Questions tagged [customization]

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

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Nautilus won't change folder icons

Since I upgraded my system to from Ubuntu 18.04.2 to 18.04.3, Nautilus stopped responding to folder icons (replicate images used as icons in XDG_CONFIG_HOME or a similar location). Suddenly, it doesn'...
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How can I change the KDE Plasma lock screen theme?

I have customized nearly everything I wanted and I think it looks perfect except for the lock screen. I looked everywhere in the settings and there is no option to download a theme or make changes to ...
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Symbol gets cut off in custom bash prompt

I am using a custom bash prompt with this command that was an answer to this question: It looks like this: PS1=$'\e[1;33m\\t \e[36m\u\e[34m@\e[36m\h\e[;1m: \e[34m\w\n \[\b\e[;1;31m✘\] ${?/#0/\[\b\b\e[...
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How can I properly make a bash prompt with error colors and emoji?

After solving the first issue with my custom prompt I still have another one left. When I cycle through my last used commands via the arrow-up and arrow-down keys I will sometimes have some characters ...
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changing bash output format results in strange behaviour

I already changed my bash output format to something like this: which I am very happy with. I achieved this by adding this code to the .bashrc: set_PS1() { local RESET=$(tput sgr0 ) local ...
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Changing the color of the desktop icon's text in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

As the title says, I'd like to change the color of the text of the icons in the desktop, since by default the text is white and since my background image is white/blue-ish, it's pretty hard to read. I'...
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How do I resize the application launcher / start menu in Kubuntu 20.10?

I have a fresh install of Kubuntu 20.10. How can I resize the start menu? Because it is gigantic!
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How can I set an animated background image or lock screen?

I have this gif: I wish to set it as my lock screen image, but I am unable to do so because if I go into Settings > Background, and then go to the Pictures tab, I am only able to see still images in ...
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Issue with custom theme resetting when switching between dark and light modes in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

I encountered a problem with applying a custom theme in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS while creating a custom ISO image. Initially, in 10_ubuntu-settings.gschema.override (which is located in usr/share/glib-2.0/...
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Change first setup ubuntu logo image [duplicate]

I embarked on the idea of creating my own Ubuntu image with the addition of some AI features. As it turned out, one of the most challenging task was to change the Ubuntu logo at the first OS boot. ...
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How do I make the background of transparent Terminal windows blurry in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04?

This is what gnome-terminal looks like currently: I want the background of the terminal window to be blurred, roughly like so:
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How to bring back minimize and maximize buttons in Gnome 3

I have recently installed Ubuntu Gnome which has the latest version of Gnome 3 running on it, and I have noticed that on windows there are no minimize buttons, and no maximize buttons, although I can ...
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Unable to Disable Ubuntu Dock. Already Tried disabling Extention. No replacement dock required

I am trying to remove the visual dock from my GNOME Desktop and these are the things I've already done: I ran this in the terminal gnome-extensions disable [email protected] Disabled the GNOME ...
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Creating an Expandable Top Bar Menu with Tree Structure for Folders and (mayby) Image Previews in Ubuntu

I don't embrace linux and ubuntu very much. My question is simple. Is there a way to add on the top menu bar in the style of the existing "Applications" menu. So that it can be expanded. My ...
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Some way to create an installable ISO from an installed (and customized) Ubuntu system (22.04 Jammy Jellyfish)?

Any help as soon as possible would be greatly appreciated. I customized Ubuntu very deeply, everything from the OS release file to the wallpaper, shell themes, custom Plymouth theme, logo in the about ...
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How to customize an ISO Ubuntu 22.04 arm64 server for pre-install a .deb package

The situation is: I want to install a package (.deb) in the Ubuntu ISO before installing the OS, to avoid installing the package every time I use the ISO. How can I do that using the Linux command ...
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How to change the font of various terminal emulators?

Mainly: Gnome Terminal Xfce Terminal Konsole LXTerminal Terminator Guake Yakuake Urxvt Xterm Mrxvt
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persian keyboard layout not present in ubuntu 22.10

i recently changed from ubuntu 20.04 to ubuntu 22.10. now when i try to add persian keyboard layout it's not in the add an input source menu. i searched for persian and farsi and no languages were ...
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How can I customize GNOME from the terminal [I'm using Cubic]

I'm trying to customize an Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS ISO from the Cubic app. I have a few commands that do the job I want, but apparently in the terminal provided by Cubic to modify the system they don'...
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How to write en and em dashes?

I understand that to be able to type en and em dashes I have to configure the COMPOSE key, or something like that, but I am not sure about that nor on how I get from there to be able to type en and em ...
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Custimize status bar the ubuntu GUI

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS I want my status bar menu to show the connected Bluetooth devices without opening the settings, similar to what it shows for Wi-Fi. Is there a way to program it? Any example starter ...
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Customizing Ubuntu 22.04 installer

I just finished remastering Ubuntu 22.04. Inside the customized OS, I installed a new Plymouth, changed the kernel, and changed the desktop environment from GNOME to KDE. I also modified the Ubiquity ...
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How to prompt for user Hostname while booting Ubuntu22.04 live-cd customization

I'm customizing Ubuntu22.04 live-cd. I know how to hard code hostname while installing. But, my requirement is to prompt from hostname and take user input while installing. Could anyone please help me ...
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How to take a screenshot of a section of the screen on Xubuntu 18.04?

