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…
Been busy working on ArchBang winter release. New themes, colours [based on Nord], wallpaper and of course the logo has returned. No major changes but am putting this image out there as ‘rc’ iso. Need to test more but am happy with new look. Updated kernel 6.6.3 is also being shipped. With all things Arch … ArchBang Winter has arrived….
Have had a user contact me recently saying that Alacritty does not work live on iso image. I have tested iso in a VM and on this desktop [AMD based] and found no issue. Uploading a new iso image that I would like some feedback on. Are you having issues with Alacritty? Does it work … Need some feedback on a possible issue…..
Do not know why I did not do this before but finally got around to adding Gparted to abinstall. While I live in terminal, setting up partitions and filesystems can be a nightmare for new and experienced users. GParted will come up as an option, you can of course still do a manual set up … Making life easier…
Have updated live iso to run 6.6 kernel, no other changes. Just wanted to keep image as up to date as possible. Starting work in Winter release in the next couple of weeks. Thank you so much for all the coffee, please keep ’em coming. Stay safe….