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July 5, 2025 at 5:56 am #180716
olsztyn
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    abc-nix wrote:

    Then, there is some antiX apps that have a sentimental value and cannot be replaced. zzzfm can run under wayland thanks to Xwayland, but in my experience it crashes often. I was also not able to get slimski start a wayland compositor, so this would also be discarded (I use greetd instead).

    abc-nix wrote:

    As you can see, moving to Wayland isn’t so easy in antiX. We are at least 2 years away from an easy transition. We need to study the MX Linux code and properly find an alternative to get the commands that run under those programs to launch properly as root with gksudo/su-to-root while the program can be launched by the user.

    It will soon be one year from this faameous post so according to 2-year expectation for a Wayland antiX that would have a solution outlined by @abc-nix, about one year is left.
    In the interim:
    – In terms of my testing based on antiX Testing/Trixie, lightdm appears to cause a few quirks, such as dbus fails when wayland sesion staarted from the menu, while it is fine when started from TTY. I am trying to set up greetd with tuigreet. Service is defined, followed code published in Techore Github, referenced as one gotten from @abc-nix. Just as @techore, I want to thank @abc-nix for this contribution.
    This greetd service has been adopted in the fameous antiX aXd spin published by @techore last year. Since aXd development started from antiX 23.1 Base or Core, there was no prior Display Manager and greetd was the only one after installation in aXd.
    Since my antiX originated from antiX Full and currently Lightdm is the default Display Manager, using labwc as the compositor. However I am not very successful yet in replacement of Lightdm with greetd, which is defined as service (currently down) with Tuigreet as the greeter.
    What would be the way to replace lightdm with greetd? Just to mention, sudo dpkg-reconfigure greetd does not seem to work in Trixie.
    Thanks for any tips…

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    Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
    http://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters