V2023.8.1-rc1

A more roundish Cavalier 🟠

Tired of existing 6 drawing modes? Well, now there are 11, because every mode except Splitter got Circle variant! We also fixed the issue that caused incorrect drawing with display scaling enabled, and added a cute easter egg 👀

Changelog 📃

• All drawing modes except Splitter now have Circle variants
• Added an easter egg (run the program with --help to find how to activate it)
• Fixed an issue where the app wasn't drawing correctly with >100% display scaling
• Added welcome screen that is shown on start until any sound gets detected
• Added Cairo backend that can be used in case of problems with OpenGL. To activate, run the program with environment variable CAVALIER_RENDERER=cairo
• CAVA was updated to 0.9.0
• Pipewire is now used as default input method, you can still change back to Pulse Audio using environment variable CAVALIER_INPUT_METHOD=pulse
• Updated translations (Thanks everyone on Weblate!)

Also compared to previous beta:

• All known issues in Circle modes were fixed
• Added ability to rotate in Circle modes and set offsets for drawing area

A Message To Translators 🌎️

A stable release is planned for Friday August 11. Please have all translations updated before then to be included in the release :)

Install 🧑‍💻

GNOME

Flathub

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub-beta org.nikvision.cavalier
flatpak run org.nickvision.cavalier//beta

Snap

sudo snap install cavalier --candidate

AUR

The cavalier-git package

Manually

• Download the org.nickvision.cavalier-x64.flatpak file from the assets below
• Run flatpak install org.nickvision.cavalier-x64.flatpak from the directory containing the .flatpak file
• Run flatpak run org.nickvision.cavalier//master to start the app! (You should also see it in your app grid)