Mabox provides a simple built-in screenshot and desktop recording tool. Built as a dynamic menu, it is a graphical overlay for the well-known and popular command line tools: scrot, maim and ffmpeg (for recording).
Areaclick allows you to run commands by clicking on the edge or corner of the screen. There are 8 areas available: 4 corners and 4 edges of the screen. You can configure your own commands for all 8 areas.
The Mabox desktop offers several features not found in other environments. Therefore, I strongly encourage you to read this brief introduction to get familiar with Mabox quickly.
Mabox Linux 21.11 codename Herbolth is just around the corner (currently beta). Let’s see what’s new in Herbolth…
In the previous article we learned how to customize the appearance of the menu and sidepanels, now it’s time to see how to add custom commands/launchers. The menu, Sidepanels and most of the Mabox tools are built on the basis of jgmenu – simple, independent, contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking. Thanks …
I’m not an avid gamer, but there are a few games that I love to come back to every now and then. One of them is Re-Volt – races of radio-controlled mini-cars. It’s quite an old game, released in 1999, luckily there is a cross platform and modern rewrite / port – RVGL which runs …
Menus and sidepanels in Mabox are highly configurable, both in terms of appearance and the commands they provide. The appearance settings can be divided into several groups: dimension settings, color schemes, fonts and icons.
GKrellM (GNU Krell Monitors) is a somewhat forgotten program with very interesting features. GKrellM monitors system operating parameters such as: CPU utilization, running processes, memory usage, write and read from disks, incoming and outgoing transfer with statistics counting (for a day, week and month), battery status, incoming mail monitoring
Espanso is a cross-platform text expander written in Rust. Text expander detects when you type a keyword and replaces it while you’re typing.
Mabox Linux 21.06 codename Geralt is ready to download. Iso images are available for download from: repo.maboxlinux.org or from SourceForge mirrors. Lets see what’s new in Mabox 21.06 Geralt.
