Spaced Linux 9.26.1 is a maintenance release for 9.26. It fixes the desktop
problems reported since 9.26 and trims work the session was doing far more
often than it needed to.
Desktop fixes
- About Spaced Linux is back as its own dialog (#160, #181). It reports the
installed release, shows the fancy medallion, and links straight to
spacedlinux.com and the donation page. The offline Welcome help it had
replaced keeps its own Spaced Linux Help launcher, so #161 stays fixed. - Gigolo's network shares put their icons back on the desktop (#184).
This was never a Gigolo bug. Caja saves an explicit position for every
desktop icon, and positions saved against a monitor layout that no longer
exists land outside the visible area — which is exactly why those icons
reappeared when a fifth display extended the desktop (#180). Unreachable
positions are now cleared at login and whenever the monitor layout changes,
and mounted volumes are explicitly shown on the desktop. - "Never" really does keep the monitors on (#178). MATE writes 0 for Never
and then simply stops programming a timeout, leaving the X server's own
ten-minute DPMS and blanking defaults in force. Both are now switched off
when Never is selected, and DPMS is handed back to mate-power-manager when a
real timeout is chosen. - Appearance Preferences survives rapid theme switching (#181). Each theme
change used to copy eleven theme trees into the Flatpak export directory and
rewrite every application's Flatpak override, concurrently with the previous
change. Changes are now coalesced, switches are serialised, and the export is
rebuilt only when the installed themes actually change. - Pluma stays the editor for bash and Python scripts (#182). The Python and
shell alias MIME types were never declared, so those launches fell back to
whatever the shared MIME database guessed. Double-clicking a script now opens
it in the editor instead of asking whether to run it. - Brave ships uBlock Origin under its Manifest V2 support, as a managed
policy the Flatpak picks up from the host and that you can still disable
(#181).
SpacedBazaar 0.1.10
- Explore no longer sits empty for the length of a catalog sync. The page used
to switch to its content view the moment the Flathub object existed, long
before the catalog arrived; it now stays on the updating view, showing the
current sync step, until there is something to browse. - Search results show application names again instead of an ellipsis and a
verified checkmark. The results grid was too narrow for the rich tiles once
desktop text scaling went above 100%.
Efficiency
PulseAudio event bursts are coalesced into a single state save instead of three
processes per event, and Flatpak remote registration backs off instead of
polling every two seconds for three minutes on a machine that is simply
offline.
Testing
Built from release/9.26 at this tag. All source checks pass, and the image
booted to the live desktop headlessly in both firmware modes: BIOS in 36
seconds and UEFI in 48 seconds.
Hardware-dependent items in #178, #180 and #185 still need confirmation on the
reporting machines. See docs/9.26.1-ISSUE-STATUS.md
for what is fixed in source versus what still needs a device.
Verify your download
sha256sum -c spaced-linux-9.26.1-amd64.iso.sha256