My AntiX LXDE Desktop

[rokytnji]

AntiX 8.5 core i686 iso running

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host Biker Kernel 2.6.38-7.dmz.1-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop LXDE (Openbox 3.4.11.1) Distro antiX-core-686-a1 20 June 2010
Machine:   System Intel (portable) product Montara Family of Chipsets
           Mobo Phoenix model RT786EX version 41118 Bios Phoenix version MGM-ALL1.86C.1009.D.0604271130 date 04/27/06
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium M (-UP-) cache 2048 KB flags (sse sse2) clocked at 597.995 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device X.Org 1.10.1 driver intel Resolution 1024x768@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.3 Mesa 7.10.2
Audio:     Card Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1 Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too
           IF: eth1 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: edited by me
           Card-2 Atheros Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter driver ath5k
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: edited by me
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 30.0GB (16.3% used) 1: /dev/sda IC25N030ATCS04 30.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 17G used: 4.5G (28%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 0.58GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes 89 Uptime 2:59 Memory 160.7/492.4MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.9

On a Fanless Amrel RT786 EX Toughbook with 2 Batteries. Whole laptop is a giant heatsink for cooling as you can see in conky temps.

Battery Monitor in taskbar is from Arch Linux. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67565
I monitor batteries in conky also.
Been running as a rolling release so

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 lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:   Debian
Description:   Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy)
Release:   testing
Codename:   wheezy


I get 8 hours out of the batteries on this Laptop running AntiX. I run Icewm and Fluxbox mostly. Just broadening my knowledge with setting up a LXDE Desktop.

[rokytnji]

My ~/.conkyrc in case anybody wants to use it.

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# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

out_to_console no

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 7x12
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
 font 8x12
#font 7x12
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
#font -artwiz-snap-normal-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont gentium:size=10

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_colour hotpink
own_window_type normal

# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager


# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus, pcmanfm and rox desktops)
own_window yes


# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

#on_bottom no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 5 5
maximum_width 200

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
#border_margin 10

# border width
border_width 2

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color DeepSkyBlue
#default_color DarkSeaGreen
#default_color Crimson
#default_color Orchid
#default_color GoldenRod
#default_color Silver
#default_color SteelBlue
#default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 10
gap_y 59

