I3: Elixir (686PAE) Release News

[machinebacon]

'Elixir' is the follow-up to 'Honey', but built on the Spring 2014.1 release, with a PAE kernel and a mostly default config (only added colors and changed the Modkey to Alt)

This is a no-gtk release, very light on resources, with the 3.13-trunk kernel from Debian. The Login Menu is editable, as well as the startup script (.xinitrc replacement). Optimal for adding window managers. No 'down-the-throat' app choices, so there is no vim and no emacs, only the cute little nano editor. And of course all known CLI tools (run 'bbq' from a terminal for an overview)

To set a nice wallpaper in framebuffer, edit /usr/local/bin/fb as root. A generic wallpaper is placed in /usr/share/wallpapers/11.jpg but not sourced by fb.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download

312MB, fits a small USB stick.

Happy hacking!

[elixir]

Woot my very own release of i3! Thank you so much for this Baconator!

[elixir]

I have found a bug on this spin.

For some reason when I was trying to close files with the default kill procces bind, it would kill my entire X server. Then I found that in the .bindkeysrc file, there is a line of code that reads

Code: Select all

"sudo pkill X"
Shift + alt + q

[machinebacon]

That's not a bug - it just doesn't fit your keybindings in .i3/config.

All BBQ releases past Oyster (at least those that i spun) set S-A-q as X server killer, because some WMs do not have a log out option. C-A-Del should do the same, though.

[ivanovnegro]

Closing this.

If you have more questions, /usr/share/doc!