Every so often, I like to step back and explore different window managers or compositors, especially those that might offer something lightweight and interesting for the ArchBang project. Recently, I decided to spend some time with Labwc, a Wayland compositor inspired by Openbox. Since ArchBang is traditionally based on Openbox, it made sense to look … Testing Labwc – Why It Might Not Be Right for ArchBang
Have had quite a bit of feedback on SwayBang, one user has given me plenty to think about. Am uploading a new iso image with quite a few small changes. Will state it is nothing major but just makes things run a little easier. A list in no means any particular order: PATH variable is … SwayBang does not have bugs it has new features….
Just a quick heads up, 6.15 is out. Rebuilt both images and am uploading them now. One minor fix in ArchBang for dmenu, switched it too Super + Shift + d as not to clash with Openbox show desktop mode. Removed bind from conky for now as just did not look nice 😉 Now I … 6.15 Kernel is out, so am updating images again!
So iso image 0806 is not working, thanks to everyone for letting me know. Quite a easy fix as I had simply mixed up .bash_profile with the one for SwayBang ;-( As you can see all is well again in the world, am uploading a new image now. Only human and I do make mistakes, … Well that did not go as planned….. ;-(
Another week of working on SwayBang, made quite a few changes mostly configs. Abinstall now supports logging, just add -l or –log to the command and installer will store all the output into /tmp. Not sure how well it will work, could add debug too but would take far more work to setup. Something I … Getting there….
I had a question from a user regarding sound in SwayBang and I replied telling them that I did not see sound as a priority live. Only the thought kept on going around in my head what would be needed to have sound live? Already knew pipewire, pipewire-pulse and wireplumber are included on live iso … Sounds like SwayBang….
Have spent the last few weeks working iso image that is based on Sway tiling window manager. Has taken quite a lot of work to get look and feel as I wanted. My first thoughts were to run Sway as a floating window manager and while it does work it kind of defeats the object … Welcome to Wayland….
Just built and uploaded a new iso image, no major changes other than package updates and a new kernel. While working on themes I forgot to make changes to dmenu, should now work correctly. There is a lot of talk on the internet about the big distros switching to Wayland only. Gnome is also hinting … Update and small fix…
Been working towards a summer release with a new background, look and themes. Still not happy with Polybar but I will figure it out. Possibly move clock and replace with window title, shift launchers to the left and maybe add another one. Not made any major package changes other than dropping sof-firmware, think live audio … Summer has arrived…..
Added a small boot cheat code to allow a user to boot into i3 tiling window manager live. On boot hit Tab and then enter at the end of the line wm=i3, if using uefi use ‘e’ to edit boot options and again add wm=i3. On log in you will be greeted with a black … Want to try a tiling window manager live?