Bodhi Linux 7.0 alpha

Do you know how to play them in browser?  I tried in both firefox and chrome and was told to try another browser:

But download and play of course works fine.

Everything appears to be behaving "normally" in your video.  The bodhi background has a barely barely visible honeycomb, I have to angle myself just right to be able to see it.  Maybe people with real high quality monitors sitting in the dark can see it normally. The other backgrounds seem to work fine too...

As to transparency slider, that only works right when you have a compositor enabled, otherwise it does what you showed, somewhere below 20% just goes full transparent and weird.  You're right that a new user would be confused at this behavior tho - maybe we could request terminology developers to add a warning if one tries to enable transparancy without compositor enabled as a QOL improvement....

Anyways, to enable compositing, install and load "moksha-module-comptonmod".  In addition to allowing transparency to work in apps that support it like terminology, by default some menu transparency and other visual effects are enabled.  They are configurable with a text file or by installing "compton-conf" window effects gui, or if you just want transparency and no special effects, unload the module (and delete any .config/compton.conf ) and just run "picom" (under accessories - or put it in startup apps like I do).

sudo apt install moksha-module-comptonmod compton-conf

Your video shows unexpected behavior.  I'll try to replicate and post an update shortly...
edit: I've tried and tried, I can't replicate that behavior.  Mine always changes immediately upon Apply.

The 3D Monochrome screenshot gadget is cool looking, but doesn't match the others.

The CPU% still is a tiny bit hard to read.  Maybe make the font bright and bold (like the battery % gadget) so its easy to see?

@enigma and Stefan 'The Waiter'

Thank you for having a look at that so quickly.

Yes, the videos have got to be downloaded, and watching them in a browser does not really work.

I installed BL 7 alpha 5 - and I can reproduce the issue with the wallpaper on a second computer of mine (which is a modern and fast one on comparison to the 12 year old one you could watch in te videos).

However, I checked again the original ISO, and it works there! No problem at all with changing a wallpaper there.

I am really not an expert with coding or programming or even unerstanding exactly how computers work. So my (uneducate) guess is that something must have gone with a programme that I installed later.

At the moment I am playing around a lot with the new Bodhi. I will install BL7 alpha 5 again - and then install all the programmes. I have got a list of all the things I want to install and will see then when and if I can reproduce that strange behaviour with the wallpaper section. After each step I will check whether there is a change in the background and wallpaper behaviour or not.

However, I will need some days before I can find the time to do that. Lots of things to do in real life.

Let's say ... you should hear something from me by next Sunday. Until then you really shouldn't spent too much time on my minor problem. After all the new Bodhi works on the whole almost perfectly for me. The only issue I could complain about is (one more time) wine which seems to have lost wine32 somehow. But that is nothing you could do anything about.

Greetings from Germany

Kari Suolainen

Here's an issue I think will need to be resolved, but not sure of solution: the ubuntu steam package won't install! It's dependencies depends on "libelf1:i386" but installing that wants to remove moksha.   

(This brings to mind a youtube content creator named Linus who removed his desktop while installing steam during a livestream video or something, even typing the "yes i really wanna do this").

I messed around a bit trying to understand or find a way around it, and I think it's related to version mismatches with jammy-backports.  If I manually install libelf1:i386 from jammy-backports, then steam will install correctly.

So one solution is to set jammy-backports priority so that everything installs from there by default:

Alternatively we could just do it for the specific packages steam needs instead of *.  

But I think doing everything is better.  Ubuntu 22.04 is already a year old and it's not like there's tons of stuff in backports anyway, but we may as well have the newer stuff by default.  Maybe something else besides steam will need backported dependencies so enabling everything by default could prevent additional unexpected problems.  Although I guess technically there is some possible minor disadvantage which is why Ubuntu chooses not to enable by default for their users, see  help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports