Xubuntu 11x - discuss

It's the general Gtk way.
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes

Open ~/.themes/theme name/gtk-2.0/gtkrc in a text editor and near the top of the file, you'll find a line that reads something like:

gtk_color_scheme="fg_color:#a0a0a0\nbg_color:#161616\nbase_color:#454545\ntext_color:#50d000\nselected_bg_color:#282828\nselected_fg_color:#ffffff\ntooltip_bg_color:#303031\ntooltip_fg_color:#ffffff"

I suppose you can play around with different colours - see what is used in gtkrc for scrollbar usually under } Style " xxx-scrollbar" {
eg. NORMAL may be bg_color etc.

(Themes may also be in /usr/share/themes)

Bit fiddly I think. Personally I would rather be looking for a more suitable
theme.

PS. Ubuntu forums are really the ones to advise, seeing that the query was posted there in the first instance.

 

Simple conkys for simple Xubuntu laptop

Unfortunately not much there due to low onboard graphics. Was unable to include sensors as none were detected (only the acpitz virtual ones).
Was also unable to make use of kaivalagi's magnificent weather forecast python script - because I don't want to register with weather.com
I just made a simple one using accuweather where no registration is needed.

 

thanks ocky for lot of great information

 

Better weather script for conky with accuweather ..

http://www.imagebam.com/image/ea9ec9169185974

Edited: nicer b/ground colour for weather.

 

looks very cool man

what you think of mac icons i wish someone create icons like these man but not mackish ones but for linux i mean icons with colors and full of life

http://subuddha.deviantart.com/art/Colorflow-1-2-quot-MAC-10-5-quot-125355496

to much pain when i tested them on live cd i have to tweak a lot LOL

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=232753&page=31

 

mack_guy, I admired your icons and commented in the screenshot thread.

In keeping with the 'lightweight' xfce philosophy, maybe one should have another look at the Midori bowser. Might be good for a secondary browser.
(WebKit engine - what about vulnerabilities ?)
http://wiki.xfce.org/midori/faq
http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html

 

When I last tried Midori a couple of months ago, it didn't work on quite a few sites. Epiphany was also that way.

 

thanks ocky for you comment i like these icons too )

as Midori i tried it on bhodi linux but its not as crispy as chrome or opera i guess chrome and opera are pretty best or better than firefox when come to ram usage.

the only problem come on flash sites........

 

I've just added xfce4 and xfce4-goodies so I get an Xfce session option at log-in!

So please be prepared to kindly answer my stupid questions over the next few days

 

My first "achievement" has been to move the bottom panel to the left side and to have it appear and disappear as needed. That way I get back some real estate and get reminded of Unity as well.

 

Re. "to enable the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key setting to log out." Doesn't this key combination have some already reserved function? Why do you want to remap that particular combination? For example, I just assigned super+lalt+x to "xfce4-session-logout" and that brings up the logout/restart/shutdown window. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what this is all about

 

No, your way is better Now the compose keyboard shortcut please, so that you can do
© and ½ etc...

 

I suspect this is a bit beyond me, but what I did was to run apropos compose and came up with:

Code:

apropos compose
Compose (5)          - X client mappings for multi-key input sequences
compose (1)          - execute programs via entries in the mailcap file
URI::Split (3pm)     - Parse and compose URI strings
XCompose (5)         - X client mappings for multi-key input sequences
xdg-email (1)        - command line tool for sending mail using the user's preferred e-mail composer

So it would appear that one would have to set a key combination for Compose. What to do after that, I haven't a clue! But would http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key help? And, of course, there's man Compose.

 

Ocky, please see http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6487

 

Thanks vasa1. Yeah, you can do it that way, probably the cleaner way. However the method I used works perfectly for me so I reckon I will leave as is for now.

 

Ocky, your fix isn't working for me!
Here is my /etc/default/keyboard

Code:

# Check /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/README.Debian for
# documentation on what to do after having modified this file.

# The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
# values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="[B]compose:ralt[/B]"

# If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
# specify an alternative keymap.  Make sure it will be accessible
# before /usr is mounted.
# KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz

I logged out after editing the file to include the stuff in bold. Then, I went into gedit, pressed ralt, then `, then a but didn't get the ` on top of the a

 

á Works for me. But try ralt +a+' in gedit

 

This works for me: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23726#p23726

Now, I have to keep a cheat sheet handy because I don't use these things too often.

 

Good, even better.

 

Ocky, check out this thread. The later part is about LibO and the Compose key stuff.

 

I am happy with my compose key setup. What you mentioned:-

is perfect for Xfce. As to the other distros it is easy to set up via the keyboard layout options. I always use ralt. Works fine in LibO.

Here is a list of key presses. I must mention that all of them work for me. Btw. Euro = compose C = (€)

Edit:- One character in that list is no longer relevant as far as I know, viz. das deutsche sz (ß)
tlu could probably confirm. The Germans now just use ss, a recent development I think. Pity, I miss compose ss.