AVL-MXE 2021.05.22 ISO Update Released!

[AVLinux]

Hi Glen, I'm a big fan of your work and of AVL. I think the decision for Openbox is the right move for AVL.
I`m a long time Crunchbang / Bunsenlabs user (great distros!). And discovered some day MX Linux and so AV Linux (and also - great distros!) . Before that I produced my music stuff with Ubuntu Studio. Completely okay, but not quite my taste.
My question is, will there be an upgrade for an existing AVL installation or is a complete reinstallation necessary?
Okay, one can install all the openbox stuff for himself but I don want to break my excellent running AVL/MX system.

On the other hand, I also pimped my XFCE version the way I like it ;-) ... well, I'll definitely be testing the Openbox version the next few days. Openbox is simply the most intuitive window manager and again: Thanks for all the work and effort!

Kind regards from Germany

Hi Goran,

Thanks for the kind words, encouragement is always appreciated!

AV Linux in the early years was an LXDE-based Distro so I learned a lot about Openbox from those years and am glad to return to it. BunsenLabs in particular seems to have done a beautiful job of making Openbox really shine for sure!

Now as far as software updates... Existing Users of the initial AVL-MXE can continue getting 95% of the usual regular updates through the existing enabled Repositories, on top of that for the extra new included and updated Audio plugins that are not in any Repositories I've provided Deb's that will allow you install those and update them. So that only really leaves the cosmetic changes of the new Openbox stuff and some minor theming updates and to be honest I don't really have a quick and easy way for people to get started with that because I kind of started it from scratch.. @SwampRabbit has packaged and put some extra bits and pieces for Openbox into the MX Test Repo so all of the main Openbox packages including the enhanced obmenu-generator Packages that have come with AVL-MXE are already in MX but of course the specific AVL-MXE pre-configuration files and setup stuff is only on the new ISO.

So if you want the Openbox theming and config exactly as seen on the new ISO you will need to install the new ISO, If you want to experiment with moving an existing AVL-MXE install from xfwm to Openbox you will need to install the Openbox stuff and configure it yourself.. I hope that makes sense and answers your question..

[pianokeyjoe]

@pianokeyjoe

What you see on the release video explaining the setup of Wine-Staging/LinVST for WinVST Plugins is the extent of my involvement with Wine-Staging, I don't know anything about gaming, office apps, extra fonts or extending dlls or anything else with Winetricks etc. I simply run it for the first time, let it set up it's config environment and then that is sufficient to run VST Plugins and WineASIO, anything beyond that is the User's choice and I really don't want to get involved with it beyond that, I'm already going way beyond what any other Multimedia distros provide and it's a frustrating friggin' house of cards..

Hi Glen! Ok, I think that answers my question. To be safe, I will just install the OS first, run all the apps once to setup everything, configure as needed, and then I will respin it all after it is setup. Yeah I understand the frustration. You have gone beyond most multimedia distros yes! And with the choosing of MX LINUX as the base, even more so ;-). Thankyou for all your work!

[pandabot]

Is there a way to modify the right-click menu in AV Linux? I thought it was Openbox so I went looking for the menu file but I couldn't find it

EDIT: ah okay looks like I can do that by modifying ~/.config/obmenu-generator/schema.pl, I thought there was a static xml file somewhere with all these entries

[AVLinux]

Is there a way to modify the right-click menu in AV Linux? I thought it was Openbox so I went looking for the menu file but I couldn't find it

EDIT: ah okay looks like I can do that by modifying ~/.config/obmenu-generator/schema.pl, I thought there was a static xml file somewhere with all these entries

Hi!

Yes for obmenu-generator the schema is the ticket to edit the menu, Openbox was a very new addition to the 64bit version and although AV Linux used Openbox/LXDE for many years in the past the improved 'obmenu-generator' is also new to me.. The next release of AV Linux MX Edition will have more refinement in the Openbox menu and also better documentation specific to Openbox config editing.