-Changed conky transparency back to conky because when picom is not enabled, the conkys are set in a black background.
- Removed obsolete apt executor line from the 'default tint2 installer'.
- Added update icon cache to the kitchensink installer.
- Added Rofi There will be a separate thread for rofi here in a bit. There is a lot there, and adjustments, removals, etc. may be in order.
- Changed welcome script to use 'Exit' rather than 'Ok' for killing the script.
- Full theme change to Forge, a dark theme with some blue highlights.
- Adjusted conky to use /dev/null to avoid further .xsession error notices for readability.
- Adjusted positioning for the conky build-date and world-clock conkys.
- Adjusted Conky shortcuts to reflect the new rofi changes.
- Changed the paw color to a light shade for the build date conky.
- Added a Virtualbox installer under 'Utilities' for the Oracle version.
- Removed the Discord, and Vivaldi installers. They are changing the paths too often, leading to dead links.
- Added most of the lightweight themes directly to the build and removing the extra themes installer.
- Added the rest of the terminal themes to the terminal changer dialog so all are available.
- Kitchensink installer adjustments to removed a few items and make other adjustments.
- Changed jgmenu to only hold one backup upon theme change through the 'Auto themes' changer.
- Changed jgmenu stay alive option to 'on'.
- Wallpaper exchange - Added 10 wallpapers for a total or 25.
- Removed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from the install list for possible conflicts with the evdev driver.
- Removed touchpad toggle from the 'Toggles' menu, and created instructions in /openbox/autostart for installing the synaptics driver if wanted.
- Added fonts-noto-mono and strace to the install list.
- Added MC (midnight commander) and Pragha to the LD Quick Installer.
- Numerous other small changes related to either the inclusion of Rofi, or the Full theme change.
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New release 23.10.17
Added an i386 build for those with 32 bit machines.
This release is mostly visual changes including graphical changes for wallpapers, splash, Calamares and grub screen. A few minor adjustments to the Ozark gtk theme, and conky.
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Conky adjustments to automate real transparency, and picom toggle script changes to accommodate the change.
Transparency dialog change to supply on/off correctly.
Fix for hotcorners in Beardog.
Addition of conky and isenkramcli in Beardog welcome script.
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Beardog release to address several issues concerning the installation of dkwm in Beardog. Three new utility installers, and a toggle for the split view function in Thunar has also been added. dkwm can now be installed and used in a live session. See the installer on completion for how to change to dkwm.
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Updated the debian installer to allow for proper language selection during installation.
dkwm 2.0 has been released, with new installers made to reflect the change to the new version.
New polybar configurations for both dkwm and Openbox.
Wallpaper exchange, adding some new wallpapers into the mix.
Adjusted liquorix kernel installer for the new download path.
Beardog - added six new utility installers The new installers are Joplin note, vscodium editor, shortwave radio, xanmod kernel, liquorix kernel, and qemu.
Beardog - adjusted the kitchensink installer to include mpv and corrected pyradio to function properly.
removed virtualbox installer menu entry from all of the builds. can still be called from a terminal with 'virtualbox-installer'. Sometimes works well, sometimes not. This installer used the native debian way, through the debian fasttrack repositories.
removed initial announcement for the display settings icon while in a VM. The icon itself has info on hover, and should be obvious if clicked.
updated both the scrot and conky-chooser scripts to check for whether they are installed or not, and give a notification to install if not currently installed.
xed installer adjustment to perform an 'apt update' before to installation.
also adjusted the dkwm build installers for the 2.0 version. If wanting to build directly, call with 'dkwm-installer-build' from a terminal. If unsure, I recommend using the regular installer found in the Lilidog/Beardog installers through the menu or 'plus' symbol dialog in the tint2 panel.
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This is a maintenance and change release for tint2 and the default tint2 icons. These changes have become necessary for the continuation of development for tint2 in Lilidog/Beardog, and should be the last major change in this area, allowing for future development without disrupting the current setup. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Better to do this now than wait until it becomes a huge issue.
NOTE* If wanting to reinstall but not change your $HOME directory, you will need to change the tint2 setup to the new style by using the tint2-default-installer, either from the terminal or from the System installers in Lilidog, or in the Beardog utilities installer. This will also make a backup of your existing tint2 folder as ~/.config/tint2.bak. This installer just grabs the default version from /etc/skel and creates a backup
Another possible necessary change is if you use the "default theme reset". If so, change lines 80-81 in ~/.config/lilidog-themes/default. Replace with:
sed -i 's/coltint2.*\//coltint2ozark\//g' "$HOME"/.config/tint2/tint2rc
sed -i 's/\(coltint2ozark.*\)....*$/\1svg/g' "$HOME"/.config/tint2/tint2rc
Beardog does not have this option, and it is not necessary in Lilidog unless you use this feature.
