melodie
Search the antiX forums first.
I didn’t search the forum, because it has beeen a _random discovery_ while trying several light GNU/Linux distributions in order to attempt to revive a very old laptop. (18 years old, but very nice looking on the outside).
I had discovered Devuan which I didn’t know of, as well as their snapshot tool, and tried to figure how to have the poweroff reboot etc. working with lightdm instead of slim. Both antiX and Devuan use no systemd with elogind and so on, so I figured I might try the same method on antiX.
Now what you are saying makes me think, I’ll try your way, no additional package else than pm-utils, well at least I’ll try removing both “libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0” and “libpolkit-backend-elogind-1-0” (devuan8 packages) and see what happends. I keep both as deb packages in a directory just in case.
But : shouldn’t them packages in the antiX distribution sources be the same version so that installing one will not create a conflict preventing the other to be installed? Shouldn’t it be an issue that should be addressed? (I am not sure how, obviously… )
I enclose a screenshot of Synaptic in antiX 64bits, with emphasis on the two packages and *the versions mis-matching* offered as a *possible update*.
Also : openbox is a window manager with some advanced features, not a desktop manager nor an environment manager so it relies not on itself to manage the desktop, but on the components which are installed along with it. LightDM meaning Light Desktop Manager, the session will require a few things to be working properly as for a full fledged Desktop Environment such as LXDE for instance, but with just some of its components the system will be even lighter.
Now you might argue that antiX is already light, whatever desktop you choose, which is right, but it’s too large to fit in some of the very old laptops when booted as live, once the squashfs is decompressed it fills all the RAM and the boot process hangs.
Also antiX and its Snapshot program is a great tool to have to make your own version. The users targeted for the versions I rebuild are *end users* with *limited needs*, so I make the ISOS as small and simple to use as possible and the users can have it evolved later as they see fit (of course they can ask for help to do that if necessary). You can have a go with the latest 32bits available, here : http://downloads.linuxvillage.org
As soon as a similar 64bits will be ready, I’ll try to write full descriptions with a few screenshots.
Thanks for your help.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by melodie.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by melodie.
