The May snapshot of Sparky 2020.05 of the (semi-)rolling line is out. It is based on the Debian testing “Bullseye”. Changes: • upgrade from Debian testing repos as of May 5, 2020 • Linux kernel 5.6.7 (5.6.10 & 5.7-rc4 in Sparky unstable repos) • Calamares 3.2.23 • added additional support of Sparky installation on UEFI … Read more
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