Hi,
After many months of testing and consultation with developers ylee and the_waiter from Bodhi Linux I'm very happy to present the first RC1 Testing ISO for the Moksha Desktop Environment on MX Linux; MX Moksha "Out of Bodhi" RC1. As always credit, thanks and great appreciation to the MX Linux developers for the 'build-iso-mx' build system.
For those who are not aware Bodhi Linux is a unique, light and fast Linux Distribution that has carved out a popular niche with it's attractive 'Moksha' Desktop Environment which was forked from Enlightenment E17. For those acquainted with Enlightenment Moksha is quite familiar and has added it's own features, fixes and improvements to the original E17 base. E17 was Iconic for it's uniquely skeumorphic, textural and tactile appearance and Bodhi carries on in this vein as an attractive alternative to the current ubiquitous Flat theming trends. It seemed to me Bodhi's uniqueness and the robust stability and toolset of MX would make an excellent hybrid and I was very pleasantly surprised to receive not only a warm welcome from the Bodhi developers but also a helpful and collaborative spirit which had not really been my experience with Enlightenment. Bodhi had already made inroads to moving from a Ubuntu base to also supporting Debian with their recent 'deBodhi 7' release and with some help from ylee I was able to incorporate deBodhi with MX and produce a working build-iso template which has gotten things this far. Essentially this ISO is a Base release with the bare elements of Bodhi Linux 7 and it's Moksha Desktop Environment + MX Linux Tools, AHS Repo and Build system + AV Linux Tweaks, Utilities and File Actions. Other key differences are PipeWire by default and the solid Liquorix 6.6.12 Kernel.
An obvious question is probably how this relates to AV Linux and the answer is not yet known, there are Pros and Cons and as much as I love the 'pure' Enlightenment Desktop Environment there is no real interest from the Enlightenment developer in facilitating deployment of Enlightenment on an ISO or really in furthering it's usage popularity in general. He is a brilliant developer and has invested many years into Enlightenment with a relatively small number of major collaborators and his project is his prerogative and I have come to accept that for what it is. It is promising to me that Moksha is quite similar to Enlightenment and even more resource efficient and that it's developers are open to collaboration and keen to help with potential obstacles to deploying it so I am hopeful that this may be a good match but at the end of the day AV Linux needs to be a reliable workstation platform and until I have a few releases and lots of testing feedback under my belt it's too soon to commit to a future change.
MX Moksha custom theme to complement Bodhi's signature 'Moksha Green' look with a custom Skewaita GTK theme.
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MX Moksha with AVL's PipeWire, Yabridge/Wine-Staging setup by default.
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AVL's handy and File Manager agnostic Custom Actions are also included with Thunar as the default File Manager.
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KNOWN ISSUES:
- As with Enlightenment currently the keyboard settings are not carried through from the Live session to the Install.
- Non-English Users will need to manually set their Moksha keyboard setting from the keyboard applet on the Panel (shelf) once logged in to a fresh install.
*Keyboard setting will be worked on before a final release.
- Live boot has a several second delay from GRUB to the Moksha Desktop loading, this is expected and performance is normal once Desktop loads.
- Currently 1.X UI scaling in Moksha doesn't adjust GTK and Qt apps, this is being worked on, you may find 'DPI' scaling to work better in the meantime.
DOWNLOAD IS HERE:
https://downloads.bandshed.net/MX-MOKSHA/
Please post questions, issues and observations in this thread.
This is a preliminary RC Release to find bugs and incompatibility issues, I don't suggest this as a production system yet!
You can optionally add and test AV Linux DAW's, NLE's and Plugins from here:
https://bandshed.net/packages/AVL_MXe-23.X/
*DO NOT install packages from the 'SYSTEM_DEV' folder!
After many months of testing and consultation with developers ylee and the_waiter from Bodhi Linux I'm very happy to present the first RC1 Testing ISO for the Moksha Desktop Environment on MX Linux; MX Moksha "Out of Bodhi" RC1. As always credit, thanks and great appreciation to the MX Linux developers for the 'build-iso-mx' build system.
For those who are not aware Bodhi Linux is a unique, light and fast Linux Distribution that has carved out a popular niche with it's attractive 'Moksha' Desktop Environment which was forked from Enlightenment E17. For those acquainted with Enlightenment Moksha is quite familiar and has added it's own features, fixes and improvements to the original E17 base. E17 was Iconic for it's uniquely skeumorphic, textural and tactile appearance and Bodhi carries on in this vein as an attractive alternative to the current ubiquitous Flat theming trends. It seemed to me Bodhi's uniqueness and the robust stability and toolset of MX would make an excellent hybrid and I was very pleasantly surprised to receive not only a warm welcome from the Bodhi developers but also a helpful and collaborative spirit which had not really been my experience with Enlightenment. Bodhi had already made inroads to moving from a Ubuntu base to also supporting Debian with their recent 'deBodhi 7' release and with some help from ylee I was able to incorporate deBodhi with MX and produce a working build-iso template which has gotten things this far. Essentially this ISO is a Base release with the bare elements of Bodhi Linux 7 and it's Moksha Desktop Environment + MX Linux Tools, AHS Repo and Build system + AV Linux Tweaks, Utilities and File Actions. Other key differences are PipeWire by default and the solid Liquorix 6.6.12 Kernel.
An obvious question is probably how this relates to AV Linux and the answer is not yet known, there are Pros and Cons and as much as I love the 'pure' Enlightenment Desktop Environment there is no real interest from the Enlightenment developer in facilitating deployment of Enlightenment on an ISO or really in furthering it's usage popularity in general. He is a brilliant developer and has invested many years into Enlightenment with a relatively small number of major collaborators and his project is his prerogative and I have come to accept that for what it is. It is promising to me that Moksha is quite similar to Enlightenment and even more resource efficient and that it's developers are open to collaboration and keen to help with potential obstacles to deploying it so I am hopeful that this may be a good match but at the end of the day AV Linux needs to be a reliable workstation platform and until I have a few releases and lots of testing feedback under my belt it's too soon to commit to a future change.
MX Moksha custom theme to complement Bodhi's signature 'Moksha Green' look with a custom Skewaita GTK theme.
MX Moksha with AVL's PipeWire, Yabridge/Wine-Staging setup by default.
AVL's handy and File Manager agnostic Custom Actions are also included with Thunar as the default File Manager.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- As with Enlightenment currently the keyboard settings are not carried through from the Live session to the Install.
- Non-English Users will need to manually set their Moksha keyboard setting from the keyboard applet on the Panel (shelf) once logged in to a fresh install.
*Keyboard setting will be worked on before a final release.
- Live boot has a several second delay from GRUB to the Moksha Desktop loading, this is expected and performance is normal once Desktop loads.
- Currently 1.X UI scaling in Moksha doesn't adjust GTK and Qt apps, this is being worked on, you may find 'DPI' scaling to work better in the meantime.
DOWNLOAD IS HERE:
https://downloads.bandshed.net/MX-MOKSHA/
Please post questions, issues and observations in this thread.
This is a preliminary RC Release to find bugs and incompatibility issues, I don't suggest this as a production system yet!
You can optionally add and test AV Linux DAW's, NLE's and Plugins from here:
https://bandshed.net/packages/AVL_MXe-23.X/
*DO NOT install packages from the 'SYSTEM_DEV' folder!
Statistics: Posted by AVLinux — Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:13 pm