Questions tagged [appearance]
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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How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow?
How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow with my own set of images?
With the images coming from a pictures folder, or pre-selected
With the images displayed in order, or randomly
With the ...
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How do I get and install more themes, icons, and pointers?
I've downloaded some nice themes, icon packages, and pointers from sites like gnome-look. Now what do I do? Where else can I get these kinds of things?
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How do I change the "Selected Items" color?
I was trying to change the selected items color from the default orange to something else, however, the option isn't there, as it used to be in the Appearance properties in previous versions of ubuntu....
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Conky Guides (links)
I want to take a stab at creating my own layouts for conky, but I'm having trouble finding any recent guides.
If you know of any, I would be grateful if you could post some links.
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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 to install themes with GNOME tweak tool?
I have been using the default Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity for some time now and decided to start customizing it.
I have already been able to make some changes with the gnome-tweak-tool. However, there ...
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Where can I get themes and eye-candy for my desktop?
Apart from those themes in the repository and Gnome-look.org, are there other places to get themes for my Ubuntu Desktop?
Also, are there any 3rd party repositories of themes and other eye-candy?
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Use video file as a screensaver?
I want to make my video to be a screensaver.
Is there any software to make it?
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Why is my terminal invisible after minimizing it and how can I find it? [duplicate]
I minimized my terminal after doing a repo sync.
I cant find it on any desktop now! Please help.
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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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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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Increase the highlighted button bezel thickness (GNOME)
Is there any way to increase the visibility (e.g. thickness, contrast or colour) of bezel that surrounds the highlighted (aka selected) button in gnome window?
TBH sometimes it is barely visible in ...
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How can I change the folder icon in Nautilus with a command?
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 application ...
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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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How do I disable Compiz in the Ubuntu Classic session?
I would like to disable Compiz in Natty (Ubuntu Classic). I have tried to access this through System > Preferences > Appearance but the "Visual Effects" tab is no longer there.
On previous releases ...
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Why does my Xubuntu LibreOffice look 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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How can I install different icons? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get and install more themes, icons, and pointers?
I often find myself seeing new icons but I am unable to install them.
How do you install icons on Ubuntu? Can ...
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Ubuntu dock icons show as black and white, it doesn't look right
My Ubuntu Looks Like This:
Why are the icons showing up as black and white?
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How do I change Ubuntu's GUI?
Recently I installed a program to change Ubuntu's desktop but it went bad, so I uninstalled it but the GUI then had debris and stuff all around.
I had to reinstall Ubuntu completely. How do I change ...
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Ubuntu 20.04: Can't find basic application menu on the dock and appearance menu in settings
Application menu which is usually found on the leftmost bottom containing all the system and installed applications is missing after the update.
The theme is by default set to bright white one and ...
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What audio players can use winamp skins?
My favorite player is DeaDBeeF - but I am curious whether I can use Winamp skins in a player for Ubuntu.
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How to change desktop icon text background color?
How do I change the background color of desktop text in 11.10. I used gnome color chooser in version 10.04, but it's not working in Ubuntu 11.10. Is there any way to solve this?
Also, by default ...
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Appearance, Online accounts disappeared in System Settings in Ubuntu 13.10
I was installing some apps and icons then I noticed that there were about 4 games installed, so I went to the Software Centre to remove them. Then I wanted to add my Facebook account to Online ...
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How can I make the window buttons in the panel match the window buttons in the window decorations?
When the Ambiance GTK theme is selected in Applications ▸ Appearance ▸ Customize ▸ Controls, the window buttons in the panel match the window buttons of the Ambiance Metacity theme's window ...
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Upgraded to 11.04 and now most of the UI is gray and boxy
I just upgraded to 11.04, and now most UI elements are gray and crappy looking (see screenshot).
When I first log in, the panel looks black (as Ambiance theme is supposed to look), but then after a ...
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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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Google desktop logo looks bad
The Google Desktop icon in the system tray in Unity looks ugly:
Any way around this?
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Reset the icons after upgrade
I've noticed screenshots of 10.10 with these rather cooler looking square icons. However when I upgraded my machines I didn't receive and icon upgrade. Is this because it wasn't a fresh install and is ...
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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 ...
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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 folder ...
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Visually recognise active window
Ubuntu 13.04
I work with two monitors, usually with lots of different windows open.
I don't like to use the mouse, so swap between applications using alt-tab usually.
The problem comes when I want ...
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Is the desktop gradient gone in 18.04?
I cannot figure out how to make a desktop gradient in 18.04 (upgraded from 16.04, and there it was simply in the settings, but seems to be gone in 18.04 :-(( THANKS!
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Brightness wont change
I tried changing the brightness but it won't dim or brighten using keys or going under applications, it just stays the same.
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After upgrading to 22.04 LTS icons seem broken
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and when I upgraded, the first thing I noticed was that the icons looked broken, as shown in the screenshot below:
I'm in an Xorg session and I tried to change the icons ...
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Icons are uncentered in taskbar buttons in Lxpanel
I use Lxpanel 0.10.1 on Ubuntu 21.04. The taskbar is set to show icons only, but as seen below the icons are not centered in the buttons, but displaced to the left.
Is there any way to make then ...
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Rounded corners of windows
I know that this feature is already in Ubuntu since few version but I didn't saw it in any version of Ubuntu. I'm using regular Ambience window style but I can't set rounded corners. All windows look ...
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