I am really surprised today ArchBang has had over 3500 downloads this week. An all time record. Have to blame (or thank) Matt at ArchLabs for letting users know of release. Think some comments were also made on Distro Watch. Never going to say ArchBang is perfect and it will always need more work Tried … What an amazing week!!!!!
Have just uploaded a release for November, usual thing updated packages and configs. Guide can now be viewed by using Super + g it includes some basic keybind shortcuts in i3. Firefox is back for now, while huge it does support many features that other lighter browsers do not have. Minor changes in abinstall fixes … November Release i3 Tiling Window Manager Based
Uploading a new iso, have gone ‘rc’. Made a few changes: Dmenu colours now fixed, is now called directly from i3 config file i3status bar config is now in ~/.config (make it a little easier to find and modify) config_edit fixed (typo) TODO: Will mess around with keybinds in config at some point. Edit Guide … We are now at ‘Rc’ release
Been working on i3 version for a few days now and am very close to going ‘rc’. Have one more thing to fix in installer (already done). Highlights: Cbatticon.. a systray icon that shows battery or AC power. Changed Wallpaper, really not been out this past 9 months so have not taken any new photos. … Getting there
Seems that there is an issue with latest release. Step 8 of installer is failing with a readline error. Am now rebuilding last weeks iso (Openbox based) to see if that fixes the error. I tested my i3 iso today and it installed fine under a VM. Am concerned if issue is related too UEFI, … Issue with latest release
Have fixed an error in abinstall (couple of typos I made). Made more changes to iso to remove openbox packages and related configs, installer etc. Have still much more work to do want to get a more green! theme going and add in more keybinds. Will work on adding i3lock at some point. For now … Installer Fix and more changes
ArchBang has been Openbox based for over ten years. Over the next few weeks I will be working towards switching to i3 tiling window manager. May well run i3-gaps as I do not want to scare users into a my minimal setup 😉 Keybinds will change for some things, nothing dramatic and quite easy to … Time for a change
Had to happen I upload an iso and the very next day kernel gets updated. In the process of getting Archiso up to date again. For next iso I will go ‘beta’ until I can fully test it. I think I have got everything working but you never know. So bear with me, will of … Once again a kernel/archiso update
Good news another week another iso, not really much has changed (package wise) over the week but I do like to keep things fresh 😉 Bad news my boss has tested positive and I have today had the test. Have lost my sense of smell. Spent last weekend trying to set my usb stick on … Good news Bad news
Uploading a new up to date iso. Only minor changes this week to give a more green theme 😉 Have had some questions about persistence in ArchBang, archiso does support it but it is limited and is a little awkward to set up. Hoping to test over the weekend to see how difficult it is … Another week another iso