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This is a thread to get answers for all your questions, no matter how stupid you think it may be. Feel free to share your default setups here too, someone might have some pointers for what to do next. In short you can make any on topic comment, in any format you like, and using any host. We hope this gives new users a chance to get some help with any problems they're having and older users a chance to show off their knowledge by helping those in need.

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Posted Jan 10, 2020, 6:00 AM UTC

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DestroyerOfEvil12•

How do you learn how to do all this sick stuff .

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dubcusb:Arch:•

Choose a post you like, look at the details comment, and try to replicate it ;)

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DestroyerOfEvil12•

Mate I don't know the basics , is there a book I can read or something

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_viz_:CRUX:•

dropped but still okay https://github.com/GaugeK/ricing

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Morgzoth•

It's down now, damn :/

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thefunnieststuff•

Is it possible to feed a color scheme to pywal? Basically I just want pywal to generate all the files.

Edit: why the downvotes?

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patio_blastzzzeyez•

wal --theme ./colors.json

i made a tool to manage pywal schemes and download them from colorlovers.com here: https://github.com/zzzeyez/colorlovers

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thefunnieststuff•

This is perfect, i will be using that.

I didn't know you could do that! I only thought you could export to colors.json.

Thanks!

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patio_blastzzzeyez•

i'm not sure why that feature isn't documented. i think i learned of it by digging through his code

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ccsmall:Arch:•

Let's take a moment to appreciate the fact that Luke made a video about using bspwm and the posts here for bspwm increased by roughly 380%.

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xcorrupterx•

Just installed polybar last night can anyone help me get started with making one on my own please

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bananasjunk•

Have you got anything you want to aim for? How you want it to look? Like another unixporn post here that you want the same aesthetics.

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xcorrupterx•

I wanna make one for myself but I love one guys polybar a lot

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kiedtl:Void:, KISS Linux•

go to his dotfiles (hopefully he has a link to it in the details comment), find his polybar configuration file, copy it to your machine, and see if it works.

occasionally, polybar configs will require addition scripts, but that's usually not the case.

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gear_m9•

Any tips for getting i3 to work on KDE?

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wersooth•

in the main distributions, you can install it from their package repository. It will install the I3 WM, however, you need to start to configure it. In some cases, it won't even install the dmenu.

So, after you've installed (e.g. in ubuntu apt-get install i3-wm) logout, then in the KDE login screen, you will see a selector or dowpdown, which is in "Plasma", which is actually KDE. Click and select i3, then login.

It will give you a bare but working I3, but you need to do all the configs by hand.

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gear_m9•

Thanks very much.

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shalva97•

add window rules from https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Managers_with_Plasma so KDE popups and windows will work properly

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Dunked0n•

How can I round the bottom window corners in GNOME 3?

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hisacro•

what DE or WM you are running?

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shalva97•

I can not post my screenshot. The bot says "Your post appears formatted incorrectly so was removed" and cannot fix. I tried different titles like [KDE], [KDE/XFWM4], [XFWM4/KDE] and added flair "screenshot" and it still complains.

what does that bot wants from me?

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kiedtl:Void:, KISS Linux•

Try messaging the moderators.

Did you provide a details comment?

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cfm76•

I sure that this has been answered before, and if it has, id be happy with a like to an answering thread...

im having problem making my tmux powerline display the characters. my setup is: Ubuntu base i3-gaps wm oh my tmux (https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux)

( am getting the powerline (functionality) from the .tmux configuration file.

thanx for your help in advance.

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UnicornsOnLSD•

Are there any KDE themes that use #121212 as the background colour?

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spotracite•

I have installed console-tdm, and now I want to know which supported de/wm to use. My main options are: fluxbox, openbox, gnome, xfce4, icewm, pekwm. Which among these is the best for workflow/productivity, and which is best for ricing?

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spotracite•

What is the best de/wm? (Unrelated to my other comment)

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kiedtl:Void:, KISS Linux•

depends on what kind of wm you want.

good floating wms: openbox, sowm (for advanced users), 2bwm

good tiling wms: dwm, i3-gaps, bspwm

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fight_the_system_too•

The one that you like most!

If you have enough space and a okayish package manager just install all of the ones you are interested in and try them!

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spotracite•

I read that that can cause some issues with gtk and qt5 apps, I can’t remember exactly why but 1 de messes up the theming of another, and kde just says fuck you to all of them, and then there’s gonna be that one wm that ends up breaking everything

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madstxrdust•

I am relatively new to Unix and have been wanted to get into some of the different WM and doing themeing. I have AwesomeWM installed and some things I can read on it, but I was wondering if there might be a better WM to begin with as a beginner? What is a solid WM that is accessible for modifications and great for beginners to learn?

I am running Ubuntu on a Surface Book at the moment, as my main "learner" laptop while I work with Linux and I have a background with HTML/CSS but not a lot of coding otherwise (A little bit of PHP, JavaScript and very minimal exposure to Lua from certain Rainmeter skins).

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nacho_dog•

I've been playing around with color theme automation with pywal and now I am working on theming my i3blocks status bar.

Per the pywal github page, you can paste the following text in your i3 config file to pull colors from .Xresources -- this is the example:

# Set colors from Xresources
# Change 'color7' and 'color2' to whatever colors you want i3 to use 
# from the generated scheme.
# NOTE: The '#f0f0f0' in the lines below is the color i3 will use if
# it fails to get colors from Xresources.
set_from_resource $fg i3wm.color7 #f0f0f0
set_from_resource $bg i3wm.color2 #f0f0f0

# class                 border  backgr. text indicator child_border
client.focused          $bg     $bg     $fg  $bg       $bg
client.focused_inactive $bg     $bg     $fg  $bg       $bg
client.unfocused        $bg     $bg     $fg  $bg       $bg
client.urgent           $bg     $bg     $fg  $bg       $bg
client.placeholder      $bg     $bg     $fg  $bg       $bg

client.background       $bg

So I pasted that into my i3config and it works fine, but I have no idea where these variables are being sourced from. I don't see anything obvious setting these in my .Xresources or in ~/.cache/wal/colors.Xresources

I am looking for guidance on where I should look in my system to see which colors these variables indicate so I can fine tune my theme. Thanks!

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DeaDb0ne05•

hello good people of unixporn.

i am using manjaro with kde and i cant get rid of the window border even with the window decoration's bordrr setting set to no border. is there any way to force the no border (like a bash script or css to edit) ?

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felix_thunderbolt•

which window managers do configuration by Xresources?

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andyysplash:Arch:/:Windows: on laptop; :Windows:7 on desktop•

does anyone have any good recommendations for google drive clients/utilities/scripts etc. for syncing or pushing/pulling files? i store my uni notes on drive so either a synced directory/client or a way to push/pull them after writing would be great. they're written in markdown and processed into pdfs. i'm aiming for lightweight so preferably cli utilities or text-based clients (though i'll look at gui ones)

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RaXXu5•

Does gtk or qt support shadows inside program windows?

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MaterialAdvantage•

This isn't strictly ricing, but it sort of counts to ux.

What's the best way to achieve smooth, reversible, inertial scrolling on a synaptics touchpad (X1C7)?

I've tried synaptics, libinput, and mtrack. Currently using synaptics, but the coasting/inertia is very disjointed and jerky....

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