At the beginning of August, the Ubuntu-based rolling release distribution that started as a hobby and has evolved thanks to community interest He launched its first non-preliminary version, or what is the same, its first stable version. At the end of the same month there was another ISO, but with some new features that barely went beyond error corrections and we did not dare to report on it. during this weekend have thrown Rhino Linux 2023.3, and this image does include some more interesting and useful news.
The graphical environment used by Rhino Linux is Unicorn Desktop. At first they used Xfce without customization, but they thought it was a good idea to use a different desktop, also based on Xfce but with components that are also reminiscent of GNOME. The most notable novelty is that they have modified parts of it.
Rhino Linux 2023.3 introduces changes to Unicorn Desktop
There are changes introduced in Rolling Release distributions that are not applied automatically. User intervention is required, and the first of the important changes is achieved in this way. As they tell us, «You can say goodbye to horrible menu bars and hello to our gorgeous unified menu. Global menus have been implemented in The Unicorn Desktop to give you a truly modern experience«. To receive the change you must execute the following in the terminal (NOTICE: this will override the configuration if modifications have been made):
dir_path=".config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml" for i in "xfce4-panel.xml" "xsettings.xml"; do sudo cp /etc/skel/$dir_path/$i ~/$dir_path/$i done
Also in Unicorn, a bug has been fixed that caused the Plank dock to be inconsistent, but also requires manual intervention. In this link They explain that you have to edit /usr/share/plank/docks.ini with the changes we need.
Among the rest of the changes:
- uLauncher now starts faster.
- The Unicorn dock now zooms when you hover over the icons.
- A bug has been fixed in the wizard that required the password to reboot the system.
- Squid now uses white text when selecting items.
- Timeshift is installed by default.
- Kernels: 6.5.5-generic by default, 6.6.0-rc3-okpine for PINE64 and 6.5.0-raspi for Raspberry Pi.
To update the existing operating system, you have to open a terminal and type rpk update -y.