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For questions concerning themes, desktops and icon sets as well as less graphical customization on a system level.

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Making an Ubuntu 22.04 based desktop and server distribution? [duplicate]

I am a beginner in Ubuntu. How can I make an Ubuntu 22.04 desktop and server based distribution?
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How to center KDE application launcher from latte dock?

The application launcher position doesn't match center screen. I use latte dock. Is there any way to center the launcher position?
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How to build a livecd without dev entry points for local hard drives

I'm trying to create a bootable USB key with "livecd" lubuntu distribution (lubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64) for a specific purpose: a restricted OS for students examinations. I'm almost done ...
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How to show ASCII art at the top of the terminal when it's opened?

As you can see on this screenshot of Mik's Guake he has a startup message of ASCII art when he opens it, and that's what I'd like to do, can someone help me?
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Installing ubuntu desktop without all the bloat

I am thinking of installing Ubuntu Server then from there install a desktop environment. Then I think ubuntu-desktop will not just include the desktop but other bloat too? How can I just get the GUI, ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 build ISO (Both: MBR and EFI )

In our company we use a modified Ubuntu installation ISO image. Since Ubuntu 22.04 has changed the structure of the installation image (ISOLINUX has been removed, in favor of GRUB2), I would need ...
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How to get cursor click effect?

I've seen videos like this one in which a effect appears when the user made a click. What I want it's just the effect only, I don't care the colour of the cursor. How can I make this effect when I do ...
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How to accomplish some tasks within cubic with the goal to create a custom Ubuntu image ready to Pass-Through an nvidia GPU

I'm trying to understand how to customize Ubuntu 22.04 to satisfy my needs and also because I want to re-distribute a version of Ubuntu ready for the users who wants to passthru their nvidia gpu ...
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How to create a custom column in folders

Is there a way to permanently create a custom column in folders? I want to create a column that specifies some properties of a file
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My question: Is Ubuntu free (even for commercial use)? [duplicate]

Is Ubuntu free to install, customize and use - even to perform commercial purposes by using other apps available on it?
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make custom iso of ubuntu

The one thing I want to do is customize Ubuntu to make my own ISO file installation, and one of the things I want to do is enable eno1 (my 1G interface) after installation! Do you know if this is ...
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How to change Gnome 42 window color

Gnome 42 dark mode is kinda too dark for me. But the light mode is too bright. Honestly can't see the UI elements properly because of my eye problem. Is there any way to change the color of the window ...
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Associate custom icons to specific extensions on Xubuntu/Xfce

First, sorry about my English btw and also sorry if a similar question has been asked before. Context: I've installed lutris to manage some windows games easily, in this case "osu!". There ...
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How to switch between customisation in xubuntu?

Xubuntu looks boring,but is highly customisable,I want to customise it like MAC OS from a youtube tutorial. I fear it might slow down the system to a bit. I want a way to switch between the default ...
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How to set custom shortcut involving only Left or Right Alt?

I am currently using ubuntu 22.04. I want to set a custom shortcut like <LEFT ALT> + Left/Right ----> to shift workspaces <Like a MAC> Whereas the <RIGHT ALT> must remain with all ...
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Creating a .desktop file for a new application

I just installed the lastest version of UGENE. I works fine but in order to use it, I have to enter the following in the terminal: cd ugene-1.11.5/ then execute ./ugene -ui to launch UGENE GUI. This ...
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Remove Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dock border

Is there a way to remove the border from the dock? (please see image reference) I tried with gsettings but didn't find any key or value that refers to that specific border. Any guess? Thanks for your ...
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How to change the orange hot corner theme to green, if I don't want to use Yaru-olive?

I changed the GTK theme to Orchis-green-dark, I have an orange theme when pressing ctrl to find my pointer, or at this activities hot corner: And I want to make them green, like in Yaru-olive, but I ...
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How to change desktop background from command line in Unity?

I have a script that updates my desktop background every day with the NASA APOD. Since upgrading to 11.10, that script stopped working, presumably because I'm using gconftool-2 to actually update the ...
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How to add dictionary lookup option to text selection in Ubuntu 22.04

I tried to look for some leads to add this option to Ubuntu 22.04 but couldn't find anything. I found a tutorial that worked on Ubuntu 18.04. But it was only a walk through on how to add a custom ...
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How do I remove the "X" button on the tabs in terminator?

I really like terminator, but it has one big drawback: Sometimes when I try to switch to another tab, I accidentally hit the "X" button on the right of the tab. Then that tab closes, and I ...
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Compress and Extract options in Thunar

Please anyone help me in creating Custom Options for Compress and Extract Here in Thunar File manager Please help me...
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Kubuntu unlock screen - keyboard trigger and auto-focus

I just switched from Ubuntu/Gnome to give Kubuntu/KDE a try. I often suspend/lock my system. The unlock screen when restarted from suspend seems to require a mouse event to trigger it so it displays ...
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Change icon on MATE main menu

How can I change the default logo icon to a custom icon by the applications menu in Ubuntu MATE without changing the theme?
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Grub customizer is not opening

1-Hello i just completely uninstalled windows from my computer. So the problem is when i restart my computer i always see dual boot menu , i found grub customize and downloaded it but its not opening ....
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Making bash prompt bold

My $PS1 variable is \[\033[36m\][\[\033[m\]\[\033[34m\]\u@\h\[\033[m\] \[\033[32m\]\W\[\033[m\]\[\033[36m\]]\[\033[m\] $ I wish to maintain the same colors and text but make the prompt appear in ...
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How to make date show day/month/year in numbers instead of letters and words?

