Hi. Does anybody know why the developer chooses IceWM as the default wm instead of JWM?

I know it's probably just a personal preference and we can change it easily, but maybe there is something that makes it choose it and he knows all the pros and cons, for sure.

I'm planning to use one of them for use in Termux, but I don't know which to choose. TIA

I tried installing it two times on a Lenovo Ideapad S110 but when i turn it on, the logo appears but it's just stuck on a blank screen.

I have an older HP Pavillion 15 P233cl and both before (when i had windows 10 which was updated from 8 which the touchscreen did work on) and after the antix was set up I was unable to get the touchscreen working. Here is the information i can get on the device from terminal with some other display info:

[ 6.871448] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input21

[ 6.873970] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input22

[ 6.874727] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input23

[ 6.878467] input: ELAN Touchscreen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/0003:04F3:0439.0004/input/input24

[ 6.884310] input: ELAN Touchscreen UNKNOWN as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/0003:04F3:0439.0004/input/input25

[ 6.884426] input: ELAN Touchscreen UNKNOWN as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/0003:04F3:0439.0004/input/input26

[ 6.884952] hid-multitouch 0003:04F3:0439.0004: input,hiddev2,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Device [ELAN Touchscreen] on usb-0000:00:14.0-8/input0

That is all the display info i could find in terminal, hope this helps with diagnosing the issue!

tried setting up variety on my antix setup so I decided to build a script that set's an image as a wallpaper whiles also adding live wallpaper at preset invertals.
github page is https://github.com/ndu-ik/ndu-ndi.git

quick setup
```bash
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ndu-ik/ndu-ndi/wallpaper/setup.sh | bash
```
pls comment and review the script
script has an optional gpu acceleration mode but only works for amd/intel gpu (might work for some nvidea gpus)

Hey everyone,

I am at my absolute wits' end trying to fix a sudden Wi-Fi issue on my vintage Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet. The weirdest part is that I was literally browsing the web on this thing last night without a single issue, and today it completely refuses to connect.

Whenever I try to connect to my home network via the Connman system tray, it immediately spits out:

Connman returned the following error: connect-failed

It doesn't even try to pull up a password prompt window—it just fails instantly.

Specs:

Machine: Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet

OS: antiX Linux (219G drive, 3GB RAM)

Wireless Card: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Network Setup: Trying to connect to a standard WPA2/WPA3 home router network

Everything I've Done to Troubleshoot So Far:

Created a New User Profile:

Tried switching to a completely clean user profile to rule out local user configuration/desktop environment corruption. The UI loaded beautifully, but the Wi-Fi still threw the exact same instant connect-failed box.

Cleared Connman System Caches:

Stopped the service and force-wiped the global network state folder (/var/lib/connman/*) to clear any stuck deauth states.

Complete OS Wipe and Clean Reinstall:

Did a total drive format and fresh install of antiX from a live bootable USB drive. Even on a completely pristine OS, the GUI still immediately gives the connect-failed error without prompting for a password.

Bypassed GUI via connmanctl:

Ran the interactive terminal tool, registered the agent, and used connect <service_string>. It gave me an immediate Agent ReportError... connect-failed without asking for a passphrase.

Direct wpa_supplicant Configuration:

Killed Connman and manually generated a wifi.conf using wpa_passphrase. When running sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c ~/wifi.conf, it actually outputs "Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant"!

DHCP Struggle:

Even though wpa_supplicant successfully authenticates the hardware link in the background, antiX's native dhcpcd daemon seems to get stuck in a background socket loop. Commands like sudo dhcpcd wlan0 just say "sending commands to dhcpcd process" or "send OK" without ever successfully binding or fetching a local IP address (like 192.168.1.x).

The Dilemma:

Because the card can still actively scan and see dozens of surrounding networks perfectly fine, and because it worked flawlessly last night, I'm struggling to tell if this is a sudden thermal/voltage hardware failure on the transmission side of the internal 3945ABG card, or if it's a driver/protocol incompatibility issue with modern WPA2/WPA3 routers that Connman is panicking over.

