Where are startup scripts and where run from?

[Anonymous]

I run Gentoo on my desktop, but with the recent bump up to GCC 8.2.0 it’s a lot of work for my notebook (off-lease Lenovo with 3 gigs ram) to do a bunch of compiling for updates. So the notebook is now running AntiX 17.4.1, 32-bit, with ICEWM WM which I’m familiar with. I need to get at the startup scripts for a couple of reasons…

1) I “turned wallpaper off” from the desktop menu. ICEWM runs a cpu-sucking program “icewmbg” to render the wallpaper. Even with “no wallpaper”, “icewmbg” is still running, effectively “rendering a black wallpaper”. After a reboot “ps -ef | grep icewmbg” still shows it running.

2) Similarly, with conky, I turn it off at the menu, but it’s back at the next reboot.

What do I have to do make them go away and stay away? Google didn’t help. I’m posting this in the newbie forum, because when dealing with a new distro “everything you know is wrong”, and I’m back at newbie level.

Edit: It’s the “full” version.

[capreaModerator]

Not sure about the wallpaper, but for to turn conky off, it’s the file desktop-session.conf
in the hidden folder .desktop-session in home

[christopheModerator]

If you use the “Min-jwm”, “Min-IceWM”, or “Min-Fluxbox” x-sessions, the conky & wallpaper should be disabled by default. Have you tried those?

antiX on everything, since 2017

[rokytnjiForum Admin]

Hmmm.

harry@biker:~
$ locate icewmbg
/usr/bin/icewmbg
/usr/share/man/man1/icewmbg.1.gz
harry@biker:~
$ apt search icewmbg
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
harry@biker:~
$ apt-cache policy icewmbg
N: Unable to locate package icewmbg

so I tried cat on /usr/bin/icewmbg but got no joy with a code file instead of text file to see what could be edited.

That is best I have to offer so far. Maybe some other member can work off of what I have shown.

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[rokytnjiForum Admin]

Nope. No joy here either.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
Motorcycle racing is rocket science.

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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Anonymous]

Walter, cristophe’s reply already addressed the immediate “issue”.
Here, I’m mention some strategies for finding bits-n-pieces.

FYI, the antiX ControCenter does provides a gui for may tasks, including management of desktop session autostart items.

For hunting manually, what resides where, within the config files:
cd ~ && grep -inr ‘icewmbg’

which icewmbg
^–v
/usr/bin/icewmbg

file /usr/bin/icewmbg
^–v
ELF blahblah
(we can recognize that it’s not an editable script)

dpkg-query -S file /usr/bin/icewmbg
^–v
icewm: /usr/bin/icewmbg
(shows which debian package installed a given file, or program)

Most of the antiX-proprietary scripts reside under
/usr/local
grep -inr ‘icewmbg’ (might, or might not, be enlightening)

apropos icewm
^— whoa (I just discovered, did not realize until now) icewmbg has its own manpage

If I had forgotten to check apropos, I might instead
man icewm
press forward slash (to raise a search prompt) type icewmbg
pressing ‘n’ moves the search cursor forward to the next match
or
man icewm | grep ‘icewmbg’

ps: For grins, I just now renamed /usr/bin/icewmbg then started icewm. I noticed no ill effect, and haven’t found any errorlog messages mentioning its absence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

ps: For grins, I just now renamed /usr/bin/icewmbg then started icewm. I noticed no ill effect, and haven’t found any errorlog messages mentioning its absence.

Nice to know. I tried editing config files with vim instead of from the GUI config. I ended up not being able to get to X, just a commandline console. I did a fresh re-instal after that. I had considered deleting/renaming icewmbg, but was leery of fouling up again. I’ll try renaming icewmbg.

[Anonymous]

Renaming files /usr/bin/conky and /usr/bin/icewmbg did what I wanted. One note…

[Anonymous]

sadly, no preview.
post then proofread, then edit, and crossfingers the edited version isn’t detected as “spam” and hidden.

[greyowlMember]

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To stop Conky from starting on boot:

control center > Session > UserDesktopSession > Tab desktop-session conf > scroll to about line 74 and set LOAD_CONKY=”False”

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by greyowl.

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