I'm still exploring AntiX as a relatively new (to me) system, while finding it very efficient and usable for many day to day purposes. I'd be grateful though for some guidance on a couple of issues:

Some weeks ago I enabled the gufw via the Control Centre, setting it to 'Incoming: Deny, Outgoing: Allow'. However, every time I log in again, I find that the firewall has apparently been switched off, and I have to 'unlock' it again to restore the settings. The device looks to be visually identical to the one used in Ubuntu and Mint, but in those distros the settings remain in place permanently, it seems. Am I omitting to do something in AntiX, or is this the way it's supposed to work? I'm pretty sure also that when the system is booting up, one of the very fast-scrolling lines of text says 'Starting firewall'.

Secondly, I'm wondering how to enable the dvd player in order to watch films, etc. I've tried clicking on everything in the 'Sound and Video' section, but nothing there looks as if it's a dvd player, and I've also gone into the file manager and clicked on the various icons in /media/ dvd and /media/sr0 without success. I've also tried installing the 'NonFree' metapackage, which I understand includes libdvdcss2, but I'm not entirely sure that this was successful. As currently set up, the system can read PDF files on dvds and boot other linux operating systems from dvds, but is just unable to be used for films and video media.

Go to 10.29 or so in the video and see if it explains things OK. I have a firewall on my wireless router.
So I never set mine up in antixcc <antix control center>. I watched the video and all he does is unlock and turn it on. Then closes it. Is that all you did? On reboot. You have to unlock and turn it on again?

Anti or dolphin_oracle may respond later on to this thread as they visit this section of the forum also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHZbhrORtsA

Also. If you join the forums and ask at

https://forum.mxlinux.org/

http://antix.freeforums.org/index.php

A lot more eyes that know the particulars will respond to your questions.

Edit: As far as DVD playing. Gnome Mplayer handles that. You may need to put in x11,xv,or something in preferences>general settings. So check out

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFW...KlXW5uE9opXukQ

https://www.youtube.com/user/runwiththedolphin/videos

channel. Many many how to's there on most anything you need to know.
Be sure and give dolphin some likes on his videos. I do it all the time myself.

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Thanks for the reply. I've spent a couple of hours on these issues and my progress has been.....nonexistent. I'm assuming that the video is the 'Personal Menu Help Video', but on my version (AntiX 16) the subject at 10.29 is a CD burner app, nothing about the firewall appears at all. My experience with the Antix gufw is as follows:

1. Click on Control Centre.

2. Click on 'Network' then 'Manage Firewall'.

3. Enter password when requested.

4. A gufw interface appears in a window, showing status as 'Off'. Click on the word 'Unlock' lower down, and status turns to 'On'. This sounds like progress but.......

5. Close the interface, then reopen it and the gufw is once again locked and set to 'Off'. You don't actually have to log out or even leave the Control Centre for this to happen, contrary to what I originally thought.

Like you, I probably don't even need to use a firewall, but it'd be nice if it 'just worked'....



I've also played around with Gnome MPlayer, trying out just about every setting in 'Preferences', but I just can't get any reaction whatever from it. Also, in desperation I installed mpv player via Synaptic, and although I managed to get it to show up in the menus, clicking on it produced no response at all. I'll probably join the AntiX/MX forums as you suggest, and hopefully get a result eventually, but can't help feeling that it shouldn't be as difficult as this to get an operating system to do something as basic as playing a dvd in 2016!