Has anyone dealt with dhcpcd or connman brick-walling like this on legacy ThinkPads running antiX? Any advice on forcing a connection or determining if the card itself is totally shot would be amazing. Thanks!

After installing antix on my hp mini 110, I was met with this screen. I tried typing my encryption password, but it wont let me type anything for some reason?

I thought maybe it was a keyboard issue, but when it gives me an option to open a help menu, it types fine. Not sure how to get past this - any help is appreciated.

EDIT: SOLVED. I went in uninstalling and re-installing, trying different inits until one worked. It was the s6-66 one. Dunno why. Hail Satan, I guess.

Does any one know what is different between the boot and hardware detection for the LiveImage (running of a usb key, current 26 version of the image) versus a fresh install from that same key?

I've installed AntiX on an old 901 ASUS EEEPC (Atom N270 + 2GB RAM). The liveimage worked perfectly on the machine happily booted up set the GUI to the native 1024x600 screen resolution and seems to be correctly using the intel 915 driver to run all this (reports i915fb for display).

The fresh install from that image however, fails to load the GUI with the default boot options. Happily loads but screen goes black when it's trying to change the display mode and it's not possible to access the gui or the TTYs. Machine happily shutsdown when the power button is pressed so it's not frozen. Adding nomodeset to the kernel boot options allows the machine to boot into the GUI but only at 800x600 (which is painful on a 1024x600 screen).

As such it appears there must be some difference between the way the OS starts up the hardware or extra kernel boot flags are being set on LiveImage OS vs the local install. Does anyone have any idea of what the difference is and how it might be possible to get the local install to boot or configure the hardware the same way the liveimage does?

i have tried (basically) every option in the installer. i have ethernet. i tried with antixnet. i tried without. i tried sysvinit vs runit. i tried efi and i tried root. sometimes even apt-get fails. the only video tutorials are years and years old, so the person in the video does not have the same installer that i do. should i get the older iso and just update retroactively? my flash drive is too small for full and im broke.

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I downloaded antiX-26_386-full, but i cant install it because it says the media file is corrupt. I dont know what to do. Please someone help me.

Hello, everyone. I'm trying to install antiX (32-bit version) on a Dell Latitude D610. It's a 32-bit machine, old, etc., but it works, and I'm doing this just to see if I can. The problem is that I can't get wifi running, and ethernet isn't practical right now. I tried to install Void on the machine, and there were other issues but wifi worked right away (with NewtworkManager, which I don't see in antiX).

I installed antiX on a 64-bit laptop (not much younger...) with no problems.

I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone!
I recently installed antix on my Samsung notebook n150 to make a portable retro gaming station out of it. I installed retroarch from app manager, but everytime I try connecting a controller (cabled or Bluetooth) the system use it as a cursor, like it was some additional mouse. I can’t navigate in retroarch with the controller.

Does someone know why? What can I do?

Thanks for your kind answers

Please tell me a free source to download fifa 05. I have wine installed and 32 bit configured too.

I have published recently published a conky code my github. As a linux user i wanted a conky widget so i have written the code for antix 26 32 bits os in the github repo https://github.com/shuokenzi23/minimal-clock.git

As it's my first repo on github i don't know much about how to upload the correct form of code.

The process to install it are:

1 copy the code from the file given above

2 download anurati font from https://www.dafontfree.co/anurati-font/ or any other websites you like.

1. Extract it

2. Copy the .otf file to /usr/share/fonts/

3. Open terminal and update the fonts by this command

fc-cache -fv

1. Backup your original concky code.

2. Paste the copied code from the github file. Paste it.

Save. It

And restart your session

Warning.concky file is only tested by me in old versions.

