Manjaro community announces Bspwm edition 17.1.4, idles around 120Mb RAM

The Manjaro community has announced the release of Manjaro 17.1.4 Bspwm edition, latest stable snapshot of projects community edition feature BSpwm. This edition of Manjaro is designed to make efficient use of command line and it consumes ~120Mb of RAM on idle state. It provides the Manjaro Architect as the only way for installation and is suitable to use as system rescue images.

Manjaro Bspwm edition 17.1.4

Some of the important highlights in Manjaro Bspwm edition can be summarized as:

• Multipurpose Rofi launcher, combining window switcher, applications launcher, run dialog and web search into one
• Breath gtk3 theme
• proper chromium theming (manjaro-browser-settings-native)
• included (but disabled) lxpolkit
• disabled compositing
• window handling for libreoffice and plank
• awesome new wallpapers by @muser
• icons and image previews in ranger (@oberon hint hint :wink:)
• mate-notification-daemon for clickable update-notifications
• Improved Grub theme (also on installed system)
• Chromium with native window decorations and gtk3 theme by default: 

For more information, discussions and screenshots of Manjaro Bspwm 17.1.4 release, see original post shared in Manjaro Forums.

Manjaro bspwm 16.05 released with new appearance

The Manjaro community has announced availability of Manjaro bspwm 16.05, latest stable update of Manjaro community distribution featuring lightweight tiling window manager bspwm. The main motive behind this community distribution is to provide maximum performance with minimum memory and cpu consumption. Manjaro bspwm edition is mainly targeting developers who prefer to have a distraction free environment that support features like program syntax highlighting.

One of the most notable highlight in Manjaro bspwm 16.05 is it's new look and feel. When this distribution was updated with GNOME 3.20 components, most of the existing themes were broken and thus the developers decided to work on Maia theme, which is the default theme used by many other Manjaro community editions. Additionally this release features Breeze icons, soft terminal colors which will also help to reduce eye stress during prolonged computer use.

Some more essential changes have happended under the hood however. Bspwm has undergone a major syntax change and this edition features configuration that takes full advantage of the new scripting capabilities provided.

Another major change is the list of included applications. The Bspwm edition now finally comes with a fully featured browser. Light is a stripped down build of Firefox that uses less RAM and has less dependencies, while still displaying sites correctly and taking advantage of many Firefox plugins. We also included Clonezilla among our many other system rescue tools that make this edition suitable for fixing broken installations, recovering lost files and backing up your system.

For more information and screenshots see release announcement published in Manjaro website.

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