Add i3 X11 window manager as a desktop environment option with explicit VR compatibility information. Update Hyprland label to clarify it uses Wayland and is not VR compatible. Adjust position indices for subsequent radio button options.
Add i3 desktop environment option with X11 and VR compatibility note.
Update hyprland description to clarify Wayland protocol and VR incompatibility.
Both descriptions now include information about included applications (Firefox, SDDM).
Add i3 window manager as a desktop choice with X11 and SteamVR compatibility note. Update Hyprland description to clarify it uses Wayland and is not compatible with VR.
Prevent blueman-applet from showing connection errors in virtual machines where no Bluetooth adapter is present. The applet now checks for the existence of a Bluetooth adapter in /sys/class/bluetooth before launching.
This change adds a conditional check that gracefully skips the applet initialization when no hardware is available, improving user experience in VM environments.
Add anaconda-summary-hub.glade file, a customized copy of anaconda 45.8's summary.glade without the "We won't touch your disks…" disclaimer label at the bottom of the hub.
This file is placed in a neutral path (usr/local/share/fws/) because mkarchiso applies the airootfs before pacstrap. Placing it at the anaconda package path would cause pacman to refuse installation due to filesystem conflicts. The live environment's .xinitrc copies this file to /usr/share/anaconda/ui/hubs/summary.glade during boot.
Delete the customized summary.glade file that was overlaying the anaconda package file. This file was previously used to hide the "We won't touch your disks…" message at the bottom of the installation summary hub.
Add logic to override the anaconda summary hub glade file at live boot time. The custom glade file is stored in /usr/local/share/fws and copied to /usr/share/anaconda/ui/hubs/summary.glade during X initialization.
This workaround is necessary because mkarchiso applies the airootfs overlay before pacstrap, which prevents pacman from installing anaconda over existing files. The file is therefore delivered to /usr/local/share/fws and overlaid at boot when the live overlay is writable.
Add a customized version of anaconda's summary.glade UI definition file to the baseline airootfs configuration. This file is based on anaconda 45.8 but with the "We won't touch your disks..." label removed from the bottom of the hub, allowing the overlay to mask the original package file without requiring an anaconda rebuild.
Remove the fws-dnd package and its associated comment from the x86_64 package list. This package is no longer needed for the release engineering build.
Add PipeWire audio stack (pipewire, pipewire-pulse, wireplumber, pavucontrol)
and Bluetooth support (bluez, bluez-utils, blueman) to xfce and hyprland
package lists to ensure they are installed alongside the desktop environment.
Enable bluetooth.service at installation time for hyprland to have Bluetooth
ready at first boot. Update comments to reflect the new guaranteed installation
of audio and Bluetooth components as part of the desktop environment transaction.
Add blueman-applet to the exec-once commands for bluetooth management.
Remove the Steam launcher keybinding (SUPER+KP_Multiply) from the configuration.
Add the fws-dnd package (D&D 5e Manager for dice, characters, grimoire, sessions, and combat) to the baseline x86_64 packages list under the FWS section.
Change the estimated time message from '2 à 4 minutes' to 'Encore une à deux minutes' to provide more accurate timing information to users during the FWS installer preparation phase.
Add a new CSS stylesheet for wofi (application launcher menu triggered with Super+R) that implements the Catppuccin Mocha blue color scheme. The stylesheet includes styling for the window, input field, menu entries, and selection states with rounded corners and appropriate contrast ratios.
Add CSS stylesheet for the FWS keyboard shortcuts panel (fws-hypr-keys) using monospace font to align key combinations with descriptions. Uses the same color palette as the wofi menu with Catppuccin theme colors.
Add missing packages for hyprland desktop environment:
- mako + libnotify for notifications
- polkit-gnome for GUI authentication
- network-manager-applet for network management in tray
- xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland for screen sharing
- gvfs for USB mounting in thunar
- ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols for waybar icons
Add start-hyprland launcher support for hyprland ≥0.53 to properly prepare systemd session/environment.
