Wiki post to note significant changes in Mabox aimed at long-term users who want to make these changes in their systems.
Mabox is rolling and evolving. There are ocassionally some changes that can’t be shipped by simple package updates.
Package removal, replacement, user config file changes for example.
All those changes will be described here to help you go in line with current Mabox shape if you wish.
Mabox has the mb-reset script, which was created to be helpful in such situations.
Read more about mb-reset in manual.
Changelog
Before Mabox 21.10 October ISO release:
Package replaced: bpytop -> btop
Btop is CLI resource monitor, bpytop successor written in C++
Remove bpytop:
yay -Rc bpytop
Install btop:
yay -S btop
If you need to update keyboard shortcut and left sidepanel commands:
mb-reset obrcxml
mb-reset leftpanel
Colorized man pages
Achieved by small changes in .bashrc
man() {
LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[01;31m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[01;44;33m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[01;32m' \
command man "$@"
}
Use:
mb-reset -c bashrc
To see (and optionally pick) changes in GUI (meld)
Or:
mb-reset bashrc
to overwrite your .bashrc
(Be aware that you will loose your own customizations if any)
Package added: mbxcolors
mbxcolors is a color picker, palette manager to paste quickly color code in place where cursor is.
yay -S mbxcolors
Keyboard shortcuts changed:
super + c color picker menu
super +p - toggle picom
mb-reset obrcxml
Configs: updated Conky and Tint2 panels
Some small fixes…
mb-reset tint2
mb-reset conky
All above are included in Mabox Linux 21.10 - October ISO refresh | MaboxLinux
Current (not included in latest ISO yet)
noblank - monitor blanking toogle script
win + alt + b will toggle monitor blanking - useful to temporaty disable monitor blanking. Thanks to @piquet → Monitor blanking
rm ~/bin/noblank # delete old script
yay # update all packages
mb-reset obrcxml # replace rc.xml with new one