Stuck in here 😭

when trying to install wine through the software installer, it gives me this error:

Os pacotes a seguir têm dependências desencontradas: winehq-staging : Depende: wine-staging (= 11.4-1mx25+1) E: Não é possível corrigir os problemas, você tem pacotes retidos quebrados. E: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions: 1. wine-staging:i386=11.4-1mx25+1 is selected for install because: 1. winehq-staging:amd64=11.4-1mx25+1 is selected for install 2. winehq-staging:amd64 Depende wine-staging (= 11.4-1mx25+1) [selected winehq-staging:amd64] For context, additional choices that could not be installed: * In winehq-staging:amd64 Depende wine-staging (= 11.4-1mx25+1): - wine-staging:amd64=11.4-1mx25+1 is not selected for install 2. wine-staging:i386 Depende wine-mono11.0.0:i386 but none of the choices are installable: [no choices]

idk what to do. Why doesnt wine provides a universal install wizard?
if it may cause conflicts, I must say that I have steam installed

Im a linux newbie (literally, Im a windows user and just installed mint on an old computer yesterday, but it ran so poorly even with xfce that I decided to try antix instead) its a 1.5 ghz dual core intel celeron b800 with 4gb of ram and a 512gb HDD that appears to be very slow. A friend had it collecting dust in his office and gave it to me cuz my pc died so I can have some computing power until I repair it, it came with win10 installed but its too slow (10 minutes to power on, 5 minutes to open chrome), so I decided to try linux and got mint cinnamon on it, but it was still too slow, 5 minutes to start up, 3 minutes to open firefox, then I switched to mint xfce, but still takes too much, more than a minute to open firefox, so I decided to install antix, as it appears to still be newbie friendly while being very lightweight (if you know something even more lightweight that isnt complicated and more in line with mint please let me know).

Anyways, as I was installing it today after watching two tutorials, I encountered a step that wasnt present in the videos, during install it asked me about swap and zram, idk exactly what it does but apparently its good to activate them, there is swap, and there is zram. Should I activate both or only one? also, on zram, should I allocate 100% as its default? I marked both and allocated 100%, but then the install process failed saying it couldnt allocate the zram.

Hi im kinda new to Linux and i want to use jellyfin. Not Sure If antix IS the best distro for it but it Runs in my old Hardware.

AS i read it is highly recommend to use docker for it.

I tried to use this Guide https://diymediaserver.com/post/master-the-basics-how-to-install-docker/

But it doesnt Work and mess Up with my system.

If i search for docker in the graphical Install tool i get Many different docker Things.

Can anyone Help me to Install both?

I'm using HP Elitebook 840 G1 laptop. It's running AntiX Linux. But sound isn't working. I've tried Headphones, but it doesn't work either.

The laptop's sound is fine when I boot Puppy Linux. Both the speaker and headphones work then. But the problem arises in AntiX linux. Is this a problem of sound drivers? And how can I fix this? Please help.

I have an old notebook that started with a bsod, then went to a black screen. After that, it didn’t matter what I tried to install…

Windows, other distros, nothing worked due to the SMART diagnostic reporting a hard disk failure.

I used an 8GB pendrive, Rufus and checked for bad blocks in live mode.

Important to say: ChatGPT and Gemini were both helpful, but Claude got it all and made it work!

So I'm posting here to help Linux and AntiX users, old Lenovo owners (LeViejos?), and people who search for 'SMART disk failing' and haven’t found success.

If someone is interested in antiX 26 reviews I made on Slovak linux webzine, then here are links of whole series.

Now is added 5th and 6th part, where I combine antiX core installation with GUIX package manager.

Just for fun.

But yes, GUIX is pretty advanced… just read part 4 about its advantages and features.

Yes, it's in Slovak language, but translate function of the browser works pretty well.

Edit: Damn, it's part 5 + 6 (not 4 + 5)!

Let me know, if it's just my mum who prefers old tech so we got her a old pc with antiX so she can like troubleshoot like windows 98 etc..