Nanolx on

Bashstyle-NG (11.3 'Surimi Syndicate')

Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

BashStyle-NG is a graphical utility and toolchain for changing the look, feel, and behavior of Bash, Readline, Vim, Nano, and Git. It acts as a central hub to add advanced features, configuration and visual enhancements into standard command-line tools, making the terminal environment more user-friendly and powerful.

The following is a shortened summary of possibilities, see the documentation for more.

Prompt Customization

Prompt Styles: Includes 12 pre-defined prompt designs which can be randomized per session or customized.
Custom Prompt Builder: A modular prompt builder inside the GUI allows users to create their own custom prompt layouts, or modify the predefined styles.
Color Schemes: Full control over text and prompt colors, with optional monochrome modes.

Utility Enhancements

Colored Output: Allows colored rendering for traditional manpages, ls, gcc error messages and grep matches.
Directory Tracking: Features a custom lscd/treecd command that remembers the last visited directory, auto-restores directory on new session, and prints directory contents immediately after navigating.
Git Status Integration: dynamically displays the current Git branch, revision, action, and more straight in the prompt.
History: customize how many commands the shell remembers, ignores duplicate entries, and controls how history is written to disk. This includes the options for history isolation - meaning that terminal sessions have no outside visible history. Or the opposite history sync, when active, reloading the prompt (pressing enter), will load any new history created from other sessions.

Configuration Management

BashStyle-NG handles it’s own configuration through ConfigObj, all Text and Number settings have two icons. The left icon (back arrow) reverts to previously saved user configuration if a setting was changed in the running BashStyle-NG instance. The right icon (broom/trash) reverts to the factory default setting, which is either BashStyle-NG default setting or a custom vendor configuration, which can be provided by package maintainers.
BashStyle-NG additionally has global revert buttons at the top, which act the same way, but for all settings at once, to keep the UI in sync it is restarted after the configuration was reverted to previous saved user state or factory default settings.

Git repository access

You can check the latest version via GitLab:

Git Repository

Release Downloads

You can get the latest release as:

Translations

Existing Translations [Translator]
- de (German) [Christopher Roy Bratušek]

Submit Bugs or Feature Requests

Visit Git Issues for reporting bugs.

Please make sure that you got the latest stable version of BashStyle-NG. If you got an Feature Request or a new Idea for BashStyle-NG, don’t hesitate to post it! If you can provide patches, then that’s even better.

ChangeLog

11.3 (20260727) "Surimi Syndicate"
==================================

   • Fixes

        − #310: ‘randomfile’: fix syntax error preventing script
          exectuion

        − #311: bashstyle history syncronization is now properly sets up
          a separate temp file per session, part of #307 from 11.2,
          further improved.

   • New Features

        − ‘xmlpager’ now allows passing multiple files (will be shown
          successively), checks whether supplied files are accessible
          and shows the help message, if no file was passed.

   • Misc.  Changes

        − ‘Configure’ version 5.0.0, revised code.  Checking version of
          python-gi modules now works for all, not just ‘Gtk’, remove
          unused pkg-config file for BashStyle-NG. Path for gi-typelibs
          is now properly auto-detected.

        − ‘Make’ version 3.0.0, revised code, use gtk4-update-icon-cache
          in postinstall task, rather than Gtk+3 binary, now in
          postremove task aswell.

        − the ‘binary-clock’ util is now written in pure bash, rather
          than perl

        − ‘lscd’/‘treecd’ have been revised, aswell (internal function
          ‘bashstyle-cd’)

        − The following utils have been revised/modernized

             − ‘batchrename’

             − ‘box’

             − ‘camelcase’

             − ‘check’

             − ‘clock’

             − ‘ruler’

             − ‘stopwatch’

        − additonally all utils received whitespace fixes

        − update german translation

Nanolx (4.8)

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Nanolx is a set of meta-packages, configurations, themes and scripts wich I use on the Debian GNU Linux machines that are maintained by me.

About

Nanolx is a set of meta-packages, wich I use to aid in syncing the package selection between my machine and machines that are maintained by me.

