Package repository of Moksha for Artix Linux as well as Arch and derivatives.
Updated for the 2024 release
All credits for Moksha go to the developers of Moksha.
Moksha is a fork of Enlightenment release E17, and focuses on stability and low resource usage. It is developed for Bodhi Linux, but can also be used on other distributions.
In 2010 the Moksa fork was created to get more focus on quality and stability. Also the resulting Window Manager and Desktop Envrionment were integrated with a Ubuntu distribution. This became the Moksha Desktop Environment on Bodhi Linux
Moksha is known as a Window Manager but provides most of the functionality found in much more resource-hungry Desktop Environments. You could say that it straddles the line between a Window Manager and a Desktop Environment.
Moksha is written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), and remains in active development to this day.
Two ideals and qualities of Moksha are:
Moksha for Artix Linux has been built completely from source on Artix Linux.
Random desktops can look like this (click on image for full size): [[Attach:moksha-for-artix.png Δ|Attach:moksha-for-artix.png Δ ]] [[Attach:moksha-for-artix-2.png Δ|Attach:moksha-for-artix-2.png Δ ]]
Moksha for Artix has 3 menu items for getting help:
To install Moksha add the following to the /etc/pacman.conf file:
[moksha] Server = https://omniverse.artixlinux.org/$arch/moksha2024test
Moksha can be installed using:
pacman -Sy moksha
This will also install packages moksha-help, moksha-menu and moksha-arandr, where the last one is required for setting up and saving the display configuration as explained below.
There a are two additional package groups available:
These are the modules with which Moksha's functionallity can be extended. These can be installed separately or all using:
sudo pacman -Sy moksha-modules-extra
A desription of all modules can be found here https://www.bodhilinux.com/softwaregroup/modules/
These are the themes for Moksha, and can be installed separately or all together using:
sudo pacman -Sy moksha-themes
Moksha integrates nicely with eg. LightDM. To use this install eg. lightdm, lightdm-runit/openrc/s6/suite66/dinit and lightdm-gtk-greeter, or as alternative for lightdm-gtk-greeter install and set up lightdm-slick-greeter, eg:
sudo pacman -Sy lightdm lightdm-runit lightdm-gtk-greeter
and enable and start the lightdm service
It is also possible to start Moksha by inserting command 'enlightenment_start' in file .xinitrc and running command 'startx'.
Install acpid and its service for power events, laptop lid events and backlight, eg.:
sudo pacman -Sy acpid-runit
enable and start the acpid service.
Enlightenment and Moksa have their own terminal emulator called Terminology which can be installed from the terminology package. It has no scrollbar but a mini view instead, and does have a lot of features: https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology
Important! The Mixer module should only be enabled when Pulse Audio is installed and active. It should not be used with Pipewire audio, even if pipewire-pulse is enabled; this will eventually result in a frozen desktop. For Pipewire audio eg. the pasystray package can be installed and used, together with pavucontrol.
Moskha on Artix can be used with elogind and seatd.
Moskha on Artix can be used with all init system supported by Artix.
By moving the mouse over the Main Menu items you get to sub-menus, and mousing over these may lead to further sub-menus (sub-menus may sometimes 'disappear' off the right of the screen; if this happens simply move the mouse pointer to the right edge of the screen and the menus will shift to the left).
These can be enabled in the Applcations section of the Settings menu.
To specify commands and scripts to be executed when Moksha starts, these need to be inserted in file .e/e/applications/startup/startupcommands as eg.:
conky -p 1 -d | \ picom
Note: The pipe symbol '|' is needed to separate commands in this file
Depending on the init system that is being used, specific arguments have to be set for the shutdown and reboot commands. This is done in file: /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf which is updated automatically by pacman.
# ENLIGHTENMENT SYSTEM ACTIONS CONFIGURATION # # ... # # shutdown and reboot commands commands for dinit: action: halt /sbin/shutdown -p action: reboot /sbin/shutdown -r
Note: When switching to another init system, these commands might need to be updated.
When using multiple screens it can be usefull to set up the login screen identical to what is used and saved for the session. For LightDM this can be done as follows:
The Print-Screen key starts the Shot module which can be use as a simple sreenshot tool. Package moksha-modules-screenshot can be installed to obtain the Screenshot module which has more features. Once this module has been enabled it is available as a systray iocn. It uses the emprint program which can also be called directly using eg: emprint --region screenshot`date "+T"`.png for which eg. a keybinding can be created.
The configuration files for the Moksha modules are in binary format. For each module up to 10 numbered versions are stored in directory:
~/.e/e/config/default/<module>
To make a complete backup of the Moksha configuration setup, simply copy directories ~/e and ~/.elementary
When downgrading, file /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf might be overwritten, so backup this file as well.
In case a reboot or shutdown results in a hanging popup showing "Resetting", most probably the reboot or shutdown command is incorrectly set in file /usr/etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf
In case application windows start rapidly alternating focus, in the Settings Panel for Windows / Windows Display, select Allow windows partly/completely out of visual screen limits.
Maintainer: artist for Artix Linux
Last update: 27 Jul 2024