A new option offered is to use the tint2-less-installer, which will give you a tint2 version with just four icons instead of the usual nine. If using this version, the items removed can be found in the hamburger menu in tint2, and the toggles menu in jgmenu.
In this release, the /usr/share/icons/ld-icons folder has been updated with new icons for tint2 and the removal of any obsolete icons. This cleans up the folder quite a bit, changing the size down from 2.4MB to 1.1MB, and replaces all of the tint2 default .png icons with .svg, making for a cleaner and lighter footprint in tint2.
With these changes comes a whole host of other changes necessary to make this all work. Mostly under the hood for future development, but not a whole lot on the surface other than the obvious change in icons, and the addition of two new sets for the tint2 theme changer.
The new icon sets are papirus and telacircle and are available from the tint2 theme changer. Both of these sets are also .svg, while the remaining icons are all .png. What is neat about this, is that you can make up a whole new folder set, or just commandeer one of the existing /usr/share/icons/ld-icons folders for your own use.
The only caveat being to stay with either .svg or .png depending on what is already in the folder, or make adjustments to /usr/local/bin/tint2-iconcolor. If wanting to add a new folder to the changer, simply copy one of the existing sections in /usr/local/bin/tint2-iconcolor to make your own.
If just wanting to add an icon or two, you also have the option of adding them in both tint2 and one of the existing folders, which will change them out when switching through the dialog, or just adding any icon type as desired without adding to the folders and it will remain through any changes made.
Folks can of course ignore all of this and just make their own tint2 setup if desired. Choice is good.)
What' new:
- New default tint2 icons, changed from .png to .svg format.
- Two new tint2 icon sets, Papirus and telecircle.
- New tint2 option in the installers for a version with just four icons rather the usual nine.
- The new additions of 'tint2 settings' and 'update' in the 'hamburger' menu of tint2. (formally the 'paw')
- notification improvement and fixes for the battery section of the tint2 settings.
- Several script improvements related to all of the above.
- New pfetch colors.
- New sowm installer option for sowm with focused borders. Available from the system installers.
- The addition of the sowm base file and patches in the download folder. (/tmp/sowm-files upon installation)
Lots of changes this round so please let me know of any issues encountered and we'll get them sorted out.
This release was focused on adding awesomeWM and i3WM to the installers in order to provide two new options to the installers list. Both are fully usable, with custom keybinds added to match the existing Lilidog keybinds as closely as possible. Awesome also has an installer option for the full conky setup as found in Lilidog openbox if interested.
i3 is currently setup to use polybar with window names, though the original i3statusbar is available for those who prefer it. Note that using polybar does remove some of the prompts normally associated with i3. This can be changed in the i3 configuration by commenting out polybar in the ~/.config/i3/config autostart section, and un-commenting the necessary lines for i3status use starting on line 236. Figuring out how to best address this issue is still a work in progress.
This concludes the addition of the tiny window managers for now, providing a decent mix to choose from, including awesomeWM, dkWM, dWM, i3WM, and soWM, with and without borders. Further efforts will be focused on improving Lilidog in general for the next release or two. Further development of these WM's will continue as well, and will not require a reinstall of the distro to experience the changes. Stay tuned to the forum for updates on any of these. You will be able to reinstall through the installers, and a backup will be made.
There are also new dialog options to install the different window managers. The installers can be found in the Lilidog installers under "system", or in Beardog, under the 'utility installers', or, there is also a new general entry in the "System" section of the full menu (debian) labeled as 'Window Manager Installers'.
As Beardog does not have a login manager out of the box, after installation of any of the WM's, you will need to edit ~/.xsessionrc and change the entry from openbox to whatever you have installed, or want to use, if installing multiple WM's. The other option is to install a login manager. Lightdm has a custom installer available in the utility installers, and in the welcome screen after installation of the distro.
The use of these installers instead of directly placing them in the distro gives more control over what is included in your system, the way you want it.
Also included in this release are two minor fixes. One to the conky 12 hour to 24 hour toggle, which will now include the existing large clock on the right of the screen when activated, and a change to the display adjustment icon in the bottom panel while in a VM session, making a single click on the button fix the display issue that occurs after changing the resolution, while a right click on the same icon gives access to the resolution changer.
As usual, please let us know of any questions or issues you may have.
Below are screenshots of awesome an i3 in a Lilidog install.
