OpenRiot v7.2 — Drop the Needle
“Every desktop needs a soundtrack. Ours just got one.” — The OpenRiot Crew
Release Overview
v7.2 brings a full music player stack to OpenRiot. MPD runs the show in the background. rmpc — a Rust TUI client — gives you fast, keyboard-driven control without leaving the terminal.
The stack ships with a Neo Tokyo theme that matches the rest of the desktop. Launch it from rofi with Super+Shift+K, select Music Player, and your library is at your fingertips.
We also fixed a long-standing installer bug where the login.conf
sed command failed silently during initial setup. It now writes
through a temp file and rebuilds the database cleanly.
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Aura Gen 13 (Intel Arrow Lake-U) now has a dedicated support proposal document based on actual dmesg testing.
🧾 Files Changed
| File | Nature of Change |
|---|---|
config/applications/music-player.desktop |
New rmpc launcher |
config/bin/rmpc |
New binary (MPD TUI client) |
config/rmpc/themes/neo-tokyo.ron |
New rmpc color theme |
install/packages.yaml |
Added mpd, socat; added MPD/rmpc config generation |
| fixed login.conf sed; removed ncmpcpp, mpc | |
config/rofi/apps.txt |
Replaced ncmpcpp with rmpc |
config/rofi/simple-tokyonight.rasi |
Increased listview lines to 25 |
config/rofi/config.rasi |
Added row-count: 25 |
docs/ThinkPad-X1-Carbon.md |
New hardware support proposal |
🎵 What We’re Listening To
This release was tested against a library that includes 90’s Grunge-Rock, Alanis Morissette, Alkaline Trio, Barenaked Ladies, Beck, Bruce Springsteen, CAKE, Cat Stevens, Counting Crows, Cracker, Chris Isaak, Classic Rock, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, Dido, Ekoh, and an entire folder labeled “Cyberpunk” that may or may not contain synthwave. If MPD can handle that mix, it can handle yours.
🗣️ Final Words
“I have Beck, Bruce Springsteen, and a folder literally called ‘Cyberpunk’ on this machine. I also have Alkaline Trio, Counting Crows, Cat Stevens, and enough 90’s Grunge-Rock to fill a dorm room in 1994. Now I can actually play them without opening a browser.” — Same user, definitely
v7.2 is the release for people who still own their music. MPD keeps
the library indexed. rmpc keeps it fast. The Neo Tokyo theme keeps
it pretty. And the login.conf fix keeps the installer from choking
on a sed command that never should have been that complicated.
Whether your collection skews CAKE or Cracker, Alison Moyet or Ekoh, Chris Isaak or Audiobooks, it all lives in one place now. Hit Super+Shift+K and go find yourself some tunes.
— The OpenRiot Crew
“Your terminal just became a jukebox.”