ArchMerge Kirk Release 6.3

Release date 1st January 2018

What is new

100% ROLLING RELEASE

One of the more important changes is that we are a 100% rolling release now. Some of you remember the conkyzen.desktop file that had to be deleted to get that 100%.

Type in the terminal “archmerge-” and press TAB to see all packages we created to become rolling.

They will be reusable when we are on the ArchMergeD iso.

Testing REPO

When working on a new panel for i3 i.e. polybar (still in beta phase) we (developers) needed a way to easily test out new setups and applications. We created a new testing repo that you can also use. Remember it is called TESTING for a reason. No articles, help and/or tutorials available on those applications. You can find the information in your

/etc/pacman.conf

in version 6.3.

Previous versions need to add these lines to their pacman.conf

[archmergelinux_repo_testing]
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
Server = https://archmergelinux.github.io/archmerge_repo_testing/$arch

Installed and REMOVED

We will install the following software on ArchMerge 6.3.

  • Atom
  • Snapd
  • Awesome terminal fonts
  • vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-bin
  • gtop
  • timeshift

We will remove  the following software on ArchMerge 6.3.

  • xfce-slimlock
  • pacaur
  • vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs

Archmerge -SLIMLOCK
15 themes

Archmerge -oblogout
11 themes

General improvements

  • Variety configuration has been redited solving an issue reported on forum. Variety will keep the current wallpaper when changing desktop environment.

Here is the playlist with all the support videos to make a complete transition from ArcoLinux to Arch Linux.

No need to reinstall.

No need to jump ship.

No need to find a new distro.

Just type “update” and become Arch Linux and keep rolling.