Cereus Linux LXQt Beta 2022.09.24

The default user is cereus and its password is "cereus". On first login at live, you will need to log in for some LightDM bug. We are still looking for the reason of this.

There are two ways to install Cereus Linux:

1). Graphical: we use the Calamares installer to provide a graphical installation. Look for it on application menu as "Install System".

2). Terminal: if you are used to install via terminal, or you are a Void Linux user, you can still use the ncurses installer. To use it, run cereus-installer as root.

Known issues

• At VirtualBox, screen resolution will not adapt depending on window size as the live does not come with guest additions yet. You will need to change screen resolution manually at "Monitor Settings" in application menu. Once installed, you can install virtualbox-ose-guest or virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms from repositories.

• Once you booted the live environment, you will have to log in manually. For some reason, LightDM does not respect autologin setting before the first login of an user (if you restart LightDM manually, you will notice that autologin works). Please note that this issue does not exist in the installed system.

• In Musl, OctoXBPS will always tell you that the command exited with an error, even if that's not the case. We are waiting them to correct this at git branch (which is the default at Cereus Linux by many reasons).

• Live environment uses English language by default. At the Calamares installer you can select your preferred language, and the installed system will have this one. We are evaluating a way to allow user to choose the language before boot the live, like Manjaro Linux.

• If you decide to remove LightDM and not use any display manager, tty1 will have Plymouth logo running eternally. Disabling Plymouth is a workaround.

• As we are using LightDM as screensaver too, you will not be able to control media keys while the screen is locked.

• By default, both cereus-extra and cereus-core repositories uses the SourceForge mirror, but you can change it to OSDN too, in next days we'll post our entire mirror list. We are working in a way to change easily the mirror.

• When using gpu-video-wallpaper from our repositories, is recommended to disable LXQt desktop icons, as the live wallpaper will be over PCManFM-Qt desktop.

• When using librewolf-musl, it will use by default the Graphite GTK theme, and if you use a different GTK theme, you must install it also on glibc container. Run "voidnsrun -r /glibc xbps-install -S <your-theme-name>" or copy your theme manually to /glibc/usr/share/themes.

• When installing with Calamares, at the overview tab, there is a bug where the Graphite Kvantum theme shows a transparent background. Our temporary solution was to kill the compositor when opening Calamares.

Important notes

• If you were an user of the public alpha, we strongly advice you to reinstall with this new release, or under your own risk, force the reinstall of all packages. This is because we changed the version format of almost all our packages (now all respect the format YY.MM.DD if date is used on a package, except by calmsky-icon-theme, the reasons are in our GitHub), so XBPS does not recognize them as new versions.

• We recommend BalenaEtcher, bootiso or dd itself to burn the ISO file in a pendrive, as they're the ones we tested. Ventoy and Unetbootin are untested.

• Please, avoid using blesh-git if you use Qterminal, as it presents an annoying bug where does not allow to delete text.

Changelog

• Default Graphite color variant now is Green instead of Teal.

• LightDM is used as screensaver too, as betterlockscreen is managed via CLI and we needed something that can be graphically managed.

• Calamares branding was renewed.

• We added support for Plymouth and a exclusive Cereus theme.

• XCompmgr was replaced by Picom. This was because Picom with the xrender backends shows better performance than xcompmgr, adds shadows to all windows and is more configurable. By default rounded corners are enabled.

• Dotfiles were improved.

• A keyboard shortcut was added to toggle compositor (Alt + P).

• Now the Super + E shortcut is fixed and opens PCManFM-Qt as expected.

• Xidlehook was discarded and we left LXQt Power Manager to manage idle actions.

• Calamares icon desktop icon were removed. This is because LXQt always marked it as unknown desktop launcher.

• Void Linux ncurses installer was implemented too and is now called cereus-installer.

• base-cereus does not longer depend on sudo to allow user to change to doas, but in LXQt it's still needed to add sudo to ignorepkg list as lxqt-sudo depends on it.

• cereus-mklive now allows you to create your ISO with doas or sudo. These ISOs come with sudo, as lxqt-sudo depends on it.

• New packages were added to our repositories.

• Version date format was changed to YY.MM.DD.

• Touchegg service is enabled by default.

• When booting, now Runit says "Welcome to Cereus!" instead of "Welcome to Void!".

• lsb_release was improved.

• Now we provide better wallpapers.

• In Musl we added support for glibc containers. voidnsrun-setup provides everything to build the container. Also, we added an ease installation of a containerized package: librewolf-musl. It is just install and enjoy. Bug reports are welcome.

• From now on we'll change the word "respin" by "derivative" as we are doing a lot of changes beyond what a respin would do.

• Btrfs is now the default file system when installing with Calamares. The reason is the integration with Timeshift and the good results that it is showing with SSDs. You can also choose between btrfs, xfs, ext4 and f2fs without using the manual partitioning.

• PipeWire is now the default sound system, as it provides a better bluetooth support and a modern technology.

• Pasystray is now used to notify volume changes and the LXQt's volume applet was replaced. The reason is, with LXQt's you have to change the output manually to register it's changes, apart from changing default pipewire-pulse sink. With Pasystray you can easily change your input and output device from system tray.

• Qterminal custom color scheme and Openbox Licorice theme were packaged in cereus-extra, instead of providing them at the mklive includedir.

• The ISO is now called CEREUS_LIVE instead of VOID_LIVE when mounted.

• When installing with Calamares, it changes default /etc/issue message from live environment and setups a different message without live instructions.

• Notifications now are in the upper right corner.

• GRUB default background was changed.

• Now Graphite cursors theme is used.

• A bug where LightDM does not show background was fixed.

• Cereus logo was added to system. Now LXQt panel shows our logo.