Personalization

Personalization Options

Some options in this section lack details of possible values.

The ones with details are considered to be complete.

I haven't added a trailing "=" to option entries and instead rely on

examples.

When you install antiX on a computer, you get a chance to set things up exactly how you want them using the antiX Control Center or by simply editing particular files. Whatever changes you make are retained on the file system and are there the next time you boot. With a LiveCD you would have to make the same changes every time you boot so we’ve provided some boot options to make personalizing the LiveCD a little easier.

Much more powerful personalization is available through Persistence and/or Remastering but these require that use use a read-write device, like a USB stick. If you are only using a LiveCD or LiveDVD then some of the options below could be useful.

desktop

Set the default desktop manager. Normally only fluxbox, jwm, icewm, dwm and wmii come pre-installed. You would have to install other desktops in before using them as the desktop option is useful. Nonetheless, the choices are:

desktop=dwm

desktop=kde

desktop=fluxbox

desktop=lxde

desktop=fvwm-crystal

desktop=openbox

desktop=gnome

desktop=wmii

desktop=icewm

desktop=xfce

desktop=jwm

desktop=i3

dpi

Set display resolution (in X-windows). This number is supposed to correspond to "dots per inch". A higher number makes the text larger and a smaller number makes it smaller. Think of it as "font size". The default value is 96 and the number usually ranges between 90 and 130. Example dpi=120

drvr

Set the video driver to used.

lang

Set the language, the time-zone, and the keyboard layout. Choices are:

lang=ar Arabic

lang=fa Iranian

lang=mk Macedonian

lang=au Australia

lang=fi Finnish

lang=no Norwegian

lang=be-fr Belgian-French

lang=fr French

lang=nl Dutch

lang=be-nl Belgian-Dutch

lang=ga Gaelic

lang=nz NZ-English

lang=by Belarus

lang=ge Georgian

lang=pl Polish

lang=bg Bulgaria

lang=gr Greek

lang=pt Portugese

lang=br Brazil

lang=he Hebrew

lang=ru Russian

lang=ca Catalan

lang=hr Croatian

lang=sk Slovak

lang=ch Swiss-German

lang=hu Hungarian

lang=sl Slovene

lang=cn Chinese

lang=ie Irish

lang=sr Serbian

lang=cs Czech

lang=is Islandic

lang=sv Swedish

lang=de German

lang=it Italian

lang=tr Turkish

lang=dk Danish

lang=ja Japanese

lang=tw Chinese

lang=es Spanish

lang=ko Korean

lang=ua Ukranian

lang=et Estonian

lang=lt Lithuanian

lang=uk GB-English

lang=eu Basque

lang=lv Latvian

lang=us US-English

kbd

Set keyboard layout

kbopt

Set keyboard options

kbdvar

Set keyboard variant

noRox

disable Rox desktop with some icons

tz

Set the timezone

vga

Sets the resolution of the virtual (text) consoles. This is almost all of the text you see before X-windows starts (and you see a graphical desktop). Some common values are:

Decimal

Hex

Size

Resolution (bits)

vga=771

vga=0x303

800x600

8

vga=788

vga=0x314

800x600

16

vga=789

vga=0x315

800x600

24

vga=773

vga=0x305

1024x768

8

vga=791

vga=0x317

1024x768

16

vga=792

vga=0x318

1024x768

24

vga=775

vga=0x307

1280x1024

8

vga=794

vga=0x31A

1280x1024

16

vga=795

vga=0x31B

1280x1024

24

Examples are shown in both decimal and hex. (0x31B is the hex representation of 795 decimal). This is because if you have an odd shaped screen or a small screen like on a NetBook, the common vga values might not work. In this case use vga=ask and you will be shown a list of valid vga settings. If you only need to boot once (ha ha) just select the letter associated with the size and resolution you want then hit <enter>. If you might want to boot more than once (very likely) then write down the code that follows the letter on a piece of paper. These codes are in hex so to get them to work in the boot menu, you need to put "0x" (zero ex) in front like in the second column in the table above. (*** sigh ***)