For questions concerning themes, desktops and icon sets as well as less graphical customization on a system level.
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Why do most window managers fail to show a custom cursor correctly?
Please note: I am not so much looking for a fix, as there doesn't seem to be one.
However, I want to know why most Window managers ignore my choice of cursor theme and show the default cursor no ...
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1answer
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Increase launcher and applet spacing on the Gnome Classic panel
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.1 with Gnome Classic. I added some launchers on the top panel, but they are placed too tightly (also take a look at separators, they aren't really separate anything):
Can I ...
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Run tasks after requesting a shut down
I have a small internet cafe with 7-9 Ubuntu 12.04 workstations. Unfortunately, I can't be there every week.
I've seen a Java solution to upgrade the system, after a normal (non-sudo/admin) user ...
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1answer
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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: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/86559/1871
Producing Unicode characters in secondary layers, but based on US ...
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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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How to change default ubiquity mount point to /
During Installation Ubuntu asks for mount point of partitions in a drop down combo-box. I want to remaster it and change the Installation Distro so that, the default option for the combo-box should be ...
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1answer
203 views
How to get Ubuntu Netbook Edition Unity layout layout in 12.04
I saw this article and liked the layout of Unity. I would like to have it on my Precise 64bit.
Also I want to keep my current settings, switching back to them whenever I want to.
How can I do that?
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2answers
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Adding a GRUB2 background image and custom font
I am trying to use grub-customizer to add a custom background image and use the Ubuntu Condensed font. The preview looks fine:
But when I actually boot up, I get a messed-up configuration. The ...
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Login Screen Background
I changed the Login Screen Background picture using ubuntu-tweak. It worked!
However, after a second reboot, the picture does not appear... well, it shows up for a mili-seconds, and after that the ...
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2answers
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How can I create a “built-in” color scheme for GNOME Terminal?
GNOME Terminal has a few built-in color schemes:
How can I add more to this list?
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1answer
236 views
Adding a Wine (.exe) file to open/play files in Thunar's 'Custom Actions'
What is the line parameter in Thunar's "custom actions" that would play a music directory in a Wine (.exe) program?
I want to put Foobar2000 (and possibly other such applications) in Thunar's Custom ...
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How do I reposition Conky?
I successfully installed the "Gotham" Conky on my 12.04 desktop using these instructions
It works perfectly, positioned in the top-right side of my desktop, and I am happy every day of the week ...
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Is there a monokai-like theme for Bluefish?
I been trying to modify the looks of this editor but I can't get the same colors from the monokai theme in other editors like Notepad++ and sublimetext.
Is there a config file or something I can use? ...
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Can I customize only an application's indicator icon?
Can I change this Easystroke icon:
but not change this one?
I'm interested the general answer for any application, not one that is specific to Easystroke.
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How to use Smyck-Color-Scheme
There is a newly developed color scheme for terminal.app, Vim, MacVim, SublimeText 2 in github. This is the link. How do I use it?
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Customizing Ubuntu colors [closed]
What application is recommended to accomplish these:
How can I change my selection highlight color?
How can I change my cursors?
How can I include more libraries?
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How to remove items from the Nautilus context menu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to hide the “Copy To” and “Move To” context menus?
It used to be possible to edit /usr/share/nautilus/ui/nautilus-directory-view-ui.xml in order to do ...
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Which is the best place to get live wallpapers for compiz?
I checked on Askubuntu for links to sites offering live wallpapers but got none. Gnome-art doesn't seem to have any (or for that matter I haven't been able to locate them). Where will I get good free ...
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How to add custom string to menu bar in 12.04?
I'd like to know how I can add a String to the menu bar.
The string would contain a percentage that would be hourly updated using a script.
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0answers
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How to change the icon of an aplicatication at the LxPanel on Lubuntu?
After installing Lubuntu 12.10, I decided to install IDLE 3 (from the official Ubuntu repository), but something unexpected happened, its icon gets bigger then the LxPanel and all the another ...
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3answers
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How to customize the Lubuntu menu? Where is the .xml file responsible for it?
I know that the menu can be modified editing the .xml file responsible for it, but I've did a research on the web and nothing helped me find this file. So I'm here asking, how to customize the Lubuntu ...
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Spread ignoring minimized applications
Is there a way to invoke the spread ignoring the minimized applications? it is a little confusing when having lots of apps.
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How to edit the text of the Grub menu's options?
Every Grub menu have its options written is English and I would like to translate it to Portuguese.
So, this is the question, how to edit the text of the Grub menu's options?
For example the 12.10 ...
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Opening any file with any other Program
Okay, I have the following problem:
I have a file (.jnlp, but that isn't important) that I want to open with a certain program (javaws). The problem is that the program I want to open it with is not ...
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How do I force a 16x16 icon size for toolbar icons in GTK 3?
Is there a way to force 16x16 icon size for toolbar icons in GTK3? In GTK2 it was possible by editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0. I just do not know how to do this in GTK3.
