20.7.5
New number for the last release before our annual holiday.
July and August is for family, friends and personal projects.
Next iso is Mid September.
ArcoLinux Tweak Tool – Ukui added
Ukui is ‘lightweight, useful, convenient and intuitive’. Ukui is the desktop used on Ubuntu Kylin.
We have made it a beautiful and usable desktop experience. Many packages were added to fill in the gaps to give us a full and rich desktop experience on ArcoLinux.
Read more on ukui.org or on the wiki page.
20.7.4
Spectrwm – new desktop
Spectrwm is a inspired on xmonad and dwm.
You will easily get to grips with this TWM. All the keyboard shortcuts you know from the other TWMs are in place.
Read more on spectrwm or on the Arch Linux wiki page.
“Spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for Xorg. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.“
Spectrwm = scrotwm was the previous name
Ukui – new desktop
Ukui is ‘lightweight, useful, convenient and intuitive’. Ukui is the desktop used on Ubuntu Kylin.
We have made it a beautiful and usable desktop experience. Many packages were added to fill in the gaps to give us a full and rich desktop experience on ArcoLinux.
Read more on ukui.org or on the wiki page.
UKUI = Ubuntu Kylin User Interface
Arch Linux servers
We have removed the following packages from the iso:
arcolinux-systemd-services-git – a service to auto-update the servers every time you boot up
arcolinux-cron-git – a service that will refresh the Arch Linux servers randomly during the day
Updating the Arch Linux servers is no longer an automated process.
Either type in your terminal mirror, mirrors, mirrord or mirrora.
Or use the welcome application and push the update button.
If you do want this automated service, add this line to your scripts and install them after a clean install.
sudo pacman -S arcolinux-systemd-services-git arcolinux-cron-git
Bashrc
We have added a line of code to make bashrc not sensitive to capital case when you do TAB completion.
Upa + TAB
UPAl + TAB
will all result in finding upall.
Calamares
We are using the latest Calamares version 3.2.26.1. More info here.
Hblock
arcolinux-hblock-git protects us against malicious websites and trackers.
Due to a timer this service was activated at a random time after installation. This goes against our vision that is the user who decides what he or she enables. The service and timer have been deleted.
With our ArcoLinux Tweak Tool you activate or deactivate it. This is how it should have been implemented in the first place. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Big thanks to Diddelmann on discord to report it.
20.7.3
Calamares
We are using the latest Calamares version 3.2.26. More info here.
20.7.2
Calamares
We are using the latest Calamares version 3.2.25. More info here.
update-mirror service
We have created a separate package for the service to update the Arch Linux mirrors.
In the old package the name was update-mirrorS.service and in the new update-mirror.service. One letter to define for betatesters and ArcoLinux team to know what package you are using.
Arcolinux-system-config-git does not have the update mirrorS service anymore. This has moved to arcolinux-systemd-services-git.
Do not want the service.
Delete the package with
sudo pacman -R arcolinux-systemd-config-git
or disable it
sudo systemctl disable update-mirror.service
With every new package the service will be enabled again.
20.7.1
Arcolinux – logout themes
We have added the following package to all isos that use our arcolinux-logout application:
- arcolinux-logout-themes-git
ArcolinuxD
Added variety and arcolinux-variety-git on the livedvd in order to have a wallpaper on some older computers.
Variety and arcolinux-variety-git will be removed unless you selected both packages during Calamares installation.
Archiso
The application ARCHISO has been updated.
We follow the changes and update all our build scripts.