antiX Advert Blocker window is funky [Solved]

[Antediluvian]

This is a request for ... @anticapitalista?

On a laptop that I am preparing for my daughter, when I run antiX Advert Blocker it opens a window that extends down beyond the bottom to the screen. I cannot see the Cancel and OK buttons. I don't know why but there is a huge (unnecessary amount) of space between "Do you want to proceed?" and the buttons. Resizing the window doesn't solve the problem because dragging the corners of the window only shrinks the window so far and not enough to make the buttons visible.

In the Appearance app I have the dpi set at 158 because that is the native dpi value for that display and it makes text easy to read on that FHD screen without changing the xrandr scaling, which I am reluctant to do because of concern that the sharpness of the display may be compromised. I solved the Advert Blocker window issue by temporarily reducing the dpi in the Appearance app to 96 dpi (wow, does that make things small), but in my naive opinion that shouldn't be required to view all of an app window. That said, I'm not a programmer so what do I know.

[Eadwine Rose]

Please post your Quick System Info using Copy for forum, thanks.

[Mauser]

This is an ongoing issue with Adblock that has been going on for years. While the developers are very talented I am surprised that after all this time they haven't figure out how to resize the windows so they fit the screen properly so they are not grossly oversize vertically and to get the radio buttons to work properly. The developers have come up with a work around though. Hit the Alt key on your keyboard and right click on the window at the same time which you can drag the window up so you can gain access to the buttons on the bottom. In the future it is a good idea to post your Quick System Info because it can help with diagnoses of your computer even though in this particular case it wouldn't of made any difference.

[Malik]

antiX Advert Blocker does not work, It is just a bloat, I dont think software developer update this software, very less domain in adblocker list.

[anticapitalista]

antiX Advert Blocker does not work, It is just a bloat, I dont think software developer update this software, very less domain in adblocker list.

You must be using an old version.

[Malik]

antiX Advert Blocker does not work, It is just a bloat, I dont think software developer update this software, very less domain in adblocker list.

You must be using an old version.

I am using latest version of MX-21.3 antix adblocker is a piece of trash, no updates for this trash adblocker, if someone want to use ad blocker use Ublock Origin browser extension or use PortMaster software (https://safing.io/)

[MXRobo]

@Antediluvian
Did they just fix this?
https://ibb.co/MS96k8M
Seems OK now.

Also, no tabs = Cancel, 1 tab = OK
Personally I wouldn't adjust DPI just for that.
https://dpi.lv/
HTH

[Antediluvian]

Hit the Alt key on your keyboard and right click on the window at the same time which you can drag the window up so you can gain access to the buttons on the bottom.

Thanks! I forgot about that trick. In this case even Alt + left click and drag worked.

@Antediluvian
Did they just fix this?
https://ibb.co/MS96k8M
Seems OK now.

As far as the funky window goes, I had that problem before yesterday's update and still had the issue after the update.

By the way, I always use uBlock Origin, but I figured antiX Advert Blocker would be an extra layer of ducking ads.

Here is my QSI. Not sure what Screen-1 refers to since my monitor is 14 inch (not 23 inch) and the data for Monitor-1 seems to be correct. I am not hooked up to an external display on this laptop.

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Snapshot created on: 20220616_1008
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-22-amd64 [5.10.178-3] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-22-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower April 9  2022 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20HGS23W00 v: ThinkPad T470s serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 20HGS23W00 v: SDK0J40697 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO 
           v: N1WET70W (1.49 ) date: 12/26/2022 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 19.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 19.4/23.5 Wh (82.5%) volts: 12.7 
           min: 11.4 model: SMP 00HW023 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Not charging 
           cycles: 550 
           ID-2: BAT1 charge: 15.0 Wh (67.9%) condition: 22.1/26.3 Wh (84.1%) volts: 11.6 
           min: 11.4 model: SANYO 01AV405 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
           cycles: 170 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-7600U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Amber/Kaby Lake 
           note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9 microcode: F0 cache: L2: 4 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 23199 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 801 4: 801 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, 
           PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:5916 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Acer Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-8:4 
           chip-ID: 5986:111c class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: compton v: 1 driver: loaded: modesetting 
           unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8") 
           diag: 354mm (13.9") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-22-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel port: efa0 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15d7 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl port: efa0 
           bus-ID: 3a:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 8.94 GiB (3.8%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW256HEHP-000L7 
           size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
           type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5L7QCXB7 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 35 GiB size: 34.15 GiB (97.58%) used: 8.94 GiB (26.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2275 lib: 1181 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mxrepo.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/mx-packages/mx/repo bullseye main non-free
Info:      Processes: 211 Uptime: 20m wakeups: 3 Memory: 23.22 GiB used: 1.97 GiB (8.5%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[anticapitalista]

antiX Advert Blocker does not work, It is just a bloat ...

The deb is 29K in size, hardly bloat

[Malik]

antiX Advert Blocker does not work, It is just a bloat ...

The deb is 29K in size, hardly bloat

I dont know what is wrong with people why they argue so much, Antix Adblocker is not updating its domain list or trackers list. Ublock Origin is 100 times betther than this antix adblocker, i already told admin to update this software or remove it, Antix Adblocker does not work, If some one want to use ad blocker use PortMaster,