New release 24.05.16
Updates to the i3 installer to install i3blocks instead of polybar. New wallpapers, and terminal color adjustments. All updated packages through debian.
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This round was all about getting the GTK and openbox themes updated a bit, and a new Auto Themes dialog which provides for changing the highlight colors of three of the themes on the fly. When using the highlight changer for the first time, you will also find a readme in ~/.themes if you have questions, or folks can always ask on the forum if something is not understood. All of this is still a work in progress, but a definite leap forward in the theming area).
What's new:
- New Auto theme changer dialog with highlight changers for three of the themes.
- 8 themes removed. These are Neon, Orchis-light, Glacier, Dark-Earth, Dark-Drow, Crimson, Anolis, and Conanolis.
- Three themes added. These are Island-blue, Island-green, and Island-red. These include GTK-3.0, GTK-2.0, Geany, and xfce4-terminal themes.
- Three custom version themes added for changing highlight colors. These are Custom-drow, Custom-forge, and Island-red.
- Icon selection placed when changing themes from the theme changer dialog. The icons can be adjusted for any theme in the dialog in ~/.config/lilidog-themes/<name-of-theme>
- Total revamping of several of the dark GTK-3.0 themes. (As I learn more, they get better.. hopefully).
- Adjustments to GTK-2.0 theming to better match the GTK-3.0 themes.
- Improvements to the geany themes for Forge, Drow, Dragon, Earth, Slate, and Ozark.
- Changed editor path for the Random BG script from mousepad to geany.
- Changed path for the browser in the sxhkd keybinds from "firefox" to "x-www-browser"
- Beardog - Added an entry for the lightdm configuration dialog to the Configuration area of jgmenu when installing lightdm.
- Added the option to install the full Auto Theme changer and related files for those wanting the themes from Lilidog easily accessible. For Beardog users, look in the Beardog graphics installers to access the script.</name-of-theme>
That's it for this round of changes. Please let me know of any issues encountered!
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Added a toggle to the Auto themes changer to turn off the auto icons feature for the dialog.
Added a keybind 'Super + a' for the Auto Themes changer.
Corrected the theme chooser installer to make backups of all the involved folders and not just the themes.
Centralized the wallpapers to /usr/share/backgrounds.
Changed all of the wallpaper related scripts to use the new folder paths.
Added a configuration file ~/.config/wallpapers.conf to allow for changing the path for wallpapers and grub backgrounds.
Adjusted conkys to zero saturation (neutral color) for the text, making for better compatibility between themes.
Switched the tint2 theme from Ozark to Light.
Adjusted the tint2 light theme for the text and icon color.
Changed xfce4 terminal foreground color for Ozark and Island themes.
Removed Virtualbox from the installation list due to it's instability. The script is still available using "virtualbox-installer" (debian install) or "virtualbox-installer-oracle" for the oracle version.
Wallpaper exchange.
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Changed the lightdm default configuration path for initial distro use to /usr/share/lightdm.
Added lightdm options dialog containing different options for greeter choice, autologin, and other settings.
Changed the lightdm login screen to display usernames, meaning only the password is required for login. This can be changed in the lightdm-options dialog.
Replaced the autologin changer itself with a newer version which shows all existing users on the system, and shows the current autologin user if existing.
Added a lightdm toggle in the lightdm-options dialog to hide or show the users on the system at login.
Added Slick Greeter installer as a lightdm option. Change freely between the default GTK greeter and Slick Greeter.
Added the slick greeter option to the entry welcome scripts for all builds as an option.
Removed the autologin toggle in jgmenu, and added the lightdm-options to the Configuration menu.
Changed all GTK-3.0 themes to use 16px rather than the default 18px for the lightdm username dialog.
Adjusted the Ozark theme lightdm color settings to better match the theme.
Added a color chooser to the conky dialog. This will change most of the conky text to whatever color you desire, and has a built in default color to switch back when needed.
Added a custom tint2 color changer, to change the tint2 colors to whatever you might like. This includes saving the custom color and the ability to switch back and forth between any of the themes in the
tint2 themes dialog.
Adjusted xfce4-terminal colors for Ozark and Forge. Again.
Adjusted /etc/os-release for the correct operational lines. This fixes the opening of 'Software and Updates' as default for the repository.
Added the Oracle Virtualbox installer back into the mix. Should work correctly now.
Added two more conkys. A simple left side clock, and a basic info conky for the right side. The idea here is to have some extra conkys that people can adjust the way they like and still have the basics.
Adjusted ~/.config/lilidog-themes/default to allow for the new tint2 and conky color choosers.
