FruitBANG is a live ISO version of ArchBang running the MangoWM Wayland compositor — a fork of dwl, which itself is a Wayland port of dwm. If you know that lineage, you already have a feel for what MangoWM is about. For everyone else — tiling, tag-based layout, minimal config, no framework overhead. More capable … Want some Mango? Then try out FruitBANG
Finally got around to testing ArchBang on my laptop and the first thing I noticed was the ugly battery icon. As I have a desktop and test iso in a virtual machine I never really see battery module. Anyway easy fix which is now included on latest iso image, uploading it now with latest kernel. … Battery icon looks ugly lets fix it….
Been working over past week to get a new release ready, was waiting for Arch to put out 7.0 kernel image and finally it arrived. You will find a very fresh new summer look for iso image, quite pleased with the result and starting to get Waybar [panel] looking good. Over weekend I will update … The wait is over Summer has arrived…..
GreenBANG has quite a few changes over the past week, some are quite major in relation to its running. I have removed Firefox from image for two reasons reduce image size and the fact without a network connection there is little point in running it. Package management too is pointless without a network connection. So … GreenBANG major changes and more testing to be done.
This week has been mostly trying to get Alpine linux to act like Archiso with varying levels of success. Alpine by default loads everything into ram. Packages are in a compressed file along with any root files. This is fine for a tty/console based iso image that is not on the heavy side. Once you … Updated ArchBang and how is GreenBang going….
Have wanted to remove the need for a taskbar/panel for a long time. Do have a keybind that shows workspace and which one is active. However a clock is always handy. Okay so I could just buy a desk clock job done but I do want to see workspaces, date and other stats. Found this … Can you live without a taskbar?
Had some positive feedback on Swaybang so have been working on getting installer running as well as adding some new features. Sbinstall now runs from terminal as a single command, no need to add sudo or flags. Keyboard layout should now be set during install. Post install cleanup of installer and related files from target … Swaybang now comes with features….
Just uploaded a beta version of SwayBANG to sourceforge. Decided that I wanted to have a test bed for new installer as well as a comfortable chair to work from. I use sway on my desktop daily so am more used to using it. It is still very work in progress but wanted to get … SwayBANG lives again!