Slimski problem on AntiX

rokytnji · 07-12-2023, 08:54 AM

Ok. I figure you accepted accepted the maintainers version by saying yes on upgrade of slimski.

Below is not tell all of what to avoid. I use it though.

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/upgr...-reinstalling/

I use to remind me some root files are on distro iso maintainers plate instead of maintainers of distro apps.

That is what I am guessing with my poke and hope mind. Edit., Love a happy ending.

2nd edit. Don't forget to mark this as solved , Since you are the OP and can edit the title.

hazel · 07-12-2023, 09:04 AM

I don't think this was a distro version problem because the previous release that I was using used slim, not slimski. And I didn't upgrade it in situ because the advice was not to. I installed the new version from scratch. But something must have got out of step in the repos because a newly reinstalled package shouldn't include a theme that doesn't exist any more.

ChuangTzu · 07-12-2023, 12:13 PM

roky is awesome, and how dare you sit on the sidelines

(:insert court jester: ).

ChuangTzu · 07-12-2023, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel

That's why I put it in this forum. I know Anticapitalista visits here regularly and he's helped me out before.

This is what happens with very tightly integrated systems and it increases my appreciation of Slackware's looser coupling. In Slack, I don't even bother with a display manager; I just use startx and it works perfectly well.

Yes, anti is a good example of an approachable dev.. Also, agree with appreciating Slackware's looser coupling. Although, antiX is the only distro where I could possibly tolerate Debian.

hazel · 10-21-2023, 07:50 AM

And now once more it doesn't work!! There was a mammoth update last week and I think slimski was included. Now it fails at startup again. This time, editing the login manager didn't work. It's already set to Default.

So I looked at a couple of actual theme files in /usr/share/slimski/themes/Default (en_GB and en_US), and I noticed something very odd. The files are empty except for a comment line. What's going on?

rokytnji · 12-20-2023, 08:11 PM

When something gets left out. I try a

Code:

sudo apt-get -f install

Hopefully. Anything missing gets pulled in then.

I did not know you had a slimski screwup again. I don't even have a default folder and my fully updated current antiX

64 bit full iso install my chromebook. Here is my readout below

Code:

harry@antix1:~
$ cd /usr/share/slimski/themes/Default 
bash: cd: /usr/share/slimski/themes/Default: No such file or directory
harry@antix1:~
$ cd /usr/share/slimski/themes
harry@antix1:/usr/share/slimski/themes
$ ls
antiX     ax         BlueLinesLight  default  PrettyPink  SunnyDay
antiXIce  BlueLines  DarkCity        flat     Space
harry@antix1:/usr/share/slimski/themes
$

as you notice. Lower case d for default

I'LL look inside now

Code:

harry@antix1:/usr/share/slimski/themes
$ cd default
harry@antix1:/usr/share/slimski/themes/default
$ ls
ar_EG           en_GB  es_US  he_IL  mk_MK      slimski.theme
background.jpg  en_NZ  es_UY  hr_HR  nb_NO      sl_SI
bg_BG           en_US  es_VE  hu_HU  nl_BE      sq_AL
ca_ES           es_AR  et_EE  is_IS  nl_NL      sr_RS
cs_CZ           es_BO  eu_ES  it_IT  panel.png  sv_SE
da_DK           es_CO  fa_IR  ja_JP  pl_PL      translations_TEMPLATE.txt
de_AT           es_EC  fi_FI  ka_GE  pt_BR      tr_TR
de_CH           es_ES  fr_BE  kk_KZ  pt_PT      uk_UA
de_DE           es_MX  fr_CA  ko_KR  ro_RO      zh_CN
el_GR           es_NI  fr_CH  lt_LT  ru_RU      zh_TW
en_AU           es_PE  fr_FR  lv_LV  sk_SK

That is how yours should look. My default in locales is usa_eng_utf8.

hazel · 12-21-2023, 04:33 AM

It cured itself! More updates and now the damn thing works again without doctoring it. But that machine is really at the end of its life. It's too low-spec even for the sort of thing I use computers for, and the VIA Chrome graphics aren't compatible with any modern kernel, so I can't update it to 23. Instead, I installed 23 on bigboy, on the new SSD alongside Slackware, and now I use that. I'm thinking of eventually using littleboy as an rsync server for bigboy.