Add Material fonts/symbols to all the builds.
Added tlp to the Lilidog builds for battery savings. Simply type 'batterysaver' in a terminal to activate if on a laptop.
Added a JWM installer to allow for a fully customized JWM as an optional window manager similar to openbox.
Added a new theme "Ink" for GTK, openbox, geany, and xfce4-terminal. This theme also allows for custom highlight coloring.
Adjusted the radio checkbox settings in all of the GTK-2.0 themes to use the foreground color instead of the selected color.
Adjusted the Openbox titlebar colors for Cube, Drow, Adwaita Dark, Custom-drow, Adobe Ozark, Dark forge, and Island themes.
Adjusted the River theme border colors to better match the existing theme.
Created rofi themes for Island-blue, Island-red, Island green, and Ink. Adjusted the Drow theme highlight color.
Adjusted the geometry of both the wallpaper changer and the grub background changer to shrink the entire dialog a bit. Also added additional settings for custom placement on the screen.
removed the Custom Toggle entry from the configuration menu. (Obsolete)
Wallpaper exchange and addition of several new wallpapers. The main wallpaper won't change until the next full debian change from bookworm to trixie.
Added Inscape to the kitchensink installer.
Newsboat in the full build - Commented two urls and changed the theme colors.
Changed conky to grab the build date from file v.s. manual entry. This means if the system is updated, conky will show the updated build date.
Urxvt terminal colors and font adjustment to bring it more in line with traditional terminal colors.
Other small fixes and improvements as necessary.
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Added a yad font viewer for existing fonts on the system. Look in the 'Utilities' menu, or All Programs --> system to access.
Added Ubuntu fonts.
Changed Dancing script fonts to install through apt.
Changed Material fonts to install through apt.
lightdm autologin script improvements- Thank you @"kwg"#32!
Added a Thunar "splitview" option to open Thunar from a keybind (Super + Shift + f), or if an instance is already open, toggles the first instance into splitview. To change the splitview from vertical to horizontal, use "super + s", or right-click to see the option while in the thunar window.
Adjusted all scripts that use "wget" to prioritize IPv4 with ---prefer-family=IPv4. This should alleviate problems for some users without IPv6 access. Thank you @"jesito"#31!
Adjusted Geany themes "Oceanic", "Drow" and "Adwaita-Dark" to improve the highlighting and overall appearance.
Changed/fixed the Librewolf installer to use the proper format for installation.
Changed tooltips and notifications for the "display" icon in the Live session. Thank you @"kwg"#32!
Added translate-shell to package list. Easily translate text directly through the terminal.
Added "sexy bash prompt" installer for a sexy bash prompt whilst working with git.)
Added "ansi" a script to make using colors in a terminal script a bit easier.
Added terminal application "has" for an easy way to check for dependencies.
Added Fastfetch, a program similar to neofetch, with a custom configuration ready for tweaking.
Changed the "Folder Attributes" right-click action in Thunar to use xfce4-terminal instead of urxvt terminal.
Changed the "File Sizes" right-click action in Thunar background to use the current terminal background instead of black.
New theme "Fane" (wip) with matching themes for GTK-3.0, GTK-2.0, Openbox, Geany, Rofi, and xfce4-terminal. This theme also has a "custom theme" equivalent with different initial highlighting colors to allow for two options right off. (Custom-fane)
Conky build date - changed method for installed date to include the year.
Removed Skype from the install list for now. Bad address.
Wallpaper exchange.
Numerous small fixes and improvements not worth mentioning here.
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This is a fairly clean implementation of xfce4, using the xfce4 default settings for most items, with no extra plugins installed. This should give a clean xfce4 experience while also utilizing some of the cool options from Lilidog. Well, I guess we'll see what you think.
The total size comes to 1.66gb making for a lighter build than the existing Lilidog Openbox full build which comes in around 1.71gb.
Plymouth is not installed by default, though there is a custom theme made up already.
I've added two options to the right click main menu. One to open a thunar instance, and one for the Auto Themes dialog. These can be removed if desired through the thunar 'configure custom actions' dialog.
The Auto themes dialog still allows for changing the highlight color of 9 different themes. Changing this color also changes the panel highlight color. Lots of fun to mess with.
There are still all of the wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds, so consider changing the directory in the desktop settings to use that directory, for a start anyway.
OT - To see the basic theme idea for the Openbox build, try the Fane wallpaper in /usr/share/bacgrounds/wallpapers with the paw and title on it, coupled with the fane theme. If anyone wants to improve this image or change it, please feel free to offer your improvements or suggestions.
