Questions that relate to the appearance of Ubuntu. If the question relates to a comprehensive changing of appearance please use the themes tag.
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desktop does not refresh after login [closed]
After upgrading to 13.04, I cannot change the desktop image. It is frozen along with the login screen. Please see the screen shot to understand:
How can I correct this?
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“Appearance” icon has vanished from “System Settings” [duplicate]
I have been using gnome-shell for a few months. I was able to configure it using "tweak tool" and "background".
Now I've just migrated to Unity, but "Change Desktop Background" (comes from right-click ...
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Why does my Xubuntu LibreOffice looks ugly?
My LibreOffice installation looks like Windows 95. The rest of my Xubuntu looks okay. Why? How can I fix it?
Click on the image for a full-resolution picture.
On the screenshot Leafpad and ...
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Gnome theme background color is black
I'm having a problem with my default Gnome 3.6.0 setup on 12.10. I used to create themes in Gnome 2 and Gnome 3.0, but I'm at loss to explain why my theme is black in the background. This problem is ...
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Where is my desktop background? [closed]
After upgrading my Ubuntu laptop from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 I "lost" the background wallpaper.
The background is completely black. It stays the same regardless of the wallpaper I select.
It ...
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Konsole appearance. Directories in mounted NTFS partition and home directory
I see that directories in mounted NTFS partition and in my $HOME look different. How to make directories from the NTFS partition look like the directories from my $HOME?
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How to improve GUI and font appearance of programs installed under CrossOver?
This can be done in Wine but can it be done in CrossOver?
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How to auto hide the panel on the left? (Unity) [closed]
In Ubuntu there is panel on the left, Unity. One can easily change settings so that it hides automatically and appears only if the mouse cursor hits the left border of the screen (this is what I did). ...
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How can I make Unity dock notifications more visible? [duplicate]
By default dock icons of applications where something is going on have a very faint glow effect. Is there any way to make them stand out more? Like jump around, have a colored arrow or something like ...
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'Appearance' icon not showing in 'System Settings'
I am facing a very peculiar problem, the 'Appearance' icon in 'System settings' has disappeared and now I cannot change the background or control the unity. Any ideas how to get it back?
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Appearance icon has disappeared from system settings menu
I go to system settings and appearance is gone. I tried searching it in the dash and it is not there. When I right click the desktop and select "Change background" the system settings window opens. I ...
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How to adjust text color, contrast in ALL system features & apps?
Why is there no system directory where a person might access all system utilities, like background, text size, color, etc. Must I download a separate utility for everything?
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Does the use of custom themes and icon sets increases the use of system resources in Ubuntu/Lubuntu?
It is clear that visual effects take their load on system resources (and while choosing Lubuntu/LXDE to stay light, the use of effects like compositing and so on doesn't make sense).
But what about ...
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Appearance of applications: how to get wide character fonts on KDE?
I have to help a person, using KDE 4.9.3, and I'm not an expert on KDE.
He has not a good sight, so I grew up the character fonts on the system (from the KDE configuration tool), so he is satisfied ...
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How to properly have a theme that is not completely dark but has dark menus in Lubuntu 12.10?
I do not like full-dark themes in Lubuntu, but I like dark menus.
In Lubuntu 12.04 was using one theme that was called Mediteranean Ligh if I remember well that was like that.
A similar question ...
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How to change Empathy appearance in 12.10?
Since I updated to Quantal, I cannot modify Empathy's appearance. In particular,
I want Empathy to shows just the names and status icons of my contacts, without avatars and other stuff.
In the ...
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Modify the Wine scollbar handle
I regularly use a windows pdf viewer through wine.
When I need to scroll a lot, I would normally grab the scroll handle and drag it. However for large files, the scroll handle is very small. It ...
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Improve GUI appearance of Wine applications
In many cases Windows programs run ok in Wine, but there is still the annoying problem of their appearance.
How to make things look better in Wine, especially fonts?
P.S. feel free to edit this ...
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Appearance dialog doesn't work in 12.04 Unity
When I open Settings - Appearance, there are two problems:
I selected color (non-wallpaper) background, and is shown as current background. However, the desktop background does not change.
There is ...
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A lot of `gtk-warnings` in terminal. Is this serious?
I had a lot of problems with my system and had to reinstall it. One of them was these very messages. After reinstalling the system and using the same icons, I get the warnings again and am wary of ...
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make gnome3 to work as I expect! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to revert to GNOME Classic?
I don't like unity so I tried Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10. But I feel disappointed too.
- No right click on desktop. (I know there is a way ...
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How to adjust the appearance of the Unity in 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I configure Unity?
Now I updated to 12.10 and would like to adjust the desktop, well unity, appearance.
I know there is the theme setting, but I cannot adjust ...
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How can I modify the knetworkmanager icon in my kde taskbar?
I am using kubuntu 12.04 Precise 64 on my notebook. Almost everything works fine.
I would like to modify the colors of the icon(s) used by knetworkmanager to indicate wifi online.
Right now, I am ...
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Where is the list with the wallpapers (shown in the appearance window) stored?
When trying to add wallpapers from previous Ubuntu versions & those I found on the internet (following these instructions), I somehow messed up the list of wallpapers included in the appearance ...
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How to configure Ubuntu?