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

# Possible variables to be used:
#
#      Variable         Arguments                  Description               
#  acpiacadapter                     ACPI ac adapter state.                   
#  acpifan                           ACPI fan state                           
#  acpitemp                          ACPI temperature.                       
#  adt746xcpu                        CPU temperature from therm_adt746x       
#  adt746xfan                        Fan speed from therm_adt746x             
#  battery           (num)           Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM       
#                                    battery. ACPI battery number can be     
#                                    given as argument (default is BAT0).     
#  buffers                           Amount of memory buffered               
#  cached                            Amount of memory cached                 
#  color             (color)         Change drawing color to color           
#  cpu                               CPU usage in percents                   
#  cpubar            (height)        Bar that shows CPU usage, height is     
#                                    bar's height in pixels                   
#  downspeed         net             Download speed in kilobytes             
#  downspeedf        net             Download speed in kilobytes with one     
#                                    decimal                                 
#  exec              shell command   Executes a shell command and displays   
#                                    the output in torsmo. warning: this     
#                                    takes a lot more resources than other   
#                                    variables. I'd recommend coding wanted   
#                                    behaviour in C and posting a patch :-). 
#  execi             interval, shell Same as exec but with specific interval.
#                    command         Interval can't be less than             
#                                    update_interval in configuration.       
#  fs_bar            (height), (fs)  Bar that shows how much space is used on
#                                    a file system. height is the height in   
#                                    pixels. fs is any file on that file     
#                                    system.                                 
#  fs_free           (fs)            Free space on a file system available   
#                                    for users.                               
#  fs_free_perc      (fs)            Free percentage of space on a file       
#                                    system available for users.             
#  fs_size           (fs)            File system size                         
#  fs_used           (fs)            File system used space                   
#  hr                (height)        Horizontal line, height is the height in
#                                    pixels                                   
#  i2c               (dev), type, n  I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev   
#                                    may be omitted if you have only one I2C 
#                                    device. type is either in (or vol)       
#                                    meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp
#                                    meaning temperature. n is number of the 
#                                    sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on     
#                                    your local computer.                     
#  kernel                            Kernel version                           
#  loadavg           (1), (2), (3)   System load average, 1 is for past 1     
#                                    minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for   
#                                    past 15 minutes.                         
#  machine                           Machine, i686 for example               
#  mails                             Mail count in mail spool. You can use   
#                                    program like fetchmail to get mails from
#                                    some server using your favourite         
#                                    protocol. See also new_mails.           
#  mem                               Amount of memory in use                 
#  membar            (height)        Bar that shows amount of memory in use   
#  memmax                            Total amount of memory                   
#  memperc                           Percentage of memory in use             
#  new_mails                         Unread mail count in mail spool.         
#  nodename                          Hostname                                 
#  outlinecolor      (color)         Change outline color                     
#  pre_exec          shell command   Executes a shell command one time before
#                                    torsmo displays anything and puts output
#                                    as text.                                 
#  processes                         Total processes (sleeping and running)   
#  running_processes                 Running processes (not sleeping),       
#                                    requires Linux 2.6                       
#  shadecolor        (color)         Change shading color                     
#  stippled_hr       (space),        Stippled (dashed) horizontal line       
#                    (height)       
#  swapbar           (height)        Bar that shows amount of swap in use     
#  swap                              Amount of swap in use                   
#  swapmax                           Total amount of swap                     
#  swapperc                          Percentage of swap in use               
#  sysname                           System name, Linux for example           
#  time              (format)        Local time, see man strftime to get more
#                                    information about format                 
#  totaldown         net             Total download, overflows at 4 GB on     
#                                    Linux with 32-bit arch and there doesn't
#                                    seem to be a way to know how many times 
#                                    it has already done that before torsmo   
#                                    has started.                             
#  totalup           net             Total upload, this one too, may overflow
#  updates                           Number of updates (for debugging)       
#  upspeed           net             Upload speed in kilobytes               
#  upspeedf          net             Upload speed in kilobytes with one       
#                                    decimal                                 
#  uptime                            Uptime                                   
#  uptime_short                      Uptime in a shorter format               
#
#  seti_prog                         Seti@home current progress
#  seti_progbar      (height)        Seti@home current progress bar
#  seti_credit                       Seti@hoome total user credit


## antiX additives examples. Add below Text##
##${color cccccc}battery: ${color cccccc}$acpiacadapter, ${battery_percent BAT1}%
##${color}battery:${color} ${battery}
##Witeless example##
#${color cccccc}Wireless:
#${color cccccc}essid: ${wireless_essid wlan0}
#${color cccccc}IP:${color cccccc} ${addr wlan0}
#${color cccccc}speed: ${color cccccc} ${wireless_bitrate wlan0}
#${color cccccc}link strength: ${color cccccc} ${wireless_link_bar 7,50 wlan0}

