Was talking the living legend Joe at Endeavouros about a live Wayland based iso. Did try to run Fedora plasma wayland but could not get it to work so thought about building my own based on Archlinux. First major issue is that Wayland refuses to run under Virtualbox [at least on my system] know that … Want to try out Sway live? Read on….
Am building a new iso image which includes latest kernel. Bought a Sony Vaio off a friend for a few pounds and I love it, its old not very powerful but still a joy to use. First job upgrades, more ram, a bigger SSD, new cmos battery and clean of fan and re-paste cpu. Got … Update including latest kernel, a minor fix and stuff….
Never really liked or used default resize mode in i3, prefer to just use keyboard without entering a mode then having to press another key to exit. This is something I use so feel free to use different binds or just use the mouse. Super relates to Windows logo key on a keyboard, of course … Moving and resizing windows in i3 ….
Decided to update ArchBang iso today as there could be no pacman updates over the weekend. Here is a link to changes coming in Archlinux news, this should not really affect most users unless you are using testing. So this image will have latest kernel and packages and will rebuild if things change over the … Mid week update and Archlinux news
Was messing around with live image in VirtualBox in the week and noticed that I could not send applications to workspaces above 7. Checked i3 config and saw that workspace 8,9,10 and 10 were missing [a quick edit sorted that]. Having changed config you need to reload it, only it did not work. Back into … Missing Workspaces, Locks and Reloading….
So for next iso release I have added scratchpad, basically it allows to change a window into a floating one that you can toggle to hide or view via a keybind. Htop running in a scratchpad terminal… To add a application or terminal to a scratchpad use Super+Shift+s, to view or hide it use Super+s. … No more itching use a scratchpad…
Am building a new iso image for uploading very soon. Mostly package updates. Will be starting work on Summer release very soon, mostly new themes and colours. Think I need to look at Guide [shipped with iso] as its getting a little out of date. Still in two minds about starting ssh on live iso, … Quick iso update…
Do not normally do this but I have changed Spring release background as I thought old one was a bit too gloomy. Slight theme change, moved Conky to left side of screen and changed its colour to make it more readable. Will work on launcher colours at some point. Need to look at Guide (site … New Spring ArchBang iso background…
Was thinking that background in Spring release looked at bit too winter like, so I have changed it. Made other minor changes to theme colours. Had to make a minor change to installer to remove correctly abinstall from target device. Also during install mkinitcpio creates initramfs using zstd as standard. Other things I will work … Spring changes to wallpaper, theme and installer.
Have had quite a week my car is finally fixed after 5 weeks of being off the road. Am now £400 worse off and to top it all I had a puncture while riding my bike home last night from work. Good news is pay day yesterday, got a long weekend as Monday here in … Cars, bikes and Dynamic Tiling in i3….