antiX-15 w/ Xfce-4.12

[Richard]

Thanks for such a great job on antiX-15. I've been trying out the various betas and RC.
Now, with antiX-15 installed on my 6 year old Acer Aspire One, model AOA 150, w/160GB HDD.
Really seems a bit lighter and quicker, subjectively, than with MX-14 installed.

I ran IceWM on Mandrake, Mepis, Kanotix, sidux, testing, etc, until about 2007,
when my Dell Latitude, with 286 cpu, died. Then continued on desktop running several others:
Peppermint, LinuxMint, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, others, Crunchbang then SalineOS till it closed,
Manjaro; since then MX-14. Most everything with Xfce4 and mostly with a vertical or deskbar.

I'm really enjoying the new antiX-15 and relearning IceWM, but old habits are tough to break.
I was a left-side deskbar user before I came to MX-14. So after a while, I began to wonder.
Then googled and found that no one seemed to be making a vertical taskbar for IceWM?
So, what to do. Looked at Tint2-nice but it's a pain. Installed the xfce4-panel, and it worked OK.
But, still, kind of nice but lacking some bits, although antiX-15 started up using 100 MB of RAM.
{Iceweasel and email died while trying to upload images.}

Then, installed a minimal core Xfce4 and added the minimum number of applets to which I
am accustomed. antiX-15 booted and runs using 109 MB of RAM at startup:

antiX15Xfce-109RAM-ready-to-work.png

...and here is a MX-14.4 on another partition using 281 MB RAM at startup:

MX145-20150710.png

This same setup is much less resource hungry on antiX even with Xfce4.12, here with DC, IW, LibO and roxterm open:

antiX15Xfce-392RAM-working600x351.png

I feel the future is bringing both antiX and MX closer together. The netbooks need 32 bits
and the desktop can run 64 bits, though I have never bothered, since 32 bit OSs
do everything I want to do, but choice is less every year.

I'm not advocating that antiX change to Xfce, just showing what I found out while asking, "What if ...?"

[Gordon Cooper]

Richard wrote "I feel the future is bringing both antiX and MX closer together. The netbooks need 32 bits
and the desktop can run 64 bits, though I have never bothered, since 32 bit OSs
do everything I want to do, but choice is less every year."

Like you, I have not had the need to run 64 bits, and with SSD's able to replace elderly HD's, the life of an aged laptop can be extended - certainly for longer than I will be around. Our problem may be planned obsolescence of suitable software.

[dyfi]

Slightly off topic, but I remember those Saline days. It was a very good system.

Nowadays I always install two systems per hard drive. One to use daily and one to use for repair. Daily I'm using MX with Manjaro as second choice.

[lucky9]

I currently use MX-14.4 and antiX 13.2. I'll be changing antiX to 15-V shortly. It's quite a nice system.

Everything else is testing OS's. I be very, very happy.

[Richard]

Back to running IceWM on the Acer One.
Remembering how to work around some things,
how to fix some others, to use rox and
learning to appreciate 70 MB at idle. :)

antiX15-70-MB-RAM-resting.png

[namida12]

Richard,

Running antiX 64bit and Xfce, would like to change the wallpaper, but do not know where they are stored to add more, or change the three that show in the Desktop settings.

JR

[Jerry3904]

Maybe Users Manual Section 3.8.3 (found by Ctrl-F "wallpaper") would help?

[namida12]

Maybe Users Manual Section 3.8.3 (found by Ctrl-F "wallpaper") would help?

Jerry,

Can't find that section: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php? ... Categories

Google search turned up this manual: http://www.mepiscommunity.org/user_manu ... ection-3.3

Jerry maybe a link for this section should be somewhere on top of the forum page, for easy access for new users and dummies like myself.

JR

[lucky9]

It's under Manuals at the top of every page on the forum.

[Gordon Cooper]

When using MX14, changing wallpaper is simple - even for simple folk like me . Just right click on the preferred image name, and select "set as wallpaper", it works!