Custom Fedora Atomic Image for Desktops and Laptops. This image ships the Niri Window Manager. I have tried to make it as easy to use out of the box as possible.
Note: I do not have images for Nvidia. I may add them if there is demand.
This is an image that is built on the work of Universal Blue and Fedora Atomic.
The Containerfile is built directly off of base-main.
This image is very beta and is changing rapidly. I will hopefully make it more general purpose in the future, but for now it is very much a personal image.
If you want images designed for general consumption, I suggest using Bazzite or Bluefin from the Universal Blue project.
These are the features included in my image!
The full list of rpm packages can be found in install_packages.sh.
The full list of flatpaks can be found in mordor_flatpaks
The image is built out of several components to create a cohesive desktop experience. The main components are:
The default configuration files are in the /etc/skel directory except for the niri configuration file which is in /etc/niri.
The window manager! It is a scrolling window manager which makes it unique among tiling window managers.
The Niri configuration file is located at /etc/niri/config.kdl. This file contains the default configuration for the Niri window manager. You can customize it to your liking. The main thing you will likely want to change is either keybindings or display settings. Information for this can be found in the Niri documentation.
The default terminal emulator. It is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator that is fast and lightweight.
The default configuration files are located at /etc/skel/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml and /etc/skel/.config/alacritty/catppuccin-mocha.toml and will be copied into your home directory. Do not edit these files directly. Instead, copy them to your home directory and edit them there. The default theme is Catppuccin Mocha, but you can change it to any theme you like. The Alacritty documentation has more information on how to customize your configuration.
Fuzzel is a lightweight, fast, and highly customizable application launcher. It is used to launch applications and switch between them.
The default configuration file is located at /etc/skel/.config/fuzzel/fuzzel.ini and will be copied into your home directory. Do not edit this file directly. Instead, copy it to your home directory and edit it there. The Fuzzel documentation has more information on how to customize your configuration.
Mako is a notification daemon that is designed to be simple and fast. It is used to display notifications from applications.
The default configuration file is located at /etc/skel/.config/mako/config and will be copied into your home directory. Do not edit this file directly. Instead, copy it to your home directory and edit it there. The Mako documentation has more information on how to customize your configuration.
Swaylock is a screen locker. It is used to lock the screen when you are away from your computer.
The default configuration file is located at /etc/skel/.config/swaylock/config and will be copied into your home directory. Do not edit this file directly. Instead, copy it to your home directory and edit it there. The Swaylock documentation has more information on how to customize your configuration.
Waybar is a highly customizable status bar for Wayland compositors. It is used to display system information, notifications, and other information in a bar at the top of the screen.
The default configuration file is located at /etc/skel/.config/waybar/config.jsonc and the default style files are located at /etc/skel/.config/waybar/style.css and /etc/skel/.config/waybar/mocha.css. Both will be copied into your home directory. Do not edit these files directly. Instead, copy them to your home directory and edit them there. The Waybar documentation has more information on how to customize your configuration.
I do not enable cockpit by default as I use this image on my laptop as well.
Cockpit is not installed in the traditional way it normally is on Fedora Workstation. It must be run in a container. You can still run it as a service on boot, but the install method is different.
Here are the steps required:
- Run the Cockpit web service with a privileged container (as root):
podman container runlabel --name cockpit-ws RUN quay.io/cockpit/ws
- Make Cockpit start on boot (as root):
podman container runlabel INSTALL quay.io/cockpit/ws
systemctl enable cockpit.service
The full documentation for cockpit can be found here.
If you do decide you want to try my image, you will want to rebase from Fedora Kinoite (or Silverblue) using this command:
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/noelmiller/mordor:latestAfter rebase, you will need to run the command below to install all flatpaks that are shipped with Mordor:
ujust _install-mordor-flatpaksI would recommend creating a new user after the rebase because there are several files in /etc/skel that you will want in your home directory. The other option is just to copy the files from /etc/skel into your home directory. You will specifically want the .config directory.
These images are signed with sigstore's cosign. You can verify the signature by downloading the cosign.pub key from this repo and running the following command:
cosign verify --key cosign.pub ghcr.io/noelmiller/mordorThe contributors at Universal Blue and Fedora are amazing. This image would not exist without the incredible work they do every day!