antiX LiveCD/USB Personalization Options

LiveCD/USB Guide
Personalization Options

## 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 ***)