Adding Xfce4 to antiX26

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@josephj222222

Did you get any further with this?

Yes, I have completed it. I made some .iso files for antiX26 with xfce, trinity., and lumina de’s.
There are topics covering it

antiX26 with Lumina Desktop Environment: the ISO

antiX26 with Lumina desktop : the ISO The Lumina Desktop Environment was developed in the BSD Unix world, and was used in PC-BSD and TrueOS . It is portable and has previously been available in various Linux distros, but its development has stalled for about 4 years and it has been withdrawn from most repos. I feel it is a good fit for a small DE in antiX, so I have gone to the trouble of compiling Lumina, so we can see how it performs in antiX26. The Official Lumina website is here and the…

antiX26 with xfce: the ISO

The procedure for making an .iso reported here has been updated. See later topics such antix26xfce(consolekit), or antix26trinity.

antiX26 with Trinity Desktop: the ISO

The markdown files used to create this post are available on Github https://github.com/nevillejackson/Unix/tree/main/antiX26

antiX26 with xfce: the ISO: consolekit version

As usual, the replies posted here which constitute documentation are available as .md files at

The .iso files can be downloaded from sourceforge

antiX26 with a DE - Browse Files at SourceForge.net

I think it must be OK… there have been over 120 downloads of my .isos from sourceforge, and no complaints.

@josephj222222

it would need to provide a way to install itself on the notebook and/or run from the USB drive like regular distros do. IDK how to do that manually.

The live .iso has an Antix Install icon that will invoke the installer. As long as your notebook has a usb drive and a KB it should be an easy install.
So it is both a live .iso, and an install .iso. Most modern distribution .isos are like that.

Read the relevant posted topic … there are instructions, as well as details of how I made each .iso.

[josephj222222]

Just downloaded the antix26-xfce-turnstile.x86_64.iso, used balena-etcher to put it on a flash drive and tried to boot from it on my old notebook.

I get:

Verifying shim SBAT data failed: Security Policy Violation…

Then it shuts down.

AI said to disable secure boot. When I did that and booted, it flashed an error message too fast to read and took me to a grub> prompt.

What do I try next?

It said to try dd or rufus to make the flash drive or

On Linux: Use sbctl or mokutil to enroll the key.

I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole without asking first.

FYI: I could not find any way to leave a comment, etc. on Sourceforge, so that might be why you haven’t gotten any.

I got it to boot once (but couldn’t do it a second time) by telling grub

set root=(hd0,msdos2)
linux /antiX/vmlinuz
initrd /antiX/initrd.img
boot

I got to the GUI and tried to install

It said media corrupted.

When I got back to the desktop, the install icon was gone.

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@josephj222222

used balena-etcher to put it on a flash drive

Etcher quite often gives problems .
Use dd in linux

dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdx  conv=fsync

where sdx is the usb drive, and xxx.iso is the name of the iso file.
To find the usb drive name use
lsblk
then plug the drive in
the lsblk again
the extra drive in the second lsblk will be your usb drive
Note , it wants the drive name, not some partition on the drive.
dd is totally reliable… it should then boot

Thanks for giving it a try.

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@josephj222222

FYI: I could not find any way to leave a comment, etc. on Sourceforge, so that might be why you haven’t gotten any

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

antiX26 with xfce: the ISO

I have spent some considerable time deciding on the best way to install Xfce in antiX26. Some people recommend removing `` turnstile from Xfce and replacing it with ConsoleKit. Both are login daemons intended to replace elogind. Some recommend replaceing the Login Manager slimski with lightdm. I have concluded that the best option is to retain both turnstile and slimski , because that is minimal disturbance of the default antiX26, and all the WM’s and init systems continue to work. So I hav…

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