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color}antiX-core
${color}$sysname $kernel
${color}Uptime: $uptime
${color}Pecos:Tx:Biker  ${time %a %d %b %k:%M}
${color}Monitors:
${color}cpu: ${color}${cpu}%
${color}ram : ${color}$mem${color}/${color}$memmax ${color}- ${color}$memperc%
${color}swap: ${color}$swap${color}/${color}$swapmax ${color}- ${color}$swapperc%
${color}processes: ${color}$processes  ${color}running: ${color}$running_processes
${color}link strength: ${color DarkSeaGreen} ${wireless_link_bar 7,50 wlan0}
${color}Space:
${color}Root:${color} ${fs_free /} ${color}= ${fs_free_perc /}%
${color}/data:${color} ${fs_free /mnt/sda1} ${color}= ${fs_free_perc /mnt/sda1}%
${color}BAT 1: ${color Green} ${battery_bar 7,50 BAT1} ${color} ${battery BAT1}
${color}BAT 2: ${color Green} ${battery_bar 7,50 BAT2} ${color} ${battery BAT2}
${color}BAT 1:  ${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state | awk '{if ($0 ~ "present rate:"){rate = $3} if($0 ~ "remaining capacity:"){cap = $3}} END {printf "%d hours %d minutes\n" ,(cap / rate), (((cap % rate) / rate) * 60)}'}
${color}BAT 2:  ${execi 60 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT2/state | awk '{if ($0 ~ "present rate:"){rate = $3} if($0 ~ "remaining capacity:"){cap = $3}} END {printf "%d hours %d minutes\n" ,(cap / rate), (((cap % rate) / rate) * 60)}'}
${color}Temp: ${color} ${hwmon 0 temp 1}C

[rokytnji]

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@Biker:~$ pianobar
Welcome to pianobar (2011.09.22)! Press ? for a list of commands.
[?] Email: rok
[?] Password:
(i) Login... Ok.
(i) Get stations... Ok.
    0)     AC/DC Radio
    1)     Audioslave Radio
    2)     Avenged Sevenfold Radio
    3)     Buckcherry Radio
    4)     Charlie Sexton Radio
    5)     Chris Rea Radio
    6)     Depeche Mode Radio
    7) q   Evanescence Radio
    8)     Faith No More Radio
    9)     Gary Numan/Tubeway Army Radio
   10)     Gorillaz Radio
   11)  Q roks QuickMix
   12)     Hoobastank Radio
   13)     Jace Everett Radio
   14)     Les Claypool Radio
   15)     Little Feat Radio
   16)     Marilyn Manson Radio
   17)     Nickelback Radio
   18) q   Nine Inch Nails Radio
   19)     Puddle Of Mudd Radio
   20)     Savoy Brown Radio
   21)     Seether Radio
   22)     Stevie Ray Vaughan Radio
   23)     The Black Keys Radio
   24)     The Cult Radio
   25)     The Fabulous Thunderbirds Radio
   26)     Thin Lizzy Radio
   27)     Thousand Foot Krutch Radio
   28)     ZZ Top Radio
[?] Select station: 8
|>  Station "Faith No More Radio" (63570485330740626)
(i) Receiving new playlist... Ok.
|>  "Rv" by "Faith No More" on "Angel Dust"
#   -03:36/03:42


In case you are wondering what Pianobar is

http://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/

I had to compile it myself as Debian Sid even does not have this version number released yet.

http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2905

[amjjawad]

WOW, I need years to learn all that ... good job

[rokytnji]

Pandora radio broke pianobar today. I fixed it just now compiling a new pianobar 11.09-dev from github from source file.

I am uploading my zipped pianobar folder with the new bin file "pianobar" that I compiled from source in my folder. Sorry guys. USA users only (pandora blocks overseas users). Uninstall any pianobar you may have installed through your package manager.

If a static install. Delete the folder from /opt or /home where you installed the pianobar. .09.22 folder.

Unzip mine in /home or /opt. Symlink the the pianobar bin in my folder to /usr/bin (I use rox filer and used a relative sysmlink instead of absolute).