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Updated release for Lilidog Bookworm xfce4 24.12.07
This should take care of the remaining bothersome items in the initial build, of which there were still several.
Additional .desktop files for printer support and the zsh toggle if installed.
Multiple other .desktop file adjustments for icons and placement in the menu.
Added the menulibre program for menu editing, and changed the "Other" category to "Extras", just because.
Changed Calamares splash theming to match the xfce4 motif.
Changed the debian installer theme title splash.
Changed the grub splash image.
Changed the wallpapers location to be selected through the "background options' of the desktop tweaks.
Removed b43 legacy installer from the build.
Changed all Lilidog installer files, losing the references to jgmenu upon completion, and other text adjustments as necessary.
Removal of all other window manager installers. - There were issues with having the xfce4 session in place regardless of the switch. This affected both the window manager installed, and then the xfce4 desktop when switching back. Maybe some experimentation here in the future, but not seeing the point really. The best option for other window managers is to use the openbox versions, which are independent and won't affect each other. If any want to experiment here, the installer scripts can still be found in any of the other builds if multi booting, or in the Lilidog configuration github.
^ This is all the stuff that should have been caught before the first release, but never is. :) From here, unless there is something drastically wrong, expect new releases in line with the openbox builds, on or around the point releases.
Moving forward, the openbox builds will still be the primary for the distro. In Trixie, we will have the full version and beardog for the openbox builds, and at least the full version of xfce4 as well.
Not sure what the future brings regarding wayland, but we should have a somewhat stable platform to rely on if nothing else.
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This release completes the year 2024, and has quite a few changes. A fine way to begin the new year.
Full theme change to Fane. This means pretty much everything, including window theming for the other window managers available through the Lilidog installers. Configurations for the old theme, Ozark, and other themes will also be available for any who prefer them.
Theme improvements to the existing distro GTK themes, including revamping the settings used for xfce4-notify among others. If wanted, dunst could be removed and the xfce4 daemon used instead. This would allow for the notification background to change with the themes, but you lose the notification sounds.
Theme improvements to the existing openbox themes, including the inclusion of a small amount of text tinting for titlebar readability.
The addition of mousepad in the Full build version.
Numerous changes to .desktop files that will affect the general overall usability of the different menus. This should make Beardog especially, easier to navigate.
Beardog - Added a direct link in the "Others" menu to install the current Auto Theme changer from Lilidog. With this, and a lightdm install through the Lilidog Installers, you get a reasonably light setup with most of the features of Lilidog.
Adjusted lsb_release to use the Debian version rather than the year, so 12, not 24.
Moved tint2 panel to the top of the screen, and adjusted the size down to 18. Adjust further as desired through the Tint2 Options dialog.
Odds and ends. Numerous other small improvements and fixes during the change from Ozark to Fane.
Wallpaper exchange.
Important changes specific to the xfce4 build:
- Adjusted the restart option in the conky chooser to avoid the dreaded black background issue.
- Adjusted all of the GTK themes for the proper colors and highlighting in the 'window switcher' (alt + tab).
- Fixed the slick greeter black screen issue. (wallpaper settings)
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Added gsettings lines for current icon and GTK theme to the Auto Themes scripts and on first boot.
Adjusted the icon toggle in the Auto Themes script to ignore the 'Reset Theme' default theme script.
Reset the Auto Themes icon toggle back to on when the theme reset script is used.
Adjusted The theme reset script to remove unnecessary terminal output.
Adjusted the theme reset script to check for program installation or current use before making changes.
Added the same theme reset option to the Themes Installer in Beardog, placing a theme reset toggle in the "Other" menu.
Removed obsolete Pcmanfm and Mousepad files from root.
Grub background image exchange. Smaller optimized .pngs for an initial choice selection.
Adjusted the Neofetch configuration to show the current GTK theme and system icon theme correctly.
Wallpaper exchange.
Fastfetch update and configuration adjustments to include the current brightness and additional options in the configuration to change the primary text color.
Additional size options added to the thunar right-click 'Resize image with copy' script. This can be especially handy for shrinking images for forum use. Right-click any images in thunar for these options.
Added USB Imager. This seems a good replacement for the Live USB Maker, though I'll leave both in until it has been tested further. Please do let us know how it works for you. Look in the Utilities section or the System section of the menu to find USBImager.
Picom.conf - added an exclusion to shadows for Gnome Pie.
Correction to match the zsh icon placed during install to the common menu theme.
Awesome window manager - Switched to tiling on initial startup.
