For questions concerning themes, desktops and icon sets as well as less graphical customization on a system level.
6
votes
0answers
470 views
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, ...
3
votes
0answers
261 views
different icons on different workspaces
When I install an icon on one workspace it is installed on all four workspaces. Is it possible to install different icons on different workspaces? I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
2
votes
0answers
162 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
223 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
85 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
77 views
How can I get bigger Ubuntu logo at the top menu in 11.04
I have made my panel bigger and all the icons also get bigger except one, the logo on the left of the main menu that says "Applications Places System". Is there a way to make that logo/icon the same ...
2
votes
0answers
133 views
In unity's dash, how do I change the font colour?
I seem to have white font over a white background when I press "super" or the dash button on the launcher. Can I change the font colour or make it darker in the dash?
2
votes
0answers
4k views
Unable to set my own icon for launcher item in 12.04
I use the Faenza icon collection in Ubuntu 12.04 Unity with no issues. I decided to change my Gimp launcher icon, so I made my own (gimp-ak.png) and added it, and its appropriately sized derivatives, ...
1
vote
0answers
66 views
How to activate my lens on Quantal?
How to enable/activate any unity lens on Quantal?
I installed many unity lens on Quantal, using the following command, but none is active on dash.
sudo apt-get install unity-lens-wikipedia
sudo ...
1
vote
0answers
86 views
Customize Ubuntu Login Screen
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server on which I installed Xubuntu desktop. I have some users in the server out of that I would like to set a user as a default user. How can I customize the login screen ...
1
vote
0answers
162 views
How to Customize a ubuntu install CD and (not a liveCD) create a new ISO for PXE boot?
My requirement is as below.
I would first install ubuntu 12.04 on a rack server using an ISO image.
Install certain packages like kvm, openvswitch etc:-.
I should be able to repackage everything to ...
1
vote
0answers
45 views
Where does the keyboard layout switcher key saved?
I have set Alt+Shift as my Key(s) to change layout using layout option.
Where this option is saved? Is it a gconfig item, dconfig item or in a file configuration for keyboard layouts?
I want to ...
1
vote
0answers
147 views
Creating Icon Themes Gnome 3
I want to keep all the icons included in the gnome 3 icon theme "Ubuntu mono-dark" except the icons which appear when I alter the brightness or sound using fn keys. I haven't found any tutorial about ...
1
vote
0answers
60 views
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.
1
vote
0answers
98 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
130 views
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.
1
vote
0answers
47 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
66 views
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?
1
vote
0answers
160 views
How can I make the launcher have the same “texture” as the panel (with transparency)?
I saw a picture (could not find it sorry) where the launcher was transparent and had some blur to it just like the panel would if you were to add transparency to it. It had the same texture as it. ...
1
vote
0answers
109 views
Can we make custom folder icons show up in the dash?
Currently when you customize a folder's icon via its Properties from within nautilus, it looks great in nautilus - but when you try and jump to that folder via the Dash, it always displays that plain ...
1
vote
0answers
291 views
Creating a bootable CD based on Ubuntu Server
Note: bootable here refers to an Installation CD, not to the El Torito bootable CD standard if narrowly construed, or to a Live CD if widely construed.
What tools exist to create a bootable CD ...
1
vote
0answers
85 views
How can I customize system warning messages?
I'm a Linux/Ubuntu noob, and every time I try a command, the system tells me permission denied, and then I have to sudo, I kinda feel like I'm arguing with my system.
To that effect, it occurred to ...
0
votes
0answers
10 views
Using custom desktop
I don't want my desktop to be a folder. I would much prefer to write myself an application, or at least an html to handle drawing (animation, events) of my desktop background. I want to know whether I ...
0
votes
0answers
19 views
error change Lightdm to GDM in my custom livecd ubuntu 12.04 doesn't work
i'm change lightdm to gdm in my custom livecd, and when booting doesn't autologin.
and when change back to lightdm my custom livecd already running normal.
any suggestion?
0
votes
0answers
16 views
How to customize the installation background color?
How do I customize the background color during the installation?
I know the boot screen is to modify the plymouth, but I don't know where to customize the background color during the text-based ...
0
votes
0answers
20 views
Scribes text editor toolbar too small
Is there a way to increase the size of the toolbar in Scribes? My font/resolution setup results in the toolbar being tiny making it very hard to see the icons.
0
votes
0answers
98 views
Finding polar clock, weather, and CPU desklets, and default titlebar in Cinnamon
Does anyone know how to set up Cinnamon like in these images?
This one shows a polar clock and Calendar, temperature, and system information as desklets. I can't find any of these in the desklets ...
