Newbie Antix problems and questions, sessions, displays, mount and Mega sync

33Nicolas · 01-17-2017, 01:42 AM

Hi and sorry for the newbie questions, but this newbie wants to understand and use Arch on his aging material.

I have a 2009 (?) Dell Studio laptop T6400 2gHz running Antix 15, 4Gb memory. I'm using X11, kernel 4.0.5 antix amd64. I did a sudo apt-get update and upgrade yesterday 1/15/17. I installed a few apps, Firefox, Opeshot, Audacity because I need to do some light audio and video editing. I can't find any of them on the menu.

I'm finding problems with sessions not remembering my settings, dual display, etc.

Also, I can't seem to make a permanent sda2 mount, where I put my multimedia files.

I can't seem to get my Mega sync working.

That's a tall order and I hope I'm not overloading anyone. Any help would be greatly appreciate. I'm not proficient with command prompts but willing to learn. Thanks beforehand,

fatmac · 01-17-2017, 05:18 AM

On AntiX there is a menu option to update the menus, it can also be done from the commandline, by running update-menus.

Providing this is an installed system, all session settings should be remembered, so I'm guessing that you are running 'live', so unless you create a 'persistent' system, this will happen every time.

rokytnji · 01-17-2017, 09:53 AM

My /etc/fstab for your

Quote:

Also, I can't seem to make a permanent sda2 mount, where I put my multimedia files.

Code:

harry@biker:~
$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# Created by make-fstab on Thu Oct 29 15:42:46 CDT 2015

# <file system>                            <mount point>                               <type>     <options>                       <dump/pass>

UUID=685d85b2-6651-49ed-928c-d5e17f70f500  /                                           ext4       defaults                        1 1
UUID=8d150b09-c903-4b7d-9326-7b88e7ac84f2  /home                                       ext4       defaults                        1 1
UUID=45720f5c-3d28-4e6d-a06d-9ce4a9fe5370  swap                                        swap       defaults                        0 0
UUID=8c692b69-46f7-48ef-abc9-e6963655e259  /media/_data1                               ext4       auto,exec,users,rw              1 1
UUID=b76696e8-11ba-4177-970b-0d237aa5a8ae  /media/_data2                               ext4       auto,exec,users,rw              1 1
/dev/cdrom                                 /media/cdrom                                iso9660    noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/cdrw                                  /media/cdrw                                 iso9660    noauto,exec,users,rw            0 0
/dev/dvd                                   /media/dvd                                  udf        noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/sr0                                   /media/sr0                                  auto       noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
# Added by make-fstab /dev/sdb1
UUID=3030-F1DA                             /media/sdb1                                 vfat       noauto,uid=1000,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,users  0 0
# Added by make-fstab /dev/sdb1
UUID=6839-720B                             /media/sdb1-2                               vfat       noauto,uid=1000,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,users  0 0
harry@biker:~

We still need those inxi reports I asked for earlier. My above readout shows I have my data partitions mounting on bootup .
My self made folders in /media are

Code:

harry@biker:/media
$ ls -l
total 36
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 29  2015 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 29  2015 cdrw
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Sep  8 21:24 _data1
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Sep  7 16:59 _data2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 29  2015 dvd
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 11 21:59 MTPdevice
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:45 sdb1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 13 16:14 sdb1-2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 29  2015 sr0

MTPdevice is my Samsung Galaxy S7 edge phone folder.

Anyways. My stuff posted above is just a example. Here is link for you to understand playing around with /etc/fstab

Before playing around with it.

Code:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig

To keep your original one as backup when you screw things up from inexperience and the system fails to boot. A live session can get you into restoring that backup to fix your screwup <if it happens>

Here is the link for understanding fstab

PS. I have no freaking idea what "Mega Sync" is or what it does.

beachboy2 · 01-17-2017, 04:24 PM

MegaSync is an alternative to DropBox, Google Drive etc:
http://linuxpitstop.com/install-mega...u-16-04-linux/

33Nicolas · 01-17-2017, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac

On AntiX there is a menu option to update the menus, it can also be done from the commandline, by running update-menus.