How can I take a screenshot of a selected region of my screen? I already tried PrtScr but it captures only fullscreen screenshots.
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How do I add horizontal gaps above and below my horizontal XFCE 4.16 panel?

I've been customizing my Xfce 4.16 top (main) panel. I've done so via the settings first and then modifying ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css but there's someting I can' acuieve. Or it works... sort of. ...
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Weird symbols or not loaded symbols with synth-shell on terminal

It was fine until I reinstalled Linux. I also tried to reinstall it, but nothing changed. I cloned it and followed the instruction from GitHub.
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How can I create a customise ubuntu to open browser when booted and restrict access to other application

I am trying to create a custom OS for examination purposes and I want to customize ubuntu iso so that it when booted it has only access to a browser and no other application
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Is it possible to reorder my workspaces?

Recently I found that on a macbook it is possible to drag the multiple desktops to change their order. The ideal solution would be to, while on the compiz Expo mode, be able to just drag and move a ...
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Move the "File View" bar to the very top bar

This question is, very probably, duplicate of this, but this duplicate does not answer my question. I want to move the "File View" bar to the top bar like in Unity or macOS Since I cannot ...
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Cursor doesn't respect theme when program is launched from command line

I installed breeze-cursor-theme with apt, and changed the default cursor theme via update-alternatives. Hence, update-alternatives --get-selections | grep x-cursor-theme returns x-cursor-theme ...
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How to create a customized ubuntu live cd

The answers to my question are all very old and the links are obsolete. As of today, what is the guide link for doing this? I am using this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization ...
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Change top bar clock format

How do I change the format of the clock at the top bar? I want it to be day/month/year. I search an option with gnome tweaks, and dconf, but didn't find anything to change. Thanks.
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How to change the login screen resolution in Ubuntu 18.04

I need a way to change the boot-up and login screen resolution to 1920 x 1080 resolution. I have a 4K display on my laptop and can't read the text in the grub bootloader screen properly as they aren't ...
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Tools for creating a custom Linux OS based on Ubuntu

I want to create a new OS which is based on Ubuntu. I changed everything in Ubuntu like name, screenfetch logo, etc., but I failed when it comes to creating an iso for my OS. I want to change ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Auto-Install using Preseed

We've a customise OS on top of Ubuntu 18.04 desktop, we are trying to upgrade the Ubuntu version to 22.04. We have preseed files where we have defined auto-install process. I am trying to find a way ...
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How to change background color of "Show Applications" on Ubuntu 22.04?

I have tried with Dconf, but I was not able to find how to finetune the background color of the "Show applications" action menu on the Dock. My idea is to make somewhat a WinXP look, which ...
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KDE custom menu action on directories with whitespaces in the name

I created a script that takes different directories paths to merge the files inside them into one directory. I would exec this scrict by custom Kde-Dolphin action menu, so I created this .desktop file:...
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How do i change Ubuntu installer splash screen images? Where are they located on the ISO image?

I'm using Cubic to create my own Ubuntu distro out of pure curiosity and i want to modify the installer splash screen. Swapping /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner didn't work for me.
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How to set a gif/video as a terminal background?

As stated in the title, I want to have a moving terminal background. I'm currently using Konsole which does accept gif files as a background, however only the first frame is displayed. Can any of you ...
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Change wallpaper by current time

While customizing my Ubuntu I thought to have two wallpapers, one for the day/afternoon and one for evening/night. Is it possible to change the wallpaper basing myself to the current time? If so, how ...
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Ubuntu 22 Gnome dark theme window border

On the default Ubuntu Gnome light theme there is white border around window, and shade effect - it is easy to spot how large window is and where are its edges. On the dark theme multiple overlapping ...
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Is it possible to drag files with right click?

Is there a way (maybe using some script in nautilus or something) so that you can drag files with the right mouse button and when you release, you're shown the context menu? If it can even be ...
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OSD desktop-clock that does not get in your way?

is there a clock application, that can be placed on your screen like a widget staying always on top but automatically fades away on mouseover enabling you to click through it on items below, (...
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How to change color in the app switch window in Ubuntu 22.04?

When I switch between applications using ALT + TAB, a small window appears in the middle of the screen and lets me choose another application. My problem is that the color of the highlighted ...
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Change location of the Dash icon to the top of the panel

No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy Wondering if there is a way to change the location of the Dash icon AKA ...
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Unable to create custom iso Ubuntu 22.04 using autoinstall

I am trying to create a Single Ubuntu 22.04 custom iso from ubuntu-22.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso using cloud-init configuration for autoinstallation. I have my meta-data and user-data files in /cdrom/...
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How to get more than cows from cowsay

I have recently installed cowsay and am using it to amuse me by piping the output from fortune to it. And although this is great, I understand that you can get more than just cows with cowsay, and I ...
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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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