Mabox Linux 26.02 available | MaboxLinux

Mabox 26.02 is ready for download. What’s new in this edition? The sound menu Wagonthe rewrite Colorist module for Cava – sound visualization – and some fixes for Screen recording tools.
As usual, it also contains a section of fixes and minor improvements in Mabox tools.

Important! Picom Composer is disabled by default

Why? Mabox is often installed on outdated computers. On some of them, Picom can cause problems.
It is highly recommended to try and activate it after installation.
First check if Picom is working fine Wp shortcut (start/stop Picom).
To start automatically, select it in: Menu -> Mabox Config -> Autostart -> Select Programs/Service (GUI Editor)
You can turn Picom on/off at any time with Wp.

Audio menu

new simple audio menu bound to the right click in the volume icon in the panel (as well as under the shortcut Wagon).
Allows you to:

• introduction pavu control (volume control) (also Wv)
• start audio players + mabox mini player in the form of menu
  (also Wm)
• introduction PyRadio in the terminal or in the style of show-hide
  (also wr; let go q)
• introducing Cava visualization
• when PyRadio and/or Dig walk, easy access to the corresponding Color inr modules

Renewed Cava coloring module

Virtually rewritten from scratch Colorist module for Dig. The modernized default configuration file makes the sound visualization more dynamic.
Several useful options have been added to Colorizer to easily change both the appearance and how Cava visualization works.

Screenshot / Screen recording tool

Screen recording tool W-PrtScr (BASIC ffmpeg frontend) should now record audio correctly.

In the Settings submenu, select the options you want:
For screenshots:

• file type: PNG, JPGor WebM

For computer recording:

• record audio or not
• container: MKV, WebMor MP4
• frame rate (fps)

Click the icon in the system tray to stop recording.

Just getting started with Mabox?

Please read Introduction to Mabox Linux Desktop.

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download

ISO images can be downloaded from SourceForge mirrors and ofrepo.maboxlinux.org/iso.
Two ISO images are available: with the latest LTS 6.18 kernel and slightly older 6.6.

When booting an ISO image, you can choose whether to use open source or proprietary drivers.

Having fun with Mabox 🙂