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@boxi-os boxi-os released this 14 Sep 11:19
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The second beta. It answers the first round of feedback — most of all a macOS package that would
not start, and a preview that showed a 404 for every project with notes of its own. Feedback is
still welcome — an issue is the easiest way.

What changed since 1.0.0-beta.1

Fixed

  • macOS: “QuartzControl is damaged” is gone. Beta 1 carried a broken signature, which macOS
    reports as a damaged download. The app is now ad-hoc signed across the whole bundle; the first
    launch is refused like any app without a Developer ID and can be allowed (see below).
  • No bouncing icon in the Dock during every build and every preview on macOS.
  • The AppImages start without extra libraries. Their startup program is now statically
    linked. The arm64 AppImage of beta 1 needed libz.so, which Debian only ships with its
    development packages, and did not start without it.
  • The preview no longer shows a 404 without saying why. Quartz builds no start page when
    content/index.md is missing, which is the normal case for copied notes or a linked vault. The
    app now says so on the overview, on Preview & build and on the content folder, and offers to
    create the start page — with a title, and naming the folder first when that folder is a linked
    vault, that is, your own notes.
  • The Quartz core update card showed your project's own last commit as “installed”. It now
    shows the newest Quartz commit the project contains, and how many are missing.
  • A plugin entry without enabled: is shown as off — that is what the build does. Saving used
    to switch such an entry on silently.
  • The frame editor asks before deleting an area that still holds something, tells you on every
    breakpoint when one of your own areas is hidden there, and no longer takes the keyboard focus
    away when switching breakpoints.

New

  • A running build is visible everywhere — elapsed time and Quartz' current phase on Preview &
    build and on the overview, still there after leaving the page. A second click joins the running
    build instead of starting another one into the same folder.
  • The window reopens where it was, size and monitor included. If that monitor is gone, it opens
    on the main one.
  • The project image can appear in the site header, through a Layout Box, with an optional
    second image for dark mode.
  • The start screen lays its project tiles out by the width of the column, not the window, and
    says each thing once.
  • “Backups” is now “Snapshots”, the word everything on that page already used.
  • The handbook has a page on network connections — every address the app talks to, when, and
    why (Reference → Network connections).
  • The example template links its footer to the published handbooks, and its sidebar links work
    when the site lives under a sub-path.

Which file

System File
macOS, Apple Silicon QuartzControl-1.0.0-beta.2-arm64.dmg — or .zip
macOS, Intel QuartzControl-1.0.0-beta.2-x64.dmg — or .zip
Linux, x86_64 QuartzControl-1.0.0-beta.2-x86_64.AppImage or quartzcontrol_1.0.0-beta.2_amd64.deb
Linux, arm64 QuartzControl-1.0.0-beta.2-arm64.AppImage or quartzcontrol_1.0.0-beta.2_arm64.deb
Flatpak QuartzControl-1.0.0-beta.2-x86_64.flatpak or …-aarch64.flatpak

Every file names its architecture, including the Intel and amd64 ones.

Before the first start

macOS. The app is ad-hoc signed and not notarised; there is no Developer ID certificate, so
macOS refuses the first launch. Allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Security →
“Open Anyway”, within about an hour of the refused launch. The context menu (right-click → Open)
no longer does this since macOS 15. Or clear the quarantine flag:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/QuartzControl.app

Still on 1.0.0-beta.1 and macOS says it “is damaged”? Only the command above helps for that
version — or install this one.

Linux. Make the AppImage executable and run it, or install the deb with
sudo apt install ./quartzcontrol_1.0.0-beta.2_amd64.deb. For the Flatpak:

flatpak install --user QuartzControl-1.0.0-beta.2-x86_64.flatpak

--filesystem=home is set, so projects under your home directory work as they are. A content
folder on another drive needs a one-off flatpak override --filesystem=<path>.

What is inside every package

  • Node and npm — Electron's own runtime (Node 24.18.1, npm 11.17.0), exposed as three shims on
    the PATH. Nothing to install.
  • git 2.53.0 — used only when the machine has none that answers; otherwise the system's own wins.
  • The user handbook — 461 files in two languages, readable offline, linked from every screen.
  • An example template — for creating a project when there is no network.

Known limits

  • Not notarised on macOS, as above.
  • No self-update. The start screen reports when a newer version exists and links to it; the
    download and the replacement are yours to do.
  • No Windows. Deliberate, and the reasons are in the README.
  • A YAML error in the frontmatter of a single note stops the dev server. That is Quartz; the app
    shows the server as crashed.
  • On a machine without a working GL context — a VM, typically — the window appears a moment
    later than usual through a fallback path, and the console says so.

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