Hot answers tagged style
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Here we go:
First you need to find the default background color for the the current theme. Then you can inject it into the current css for the GtkToolbar class.
# Get the default window background color for the the current theme.
win_style_context = window.get_style_context()
bg = win_style_context.lookup_color('theme_bg_color')[1].to_string()
# Then we ...
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First you need a wallpaper large enough for both monitors. You can either make one with the gimp or down load one. Alternately you can use a separate image for each monitor.
You can then install a handy little application, nitrogen
sudo apt-get install nitrogen
You then run nitrogen with the path to the directory with your picture(s)
nitrogen ~/Pictures
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Nitrogen answer works, but another tweak is necessary.
Run Advanced Settings, go to Desktop section and switch Have file manager handle the desktop off. Then wallpapers set via Nitrogen will be displayed.
However there is strong disadvantage. All icons disappear from the desktop and the context menu can't be invoked. Unless you need icons on desktop this ...
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I had this issue too, but fpoehler ( http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1174921 ) solved it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466473&page=4 .
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The themes that work should be the ones which have the same panel background as normal application windows. That's why the problem is not apparent there. However, newer themes often use a ...
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I do not appear to be able to add a comment to an answer due to my low rep (lolz), so this is meant to be on @topr's answer.
I am the author of Nitrogen and there is code in there to detect a gnome desktop and set it properly so that you don't need to make this change, but it appears to not be functioning on modern Ubuntus. I will investigate.
Issue:
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Open System monitor and click on File system tab you will see all the Drive info there like this:
And when you open any directory under home directory you will see some info on the status bar. like this:
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I don't know whether there is any style presets other than the default ones you can use, but you can definitely change the various fonts and there sizes, colors etc.
Open netbeans and Go to Tools → Options from menu
Select the Fonts and Colors tab. The window will look like below
Then select the catagory and change fonts, size and colors as of your ...
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It's in the docs ...
KDE Configuration ...
However, you cannot give sudo access before a user is logged in ...
Since kdm must run before any user is logged in, it is not associated with any particular user. Therefore, it is not possible to have user-specific configuration files; all users share the common kdmrc. It follows from this that the ...
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If you want Ubuntu to run as fast as possible, I suggest you choose a lightweight Desktop Environment.
At Phoronix there is a great comparison test that shows How Desktops Impact Performance.
Some examples:
And:
Also we can conclude that Unity 2D is not always faster than 3D:
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It is called primary-toolbar style because it should be applied only to primary toolbar.
In Gtk, toolbars by default can hold only ToolButtons, but there is the ToolItem class, which does not have a visual represntation.
That is created because it can embed other widgets.
ToolItem has add method which you can use like :
my_tool_item.add(my_box)
where ...
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Take a look at this link:
http://www.virtual-nexus-inc.com/news/2011/09/21/ubuntu-11-04-dual-monitor-backgrounds-are-easy-with-shotwell/
you can use shotwell to resize te image as your combined monotors resolution then set it as background using the default image viewer of ubuntu.
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