pavroo Many thanks to all of you for supporting our open-source projects, specially in this difficult days. Your donations help keeping them alive. Don’t forget to send a small tip in May too, please 🙂 Country Supporter Amount Krzysztof M. PLN 50 Gernot P. $ 10 John C. $ 5 Tom C. $ 15 Carlos F. … Read more
The 4th monthly report of 2020 of the Sparky project: • Linux kernel updated up to version 5.6.8 & 5.7-rc3 • added to our repos: Picom, Sparky-Picom, Delta Chat Desktop, jgmenu, Waterfox current • changed ‘obmenu’ to ‘jgmenu’ at Sparky Openbox edition of the rolling line • Sparky stable 5.11 released • Sparky 2020.04~dev0 with … Read more
There is a new tool available for Sparkers: jgmenu. What is jgmenu? A simple, independent and contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking. It is hackable and has a simple code base. It does not depend on any toolkits such as GTK and Qt, but uses cairo and pango to render the menu. … Read more
The Sparky SU provides small and simply, Yad based front-end for su (spsu) allowing users to give a password and run graphical commands as root without needing to invoke su in a terminal emulator. But running applications as root is deprecated, so… Even the ‘spsu’ script is still available, there is also a new, small, … Read more
There is a new tool available for Sparkers: Delta Chat Desktop. What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is like Telegram or Whatsapp but without the tracking or central control. Delta Chat does not need your phone number… Delta Chat doesn’t have their own servers but uses the most massive and diverse open messaging system ever: … Read more