Adding Xfce4 to antiX26 I recently looked at setting up a workstation with antiX26 and its native WM’s, notably IceWM. [image] Setting up antiX26 as a daily workstation Other Distributions Setting up antiX26 as a daily workplace I have done some testing with a…

[image] Neville Jackson: how to add these to the Xfce menu’s? I had same problem on mint version but found a menu editor in mints repository to do it but it was more by guess than informed choice

[image] Neville Jackson: The Logout is hidden at the far right of the top panel under a button labelled ‘nevj’ [logout] When you click on it you get Lock screen, Switch user, Suspend, Shutdown, Logout Then if you click Logout, you get the usual 6 choice popup Logout, Restart, Shutdown, Susp…

Hopefully, the last thing I need to fix with Xfce in antiX26 is setting the background image. The ‘Desktop Settings’ item in the top Menu brings up some standard Xfce and antiX backgrounds, plus a message [desktop] Clicking on an image does nothing and I cant find a useful interpretation of the…

When you get done, please make an iso. I have an old fleawatt notebook that needs it and it would be great not to have to start from scratch.

[image] Josephj222222: , please make an iso That is a good idea. Mine is 64 bit amd64. I dont have a 32 bit computer or an arm device.

@nevj [image] Neville Jackson: That is a good idea. Mine is 64 bit amd64. I dont have a 32 bit computer or an arm device. It’s an ancient N3150 Celeron, but it’s a 64 bit. Barely.

[image] Neville Jackson: Can anyone see what is wrong here? I decided to tackle the Desktop-Settings problem by doing another install of antiX26 in a VM. I installed exactly the same packages as in my hard install and the Desktop Settings menu works … I can change backgrounds. The only th…

[image] Neville Jackson: I have therefore to experiment with removing some things ( eg gvfs or udisks2) from the hard install. I went back to the hard install of antiX26. Purged gvfs The only difference it made was that Desktop Settings GUI now only sees mounted filesystems under Folders. …

[image] Neville Jackson: I might try a complete hard install from scratch. I installed antiX26 again from scratch on a fresh partition. I then did the following set repo to our local aarnet site and apply update/upgrade apt install consolekit apt install libpam-ck-connector apt install xfc…

I have finished installing and configuring xfce4 in antix26. I had a first trial at making an iso and using it to make a live usb flash drive. I have 3 problems the live usb boots in my uefi computer to a used called demo.. … but demo does not all tne xfce settings I made for nevj. I am going…

[image] Neville Jackson: I have finished installing and configuring xfce4 in antix26. I had a first trial at making an iso and using it to make a live usb flash drive. Did you get any further with this? I’m ready to install something on my old x86 64-bit notebook. (It can run Kubuntu, but cr…

Adding Xfce4 to antiX26

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nevj (Neville Jackson) 31 August 2026 08:48 24

I think there might be a review page … I will check.
I am happy to have your comment here on itsFOSS… then other users can see it.

There is info on the xfce turnstile iso here

Update:
I checked. You can do a review on sourceforge. I might not notice it. Better to contact me here.