At the moment, this is how the date and clock looks like in Ubuntu's top bar: In Estonian, "R" stands for "Reede" or "Friday", and "Juuli" means "July&...
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How to update the kernel for a live CD Linux image

I've a customized LiveCD image based on Ubuntu. It's a small image has just the required software to get the job done. The thing is that this image doesn't have modules for newer hardware such as a ...
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Can you change the desktop highlight colour in 20.04?

I know this question has been asked a couple of times, but none of the methods that I have seen work for 20.04 If there is a way to do it with the terminal, that would be good.
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Applications to arrange icons in folders like I arrange in desktop

Is there an application (or file manager) that changes the way files are organized in a way I can change the position of applications freely as I do in my desktop?
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Top bar/Panel customization orange line

I've been trying to customize the panel to my liking but I can't figure out how to remove or at least shorten the orange line that you see in the screenshot. enter image description here This is the ...
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How do I rice my Ubuntu Desktop?

I saw a few of the posts on r/unixporn with beautiful layouts and styled desktops with beautiful icons. While the only thing I have done is position my dock on the right lol. I recently had an issue ...
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Does XFCE allow transitions for panels and/or icons?

I want to know if XFCE can be configured to allow zooming/scaling of icons when the user hovers over them, similar to the effect(s) shown on a Mac dock. Also, I wonder if my left panel (of course ...
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Remove purple colour from GDM on Ubuntu 21.10

I have removed the Ubuntu purple colour from gdm with some command I don't remember in the past and it returned after upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10. I tried: sudo update-alternatives --config gdm3.css to ...
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Where can I change the keyboard shortcuts that open control panels in Kubuntu?

I recently installed Regolith Desktop to use alongside Kubuntu Desktop. I really like it, but unfortunately some KDE/Plasma settings are spilling over into Regolith. One thing that is bothering me is ...
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How to access full file system in cubic?

I recently tried to use the custom Ubuntu ISO image creator, cubic, and was very happy when I was met with a full terminal. But to my dismay, I could not access the full filesystem(Var, Tmp, share, ...
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how to define a variable in .bashrc so i can use it as path

Hi ( sorry for my bad English ) I just learned how to permanently set a key for a specific value using alias: .bashrc alias please='sudo' alias go='cd' alias destroy='rm -rf' And it works perfectly ...
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Customze shortcuts of Chrome profile on the desktop (Ubuntu 20.04)

I'm using different profiles for the Chrome browser and created shortcuts on the desktop (in Ubuntu 20.04). However, I'm trying to customize the icon and description of each shortcut. At the moment I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 boot logo image directoy

I would like to change this default ubuntu logo But I can't find it. I tried to change /usr/share/plymouth/ubuntu-logo.png But that is the image on the login screen. Can you tell me how to change ...
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No plank configuration file

I want to manually customize my plank dock but when I go to the plank directory, looking for the settings file, I only find the launchers directory, and not what I'm looking for. I already searched on ...
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How to customise GNOME Terminal's context menu?

I want to customize the context menu of my terminal (gnome-terminal), and add some custom-made plugins shortcuts. How can I customize this? (I had to take picture from phone because I couldn't take a ...
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Troubles with custom bash prompt

I am trying to set a custom bash prompt to also include history line count and time in 24h format, both in different colors, aside from a standard user@host prompt. I have seen this post Custom bash ...
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Get applications to display behind the taskbar

I just installed ubuntu and I'm trying customize it a bit and I have a question. How do you get applications to display behind the taskbar? I will elaborate. screenshot of desktop; i am not allowed to ...
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How to add padding/margin to Lubuntu applcation menu

I've just installed Lubuntu 21.10 and I'm trying to get it more pleasant to look at. How can I add more padding around the applications in the application menu? Everything is packed in tight. I'd like ...
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Is it possible to switch lxpanel to Bspwm panel without install the full Bspwm?

I am running ubuntu 18.04 with lxde, is it possible?
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How do I do a minimal install so I can customize Ubuntu?

I'd like to use Minimal ISO (or something similar) to assemble my Ubuntu distro. It's okay, however I don't know how to set the name of the distribution and how to update it properly without errors or ...
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Struggling configuring LightDM

I've been trying to customize my lock screen for a while now but I'm running some issues now. I' running Ubuntu 21.10. I installed LightDm with "sudo apt install lightdm" but everytime I ...
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Is there a tool to quickly create custom keyboard layouts for international keyboard, greek and unicode math?

Is there a tool to quickly create custom keyboard layouts? For example to achieve this: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/86559/1871 Producing Unicode characters in secondary layers, but based on US ...
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Running Kubuntu on 2 -1 tablet (Dell Latitude 5175)

After a long uphill battle to get linux running on my tablet I finally decided to write here. I am trying to run a stable linux distro on my 2 in 1 tablet with touchscreen functionality and all the ...
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How to make terminal's font smaller?

I suddenly noticed, fonts of my ubuntu terminal got bigger. I don't know how. How to set it to default ? thank you in advance, Ubuntu 20.04

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