antiX-19-a1-full (64 bit) available

[beardedragon]

Managed to get lightdm running, a bit difficult. You need to remove slim and consolekit, then, install lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, lightdm-gtk-greeter-session and policykit-1. Before you reboot, put a picture in /usr/share/background for lightdm. Setup lighdm and reboot.
One boot and you are up and running.

[JayM]

I don't know what happened to my earlier post, but second try: I booted the ISO in a Virtualbox VM and slim, the conky, all desktop items and the menu all worked, so whatever is wrong when I boot a bare-metal live USB seems to be an issue with slim vs. my onboard GPU.

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Graphics:  Device-1: AMD RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RS780 (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 7.0.0) 
           v: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.6 

[male]

The double login to Slim already exists in 17.4
and must m.M. be caused by an update of antiX packages between March 12th and 24th...

[manyroads]

Problem trying to install LightDM, it needs systemd plus you cannot have two login managers running at the same time so one has to go bye bye.

Do you mean that MX is always using systemd? MX uses LightDM.

Edit: If folks have not seen this, it seems pretty helpful (option-wise).https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/114/

Edit (next): I changed the setup to LightDM. Although the change itself went smoothly, I can report that the Desktop settings were 'borked'. Removal of LightDM was graceful and jwm is back to where it was originally. Nice!!!

[dolphin_oracle]

The double login to Slim already exists in 17.4
and must m.M. be caused by an update of antiX packages between March 12th and 24th...

interesting, thanks! I've only used 17.4 in live mode with autologin, so I missed it!

Thank you. The Buster slim with the antiX slim.conf (the first time I mistakenly let the debian conf file overwrite the antiX version) does work much better. One login - working session.

Ok, good. I've currently got the antiX slim with the buster initscript, so that points to the init script needing changed perhaps, since that is the common point in our setups.

[AK-47]

I occasionally get the double login on MX as well (18, 18.1, 18.2). I can't reproduce this consistently, but when it occurs, it happens mainly when I unlock the screen (ie. already logged in). I wonder if there's something related here, it may not have anything to do with the DM at all.

[dolphin_oracle]

I occasionally get the double login on MX as well (18, 18.1, 18.2). I can't reproduce this consistently, but when it occurs, it happens mainly when I unlock the screen (ie. already logged in). I wonder if there's something related here, it may not have anything to do with the DM at all.

I haven't seen it, so if you run across it, jot down the circumstances.

In the meantime, I'll set my session to lock the screen and see if it crops up.

[beardedragon]

Problem trying to install LightDM, it needs systemd plus you cannot have two login managers running at the same time so one has to go bye bye.

Do you mean that MX is always using systemd? MX uses LightDM.

Edit: If folks have not seen this, it seems pretty helpful (option-wise).https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/114/

Edit (next): I changed the setup to LightDM. Although the change itself went smoothly, I can report that the Desktop settings were 'borked'. Removal of LightDM was graceful and jwm is back to where it was originally. Nice!!!

It looked like it when I was experimenting but I found out it was because the slim and it's dependencies pointed to that, as you can see below I am not using systemd. Thanks for the link, interesting.

bob@AntiX:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Host: AntiX Kernel: 5.0.9-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4
Distro: antiX-19.a1_x64-full Marielle Franco 27 April 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 10181 v: Lenovo K450e
serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A v: 31900058 STD serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO
v: I1KT38AUS date: 06/10/2014
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M570 charge: 90%
status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-4460 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Haswell rev: 3 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 25543
Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 799 2: 798
3: 799 4: 798
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 720] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 410.104 bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: nvidia
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 720/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 410.104
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.0.9-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 23.29 GiB (1.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08M2NA0
size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD Elements 25A2
size: 931.48 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 456.45 GiB used: 23.29 GiB (5.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 49 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 28%
Info:
Processes: 182 Uptime: 7m Memory: 7.73 GiB used: 550.5 MiB (7.0%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
inxi: 3.0.33

[manyroads]

I have to say that I have been abusing antiX 19-a1 to the best of my abilities; and, things really are going well. I'm having fun and the alpha system is generous at regularly saving 'my bacon'. Almost every mistake, hack, etc I make has been easy to recover from. Most/many are gracefully handled by the software with simple uninstalls.

I need to say though, I have been exclusively beating up things in space-jwm. I wanted to learn jwm, customize it and get comfortable with it. It is light, fast, and can be made to look quite elegant (to my old eyes). Should I encounter any issues I'll post them. For now I'm documenting what I have built and will share my results, hacks, tricks, in a new separate thread. :lipsrsealed:

[anticapitalista]

I'm testing with devuan version of slim. This will be on next alpha build.