They can be safely used by anyone on Debian GNU/Linux as they won’t remove or change existing packages. As of version 4.2 no configuration changes to /etc are done automatically, configuration is stored in /usr/share/nanolx/ and you can use the provided scripts I use to keep my systems organized (see Scripts below) to adjust as you like.

Addtionally Nanolx contains the default set of themes I prefer to use, see the nanolx-themes package below

On Debian-based distributions you’ll likely not be able to meet all dependecies of the packages. In that case

shell


make install

would only install the included scripts (see below), configuration and themes.

If you only want to update the configuration for the following scripts:

repokit
nanolx-apt
nanolx-orbit

use

shell


make update-conf

On non Debian-based distributions you’ll only be able to use the scripts:

nanolx-backup (if systemd is in use)
nanolx-ctx
nanolx-pam-yubikey
nanolx-refind

copy/install them manually if desired.

Release Information

see debian/changelog for changes

Version: 4.8 Release: 20260723

Installation on Debian GNU/Linux

Get the signing key for my apt repository, located at:

https://www.nanolx.org/apt/photonic2026.asc

and save it as:

/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/nanolx2026.asc

create:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nanolx.sources

with the following content:

deb-src


Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://apt.nanolx.org/
Suites: photonic
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/nanolx2026.asc

then proceed to install the

nanolx-base

package, which will pull all other packages, except nanolx-citrix-config and nanolx-themes (see below) or install specific nanolx-* packages indepedently.

License

nanolx itself is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 (or newer). Individual files, like plymouth / rEFInd themes, differ in licensing. For a full overview consult

debian/copyright

Packages

consult debian/control for full description and pulled packages.

nanolx-base
- base-package pulling all other packages except nanolx-citrix-config and
- nanolx-themes
nanolx-admin
- pulls cli and gui tools for system administration,
- e.g.: gkdebconf, localepurge, packagesearch, cruft-ng and more
nanolx-apt-sources
- provides additional, curated, apt repositories - which are not enabled by default, see the nanolx-apt Script below.
nanolx-apt-tools
- pulls nanolx-apt-sources and additional tools regarding apt, like gdebi, reprepro, debdelta.
nanolx-cli
- pulls a collection of command line utilities, like rsync, mc, unp, plocate, bashstyle-ng and more.
nanolx-x11
- pulls a small collection of ui tools, like psensor, conky, libgtk-nocsd0 and KDE/Plasma.
nanolx-security
- pulls a collection of security related tools, like psad, lynis, rkhunter, clamav, also Yubikey tools.
nanolx-net
- pulls a collection of networking and connectivity tools, like firefox, thunderbird, kvirc, syncthing or nextcloud-desktop.
nanolx-media-codecs
- pulls additional codes for gstreamer, aswell as libdvdcss2 and libbluray2.
nanolx-media-cli
- pulls cli media tools, like lame, sox, flac, streamripper or cdparanoia.
nanolx-media-x11
- pulls ui media tools, like audacity, geeqie, okular, gimp, k3b and more.
nanolx-devel-cli:
- pulls cli development tools, like ccache, schroot, sbuild, gcc/g++, lintian, gdb, code checking tools and more.
nanolx-devel-android
- pulls android related tools, like adb, fastboot, gradle and more.
nanolx-devel-x11
- pulls ui development tools, like cambalache, geany, bluefish, qownnotes and more.
nanolx-games
- pulls a collection of games, including FreedroidRPG, Globulation2, Pingus, Supertuxkart, Lincity-NG, Neverball, Lutris Launcher and Zelda fan games.
nanolx-games-emu
- pulls a collection of emulators, including dosbox, retroarch and more.
nanolx-themes
- this package is recommended by nanolx-base, but not a hard dependency, it provides the default theme collection I use, see Themes below.
nanolx-citrix-config
- see Citrix below.

