Looking at Openbox github page and it seems there has been no updates too Openbox for at least five years. ArchBang has been shipped with other windows manager in the past with little success and always ended up back with Openbox. ArchBang with i3 tiling window manager on iso has got very little interest so … Thoughts on switching Window Manager…
Have been working on a simple script that can setup archlinux servers via rofi. It is still very much work in progress but hope I can get something to work from openbox menu in the near future. Two problems I have are that you need to backup and restore mirrorlist for script to work repeatedly. … Easy way to set up servers….
I seemed to have gained an award from Source Forge for ArchBang project. Take a look at ArchBang page over on Source Forge and you will see a badge (upper right) declaring Open Source Excellence. Guess all my hard work is starting to pay off. Uploading an ‘RC’ Spring release, basically new theme. Still very … News coming in …..
Had some spare time so have started work on Spring release, will need to work on finding a wallpaper and making minor changes to themes but this is what I have so far: You may notice green background to conky, this is more down to background being busy. Am looking to change background image to … Spring is here! I have started work on new release
So I am uploading a new iso image, mostly updates including kernel. In the real world I have been busy with painting a hallway! an interview and doing some agency work. Came home today to find an email from the company I had an interview with telling me that I was successful in getting the … What a week!
Well today was very stormy, lost part of my workshop roof and have a broken fence panel. Compared to some in the UK am very lucky. Anyway I have just built a new iso image and am uploading as I type. New kernel and fresh package as always. Quite tired this week, so I may … Storm force winds…
Have just built and uploaded a new iso, no real changes other than Arch has a new kernel release. Hopefully sudo issue has been fixed, if anyone is still having problems then please contact me. In the very near future I need to start testing archinstall as a way of creating a network installer. Three … New Iso Image and Archinstall plans…
Seems there was a problem with last iso image. Did see new version of sudo but seems there is a syntax change in sudoers file. Which meant that ablive did not have root access. A quick edit of customize file sorted the problem and sudo works fine now, as well as installer. Have had a … Sudo Make Me A Sandwich!
Am building a new iso at the moment, which will have some minor changes. First one is archinstall is included as another installation option. Archinstall has a few interesting features, not only can you do a basic normal arch install you can if you wish install a Window Manager and or other packages during process. … Minor changes and a new iso
Following my last post I have been reading up more about Archinstall and have found that it supports profiles. Looking at them they are at the simplest a list of packages to install based on a given Window Manager. Profile will in turn load Xorg and graphical drivers. So in theory it could load packages … Can archinstall be used to install ArchBang?