Add wofi configuration files (config and style.css) for application menu styling.
Update skeleton directory setup to install wofi configs for new users and fix chown path formatting.
Update waybar-style.css to version 2 with the following changes:
- Switch to Catppuccin Mocha color scheme with blue accents
- Redesign bar as floating rounded container instead of bottom border
- Style modules as pill-shaped boxes with individual backgrounds
- Add Nerd Font symbols support for better icons
- Improve workspace buttons with hover effects and transitions
- Add tooltip styling and proper color coding for each module
- Update clock styling with dedicated background
- Enhance battery, network, and bluetooth status colors
- Refine spacing, padding, and border-radius throughout for modern appearance
Update waybar configuration with:
- Adjusted height (34 to 36) and spacing (4 to 2)
- Added margins (top: 6, left: 10, right: 10)
- Added workspace navigation with scroll (e-1/e+1)
- Added backlight, bluetooth, and battery modules
- Enhanced clock format with calendar styling
- Improved audio controls with pavucontrol integration
- Added network bandwidth display
- Updated all module icons to use modern emoji/nerd font glyphs
- Improved tooltips with more detailed information
- Adjusted max window name length from 55 to 45 characters
Add brightnessctl for brightness control without root via logind,
consumed by XF86MonBrightness* keys and waybar backlight module.
Add blueman as graphical Bluetooth manager for desktop environments
that don't provide their own (KDE and GNOME have built-in managers).
Blueman provides system tray integration and pairing assistant.
Update comments to clarify the purpose of these new packages.
- Import os module to check for style file existence
- Add _STYLE constant pointing to wofi-keys.css stylesheet
- Increase wofi window dimensions from 780x560 to 820x600
- Conditionally apply custom style if the stylesheet exists
- Refactor wofi command construction for better readability
Add udev.event_timeout=45 parameter to all APPEND kernel boot options in the syslinux configuration to prevent udev event timeout issues during boot on systems with slow device initialization.
Add udev.event_timeout=45 parameter to the accessibility boot entry to prevent timeout issues during device initialization on systems with slower hardware or many devices.
Add udev.event_timeout=45 parameter to the safe graphics boot option to prevent timeout issues during device initialization on systems with slower hardware or complex device trees.
Add udev.event_timeout=45 kernel parameter to the UEFI boot entry for the archiso linux image. This timeout helps prevent boot delays caused by udev waiting for device events to complete.
Add a new UEFI boot loader entry for Arch Linux installation medium with the nomodeset kernel parameter. This provides a fallback boot option for systems with GPU or hypervisor drivers that have issues with KMS (kernel mode setting), allowing the system to fall back to VESA/EFI framebuffer graphics mode which is slower but more reliable.
Introduce a new SDDM theme "fws" designed for FWS with support for KDE, XFCE, and Hyprland desktop environments.
The theme is built using pure QtQuick and QtQuick.Controls (Basic style) with no additional dependencies beyond what SDDM already requires. It includes:
- Main.qml: Custom login screen with clock, date, user/password fields, session selector, and power controls
- metadata.desktop: Theme metadata and configuration
- theme.conf: Default configuration with customizable accent color and gradient colors
The design uses a dark theme with accent colors and supports capslock detection and login error handling.
Add CSS stylesheet for Waybar that matches the FWS theme, SDDM appearance, and Hyprland borders. Includes styling for workspaces, clock, custom key help button, and system status modules with Catppuccin blue accent color (#89b4fa).
Add waybar panel configuration with modules for workspaces, window title, clock, volume, network, CPU, and memory monitoring. Configured for top panel layout with French localization support.
