Author: sash-au

This is probably one of the most exciting releases to date! Why? Well, because I have achieved a tremendous Orbitiny Desktop start-up speed boost. Because of the efficiency and performance gained, I dubbed this release EP instead of just E and EP stands for “Efficiency and Performance” because everything is faster and smoother. Anyway, here …

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For the upcoming Pilot 9E subsequent release my focal point is performance and more bug fixes (and potentially more orbitiny-screenshot-grabber features). Having said that, here is what’s been done so far. Fixed slow response and UI freezing when the Delete key is pressed to clear selected items in the internal Clipboard Manager. This eventually will …

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I have uploaded another subsequent release – Pilot 9D. This release features the addition of the snipping capability I mentioned previously but also an unexpected and a surprising bug in the orbitiny-screen-config tool. Full details are right below. Download details: here. New: Added a snipping functionality to orbitiny-screenshot-grabber. To use it, pass the -s or …

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Orbitiny Screenshot Grabber is a new tool that comes with Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 9 but by default, it doesn’t come integrated with the PRNTSCR key or any other key so here is a how to guide that shows you how to that manually (it’s very easy thanks to Orbitiny’s flexible graphical configuration tools). In the …

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I have uploaded a new repacked Version (Pilot 9B) due to a missing library file in Pilot 9 and 9B. If you find that Orbitiny Desktop isn’t starting, it is now fixed. The required file was not need when using Qt5 so it went undetected. [ratemypost]  

BugFix: Fixed a file browser (Qutiny) issue – pressing Enter/Return in the address bar does not navigate to a directory. See the screenshot for full details.

Orbitiny Desktop, a Qt/C++ based desktop full of real innovations has seen a new release – Orbitiny Desktop Pilot 9. Orbitiny Desktop is a new Qt/C++ desktop environment for Linux built from the ground up using Qt and coded in C++, bringing you exclusive features and functionalities unavailable in other desktop environments. These features include: …

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orbitiny-screenshot-grabber /path/to/dir/to/save/screenshot/in or if left blank, it will be saved in $HOME/Pictures/Screenshots/. A subdirectory called orbitiny-screenshot-grabber will be created and all file names will be generated automatically in sequential order: 00.png, 01.png, 02.png etc. The intended purpose is to be used in combination with the Keyboard Shortcut / Hotkey Configurator that comes with Orbitiny so …

Read more “Pilot 9 is On Track (2-5 hours Away) – Just Created One More Application – orbitiny-screenshot-grabber”

Over the last few weeks, I have encountered (now fixed) a very annoying bug that’s been causing the Orbitiny session to quietly and mysteriously end without the user’s explicit request. Normally, this happened after a system boot, so when a new Orbitiny session starts, the panel would quietly exit. The issue affected both, the panel …

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Well, 12 months have passed since the very first Orbitiny pilot release and finally I got a change to create a web site for this amazing project. Why has it taken me this long? Well, managing such a large open source project isn’t a straight forward task and it takes time and effort to work …

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