What's new in Manjaro i3 Community Edition 16.06 RC
May 20, 2016
- Latest changes:
- new official gtk-theme Vertex-Maia
- new icon-themes Breeze-Maia
- includes stable update 2016-05-08
- Features:
- Kernel 4.4.9 (LTS)
- i3-wm 4.12 including optional gaps and sticky windows
- Urxvt-daemon for optimum terminal performance
- dmenu-manjaro (recency and terminal aware, mouse interactive and other goodies)
- with designated config file .dmenurc
- i3status-manjaro
- arandr for screen and multihead settings
- Manjaro-welcome and Manjaro-Settings-Manager
- Installers Calamares, Thus and CLI
- script for post-installation (and removal) of Pulseaudio and Pa-applet
- Pcmanfm
- optimized terminal Urxvt
- Palemoon browser
- compositing with Compton
- texteditors Nano and Mousepad
- picture viewer/editor Gpicview and Gimp
- custom screenshooter i3-scrot preconfigured
- wallpaper changer Nitrogen
- VLC media-player
- Hexchat
- commandline / CLI applications Ranger, Moc, Bmenu, Pacli, dfc, ncdu, speedtest-cli
- Power-Manager, Clipit clipboard, Networkmanager, Volumeicon
- i3lock with blurscreen and LightDM-gtk-greeter
- Lxappearance
- Manjaro-Printer (CUPS)
- Simple-Scan
- Yaourt/base-devel
New in Manjaro i3 Community Edition 15.12 (Dec 29, 2015)
- i3-wm 4.11 (next-branch) including i3-gaps
- Dmenu-manjaro 4.6 recency- and terminal-aware and mouse-interactive with separate config-file for appearance and terminal preferences
- i3status-manjaro 2.9
- icon-themes AwOken-light and Maia and gtk-themes i3-dust and i3-dark
- optimized Urxvt
- Pcmanfm / Ranger
- Xarchiver
- Palemoon
- Hexchat
- Pinta
- Gpicview
- Qpdfview
- Clipit
- Mousepad, Nano, Vi
- VLC media player
- Pamac, Pacli
- Lxappearance
- Nitrogen
- Compton
- Arandr for screen- and multihead settings
- Manjaro-Printer
- Htop, Tree, IsoUSB, Gparted, Mhwd-chroot,
- Manjaro-Welcome
- Manjaro-Setting-Manager and Bmenu
- LightDM
- i3exit with blurlock
- Xautolock
- Alsa with Alsamixer and Volumeicon / exchangeable (additional 32MB) for Pulseaudio plus Pavucontrol and Pa-applet
- Network- and Powermanager
- Yaourt and base-devel group
- Thus, Calamares and CLI-Installer as usual :)
New in Manjaro i3 Community Edition 15.11 (Nov 8, 2015)
- This edition features i3-wm 4.11 of the next-branch including sticky windows and i3-gaps. We are honoured by an extremely helpful dialog with i3-developer Airblader on the implementation of the new functions.
- Manjaro i3 is now fully maintained by packages and aims to be pre-configured for all basic needs while remaining completely customizable. Dmenu-manjaro 4.5.1 offers recency-awareness and mouse-interaction and has a designated config-file for appearance and terminal preferences. Urxvt-daemon provides maximum terminal performance, i3status-manjaro is at version 2.9-4 and uses ttf-font-icons.
- Packages of the Stable Update 2015-11-01 have been used to create the install media. Both init systems Systemd and OpenRC, 32bit and 64bit are available with graphical installer Calamares and our CLI-installer included.
- Included software:
- Urxvt
- Pcmanfm
- Xarchiver
- Palemoon
- Hexchat
- Pinta
- Gpicview
- Qpdfview
- Clipit
- Mousepad, Nano, Vi
- VLC media player
- Pamac
- Lxappearance
- Nitrogen
- Compton
- Arandr for screen- and multihead settings
- Manjaro-Printer
- Htop
- Tree
- IsoUSB
- Gparted
- Mhwd-chroot
- Manjaro-Welcome
- Manjaro-Setting-Manager
- LightDM
- i3exit with blurlock
- Xautolock
- Alsa, Alsamixer, Volumeicon
- Network- and Powermanager
- Yaourt and AUR building environment
New in Manjaro i3 Community Edition 15.09 (Oct 3, 2015)
- The wonderfully improved Pamac replaces Octopi
- Improved compositing now with shadows (thank you @Airblader for the insider tweaks!) and preconfigured fading (off by default)
- dmenu-manjaro 4.5-8 with configurable hight and a separate config file
- i3status-manjaro 2.9-4 with multiple partitions disk-space display preconfigured
- conky-i3 20150918-1 with added swap-display
- beautiful new wallpapers by akoka and LE3ADAM
- notification for vertical/horizontal tiling
- support for Samsung phones and iPhones/Pads (hopefully ::) at least older devices)
- more bash-aliases (see the help-file ++h !)
- Manjaro-welcome
- installer Calamares
- some fixes for cups, dunst, hexchat, xfce4-power-manager and networkmanager
- improved OpenRC-support (thank you @artoo and @aaditya for your great work!)
- kernel linux41
New in Manjaro i3 Community Edition 0.8.13.1 (Aug 4, 2015)
- The new release has become even more resource friendly and boots up with
New in Manjaro i3 Community Edition 0.8 (Feb 18, 2013)
- New graphical boot screen
- Kernel version 3.7 replaces 3.4 as the default (with improved flash support)
- Manjaro Exclusive: Pamac – a user user-friendly graphical interface to easily update the system and manage software – replaces Kalu, Package Browser, and the Pacman-GUI.
- A new-look desktop that utilises the popular Mint-Menu
- Full access to the Arch User Repository is pre-installed
- Full multimedia support is pre-installed
- Default Home folders (Downloads, Pictures, etc.) are now automatically provided
- The full range of logout options are now available (e.g. shutdown, reboot, etc.)
- Lock Screen has been enabled
- Hibernation has been enabled