Add a new Python utility script that displays actual Hyprland keyboard shortcuts from hyprctl binds output. The script:
- Queries hyprctl binds to get loaded key bindings from the compositor
- Formats keybinds with human-readable modifiers and key labels (French localization)
- Displays descriptions from bindd config entries or falls back to dispatcher actions
- Opens results in wofi dmenu for incremental search and filtering
- Handles special keys like mouse buttons, arrow keys, and common special keys
- Deduplicates repeated bindings (e.g., from resize actions)
No additional dependencies required beyond python3 and wofi (already in FWS + Hyprland packages).
Add new Glade UI definition file for the FWS recap (summary before installation) spoke. This defines the AnacondaStandaloneWindow layout with a scrollable text view to display installation summary information.
Add FWSRecapSpoke, a standalone spoke that displays a comprehensive summary of user configuration choices and detected hardware before installation begins. The spoke intercepts the installation flow between the SummaryHub and ProgressSpoke, allowing users to review and modify their choices before any disk writes occur.
Features:
- Displays user-selected configuration (language, keyboard, timezone, users, partitioning, desktop, hostname)
- Shows detected hardware (virtualization, GPUs, disks, network status)
- Provides installation flow overview and warnings about automatic partitioning
- Implements back navigation to return to the hub for modifications
- Never marks as completed to ensure proper flow control in anaconda's action queue
Change publish_to_repo() to accept explicit file list via variadic arguments
instead of a directory glob. This prevents re-publishing stale .pkg files
from previous builds that may still exist in BUILD_DIR.
Update build_or_skip() to get the actual list of packages produced by the
current makepkg invocation using --packagelist, filter for .pkg.tar.* files,
verify they exist on disk, and pass only those to pacman -U and publish_to_repo().
This fixes issues where:
- After pkgrel bumps, old .pkg files would cause pacman to receive duplicate
package names ("repeated target" error)
- Stale packages would be republished over the purge in local-repo
- Optional debug packages would cause errors when not produced
BREAKING CHANGE: publish_to_repo() function signature changed from publish_to_repo(name, directory) to publish_to_repo(name, file1, file2, ...) - callers must pass explicit file paths instead of a directory path
Replace gettext.ldgettext with gettext.dgettext in Anaconda exception handler
since ldgettext was removed in Python 3.11. Without this fix, the exception
handler crashes with AttributeError when trying to display errors, resulting
in raw tracebacks instead of the meh dialog in both GUI and TUI modes.
Also clean up stale __pycache__ directories from previous extractions and
add validation to ensure ldgettext is completely removed.
Add a new boot menu entry for FWS without kernel mode setting (KMS) to provide a fallback option for systems where KMS causes issues. This entry uses the nomodeset kernel parameter to force the framebuffer to VESA/EFI mode, which is slower but more reliable for problematic GPU drivers and hypervisors like VMware.
Update interactive-defaults.ks kickstart file with:
- Clarified documentation on LiveOS payload detection and mounting via /run/rootfsbase bind-mount instead of direct liveimg directive
- Added comprehensive comments explaining why liveimg directive is intentionally omitted and how anaconda --liveinst handles payload creation
- Enhanced XFCE and Hyprland package sets with noto-fonts for proper TTF rendering and additional tools (thunar, hyprlock, grim, slurp, wl-clipboard, playerctl)
- Implemented SDDM theme configuration with FWS theme support and accent colors per desktop environment (teal for XFCE, Catppuccin blue for Hyprland, Breeze blue for KDE)
- Added GDM (GNOME) configuration via dconf with welcome banner, clock enhancements, and numlock settings
- Expanded Waybar configuration installation for Hyprland with config and style files
- Added comprehensive documentation for greeter customization and Hyprland VM compatibility
- Included details about FWS recap spoke (standalone GUI summary screen) replacing zenity-based pre-install approach
Add comprehensive keybinding descriptions using bindd/binde for keyboard shortcut display, implement Catppuccin Mocha color scheme with blue gradient borders, enable animations with custom bezier curve, configure touchpad settings, add blur/shadow configuration for VM compatibility, implement scratchpad support, add screenshot and multimedia key bindings with PipeWire/playerctl integration, and define window floating rules.
