whoops, forgot to do the devlog yesterday!
well im too lazy to write stuff so here’s the gist of it:

• i made a (terrible) wallpaper in krita (and inkscape, i wasn’t able to do it properly )
• i added swaybg to the package list
• swaybg autostarts with labwc
• branding gets copied to /usr/share/ every time i run the script to generate an iso
  that’s about it, i spent a while on that wallpaper for some reason
  (i just remembered i added the autostart thing in the vm and didn’t add it in the actual repo)

woah woah woah! check this out!
i customized waybar and got submenus working! well that doesn’t sound all that impressive, until you realize i had to plan it out. the thing is, much of this time didn’t get logged because i was testing configs in the virtual machine, which is a live usb without persistence. i just typed one line at a time and looked at how it changed and what could be improved.
for the waybar, you might be wondering what happened to the colorful stuff. well, once i started my own styles, it stopped using the default config. it does look pretty cool tho!
as for the right click menu in the background, you can see that it is showing a submenu too. the main menu has six things: firefox, a libreoffice submenu, a separator, a teminal, shutdown and reboot. the submenu has options to open the main libreoffice window, a libreoffice writer window, a libreoffice impress window and a libreoffice calc window.
also, i took that icon out the full logo to make a colorful and white icon! now just the wallpapers, which i installed krita for.
that’s about it for today, and see you guys tomorrow!

hey hey hey!
today was mostly creating a logo
you can find it on github, but you wouldn’t open it, so here it is!:

anyways, besides that, today i was able to get waybar to autostart
so tomorrow, i’ve gotta do these:

• separate the icon out of the logo
• start with wallpapers
• get a proper config, this is nothing
  anyways, bye!

poof! there is now a gui!!!
as you might have guessed, there’s still no artwork
however,

• there is now some gui! in the screenshot, i am running waybar manually from a terminal.
• the terminal in question is called foot ( - also, there is 0 config of anything at all
• the login works perfectly! i don’t have a screenshot and i don’t want to boot up the vm again for this
• speaking of vms, i finally figured out why everything was so slow and sluggish—it was because qemu was using TCG (tiny code generator) (software emulation) instead of KVM acceleration (kernel-based virtual machine). i turned on kvm and it started up in SECONDS.

that’s about it, and see you all tomorrow!

aaaa i found out lxdm can’t launch wayland sessions so i have to use something else. i settled on greetd for the backend login manager and greetd-regreet for the frontend.
i chose regreet because apparently it’s written in rust, uses gtk4 and can easily be styled with css! will be great!
anyways, as for the actual stuff, i put labwc in the package list even though its not configured. also, i still haven’t started with the artwork.
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so far, this is what i have that works (:sk:)

amethystOS: you can’t tell its arch without the terminal!

today, i tried to get a lightweight login manager working.

• first, i thought of sddm, but when i saw it, i felt it was too ugly.
• then i thought of wlgreeter, but it wasn’t in the repos.
• eventually, i settled on lxdm. it looks good and seems to work well.
  now you see, the problem is i need to auto-login into labwc, the compositor. remember that you don’t need a full desktop environment to ship a distro. the compositor can work well standalone. you just have to install a few things to be able to actually use it, and that’s what i plan on doing.
  also, i need make some artwork for this. i’ve already come up with a few designs for logos and wallpapers, i just have to actually make them in inkscape! i feel like my 4 wallpapers and final logo are pretty good!
  hoping to get stuff actually working tomorrow ✌️ i need to:
• configure autologin for live cd
• configure lxdm
• auto-start the calamares installer when the user boots the disk
• make a custom boot animation
• of course, make the boot animation

its arch but it has a gui installer but its not manjaro or endeavor!!!

amethystOS is arch but you can actually use it without being a wizard in the terminal. why install a gui yourself and spend hours (trying to) configure your setup when you can have the distro decide for you?

and not only that, it comes with a bunch of pre-installed applications! libreoffice, the fox on fire, and more!

at least, that’s the goal. i can’t even make an arch iso rn because whatever happened to the repo.

anyways, you might see that the initial commit is from january, but that’s because i started this and never really started it.

so as for what i actually did, i tried to get calamares working, but no, it kaboomed. well i’ll have to fix that, obviously, but i will work on the logo and artwork in the meanwhile!

hoping for a great result by the end of this!✌️