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I just wanted to share with you some fantastic news. I just heard from Dave Foster, the developer of nitrogen, regarding the issue of using nitrogen to set a different wallpaper for each window manager. He graciously pointed out that my symlinks were backwards. After fixing that mistake and another one that popped up, we managed to completely fix the problem. Works like a charm now.

I also wanted to let you know that not only is nitrogen a terrific addition to antix, but it's author is wonderful and very helpful as well.

john

You would not get that kind of response from a closed source developer!

OU812 wrote:I just wanted to share with you some fantastic news. I just heard from Dave Foster, the developer of nitrogen, regarding the issue of using nitrogen to set a different wallpaper for each window manager. He graciously pointed out that my symlinks were backwards. After fixing that mistake and another one that popped up, we managed to completely fix the problem. Works like a charm now.

I also wanted to let you know that not only is nitrogen a terrific addition to antix, but it's author is wonderful and very helpful as well.

john

That is great, John! Thanks again for your efforts, and thanks to Dave Foster for his very helpful suggestions!

my symlinks were backwards

LOL: I have done that, don't you just feel like an idiot when that happens?!

Impressive response from the developer, people like that are amazing--and good for you for following up on this. We all benefit.

Well, I'm finally back from my hols.

I'm trying to digest the posts, but firstly would like to thank you all for the feedback and OU812 for his hard work with the antiXCC and icewm configuration.

Great to see you're back, anti!
I hope you had a wonderful holiday.

anticapitalista wrote:Well, I'm finally back from my hols.

I'm trying to digest the posts, but firstly would like to thank you all for the feedback and OU812 for his hard work with the antiXCC and icewm configuration.

You have some great guys here at the forums. OU812 is awesome, but there are several others, whose names I have not yet memorized, who are also quite capable - especially a couple of the guys coming up with graphics.

The community is quite welcoming, and with the phpBB software being very similar in appearance to what we use over at the USALUG where I hang out, this is also one helpful place!

Good people, good forum, good software. I've had some fun experiments with sidux and antiX while you have been gone, and I also messed with SimplyMEPIS and smxi and got h2 a bit interested in that as well. It was a good week for testing!

The "graphics team" is composed of impuwat and sakasa.

john

OU812 wrote:The "graphics team" is composed of impuwat and sakasa.

john

Thanks, John. I knew I could find their names just by looking through the graphics items that have been created, but being your helpful self, you saved me the step. Yes, impuwat and sakasa are awesome. I noticed quite a bit of activity recently from sakasa, so I will have to check it out more carefully and keep a few wallpapers handy!

Have a great weekend John!

I have been reading all of the posts in this thread and I am really amazed at how many improvements are coming in this release. I honestly never thought IceWM could be so good.There are some extremely talented and dedicated Developer's here!

I see fresh ideas and real innovation and I am particularly impressed with the originality in regards to IceWM. This distribution actually fills a need and I can not think of any other distribution that has an advanced IceWM set up like is being developed here.

I just wanted to say how impressed I am with the work being done. AntiX will set the standard for light distributions and reach many more user's with the quality work being done here.

I am really looking forward to the final release and reading very favorable reviews!

masinick wrote:You have some great guys here at the forums...
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Good people, good forum, good software. I've had some fun experiments with sidux and antiX while you have been gone, and I also messed with SimplyMEPIS and smxi and got h2 a bit interested in that as well. It was a good week for testing!

You're right masinick. There is a whole wealth of talent here and in a very friendly atmosphere.
Hope you are having fun with the test1 release and smxi! I think smxi will work even better on antiX-base as the user will have almost total control of what sort of Debian-based distro to build.

exploder,

Yes, we are lucky to have a dedicated base here. Lots of ideas, advice, positive criticisms, practical apps ie icewm, control centre, wallpaper, slim background ideas, grub boot wallpaper ideas.
Hopefully, others will appreciate the high standards we set here.

I have made some changes for test2, but I still cannot get synaptic or apt or aptitude to work on the livecd, but the internet does work.
Anyone know why? I think it may have something to do with aufs-tools or perl, but I'm guessing.