0
votes
0answers
318 views
Customizing ubuntu studio 13.04
I have recently switched from original ubuntu 12.10 to ubuntu studio 13.04. After some research I found out I could install compiz to this as well. I have to go to the terminal and run compiz ...
0
votes
0answers
128 views
Ubuntu 12.10 iso image customization
I'm trying to create my own iso image based on Ubuntu 12.10 and I've got several questions.
1) How can I add user using preseed? I tried to do it this way, but I still have to enter the password in ...
0
votes
0answers
84 views
How to not display icons on all four desktops ubuntu 12.04
Is it posible to have diferent icons on all four desktops, right now on all four desktops I have same folders, files, photos can I change it for example to have on second desktop just photos ? TNX
0
votes
0answers
34 views
Custom OS installer
I installed ubuntu 12.10 and I installed many applications like gimp, Cairo dock etc. now I remastered it with remastersys . I successfully created a live CD. When I boot the CD I found that there is ...
0
votes
0answers
76 views
Without installing a third party dock, how can I get a taskbar launcher on Xubuntu?
I have been trying several flavors of *buntu, I like the dock in kubuntu but want the lightness of xubuntu/lubuntu. How can I make the xubuntu launcher dock behave as an icon only task manager that ...
0
votes
0answers
25 views
Problem with repositories when using Customization Kit
I used Ubuntu Customization Kit to create new LiveCD for my Ubuntu 12.10 and everything is good but one. I use the command line in UCK to set some changes to the LiveCD - for example to remove ...
0
votes
0answers
106 views
Setting default headless resolution
I am running my ubuntu (12.04.2 LTS) file server headless and use tight VNC to connect to it from my windows 7 machines. Is there any way I can have the resolution always at 1920x1080 by default? It ...
0
votes
0answers
142 views
how to enable compiz desktop zoom in 12.04 without using CCSM?
Esteemed Ubuntu 12.04 users and devs,
I assume compiz has a desktop zoom plugin built into 12.04. I used it in 11.04 & 11.10 with CCSM anyway. Now in 12.04 i want to enable and customise this ...
0
votes
0answers
43 views
ccsm fails to disable Super key
The solution given in How do I disable the Super key? does not work, for me at least.
Specifically, changing the setting for Key to show the launcher from Super to Alt via ccsm has no apparent effect ...
0
votes
0answers
38 views
Unity desktop effects list in CCSM
I like to play with different options in the CompizConfig Settings Manager. Sometimes I change values to see what happens, but every now and then I don't see the difference. So, first, is there a ...
0
votes
0answers
182 views
How to hack a sound theme (Ubuntu 12.04)
I use the default ubuntu sound theme. I pretty like it except for the sound that you get when you try to auto-complete a command in a terminal by pressing tabs and you have multiple choices.
I would ...
0
votes
0answers
36 views
Restricted access on ubuntu
I'm new to Ubuntu!
Is there a way to limit the access users to a preset set browser, thunderbird and a soft phone only? I'm planning to run Ubuntu on the Odroid X2.
I would like to restrict because ...
0
votes
0answers
11 views
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 ...
0
votes
0answers
55 views
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 ...
0
votes
0answers
224 views
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? ...
0
votes
0answers
75 views
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?
0
votes
0answers
24 views
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.
0
votes
0answers
79 views
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 ...
0
votes
0answers
48 views
Customize X11vnc
Is it possible to customize the rows that appears when I launch an X11vnc session?
I would translate the conditions for the user that require the remote session.
0
votes
0answers
520 views
Ubuntu Studio 12.04: How to edit a custom Studio menu graphically after installing gnome?
I have installed Gnome and KDE alongside with default Studio Xfce in Ubuntu Studio 12.04. I want to use the default Studio menu structure in Xfce, with some modifications (remove the things that I ...
0
votes
0answers
144 views
Extra keys on my laptop to open camera and sleep
I have some extra keys on my laptop, in windows with the correct drivers on opens the web cam utility, another sends the computer to sleep. It's a Lenovo Z570 laptop but I believe these extra keys are ...
0
votes
0answers
138 views
Why my Unity custom keyboard shortcuts would not persist across sessions?
My Ubuntu was upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 to 12.04 LTS, and at this point the custom shortcuts I define in /System Settings/Keyboard/[Sortcuts tab]/[“Custom Shortcuts” left-side navigation item] do ...
0
votes
0answers
220 views
How do I get a Bloomberg Keyboard working?
After removing PinGuy 12.04 and installing Ubuntu 12.04 I seem to have lost the Audio input and output functions from my Bloomberg keyboard. These work under Pinguy (An Ubuntu Derivative) and not ...
