I have had some feedback from Erik at Arcolinux about ArchBang and some small fixes. Most are in new iso image which I am uploading now. Making ArchBang beautiful: Thunar – Open terminal here [right click] now works. yay_install has been removed, I need to rewrite it. Abinstall will now remove multi-target link to pacman-init … Lots of small changes thanks to Erik….
As usual Arch has released a new kernel so I have updated iso image. Two minor changes, noticed that I had two entries in Conky for Rofi and have removed Alacritty title to default. In other news I have been turned down by Open-Collective as project is new and only maintained by one person ;-(… … New kernel so have updated image…
Have just paid for another years hosting, mostly covered by donations to the project. Thought long and hard about dropping blog, might just post less or as needed. Mesa was recently updated, as I run nouveau drivers so did not notice any problems. Only while testing ArchBang live under Virtualbox was not working. At first … Another year of hosting…
Alacritty update now uses TOML syntax in configuration file. This means you may get a warning about changes and the need to migrate to new format. If you do see warning follow instructions and simply run: alacritty migrate Once done you will need to make other manual changes to remove warnings in terminal. To this … Changes in Alacritty terminal…
Well been a busy year for ArchBang. Openbox to i3/Sway then back to Openbox. Wayland will take over from X11 at some point so an alternative window manager based on it will be needed. Wayland is to some a bit marmite, what I mean is some like it others hate it. While Sway worked I … Whats coming in 2024…
Arch has update to 6.6.8 kernel so I have rebuilt and uploaded a nice fresh iso image 😉 Once again Happy Xmas and Happy New year… Stay safe.
Quick update to iso, added in Pragha if you want to play some music while in a live session ;-). Thank you all for your feedback,emails and messages over past year and of course for the Coffee donations, keep ’em coming. Just wanted to say have a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year. … Update to ArchBang and A very Happy Xmas to you all…
I was not totally happy with theme in current ArchBang iso. While I like the Nord colours it looked washed out against my background image. Also logout from Openbox menu looked terrible. So have darkened theme colour, changed active title to white and removed exitmenu from tint2. For some reason Cbatticon shows up in black … Small colour changes….
Well the holiday season is fast approaching and as usual I have got lots to do and little time to do it. Rebuilt iso using 6.7.7 kernel, so at least you are fully up to date. Lost £100 this week on Ebay, something I could do without at the moment. Item was not delivered and … We are at 6.6.7….
Well as all things Arch a new kernel has arrived, so I built a fresh image. No other real changes. Have noticed iso image is a little larger so am checking ArchBang source files and I found old wallpaper and theme are still present. Well no harm done so next release will hopefully be a … Quick update to iso image…