Anticapitalista, I was checking out test one and found a problem with Apple Movie Trailers. Some trailers will not play and they display a message that a newer version of Quicktime is required. The solution for this is to install; totem-mozilla and totem-gstreamer.

The movie trailers will still use MPlayer as the default and all of the trailers will play.

That's great--I had noticed that too but figured it was just Apple's latest method of shafting Linux users. Almost 15 megs to add.

If that's true for M7 as well, as I think it must be, you should post this under Tips and Tricks on MepisLovers.

Thanks.

# apt-get install totem-mozilla totem-gstreamer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libwvstreams4.2-base python2.4 libglide2 glide2-bin libggi-target-x
libopencdk10 libggi2 libgii1 libgii1-target-x
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
alacarte capplets-data deskbar-applet desktop-base desktop-file-utils
doc-base evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common gnome-about
gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data
gnome-doc-utils gnome-media gnome-media-common gnome-menus
gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session
gnome-settings-daemon gnome-system-monitor gnome-user-guide gnome-utils
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
iso-codes libapm1 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2
libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserverui1.2-8 libegroupwise1.2-13 libepc-1.0-1
libepc-ui-1.0-1 libexempi3 libfreezethaw-perl libgalago3
libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1 libgmyth0 libgnome-desktop-2
libgnome-media0 libgnome-window-settings1 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd2
libgnomekbdui2 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6
libgweather-common libgweather1 libmetacity0 libmldbm-perl libmpeg2-4
libnet-dbus-perl liboobs-1-4 libpanel-applet2-0 librarian0 libsidplay1
libslab0 libtie-ixhash-perl libtrackerclient0 libuuid-perl libwnck-common
libwnck22 libxklavier12 libxml-twig-perl libxml-xpath-perl libxml2-utils
libxres1 metacity metacity-common nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-data
python-beagle python-elementtree python-fpconst python-gdata python-gmenu
python-gnome2-desktop python-libxml2 python-soappy system-tools-backends
totem-common totem-plugins xsltproc yelp
Suggested packages:
gnome kde xfce4 wmaker evolution evolution-data-server-dbg tomboy cpufreqd
cpudyn powernowd gnome-screensaver xscreensaver xrdb gnome2-user-guide
gnome-system-tools gcalctool sidplay-base xsidplay libunicode-map8-perl
libunicode-string-perl xml-twig-tools eog tracker fam python-elementtree-doc
python-gnome2-desktop-doc gromit
The following NEW packages will be installed:
alacarte capplets-data deskbar-applet desktop-base desktop-file-utils
doc-base evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common gnome-about
gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data
gnome-doc-utils gnome-media gnome-media-common gnome-menus
gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session
gnome-settings-daemon gnome-system-monitor gnome-user-guide gnome-utils
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
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libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserverui1.2-8 libegroupwise1.2-13 libepc-1.0-1
libepc-ui-1.0-1 libexempi3 libfreezethaw-perl libgalago3
libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1 libgmyth0 libgnome-desktop-2
libgnome-media0 libgnome-window-settings1 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd2
libgnomekbdui2 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6
libgweather-common libgweather1 libmetacity0 libmldbm-perl libmpeg2-4
libnet-dbus-perl liboobs-1-4 libpanel-applet2-0 librarian0 libsidplay1
libslab0 libtie-ixhash-perl libtrackerclient0 libuuid-perl libwnck-common
libwnck22 libxklavier12 libxml-twig-perl libxml-xpath-perl libxml2-utils
libxres1 metacity metacity-common nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-data
python-beagle python-elementtree python-fpconst python-gdata python-gmenu
python-gnome2-desktop python-libxml2 python-soappy system-tools-backends
totem-common totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla totem-plugins xsltproc yelp
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This is antiX-M7.5-test1.

On my other box, apple movies play fine without totem apps. Maybe because it has w32codecs from multimedia repo. (antiX default doesn't have the 'full' set)

Found the perfect solution!

Enable unstable repos (debian and multimedia)
apt-get update
apt-get install mozilla-mplayer

Comment out unstable repos.

Test2 will come with the 'sid' mozilla-mplayer plugin.

Edit: You might need the libquicktime1 file too and possibly gstreamer0.10-fmpeg