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How do I change login screen theme or background in Ubuntu 20.04?

In previous versions of Ubuntu since its introduction of gdm3 for login greeter, the style sheet file is directly available to edit. for example: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/ubuntu.css #for Ubuntu 18....
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How to reduce the height of headerbar (titlebar) of GTK3 apps using CSD?

Surprisingly, this common question apparently was never posted here before - I searched a duplicate in vain. Gnome does not expose detailed tweaking of the appearance to the users. It does not even ...
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How to install node-sass on Ubuntu 18.04, and How to succesfully compile .scss file to css?

I finally found a solution sudo npm install --unsafe-perm node-sass I hope this will help many of us. Must update this answer since node-sass is now mostly deprecated, use npm sass module instead &...
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How do I change login screen theme or background in Ubuntu 20.04?

Easy! Just download the script from https://github.com/thiggy01/ubuntu-20.04-change-gdm-background, chmod +x the script, run like this: First, install this package: sudo apt install libglib2.0-dev-bin ...
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Certain websites not displaying correctly in chromium (ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE for all images and css)

It's a known bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1641380 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=664177 The bug has been squashed upstream, and they ...
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How do i install less css compiler?

To Install Less Compiler sudo npm install -g less To know the location of it sudo which lessc To compile ".less" File to ".css" lessc /home/--Your LESS File Location--/File.less > /home/--...
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Editing Yaru Gtk theme: where is resource:///com/ubuntu/themes/Yaru/3.20/gtk.css?

There is a file gtk.gresource in the same directory. It contains all packed theme files. resource:///com/ubuntu/themes/Yaru/3.20/gtk.css refers to gtk.css file packed inside this file. You can view a ...
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Help creating a new theme based on Adwaita?

Ubuntu 18.04 I Just tried it by understanding the README file from ~/Downloads/gtk-master/gtk/theme/Adwaita/ from the link you provided.. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/tree/master/gtk/theme/...
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Any good alternatives to Notepad++ for code editing in Lubuntu?

There are three that come to mind quickly. Atom Sublime Text 3 Atom is the new kid on the block. Atom is made by the people over at github. You can coutomize it to your hearts content. Atom is ...
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How to permanently add CSS to some pages using Firefox?

You can add custom CSS rules to a chrome/userContent.css file in your Firefox profile folder. Open your profile folder Create the "chrome" directory if it doesn't exist Create the "chrome/userContent....
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Window Title Bars Differ in Height

You are dealing with two different kinds of programs. The left program in your screenshot is an application that uses GTK3 Client Side Decorations (CSD). This means that the application itself draws ...
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How do I increase padding in Gedit?

GTK_DEBUG=interactive gedit After poking around I found the selector that works with gedit in Ubuntu 18.04: .gedit-view { padding: 10px; }
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Window Title Bars Differ in Height

I found a usable answer here. The relevant part of the code is: .ssd .titlebar { padding: 8px; } .titlebar controls the height of the window manager provided window decorations, whereas .ssd ....
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mate-panel clock applet non monospace font causes wiggling in notification area

The property you are looking for is min-width: value This will stop the box from going below a set value in width. Here you can see the documentation, box properties can be found in table 7. To ...
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Change tooltip text color of Ubuntu Vimix theme

the one you are looking for is tooltip label tooltip label { color: green; min-height: 20px; padding: 0 2px; } seems to be there are more colors configured for header-bar and title-bars in ...
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how do I change the CSS for a GTK application?

The CSS conventions have changed in GTK+3.20 compared to GTK+3.18 If you look at the GTK documentation - CSS Nodes section for GtkLabel the CSS should now be label { color: red; }; in GTK+3.18 the ...
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Any good alternatives to Notepad++ for code editing in Lubuntu?

Use Sublime Text or Brackets. Brackets is more focussed on web development with live preview features which help a lot. you can download both of them from their website, they give .deb packages ...
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Tweak how computer reads CSS language

The operating system does not decide how to render css, this is done by the browsers. The only option you have is to use a user css extension, and define a rule like this: * { box-shadow: none !...
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Tostring() has been removed. Please call tobytes() instead

The code needs an older version (before 3.0) of Pillow than the one you have (3.2.0). Try to remove your manually installed Pillow from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pillow-3.2.0-py2.7-linux-...
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Tweaking newer GTK3 themes

After a bit of reading on the subject and then re-reading the readme.md at the numix project I realised they actually do explain how to manually install and make changes to their theme. The thing is ...
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How to use shift+alt+arrow-down for copy the selected lines just under the selected lines in Visual Studio Code

On Linux you have to hold Ctrl as well. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Down Linux software often avoids key combinations that use Alt on its own because Linux desktops often capture the Alt key for other uses.
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Color calibration on Ubuntu

The problem is the embedded Color Profile, not the calibration of the monitor (otherwise the second image would show a uniform green, although different from the first one). In order to avoid these ...
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How do i install less css compiler?

Installation: sudo apt install node-less Using: lessc source_file.less file.css
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Any good alternatives to Notepad++ for code editing in Lubuntu?

If you are looking for primarily php, html, and css, go for Webstorm. It is definitely one of the best web development apps out there that is available for Linux. It advertises Javascript, but it's ...
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Any good alternatives to Notepad++ for code editing in Lubuntu?

If you're already familair with Notepad++ I would recommend Notepadqq. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install notepadqq Note: this apparently ...
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Change Desktop's font family

The desktop font's key location in dconf database has been changed. To change desktop font in Ubuntu 16.04 or later use this command gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop font 'Noto Sans 11' Here ...
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Can '~/.local/share/gnome-shell/theme/ubuntu.css' have priority over '/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/ubuntu.css'?

The standard local directories are ~/.themes or ~/.local/share/themes. You can copy your theme folder to one of these directories and modify the files. But it won't override the default GNOME Shell ...
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Can't grep price in downloaded webpage

Many pages download content separately from the main page (from a separate "file"), so there is nothing to grep in the file you're downloading with wget. Firefox runs the javascript, which allows it ...
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Can't grep price in downloaded webpage

Price information is displayed in the webpage by a js script using API and json That is why the price text is not present in the source code of the webpage A browser web dev tools will show that the ...
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The "Date" in Ubuntu 18.04 Lock Screen is not always center aligned. How to fix?

There may be a bug in the Ubuntu gdm3 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.4 package. I have reported it. I discovered the trigger for this issue. It occurs when Tweaks-->Top Bar-->Seconds is toggled on. For ...
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