Scripts

Nanolx includes a set of scripts, all scripts ship their own manpage.

nanolx-base
1. nanolx-backup create and manage systemd timers for rsync backups
2. nanolx-skel enable / disable nanolx skel (/usr/share/nanolx/skel) for newly created users instead of /etc/skel.
  - Note: you most likely don’t want that.
3. conky-on-second-screen this uses ydotool to force conky on second screen this part of the nanolx skel files, so not in /usr see skel/bin if you want to check it.
nanolx-apt-sources
1. nanolx-apt manages additional repository configurations, including key handling, aswell as matching pinning and minor apt configuration changes (the latter both optional). Currently known repos are:
  - debian (rolls-out full suite stable->experimental)
  - nanolx
  - liquorix
  - i2p
  - winehq
  - deb-multimedia
nanolx-apt-tools
1. repokit personal wrapper script for reprepro with config file support and many features.
2. nanolx-orbit manages installation of 3rdparty packages, including some non-free packages, including checking sha256sums. Currently supported packages:
  - discord
  - citrix (stable)
  - citrix-usb (stable)
  - citrix-epa (stable)
  - citrix-beta (GCC 11 tech preview)
  - citrix-usb-beta (GCC 11 tech preview)
  - zoom
  - zoomvdi-plugin
  - openrgb plugins:
    - effects
    - hwsync
    - fansync
nanolx-devel-cli
1. mksbuild support script for repokit (possibly outdated).
nanolx-citrix-config
1. nanolx-ctx script to disable (or enable […]) citrix telemetry and running the included system check script. It also allows to install or uninstall the webkit2gtk-4.0 bundled with citrix, which is required for full citrix operation (stable citrix version), but no longer shipped with Debian (or Ubuntu). It has more features, be sure to check out, if you use citrix.
nanolx-security
1. nanolx-pam-yubikey script to enable password-less logins when a Yubikey is plugged in, using PAM, currently hooked-into PAM modules:
  - login
  - sddm
  - su
  - sudo
  - sudo-i
  - polkit-1
  - kde
nanolx-themes
1. nanolx-refind simple script to manage rEFInd bootloader themes, supports showing installed themes, setting theme, showing current theme in use or reverting to default.
nanolx-x11:
1. ydotoold.service not a script, but a simple systemd user unit for running ydotoold as a user service.

Themes

The package nanolx-themes contains:

Plymouth: debian mac style
rEFInd: rEFInd digital void
Cursors: Empty Butterfly
Qt: Midnight Bright Kvantum
Icons: Tela (red and red dark)
sddm: Pixel Rainy Room
wall: Matrixrain (Plasma 6)
splash: Infinity (Plasma Splash 6)
KWin:
- effects:
  - Aura glow (burn my windows)
  - Geometry Changes
- scripts:
  - KNeko
  - KZones
  - Remember Window Positions
Plasmoids: AndromedaLauncher, Advanced Separator, Panel Colorizer
Nothing for Plasma, KWin, Konsole, including color schemes and wallpapers

Citrix

The package nanolx-citrix-config is not automatically pulled by nanolx-base, as it requires citrix, zoom, incl. plugins to be already installed.

For that purpose see the nanolx-orbit script, which is bundled with nanolx-apt-tools. nanolx-citrix-config provides additional system integrations (Menu entries, systemd services), as per

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icaclient

The following only applies to stable Citrix versions which still use old libaries, current Beta version use GCC 11 and newer libraries, so those tricks are now longer required:

If Citrix Workspace fails to start, webkitgtk2-4.0 is likely missing, as it’s no longer shipped with Debian (or Ubuntu). Citrix bundles it’s own version, so you may choose to install that version using nanolx-ctx, at your own risk, via:

nanolx-ctx load-webkit

Additionally nanolx-ctx features more useful commands, you might want to check.

Citrix requires libjpeg8 to run, which is not provided by Debian. Installing libjpeg-turbo8 from Ubuntu conflicts with installing libjpegturbo0 (which is required by Krita), nanolx-citrix-config ships the libjpeg.so.8{,.2.2} from Ubuntu itself.

photonic (6.0)

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Photonic is my personal apt repository for Debian GNU/Linux.

Version information

Major Version: 6.0
Release: 05.2026 onwoards
Architectures: amd64

Signing Key

Get the signing key for my repository, located at:

https://www.nanolx.org/apt/photonic2026.asc

and save it as:

/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/nanolx2026.asc

Apt Sources

To enable photonic repository, create:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nanolx.sources

with the following content:

deb-src


Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://apt.nanolx.org/
Suites: photonic
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/nanolx2026.asc