Multiple improvements to both the web page and forum, hopefully making the user experience better.
xfce4 only:
- Both fastfetch and neofetch in xfce4 will now show the Desktop Environment.
- Added an xfwm channel for theme change identification, and added the necessary lines to the Auto Themes scripts.
- Removed obsolete second thunar right-click action to change the background in xfce4.
- Moved wallpapers to the images folder for ready access when making changes.
- Addition of a 'theme reset' toggle in the 'Extras' menu.
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Updated to Debian 13.1 Trixie. Please leave any questions, suggestions, comments, concerns, or bug reports in this forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/lilidog/discussion/ . I can always be reached by email me as well if needed.
Current changes from the transition to Trixie from Bookworm include the removal of Plymouth as a default option, and the changing of the power manager to mate-power-manager, and lxpolkit to mate-polkit. Other various package and configuration changes as well.
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-Changed conky transparency back to conky because when picom is not enabled, the conkys are set in a black background.
- Removed obsolete apt executor line from the 'default tint2 installer'.
- Added update icon cache to the kitchensink installer.
- Added Rofi There will be a separate thread for rofi here in a bit. There is a lot there, and adjustments, removals, etc. may be in order.
- Changed welcome script to use 'Exit' rather than 'Ok' for killing the script.
- Full theme change to Forge, a dark theme with some blue highlights.
- Adjusted conky to use /dev/null to avoid further .xsession error notices for readability.
- Adjusted positioning for the conky build-date and world-clock conkys.
- Adjusted Conky shortcuts to reflect the new rofi changes.
- Changed the paw color to a light shade for the build date conky.
- Added a Virtualbox installer under 'Utilities' for the Oracle version.
- Removed the Discord, and Vivaldi installers. They are changing the paths too often, leading to dead links.
- Added most of the lightweight themes directly to the build and removing the extra themes installer.
- Added the rest of the terminal themes to the terminal changer dialog so all are available.
- Kitchensink installer adjustments to removed a few items and make other adjustments.
- Changed jgmenu to only hold one backup upon theme change through the 'Auto themes' changer.
- Changed jgmenu stay alive option to 'on'.
- Wallpaper exchange - Added 10 wallpapers for a total or 25.
- Removed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from the install list for possible conflicts with the evdev driver.
- Removed touchpad toggle from the 'Toggles' menu, and created instructions in /openbox/autostart for installing the synaptics driver if wanted.
- Added fonts-noto-mono and strace to the install list.
- Added MC (midnight commander) and Pragha to the LD Quick Installer.
- Numerous other small changes related to either the inclusion of Rofi, or the Full theme change.
New release 23.10.17
Added an i386 build for those with 32 bit machines.
This release is mostly visual changes including graphical changes for wallpapers, splash, Calamares and grub screen. A few minor adjustments to the Ozark gtk theme, and conky.
Conky adjustments to automate real transparency, and picom toggle script changes to accommodate the change.
Transparency dialog change to supply on/off correctly.
Fix for hotcorners in Beardog.
Addition of conky and isenkramcli in Beardog welcome script.
Beardog release to address several issues concerning the installation of dkwm in Beardog. Three new utility installers, and a toggle for the split view function in Thunar has also been added. dkwm can now be installed and used in a live session. See the installer on completion for how to change to dkwm.
New releases 24.04.03 Lilidog and Beardog
This is a maintenance and change release for tint2 and the default tint2 icons. These changes have become necessary for the continuation of development for tint2 in Lilidog/Beardog, and should be the last major change in this area, allowing for future development without disrupting the current setup. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Better to do this now than wait until it becomes a huge issue.
NOTE* If wanting to reinstall but not change your $HOME directory, you will need to change the tint2 setup to the new style by using the tint2-default-installer, either from the terminal or from the System installers in Lilidog, or in the Beardog utilities installer. This will also make a backup of your existing tint2 folder as ~/.config/tint2.bak. This installer just grabs the default version from /etc/skel and creates a backup
Another possible necessary change is if you use the "default theme reset". If so, change lines 80-81 in ~/.config/lilidog-themes/default. Replace with:
Beardog does not have this option, and it is not necessary in Lilidog unless you use this feature.
A new option offered is to use the tint2-less-installer, which will give you a tint2 version with just four icons instead of the usual nine. If using this version, the items removed can be found in the hamburger menu in tint2, and the toggles menu in jgmenu.
In this release, the /usr/share/icons/ld-icons folder has been updated with new icons for tint2 and the removal of any obsolete icons. This cleans up the folder quite a bit, changing the size down from 2.4MB to 1.1MB, and replaces all of the tint2 default .png icons with .svg, making for a cleaner and lighter footprint in tint2.
