny window at the top left corner, smaller than the home folder icon. It's got no header and it won't close if I try to. How do I figure out what it is and get rid of it? I've been moving it into a different workspace for now.

I'm fairly new to antiX and I've installed antiX 11 in Finnish on the laptop and done the dist-upgrades. It did have I think 8.5 before and I installed over that keeping the home folder. Cheers!

rokytnji · posted: 2012-05-11 11:53

I think it is a wicd window. I had the same problem but after a few more dist-upgrades over time the problem went away. Like you I moved it to another Desktop till the problem resolved itself.

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-05-11 12:07

Right-click on it and choose minimze to get rid of it for the session. To permanently get rid of it, and if you do not use wicd, is to edit the icewm startup file and comment out the wicd entry or add a time delay.

pasuuna · posted: 2012-05-13 18:51

Thank you both. I commented out wicd-client in icewm's startup, but the window still shows up. I will wait and see if an upgrate gets rid of the window sometime.

If it's okay to ask about another thing in the same topic, it seems that after a dist-upgrade today Thunar and Rox-filer can't mount an usb-stick anymore. Thunar gives a"Not Authorized" error and rox-filer reports:

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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

I guess I should wait for another upgrade where this problem will be fixed?

pasuuna · posted: 2012-05-15 09:47

I upgraded my desktop computer and usb mounting didn't stop working on it.

FreeOS-LuvR · posted: 2012-05-16 21:54

Greetings pasuuna,

I've had something like this too, when I first installed antiX M11 486.
I think it was an extra panel.
I think the panel in this case is the one that emulates the windows task bar.

I solved this by reinstalling antiX M11 486.

I hope this helps.

All the best.

NoSavvy · posted: 2012-05-17 08:59

#pasuuna

Have you read this post :- post24355.html#p24355

NS.

pasuuna · posted: 2012-05-17 09:52

NS, now that you mention it, the laptop didn't show a volume icon from the start for some reason and I had to add it to the icewm startup file. I'm on my desktop now (not literally sitting on it), but once I get back on the laptop, I'll try a few of the startup options you mentioned. Thank you.

Thank you FreeOs-LuvR for your suggestion too. The problem is not big enough for me to go through a reinstall, but thank you for the suggestion. One reason I wanted to ask about it was to find out where the window might come from, and from your replies I take it that it's fixed in the icewm startup file. Now I can safely put it down as a quirk. I wanted to know because if I install antiX on a friend's computer that's too old to handle the new windows versions pretty much at all, then I'll have to know how to fix these things quickly and easily or have a quick and easy workaround available. In that case I could try a reinstall for sure. For myself, it's good enough as it is.

nadir · posted: 2012-05-17 16:05

you could try to disable wicd to be run completely with
sysv-rc-conf
run it as root
use arrow-right to go to runlevel 2 (Default runlevel)
use arrow-down to scroll down to wicd
use space-key to disable it
"q" to quit

If you ever want to start it simply do:
/etc/init.d/wicd start
(though i think running"wicd-gtk" will start it anyway).
Or redo what you did with sysv-rc-conf, so it will always be started.