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Disabling Clipboard completely in Ubuntu - Openbox environment
We are working on a project of Ubuntu customization with openbox. For some specific requirement, we need to disable the clipboard completely in the system. I have searched a lot over openbox and gnome ...
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Attach one window to another window in Ubuntu
In Ubuntu, is it possible to attach one window to another window (so that one window becomes the "parent window" of the other window)? I'd like to know if it's possible to do this for any two open ...
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How to see the full file name on the Lubuntu Desktop?
If I have a file with several characters in it, only a certain number of initial characters is displayed on the Lubuntu desktop and Xfce desktops.
For example, I have a file titled, ...
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How can I assign a custom command to a Logitech M705 mouse button? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I assign actions to all my mouse buttons?
What are some of the issues with ccsm and why should I not use it?
I want mouse button 9 to run ...
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1answer
132 views
How to group icons based on category on the desktop?
I have a lot icons on the desktop and I want to manage them by grouping icons of related programs. However, I haven't found any utility like fences in Windows.
Have you met any utility like that yet?
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How to change color of the frame of a maximizing window [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the “Selected Items” color?
How do I change the theme and window border color?
Can I theme the menubar to look different if a window is maximized?
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1answer
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Delete Minimize Button
Is there a way to get rid of the minimize button when the window is maximized? I've already gone into gconf-editor /apps/metacity/general/button_layout and changed "close,minimize,maximize" to ...
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How do I get a different type of scrollbars in 12.04? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable overlay scrollbars?
By default 12.04 uses overlay scroll bars that are too difficult to click and make it harder to see my relative position, and every ...
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1answer
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How to enable a startpage in Shotwell?
How do I enable a startpage in shotwell. I don't like my photos to be shown when opening shotwell. I want it so show an image previously selected, and It should only shows my photos after clicking ...
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How to use a different gtk (gtk3) theme for some applications?
I want to use a custom theme for Nautilus and for some other applications but I want to keep the generic theme for the rest of the applications and system.
I know it can be done in gtk2.
For ...
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How can I add items to the indicator-session menu?
Is it possible to add to or edit the Session Indicator menu items?
Is there an easy way to do this, or would it involve recompiling a custom build?
I cannot find much relating to this online.
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Set wallpaper in the Lock Screen
Is there an app or some way to set the desktop wallpaper as viewable when only logged in, and to set another when logged out or locked? I've tried Ubuntu Tweak, but it only does the login wallpaper, ...
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Can't customize the application switcher
I'm trying to change the shortcut for switching applications from Alt+Tab to Ctrl+Tab, but changes in the System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Navigation are being ignored. Even if I ...
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Ubuntu hanging problem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
I have a problem with ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my custom tower pc in which the OS hangs at specific points:-
- live usb with ...
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Cannot see boot options after editing grub background
After solving this problem I managed to get myself into truble again out of nothing by trying to change the display of the dual boot option page in Boot Customizer.
I have changed the background, the ...
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How do I convert .ani file into Ubuntu native extension?
I have a cursor pack for Windows which I would like to use with Ubuntu. But I see the Cursor directory of Ubuntu has extensionless files.
Can I convert .ani animations to Ubuntu native cursors?
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Creating an Alternate Install CD with pre installed users
I want to create my own customized Ubuntu derivative and this question already gave me a very good start. My requirements are quite specific I want to roll out a CD with
Set of users who are ...
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1answer
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Cinnamon: How to change position of Popup notification?
I have an Cinnamon DE. After installing Google+ theme, i saw, that popup notification bar moved to the top right corner.
How to change position of it?
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Restoring Grub after Kubuntu installation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to restore plymouth default theme
I installed Kubuntu on top of my existing Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) installation. During Kubuntu installation, I chose lightdm as my ...
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12.04 lock screen wont change to my wallpaper [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does LightDM only show a custom wallpaper on the login screen if I have selected one of the default wallpapers?
I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04.1, ...
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1answer
399 views
Expiry time in notify-send notifications
On my HP computer running Ubuntu 12.04, the brightness and volume increments were much higher than I wanted. On top of that, the notification for the volume was just plain wrong (0% sound did not ...
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How can I change a folder's icon by using a script?
I have in my Profile folder "Home" some specials folders as "Wallpapers", "TXT", etc. and I use, for those personalized icons. The problem is that, any time I reinstall Ubuntu, I have to assign again ...
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How can I add a custom item to the Sound Indicator (and make it clickable more than once)?
The original question
One of the strength of Unity are the various standardized indicators. I want to customize the sound indicator with an additional menu entry that runs a small shell script. ...
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1answer
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Now that I built Unity How do I Install it?
Hello there I built my own custom unity 6.2 and I built it so that it is in my home directory. I like how it looks now and want to replace the unity that I have installed on my system with the one ...
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Can I force all new windows to mAximize? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to configure my system so that all windows start maximized?
Maybe it will run by any hidden process (deamon)?
How can i do it?
Ubuntu 12.04