With these changes comes a whole host of other changes necessary to make this all work. Mostly under the hood for future development, but not a whole lot on the surface other than the obvious change in icons, and the addition of two new sets for the tint2 theme changer.
The new icon sets are papirus and telacircle and are available from the tint2 theme changer. Both of these sets are also .svg, while the remaining icons are all .png. What is neat about this, is that you can make up a whole new folder set, or just commandeer one of the existing /usr/share/icons/ld-icons folders for your own use.
The only caveat being to stay with either .svg or .png depending on what is already in the folder, or make adjustments to /usr/local/bin/tint2-iconcolor. If wanting to add a new folder to the changer, simply copy one of the existing sections in /usr/local/bin/tint2-iconcolor to make your own.
If just wanting to add an icon or two, you also have the option of adding them in both tint2 and one of the existing folders, which will change them out when switching through the dialog, or just adding any icon type as desired without adding to the folders and it will remain through any changes made.
Folks can of course ignore all of this and just make their own tint2 setup if desired. Choice is good.)
What' new:
- New default tint2 icons, changed from .png to .svg format.
- Two new tint2 icon sets, Papirus and telecircle.
- New tint2 option in the installers for a version with just four icons rather the usual nine.
- The new additions of 'tint2 settings' and 'update' in the 'hamburger' menu of tint2. (formally the 'paw')
- notification improvement and fixes for the battery section of the tint2 settings.
- Several script improvements related to all of the above.
- New pfetch colors.
- New sowm installer option for sowm with focused borders. Available from the system installers.
- The addition of the sowm base file and patches in the download folder. (/tmp/sowm-files upon installation)
Lots of changes this round so please let me know of any issues encountered and we'll get them sorted out.
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This release was focused on adding awesomeWM and i3WM to the installers in order to provide two new options to the installers list. Both are fully usable, with custom keybinds added to match the existing Lilidog keybinds as closely as possible. Awesome also has an installer option for the full conky setup as found in Lilidog openbox if interested.
i3 is currently setup to use polybar with window names, though the original i3statusbar is available for those who prefer it. Note that using polybar does remove some of the prompts normally associated with i3. This can be changed in the i3 configuration by commenting out polybar in the ~/.config/i3/config autostart section, and un-commenting the necessary lines for i3status use starting on line 236. Figuring out how to best address this issue is still a work in progress.
This concludes the addition of the tiny window managers for now, providing a decent mix to choose from, including awesomeWM, dkWM, dWM, i3WM, and soWM, with and without borders. Further efforts will be focused on improving Lilidog in general for the next release or two. Further development of these WM's will continue as well, and will not require a reinstall of the distro to experience the changes. Stay tuned to the forum for updates on any of these. You will be able to reinstall through the installers, and a backup will be made.
There are also new dialog options to install the different window managers. The installers can be found in the Lilidog installers under "system", or in Beardog, under the 'utility installers', or, there is also a new general entry in the "System" section of the full menu (debian) labeled as 'Window Manager Installers'.
As Beardog does not have a login manager out of the box, after installation of any of the WM's, you will need to edit ~/.xsessionrc and change the entry from openbox to whatever you have installed, or want to use, if installing multiple WM's. The other option is to install a login manager. Lightdm has a custom installer available in the utility installers, and in the welcome screen after installation of the distro.
The use of these installers instead of directly placing them in the distro gives more control over what is included in your system, the way you want it.
Also included in this release are two minor fixes. One to the conky 12 hour to 24 hour toggle, which will now include the existing large clock on the right of the screen when activated, and a change to the display adjustment icon in the bottom panel while in a VM session, making a single click on the button fix the display issue that occurs after changing the resolution, while a right click on the same icon gives access to the resolution changer.
As usual, please let us know of any questions or issues you may have.
Below are screenshots of awesome an i3 in a Lilidog install.
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New release 24.05.16
Updates to the i3 installer to install i3blocks instead of polybar. New wallpapers, and terminal color adjustments. All updated packages through debian.
This release ties together the work with the smaller WM's with Openbox, along with a few changes and additions to the installers. Here's what's new:
"super + o" to see the current openbox keybinds.
This round was all about getting the GTK and openbox themes updated a bit, and a new Auto Themes dialog which provides for changing the highlight colors of three of the themes on the fly. When using the highlight changer for the first time, you will also find a readme in ~/.themes if you have questions, or folks can always ask on the forum if something is not understood. All of this is still a work in progress, but a definite leap forward in the theming area).