Providing this is an installed system, all session settings should be remembered, so I'm guessing that you are running 'live', so unless you create a 'persistent' system, this will happen every time.

Thanks Fatmac, it worked. I now know how to install and update menus. One small step for me...

33Nicolas · 01-17-2017, 07:25 PM

[QUOTE=rokytnji;5656197]

Code:

harry@biker:~
$ cat /etc/fstab

We still need those inxi reports I asked for earlier. My above readout shows I have my data partitions mounting on bootup .
My self made folders in /media are

OK, So it looks like it is mounted. I have my picture folder with the wallpapers I want on the sda2 drive. It just won't remember, Perhaps the problem is elsewhere? I uploaded a picture. I didn't know how to copy and paste from the terminal. Pipe something?

Code:

harry@biker:/media
$ ls -l

MTPdevice is my Samsung Galaxy S7 edge phone folder.

I also have an S7, it should make it easier.

Code:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig

To keep your original one as backup when you screw things up from inexperience and the system fails to boot. A live session can get you into restoring that backup to fix your screwup <if it happens>

Here is the link for understanding fstab

On it right now. In this case, it seems to remember the sda2 mount. Is it a profile problem with wallpapers? I'll give fstab a stab later, pun intended.system. ) and then execute it, and then find out where it is.

Thanks for your help and patience.

rokytnji · 01-17-2017, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beachboy2

MegaSync is an alternative to DropBox, Google Drive etc:
http://linuxpitstop.com/install-mega...u-16-04-linux/

Thanks Beachboy. I can take it from here

Download the .deb version matching

Code:

cat /etc/debian_version

From here

https://mega.nz/#sync!linux

On my antix version. I am running

Code:

$ cat /etc/debian_version
8.7

So I would want the debian 8 version download from Mega.

After downloading it , lets say to ~/Downloads folder.

Menu>Applications>System>Gdebi

Open Gdebi. Point Gdebi to downloads folder and have it go into gdebi.

Proceed with install. <I am not going to install this>

Then update the menus. <Menu>Update Menus>

Logout and log back in.

I would add it to personal section if I was you. Using the antixcc>Desktop>edit Menus. Just follow the prompts. It will/should be in there to add to wherever/section in the menu you want.

rokytnji · 01-17-2017, 07:41 PM

Since you answered while I was typing. Open SpaceFM and see if you can see and mount your sda2 from there. Then it will also show being mounted in rox filer.

rokytnji · 01-17-2017, 07:45 PM

Last but not least. I am going to bed so I suggest you watch this youtube channel when you are wondering how AntiX works.

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

33Nicolas · 01-18-2017, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Download the .deb version matching

cat /etc/debian_version

From here

https://mega.nz/#sync!linux

Done and running the same version.

Quote:

Menu>Applications>System>Gdebi

Open Gdebi. Point Gdebi to downloads folder and have it go into gdebi.

Proceed with install. <I am not going to install this>

Then update the menus. <Menu>Update Menus>

Logout and log back in.

Done! Wow, can't believe how simple it was.

Quote:

I would add it to personal section if I was you. Using the antixcc>Desktop>edit Menus. Just follow the prompts. It will/should be in there to add to wherever/section in the menu you want.

Wow, done as well. Great strides! Super thanks.

Next, apparently my desktop sessions are not registering. It says hold on loading, but nothing happens. I have to reset the resolution, dual panels configuration, etc. I learned how to save the profile and reload it, but it would be nice to automate it. I dabbled a little with some edit jwm and Fluxbox setting files wherever I saw display and startup, but nothing came of it. I remembered to hash out the old path and put the right one to the mounted folder. It hasn't worked. Hope this makes sense. Thanks

33Nicolas · 01-18-2017, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Since you answered while I was typing. Open SpaceFM and see if you can see and mount your sda2 from there. Then it will also show being mounted in rox filer.

Done, and boy that's a better file manipulation system than the default one!

Next, tweaking it to my tastes.

After that, I need to have bigger fonts. I'm apparently getting too old for the default setting :\