I am away for a few days so will not be updating iso image. Will of course update on my return 😉 Am trying to get my own desktop/workflow in order. Have used i3 window manager for many years and am just used to how it works. Some things I want to change are where … No iso this weekend….
Seems abinstall is broken in last release, have rebuilt iso image and have uploaded gitlab version of abinstall. Have a feeling I had a bad swapfile in vim [my excuse]. Error was with mkinicpio function being missing. Should be fixed now. Thanks to Eight Ball and SL for the heads up 😉 Stay safe….
Just built and uploaded a new iso image, comes with latest packages and kernel. With removal of abserver decided that rofi really was not needed any more and have switched to dmenu. Same keybind Super+r give it a go 😉 Was looking at latest release from Bunsenlabs Boron. It is based on CrunchBang, Archbang was … Goodbye Rofi, hello Dmenu…
Something I had missed from the early days of building ArchBang was the setting up of a user live. Have always used /users [group] for file permissions. While is not a huge security risk, it is more usual to have / as group. Easy fix in source and have tested it live and installed and … Fixing a ten year old feature…..
I have had some feedback from Erik at Arcolinux about ArchBang and some small fixes. Most are in new iso image which I am uploading now. Making ArchBang beautiful: Thunar – Open terminal here [right click] now works. yay_install has been removed, I need to rewrite it. Abinstall will now remove multi-target link to pacman-init … Lots of small changes thanks to Erik….
As usual Arch has released a new kernel so I have updated iso image. Two minor changes, noticed that I had two entries in Conky for Rofi and have removed Alacritty title to default. In other news I have been turned down by Open-Collective as project is new and only maintained by one person ;-(… … New kernel so have updated image…
Have just paid for another years hosting, mostly covered by donations to the project. Thought long and hard about dropping blog, might just post less or as needed. Mesa was recently updated, as I run nouveau drivers so did not notice any problems. Only while testing ArchBang live under Virtualbox was not working. At first … Another year of hosting…
Alacritty update now uses TOML syntax in configuration file. This means you may get a warning about changes and the need to migrate to new format. If you do see warning follow instructions and simply run: alacritty migrate Once done you will need to make other manual changes to remove warnings in terminal. To this … Changes in Alacritty terminal…
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.