This is a another maintenance release with one bug fix and two new features. The bug was discovered by myself when some of my desktop icons got moved to a different position when they shouldn’t have and fortunately I was able to replicate the issue consistently and that lead me to a quick fix as …
OK, so I booted up Endeavour OS which is based on Arch Linux and managed to compile and install the Phoenix X11 display server successfully from within a live session. I pulled the package from the AUR. Of course, I checked the PKGBUILD before I did so and I did not find anything suspicious. I …
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So I found a Debian distro running XLibre by default and couldn’t resist but test Orbitiny Desktop on it and I am happy to say that it runs beautifully — see the output in the terminal window in the screenshot. I am not new to XLibre, I’ve been testing it on Artix Linux and it’s …
As stated in my previous update, a new release was on the way and this release primarily focuses on Orbitiny’s file manager. 1.0 Pilot X (R4) – Release Notes: New: Qutiny – Added a “Convert Tabs to Spaces” setting / option in the built-in text editor. New: Qutiny – Added a “Highlight Word” setting / …
I have implemented something that I’ve planned for ages in Qutiny’s inbuilt text editor (when previewing ASCII files): Auto-highlight all occurrences of the word the caret is on (if Auto Highlight is Enabled) Type a word and highlight all occurrences Search Function: Find Next / Previous This along comes with a “Match Case” and “Whole …
This is a small maintenance release and includes the following bug fixes: BugFix: Control Center – Fixed theming issues in gesture configuration dialogs. When you select an item, text becomes unreadable (blue highlight with dark gray text). Now however as shown in the screenshot, the item is selected but the highlighted row isn’t blue, it’s …
I just released Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X (Release 3). The major change in this release is the already mentioned DPI scaling but also some bug fixes. 1.0 Pilot X (R3) – Release Notes: New: Added support for display scaling. Now you can change DPI settings from Orbitiny’s Control Center. DPI settings can be found in …
I just uploaded Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X (R2) to fix some bugs found in the previous release. Here is the change log: BugFix: Quitiny File Browser – Qutiny was failing to add directory names to the search results when the directory name matched the search string. BugFix: Fixed a failed detection of kwin_x11 which lead …
Well, the long anticipated Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X has finally been released. Orbitiny Desktop is a new, 100% portable, innovative and traditional desktop environment for Linux + X11 (with potential Wayland support in the future). It is developed in C++ and Qt. This is the biggest, most difficult and substantial update ever released to date …
I just finished doing some major changes during a code clean-up op. Whole sections with hundreds of lines of code have been scrapped (without removing features) and this is some very, very old code when I first started the project and I have completely rewritten the whole thing as well as the way the Xlib …