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roky@biker:~$ pianobar
Welcome to pianobar (2011.11.09-dev)! Press ? for a list of commands.
[?] Email:
[?] Password:
(i) Login... Ok.
(i) Get stations... Ok.
    0)     AC/DC Radio
    1)     Audioslave Radio
    2)     Avenged Sevenfold Radio
    3)     Buckcherry Radio
    4)     Charlie Sexton Radio
    5)     Chris Rea Radio
    6)     Depeche Mode Radio
    7) q   Evanescence Radio
    8)     Faith No More Radio
    9)     Funkadelic Radio
   10)     Gary Numan/Tubeway Army Radio
   11)     Gorillaz Radio
   12)  Q  roky's QuickMix
   13)     Hoobastank Radio
   14)     Les Claypool Radio
   15)     Little Feat Radio
   16)     Marilyn Manson Radio
   17)     Nickelback Radio
   18) q   Nine Inch Nails Radio
   19)     Puddle Of Mudd Radio
   20)     Savoy Brown Radio
   21)     Seether Radio
   22)     Stevie Ray Vaughan Radio
   23)     The Black Keys Radio
   24)     The Cult Radio
   25)     The Fabulous Thunderbirds Radio
   26)     Thin Lizzy Radio
   27)     Thousand Foot Krutch Radio
   28)     ZZ Top Radio
[?] Select station: 28
|>  Station "ZZ Top Radio" (426160442026919314)
(i) Receiving new playlist... Ok.
|>  "I'm Bad I'm Nationwide" by "ZZ Top" on "Greatest Hits"
|>  "Whiskey In The Jar" by "Metallica" on "Garage Inc."
|>  "Simple Man" by "Lynyrd Skynyrd" on "Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd"
|>  "Up Around The Bend" by "Creedence Clearwater Revival" on "Chronicles"
(i) Receiving new playlist... Ok.
|>  "Just Got Paid" by "ZZ Top" on "The Best Of ZZ Top"
#   -04:04/04:28


Enjoy.

PromyLOPh-pianobar-b14463a.zip

libmad,libfaad,libao must be installed through your distros package manager also for this to work. You must have a pandora radio account also.

(116.73 KiB) Downloaded 145 times

[rokytnji]

Just for grins. This is my Motorcycle Shop Desktop that runs Fluxbox with LxPanel on AntiX 11 Base i686 with a Liqourix Kernel. It flies like you would not believe.

[rokytnji]

Installed

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$ uname -r
3.1.5-antix-586-smp


AntiX 8.5 rolling release. Still up to date.

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$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l



[rokytnji]

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# uname -r
3.3.1-antix.1-486-smp
y# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l



still current. No need for a re-install til this laptop gives up the ghost.

[rokytnji]

New kernel plus added Spacefm file manager also. Stll current apps. This Hard drive on this laptop is just for tweaking/testing and playing. I run AntiX 12 with Icewm on my other hot swap hard drive as testing till AntiX 12 reaches final release status. The kernel I am using plus spacefm plus Iceweasel should be coming in the default install of AntiX 12 (though we might go with a 3.5 kernel later maybe).



This is just to show that Lubuntu is not the only choice out there when wanting to run LXDE. I did this though as a core iso install back in 2010. Which is like doing a Debian Net install or Ubuntu minimal CD install. There is no end of life when running Debian testing or unstable like there is in Lubuntu. I can be running this install till the hard drive dies with support from Debian Testing and unstable repos.

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~$ inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
           deb http://www.daveserver.info/antiX/debs testing full main
           deb http://debs.slavino.sk testing main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi.list
           deb http://download.jitsi.org/deb unstable/


3286 views so far on this thread so I must be doing something right.

[rokytnji]

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$ inxi -F -z
System:    Host: Biker Kernel: 3.7.8-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.5.0) Distro: antiX-core--a1 20 June 2010
Machine:   System: Intel product: Montara Family of Chipsets
           Mobo: Phoenix model: RT786EX version: 41118 Bios: Phoenix version: MGM-ALL1.86C.1009.D.0604271130 date: 04/27/06
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium M (-UP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (sse sse2) clocked at 600.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device X.Org: 1.12.3 driver: intel Resolution: 1024x768@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.3 Mesa 8.0.4
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.7.8-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too
           IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 30.0GB (19.6% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: IC25N030ATCS04 size: 30.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 17G used: 7.0G (44%) fs: ext3 ID: swap-1 size: 0.58GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 96 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 178.0/491.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.8.38


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New kernel install

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Installed 3.7.8 kernel. LXDE idling at 60MB after xdm login. Still current applications like Iceweasel and Chromium browsers and everything else supported.