I cannot find a place like control panel in Windows where I can configure Ubuntu. I would be delighted to find where to configure the system. And by the way, how to use the configure Ubuntu according ...
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How do I restore the original color scheme, icons, and theme?
I'd like the original colour scheme, icon style of 12.04.
I somehow lost the Ambiance theme (possible error or upgrade error).
I re-installed 'light-themes' from the terminal and got it back.
But ...
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How do I change my desktop theme from grey bars to black bars?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.1 and I have just installed the official Nvidia driver. now every time I log in, any gnome based desktop replacement (like unity or cinnamon) doesn't start correctly. It ...
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How do I configure background transparency for KDE's terminal?
I got installed kde-plasma desktop but I didn't figured out how to set transparency for kde terminal . I know about gnome terminal that , it will be at preference but I didn't get it here in kde for ...
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Is it possible to make Firefox look like in Windows in Lubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I change the Firefox menu to look like the Firefox menu in Windows?
I guess that does not make sense in Unity, because it has a special way of changing the ...
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Why is the gnome 3 lock screen not displaying?
I installed gnome 3 recently and was expecting the new lock screen, but when I lock the screen I'm displayed with the 'old' version:
How do I get the lock screen to appear like the one displayed ...
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Can I make Nautilus look better in Lubuntu 12.04?
I mean that PCManFM and Thunar follow my theme:
Nautilus does not:
I have to add that I do not want to change my present theme. And I guess that is the problem, as it does not have a gtk3 ...
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How to reverse colors for the current window in gnome shell?
I dislike that most websites use a black font on white background for their sites, as it gets too tiresome for me to read.
Back in the days of 11.04, using Gnome2 with compiz, there actually was a ...
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What happened to my launcher icon size slider in Settings>Appearance and how can I get it back? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change the size of Unity 2D launcher icons?
When I first installed 12.04 LTS, only a week ago I had access to at least two cool features:
(1) the orange box ...
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how to change color of the login screen? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change the LightDM theme/greeter?
I am trying to figure out how to change the color of the login screen. I have found a recipe somewhere that suggests sudo cp ...
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12.04 wholly dark Ambiance theme?
I got my first partition of Ubuntu recently, and wanted to match it to a 10 or 11 interface I was using on another computer. It looked like this:
Themes in 12.04 seem to be rather tricky though. ...
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How to make popup volume bar linear instead of pixely box?
I used to have a nice sleek-looking linear popup volume slider bar like this:
Now I have a pixelly volume slider box whenever I change the volume on my keyboard:
How do I change my pop-up ...
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How to tell which image file is being used as Wallpaper in Wallch
I've just installed Wallch, and it's working wonderfully. I have set the program to cycle a huge number of images all within a folder on my computer. There are so many images that I've forgotten ...
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System appearance changed after recompiling GSettings schemas
A program I was installing required me to recompile my GSettings schemas. I noticed that after that, the appearance of some programs has changed.
Applications using GTK+ 2 don't use the system theme ...
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Problems with unity appearence
Maybe the appearance window is completely messed up. Until yesterday i wasn't able to change the desktop background.
After trying unity --reset, the desktop background was changeable but now themes ...
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How do I make my desktop look like Windows 7 or 8? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an Ubuntu theme available to make it look like Windows 7?
I'm wondering if there is a Windows 7 GTK theme to download out there?
Or maybe a Windows 8 theme?
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Where can I adjust the font size of Java programs to match the system fonts?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and started to install some Java based programs. None of them uses my system fonts. I have set my system fonts to 175% font size to make them readable for my eyes but all Java ...
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Missing tabs on taskbar
I got shifted to a new workstation shortly. The system is using Ubuntu 11.04 - the Natty Narwhal - released in April 2011 and supported until October 2012. I found the bottom taskbar missing in it. I ...
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Installed 12.04, have no user interface, only the wallpaper backcground [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears
I recently tried to update my desktop to 12.04- I was actually still using 9.10, so I've gone through the update ...
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Can you change the look of 12.04 to that of 11.10?
Can you change the way Ubuntu 12.04 looks so that the menu systems look like those from 11.10?
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I have Ubuntu 11.10 and for no apparent reason my sidebar suddenly will not hide, how can I reverse this?
I have Ubuntu 11.10 and for no apparent reason my sidebar suddenly will not hide, I did not go into system settings or anything like that. I googled this, but everything I found had me downloading ...
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Why is my terminal invisible after minimizing it and how can I find it?
I minimized my terminal after doing a repo sync.
I cant find it on any desktop now! Please help.
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How to remove the rounded menu items from a theme?
I've just spent quite a while theming ambiance to make it more flat and all around more to my taste, but I've just come across a problem above my capabilities : rounded menuitems
The menu on the ...
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Fix messed up themes in 12.04
I recently updated to Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 and lots of the themes I have look messed up. They either have black backgrounds where it should be white or the text becomes white to match the backgrounds, ...
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How can I change the folder icon?
I know how to change an icon this way. Also that doesn't work for folders inside Nautilus, but for application launchers.
What I'm looking for is an equivalent to changing the icon for an ...
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How do you enable wobbly windows in ubuntu 11.04 without using compiz?
I'm curious if there's a way to enable the more fun UI features in Ubuntu 11.04 that were available in previous versions. The effects I'm most curious about is the wobbly windows and the alt tab ...
