Distribution release available Ubuntu Sway Remix 24.10, which provides a pre-configured, ready-to-use desktop based on the Sway tile-based compositing manager. This distribution is an unofficial edition. Ubuntu 24.10, created with both experienced GNU users in mind/Linux, as well as beginners who want to try out an environment with a tiled window manager without the need for a lengthy setup. Builds for the amd64 and arm64 (Raspberry Pi) architectures are available for download.
The distribution environment is built on the basis of Sway, a compositing manager that uses the Wayland protocol and is fully compatible with the i3 tiled window manager, as well as the Waybar panel, the PCManFM-GTK3 file manager, and utilities from the NWG-Shell project, such as the Azote desktop wallpaper manager, the nwg-drawer full-screen application menu, the nwg-wrapper program for displaying the contents of scripts on the screen (used to display hotkey hints on the desktop), the nwg-look GTK theme, cursor, and font settings manager, and the Autotiling script, which automatically composes the windows of open applications in the manner of dynamic tiled window managers.
The distribution includes both GUI programs such as Firefox, Qutebrowser, Audacious, Transmission, Libreoffice, Pluma and MATE Calc as well as console applications and utilities such as Musikcube music player, MPV video player, Swayimg image viewer, for viewing PDF documents Zathura, Neovim text editor, Ranger file manager and others.
Another feature of the distribution is the complete rejection of the use of the Snap package manager, all programs are delivered in the form of regular deb packages, including the Firefox web browser, which is installed using the official Mozilla Team PPA repository. The distribution installer is based on the Calamares framework.
Major changes:
- The package database has been updated to the release Ubuntu 24.10;
- Sway now runs as a child process of ssh-agent, which has allowed us to solve a number of problems in the operation of ssh-agent (for example, generating new SSH keys) when working in various command shells (zsh, fish, etc.);
- Provided automatic restart of the Waybar panel when its configuration file is changed;
- The graphical clipboard manager, implemented on the basis of the Rofi package, has been replaced by nwg-clipman - a graphical add-on based on GTK for the Clipman clipboard manager;
- Rofi's application menu has been replaced by the lighter and simpler Fuzzel;
- Added the key combination Mod+Ctrl_R to enable/disable interception of various key combinations by windows (for example, startup virtual machines);
- Minor design and scripting bugs have been fixed, the weather applet crashes when there is no internet connection, and the rules for application windows have been improved.
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