Keybindings now match i3/sway FWS configuration with French descriptions that automatically appear in fws-hypr-keys shortcut viewer. Configuration includes multi-screen support, workspace navigation (1-10), window resizing, and various utility bindings.
Add several improvements to the liveinst installer workflow:
- Expose archiso squashfs at /run/rootfsbase where Anaconda expects to find
the Live OS image, fixing SourceSetupError crashes
- Display immediate splash screen with zenity during Anaconda startup (2-4 min
wait time) to provide user feedback and prevent perceived hangs
- Wrap liveinst with dbus-run-session to provide D-Bus session bus, fixing
GLib.GError crashes from missing ScreenSaver service
- Add hardware summary log output to debug information collection
These changes address three crash scenarios identified during testing and
improve user experience during installer initialization.
Add fws-setup-hardware script that automatically detects and installs:
- GPU drivers (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) based on lspci output
- Hypervisor guest tools (VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU, Hyper-V)
- Audio/mic/headset stack (PipeWire), Bluetooth (BlueZ), containers (Podman)
- Optional desktop stack when non-CLI desktop is selected: Steam, Wine, VR support (Monado/OpenXR), and winboat-bin
The script is integrated into the Anaconda kickstart post-installation phase and is non-blocking to prevent installation failures from missing packages or network issues.
Also update profiledef.sh to set correct permissions (755) for the new script.
Add Hyprland desktop environment support with:
- New hyprland.conf template with keyboard layout placeholders (__KB_LAYOUT__ and __KB_VARIANT__) that get injected during installation
- Hyprland wrapper script (/usr/local/bin/fws-hyprland) that detects virtual machines and forces software rendering to prevent compositor crashes on virtual GPUs (VMware vmwgfx, VirtualBox)
- Automatic configuration deployment to /etc/skel and existing user home directories
- Refactored keyboard layout detection logic (moved to section 3bis) to support both X11/SDDM and Hyprland configurations
- Added locale generation during installation to ensure proper language support
Keyboard layout is now derived from either kickstart configuration or system locale using langtable, providing consistent keyboard behavior across all desktop environments.
- Fix XFCE display manager: replace lightdm-gtk-greeter with sddm for consistency
- Add SDDM numlock initialization for KDE, XFCE, and Hyprland
- Configure X11 keyboard layout from kickstart or locale via langtable to ensure correct SDDM login keyboard
- Enable wheel group sudo access and add all human users to wheel group
- Apply FWS branding to os-release, lsb-release, and GRUB configuration
- Remove inappropriate live system motd file
- Fix DNS resolution: configure systemd-resolved stub resolver with NetworkManager integration to prevent "Limited Connectivity" on first boot
- Reformat case statement for better readability
Implement a new Anaconda spoke that allows users to select their preferred desktop environment (CLI, GNOME, KDE Plasma, Hyprland, or XFCE) during installation.
The spoke:
- Displays radio buttons for five desktop choices with CLI as the default
- Persists the selection to /tmp/fws-desktop for the kickstart %post script
- Supports revisiting the spoke and resuming previous selections
- Includes a GTK UI definition file (glade) with translatable labels
- Integrates as a SoftwareCategory spoke in the Anaconda installer
The implementation leverages Anaconda's runtime spoke discovery mechanism via the airootfs overlay, avoiding the need to rebuild the anaconda package.
Refactor version and variant handling to prompt for metadata on the host before entering container, enabling proper terminal display. Pass FWS_ISO_VERSION and FWS_ISO_TAG via environment variables to container.
Add build date (AAAA.MM.JJ format) to the final ISO filename: fws-<version>-<variant>-<AAAA.MM.JJ>.iso
Implement ask_iso_meta_host() function to validate and collect version (major.minor.build) and variant name inputs before containerization. Use sudo -E to preserve environment variables across privilege escalation.
Update ISO metadata prompt logic to skip if already provided, supporting both container execution and native Arch/WSL environments.
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