Further Lighten antiX

IceWM and startx
Many thanks to macondo.

The first thing I did was su to root and then as root:
 * 1) apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

this updated the list of applications in the database and upgraded them in case they hadn't been. It upgraded libmagic9 libnet-dns-perl and ttf-opensymbol.

Next: Then I installed the apps icewm-themes (about 80 themes), numlockx, unclutter (makes the cursor disappear after 5 second, good for reading), my favorite editor: joe, the firewall 'firehol', and the fonts 'terminus', good for reading for long lapses. xfonts-terminus Ctrl + Alt + Delete + r (will restart icewm) and make effective any changes made.
 * 1) updatedb
 * 1) apt-get install icewm-themes numlockx unclutter joe firehol
 * 1) updatedb (again)

To config my firewall and using the default editor nano: I edited and left it looking like this:
 * 1) nano /etc/default/firehol

START_FIREHOL=YES FIREHOL_LOG_MODE="ULOG"

WAIT_FOR_IFACE=""
 * 1) If you want to have firehol wait for an iface to be up add it here

then I saved and exited nano: Ctrl + O  the letter O is not a cap (saves) Ctrl + x (exits) let it run, press Enter when told to do so.
 * 1) firehol-wizard 

Set up time configuration. Launch 'SetClock' on menu, enter root password:

Default messages: your current time zone is set to Europe/Greece Do you want to change this? yes Gives me a list, I chose my continent: America

then a list of cities in America, I chose: Panama

You may need to fix the time in the bios.

To start Icewm as default WM instead of fluxbox, edit .xinitrc with nano: $ nano .xinitrc got an empty file, I left it looking like this:


 * 1) !/bin/sh

numlockx & unclutter & icewm

saved/exited from nano

Alternatively, edit the .xession file $ leafpad .xsession

and edit to exec icewm-session
 * 1) exec startfluxbox

Make booting faster and simpler: changed the booting time to zero and commented some lines to avoid seeing them when I booted, edited the file and left looking like this:
 * 1) nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

timeout 0
 * 1) color cyan/blue white/blue
 * 2) foreground ffffff
 * 3) background 0639a1

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message

title MEPIS at sda1, newest kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 nomce quiet vga=791 resume=/dev/sda2 boot

title MEPIS at sda1, previous kernel (if any) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda1 nomce quiet vga=791 resume=/dev/sda2 boot

title MEPIS at sda1, kernel 2.6.15-27-desktop root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-desktop root=/dev/sda1 nomce quiet vga=791 resume=/dev/sda2 boot

title MEMTEST kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

saved/exited and went to edit /etc/inittab I like 'startx'

here I changed the runlevel to 2 and commented an extra tty to save more ram:
 * 1) nano /etc/inittab

id:2:initdefault:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
 * 1) Run gettys in standard runlevels
 * 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
 * 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
 * 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
 * 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

Then went to /etc/fstab

and changed this line: /dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2

saved exited

Remove xdm and other unwanted apps: when it began to reboot I pressed Delete, got into my BIOS, changed the time, pressed F10 (save/exit) and it continued rebooting, took me to login, entered my username/password, typed startx, icewm came up, the time was correct, so I'm a happy camper.
 * 1) dpkg -P xdm xterm gimp gnumeric minicom dillo links2 mutt pan
 * 1) reboot

Now to config icewm: I got it all save in my yahoo mail so it's just a matter of copy/paste. $ nano .icewm/preferences (gives me an empty file) I copied/pasted my preferences:

See this post for icewm configuration:

Shutdown apps with F7 instead of Alt+F4

$ nano .icewm/prefoverride KeyWinClose="F7

save/exit.