Control Centre doesn't work unless I do sudo first (su doesn't work). I'm surprised nobody else is reporting this. Am I really the only one with this problem?

Once I do sudo, all Control Centre commands work, except:

Session - User Desktop Session
Session - Activate Clipboard Manager
Hardware - Mouse Configuration

The "Hardware" category is empty.

The bug reported here prevents the installation or update of certain programs (I've noticed synaptic and smartmontools). Perhaps you could solve this problem even if AntiX doesn't, for example by adding the necessary GPG key.

I find that NetSurf doesn't work well with most Web sites. There's nothing to be done, I suppose.

Previously reported:

The installation program marks a swap partition as file type 83 rather than the correct 82.

Enhancement request: Add battery status to conky.

What an interesting project, I'm looking forward to trying it.

Accessibility/disability issue: I've got an extreme sensitivity to short wavelength blue light.

I'm working on getting an e-ink monitor, but until then and to rescue old laptops

Does DSL have a built in blue-light filter program on either JWM or fluxbox?

What would it take to install radky's JWM desk (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.p...714#p39714) from puppy linux on JWM in DSL?  

Or some other blue-light filter program?  

Thank you,

Buen día

Antes que nada agradezco a los creadores de DMS por este foro e incluir el idioma español dentro de la distribución.

Tengo una pregunta: intenté instalar la distro pero... no me reconoce el mouse (ya probé con tres diferentes) ni el touch pad de mi laptop. Es imposible hacer algo, no puedo abrir menús, ni siquiera con combinaciones de teclas. 

¿A alguien más le ha pasado? de ser así, ¿cómo lo solucionaron?

Mi equipo de pruebas es una Acer Aspire One ZG5, con 2 gb en ram y procesador Atom.


Saludos!

Using firefox-esr on RC4 as installed, I find that I cannot read the titles of inactive tabs. There is zero contrast between the text and the tab colour. Also, the + button to open a new tab is always invisible.

How do I fix this? Changing the theme (? Widget tab in Customize Look and Feel) has no effect.

Attempts to do the first update after install (rc4) ends in failure. Is this a problem at my end? 
I have used various Debian-based Linux distros over the years, and usually apt or apt-get just works.
It looks like a problem at the repo end (I wouldn't be "signing" their repo, would I?) Is this just a matter of waiting?

sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports InRelease                                             
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease                                           
Get:4 http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bookworm bookworm InRelease [27.4 kB]                 
Hit:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Err:4 http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bookworm bookworm InRelease
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG DB36CDF3452F0C20 antiX Linux repo <repo@antixlinux.com>
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bookworm bookworm InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG DB36CDF3452F0C20 antiX Linux repo <repo@antixlinux.com>
E: The repository 'http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bookworm bookworm InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Added su-to-root before starting control center

Compiled and updated Dillo to the much improved 3.1.0 (from 3.0.5)(!).

Compiled and added the Gemini Dillo plugin (check bookmarks to test it out)

Unified theme between user and root for a more consistent look in administrative programs.

Cleaned up the interface by adding some missing icons

Removed icons from both Fluxbox and JWM menus to reduce overhead and the visual footprint

Added German, French, Spanish Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language support

https://damnsmalllinux.org/2024-download.html

BTW, I am looking to partner up with folks who sell used and refurbished laptops.

A bit of preamble on me; I started using old DSL around a year ago since I had picked up a ARM Laboratories 340S8 (brand doesn't matter, in what research I have done this laptop was sold under 100000000 different names but atleast the model number stayed the same) running a Tulatin P3 1GHz with ATI Rage LT Pro (8MB) and 2x 256MB of SDRAM. I researched multiple distros looking for a decent one that would pair nicely to dualboot and I found DSL, I liked the premise so on eBay I bought the book to research more myself and I loved the book and the OS; as the OS was fast and had a decent amount of software support, while the book went into all the little details on how the OS worked and the core philosophy which I really enjoyed. I was thrilled when I saw today that on distrowatch not only was DSL on the rise surpassing OS's like void and only being a couple of spots away from DSL's spiritual successor TinyCore but to also find the project revived now with a new AntiX coat of paint! Now for the question, will 2024 DSL get the same book treatment that the original DSL got? I would personally love to see one since I found it immensely useful since it helped me learn linux and its' inter-workings even more since upto that point I had only used Endeavor (I currently use Debian and I'm trying to swap to AntiX but with LXDE) and I think the DSL book was a great teaching tool and just a good read in general and that a new one would be a great idea. Just to see how the community would be open to the idea of a new DSL book there is a poll below to see who would be interested in buying a copy if it where to get made.

Hey

so im running Linux Mint on my chromebook now native and would like to try DSL, ive flashed the USB with the distro image and plugged in the USB and booted from it, but i get this error message:


failed: verify it contains a 64-bit UEFI OS

how it looks in the USB i used etcher to burn the image:

I tried to use man pages for many commands such as apt and ping, but it's showing "no manual entry for (command)". I am new to Linux and would appreciate any help regarding how fix this issue. I really want to use the man pages. And this is a fresh install of DSL 2024.

Hello,

DSL is totally new to me, so I feel like being in the dark.

I've run live and then installed DSL on my old Pentium II laptop, but I've some doubts:

1. "Ensure to be already connected to the net before running the installer..."
    As a newbie, I don't know how a computer with a blank disk can be already connected to any net.
    So I didn't connect it to any network and performed a basic installation.
    Hope I haven't lost anything.

2. "To use a separate boot partition you need our cli installer"
    Fine, where is it? What's its name? Is it on the CD? Or how do I get it?

3. My laptop used to run RedHat 8 and then Fedora 4. Both of them provided the siliconmotion video driver.
    Since it's missing in the distro, I guess it's impossible to run X unless I install that driver.
    To do that I need to build it by gcc.
    How do I get and properly install the gcc package, if any?

4. In fact I have to modify Grub to start the o.s. console. For who have unsupported video cards, to start the system at the command line level would be a very appreciated option.
    And what about the old /etc/inittab file? How to modify runlevels manually?

5. Man pages are missing and I couldn't find any up-to-date on-line help, so I feel totally blind.
    How do I get man pages?

Thank you so much in advance.