Show your desktop - August 2026

3 Likes

Latest rip for backgrounds. Avatar airbender.

1 Like

And a question: How can I add icons to the list in the Left panel → My settings → Icon set?
I can’t find the relevant file.

@danielhb,
The list is hardcoded at the moment :frowning:

I didn’t want to put the full list of available icon themes there, because most of them are incomplete and not very suitable for the menu.

If you want to set menu icons from outside the list, you can edit ~/.config/mabox/mabox.conf. You need to change the line:

jgmenu_icon_theme=BeautySolar

Which icon sets are you interested in? I can add them to the list or make it possible to customize it.

1 Like

I’ll try some and let you know, thanks.

2 Likes

Playing with LabWC again (with Noctalia 5.0 beta)
… and I like it :slight_smile:


2 Likes

[mabox-snapshot]

Fun stuff : The idea is, drop an image in folder images as splash.png, to set a grub background.

First demo iso tested and installed with calamares in a VM. Works :wink:

Clean to share the iso.

Next step is the --mode preserving and encryption… A complete copy of the system. With passwords and all stuff running the system directly from another box. Encryption (luks) --encrypt is added to keep the iso safe for travel.

ls /etc/mabox-snapshot/
excludes.list  excludes.list.pacnew  images

2 Likes

Fixed the grub font.

encryption for live iso works :wink:

A whole day afraid not to use another username in calamares… because I need my username for configs, scripts, etc.

But finaly after hours, lets try another user with calamares and BANG all problems solved.
My own user account is selected in lightdm automaticly. I can just remove the new account and I am fine.
Hours of frustration because of sticking with my own username.

I am excited about the snapshot tool.

To be continued…

2 Likes

1 Like

That’s looking great! You may yet convince me that Wayland is the future. I doubt it, but maybe…

Two years ago, after several weeks of struggling with Wayland, I was still very skeptical about it… Now, after a few weeks of using LabWC with Noctalia and experimenting with ways to give them a bit of Mabox’s character, it’s starting to look really promising :smiley:

nice nice nice … :slight_smile: