With some spare time over holidays decided to start work on winter release, mostly theme changes. Built iso about ten times now to get everything right, then forgot ROFI!!! No major changes, new winter themes for gtk3 and openbox, rofi, tint2 and conky [reverse colours]. i3 has been updated with colours too, simple edit .xinitrc … Winter RC Release
Have built and uploaded a new iso image. May not get an iso out next with holidays fast approaching. Think might be looking early new year now. Can look at Winter version. It will include i3 window manager, if I can get my act together. Will try to keep project alive as long as I … Quick iso update
I have removed Vintage-ArchBang folder, seemed to have little or no interest. Old iso images from main downloads removed also. The latest release does now include vim editor. This is more for my personal pleasure as I am always finding myself using vim keys in nano! Next release will see files in /etc/skel removed, it … Quick update
Usual new iso is being uploaded, no major changes other than updated packages. This week I am testing out Ventoy, interesting project it allows iso images to be put on a usb drive. When you boot drive Ventoy creates a grub boot list of images and you simply select one from menu. This means you … World is getting smaller…
Am uploading an updated version of iso. With thew festive holidays coming up thought I would add a small gift to ArchBang. If you hit Super + s a terminal window will open and you will btop a system monitor. Not only does it display quite a bit of system information it also looks amazing… … News and a little holiday gift
Another updated iso today with a couple of small changes. Have had feedback that i3status bar was not showing time correctly, this has been fixed now by a simple change of syntax. My build script is now updated in line with Archiso, this will not really impact anything on the users side [more to keep … Minor changes to Iso, updated version uploaded today.
As in all things Arch, a kernel update came in over night so I have rebuilt and uploaded a new iso. Will leave yesterdays iso on source forge in case there are any issues with new one. Have rebuilt an old laptop that belonged to my daughter, something I bought for her a few years … Update to the update…
A question I get asked often is can ArchBang run from ram or with persistence from usb. The answer is yes to a degree it can, live! Running live via usb is never going to be as fast as installed, either to usb drive or in a system [disk/ssd]. Persistence was a way for CD … Live, from Ram, Persistence?
Had feedback on config_edit script, which is mentioned in Guide but I removed it from recent releases. Have re-written script, it now uses rofi. If you use Super + Shift + e it will run script and allow you to edit mirrors [Servers], Pacman config file, Openbox menu, Openbox key binds and Openbox autostart. You … Minor upcoming changes
Am uploading Autumn release finally. Updated packages, themes and i3 packages and configs. If you want to try out i3 live then simply edit .xinitrc and change exec openbox-session to exec i3. Log oout of openbox [openbox –exit] and check out a tiling window manager. Been a very odd year for releases and ArchBang has … Autumn release 😉