What's new:
- New Auto theme changer dialog with highlight changers for three of the themes.
- 8 themes removed. These are Neon, Orchis-light, Glacier, Dark-Earth, Dark-Drow, Crimson, Anolis, and Conanolis.
- Three themes added. These are Island-blue, Island-green, and Island-red. These include GTK-3.0, GTK-2.0, Geany, and xfce4-terminal themes.
- Three custom version themes added for changing highlight colors. These are Custom-drow, Custom-forge, and Island-red.
- Icon selection placed when changing themes from the theme changer dialog. The icons can be adjusted for any theme in the dialog in ~/.config/lilidog-themes/<name-of-theme>
- Total revamping of several of the dark GTK-3.0 themes. (As I learn more, they get better.. hopefully).
- Adjustments to GTK-2.0 theming to better match the GTK-3.0 themes.
- Improvements to the geany themes for Forge, Drow, Dragon, Earth, Slate, and Ozark.
- Changed editor path for the Random BG script from mousepad to geany.
- Changed path for the browser in the sxhkd keybinds from "firefox" to "x-www-browser"
- Beardog - Added an entry for the lightdm configuration dialog to the Configuration area of jgmenu when installing lightdm.
- Added the option to install the full Auto Theme changer and related files for those wanting the themes from Lilidog easily accessible. For Beardog users, look in the Beardog graphics installers to access the script.</name-of-theme>
That's it for this round of changes. Please let me know of any issues encountered!
tint2 themes dialog.
Updated release with two new themes and the ability to change highlight colors on the fly for six full themes, conky, and tint2.
Added an xfce4 build.
This is a fairly clean implementation of xfce4, using the xfce4 default settings for most items, with no extra plugins installed. This should give a clean xfce4 experience while also utilizing some of the cool options from Lilidog. Well, I guess we'll see what you think.
The total size comes to 1.66gb making for a lighter build than the existing Lilidog Openbox full build which comes in around 1.71gb.
Plymouth is not installed by default, though there is a custom theme made up already.
I've added two options to the right click main menu. One to open a thunar instance, and one for the Auto Themes dialog. These can be removed if desired through the thunar 'configure custom actions' dialog.
The Auto themes dialog still allows for changing the highlight color of 9 different themes. Changing this color also changes the panel highlight color. Lots of fun to mess with.
There are still all of the wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds, so consider changing the directory in the desktop settings to use that directory, for a start anyway.
OT - To see the basic theme idea for the Openbox build, try the Fane wallpaper in /usr/share/bacgrounds/wallpapers with the paw and title on it, coupled with the fane theme. If anyone wants to improve this image or change it, please feel free to offer your improvements or suggestions.
Updated release for Lilidog Bookworm xfce4 24.12.07
This should take care of the remaining bothersome items in the initial build, of which there were still several.
^ This is all the stuff that should have been caught before the first release, but never is. :) From here, unless there is something drastically wrong, expect new releases in line with the openbox builds, on or around the point releases.
Moving forward, the openbox builds will still be the primary for the distro. In Trixie, we will have the full version and beardog for the openbox builds, and at least the full version of xfce4 as well.
Not sure what the future brings regarding wayland, but we should have a somewhat stable platform to rely on if nothing else.
Last edit: sleekmason 2024-12-07
This release completes the year 2024, and has quite a few changes. A fine way to begin the new year.
Important changes specific to the xfce4 build:
- Adjusted the restart option in the conky chooser to avoid the dreaded black background issue.
- Adjusted all of the GTK themes for the proper colors and highlighting in the 'window switcher' (alt + tab).
- Fixed the slick greeter black screen issue. (wallpaper settings)
Added video showing custom theming in Lilidog. Link is below the website and forum links. Happy Holidays to all!
xfce4 only:
- Both fastfetch and neofetch in xfce4 will now show the Desktop Environment.
- Added an xfwm channel for theme change identification, and added the necessary lines to the Auto Themes scripts.
- Removed obsolete second thunar right-click action to change the background in xfce4.
- Moved wallpapers to the images folder for ready access when making changes.
- Addition of a 'theme reset' toggle in the 'Extras' menu.
Updated to Debian 13.1 Trixie. Please leave any questions, suggestions, comments, concerns, or bug reports in this forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/lilidog/discussion/ . I can always be reached by email me as well if needed.
Current changes from the transition to Trixie from Bookworm include the removal of Plymouth as a default option, and the changing of the power manager to mate-power-manager, and lxpolkit to mate-polkit. Other various package and configuration changes as well.