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Posted Mar 6, 2020, 6:00 AM UTC

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nebulaeandstars•

Is there a subreddit specifically for colour schemes (GTK, terminal, syntax highlighting, etc)?

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23571379•

maybe:

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KingGaiseric•

Can someone please explain to me how to use the dotfiles people provide here without breaking my entire OS? Normally what happens is

  1. I pick a rice that I like and go to the github page. The last one I tried was this one
  2. I installed everything in the Install section of the instructions
  3. I copy all of the provided config files into my .config
  4. I reboot and login only to find that nothing works and the only thing I have is my mouse on an empty screen. I couldn't open a terminal or anything else so I was forced to reinstall my OS.

I'm a complete noob when it comes to ricing (and somewhat of a noob when it comes to unix in general) so any assistance would be appreciated. I'm using i3 on Manjaro.

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ShaneFishes05•

I’m kind of a noob too, and I can’t help you with the dot files problem, but I do know you can get into a tty terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt f2-f7, so you can go into that and fix everything that way.

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MaterialAdvantage•

I would advise testing things one at a time.

so when you're trying to use someone's dotfiles, start with the polybar and make sure it works. If it doesn't, try to figure out why and get it reliably working. Then download the kitty config. See if it works out of the box. If not, try to figure out why and fix it, and so on and so forth.

starting applications from your terminal within your WM is also a valuable tool, because many will give you information on the errors that you won't get if it's just being started by your WM. In a lot of cases you'll be able to copy and paste the errors you see in your terminal into Google and what comes up might help you solve the error

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serious_sea-cucumber•

Learn about the wms first. At least know the basics about what each dotfile does. Don't blindly follow anything you see on the internet.

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atudore•

I just got into using Linux a week ago and I am using pop os(with gnome). I was wondering if there is a way to have the application options on the top bar(like on macos).

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Pud11es•

Try playing with gnome tweaks which you can install from the software centre.

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SUNGOLDSV:Arch:•

It's possible in kde with adding a panel at top and adding widgets "Application Title" and "Global Menu". This will show application menu on the top for the supported apps. I really don't know about gnome.

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rhysperry111:Arch:•

Does anyone know how to mod wofi (GTK based rofi for Wayland)? I don’t have much experience with GTK css and I am having trouble doing things like cantering items and making it fit on the screen (doesn’t allow me to do width: 100%)

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CosmosAtlas•

https://imgur.com/e7CCiNb.png

My pfetch randomly became broken today. Any thoughts on fixing this?

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iBhagwan•

What was the last thing you changed? terminal geometry? font? did you update pfetch/arch? did you try neofetch and does it have the same issue or is the issue only pfetch related? did you compile pfetch yourself or are you using the AUR package? can you post the result of pacman -Qs pfetch?

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CosmosAtlas•

The strange part is I changed nothing, maybe did a system update. Then it happened.

I compiled pfetch manually from the git repository.

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iBhagwan•

maybe a system update

Well something obviously changed :)

I would try to compile the latest version again or if you’re on arch just use pfetch-git from the AUR.

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CosmosAtlas•

I had more time to experiment with it.

Recompiling was actually the first thing I did when I saw it. I also tried to use the aur version at pfetch-git

I was able to narrow down which config caused the problem. it was the palete option being used. By removing it, the arch icon works fine.

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blurryfaceinspace:Ubuntu:•

Does anyone know how to change the splitter color in Tilix? It's white and I want it to be grey.

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Lifebyrd•

I recently started using bspwm and have been using the focus_follows_pointer option, but I've noticed that it doesn't quite work on empty desktops. If I have two empty desktops and move my mouse to one of them and open a new window, the new window doesn't always open on the window with the mouse. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Edit: After some testing I've noticed the mouse movement from one screen to another is not captured, the focus only changes if the starting position of the mouse movement is the new screen.

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iroflmaowtf•

looking for an elegant xfce theme, nothing fancy, just clean and elegant, suggestions?

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otto251help whats a flair•

Arc is pretty popular.

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MaterialAdvantage•

Does anyone have the issue that picom can't start with vsync=true on intel uhd 620 graphics?

I get exactly (word for word) this error: https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinuxarm/comments/b6d55j/how_to_run_compton_with_vsync_on_the_raspberry_pi/

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SUNGOLDSV:Arch:•

What is the OC tag? And I just found out what was the application launcher I used to see guys with openbox and i3, it's called rofi, can someone a recommend a guide to it? And what's pywall?

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23571379•

OC = Original content

Rofi wiki

Pywal is used to create colorschemes based on images.

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Pud11es•

If your using wayland try wofi instead

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infiltratorxyz•

Hi everyone. What ways do you know of marking focus window. The only solution I am thinking about is a frame in a different color or changing the transparency of the window.

But sometimes on this subreddit we can see screenshots with all the same windows, without borders or different alpha values. So maybe another solutions exists?

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Pud11es•

I tried getting into i3 gaps with the Manjaro i3 spin, couldn’t find a way to get gaps up. Is it just adding a gap value to the config?

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brandonh94•

I might be mistaken but I think it comes with the i3 Manjaro package. My config file has it in by default and if you press super+shift+h should bring up the help PDF with explanations on how to adjust the gaps.

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23571379•

Hello everyone.

I'm searching for a new WM. I currently use i3 and it kind of annoys me that I always have to have my hands on my keyboard. I essentially would like to have i3 with a button to convert all windows in floating ones with title bars and buttons to close and minimize those. The only WM that's probably capable of this is awesomewm but it takes soooo much configuring. Does anyone have any recommendations for me to put me in a direction?

I actually started to configure awesomewm but there are several things which I couldn't get to i3 like behavior. Workspaces are fixed to screens and so on.

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xSlysoft•

Super noob question, but are gtk themes DE specific or if I see a cool gtk theme someone had for say xfce would it work in a different desktop environment?

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Pud11es•

Is there a way to get rounded corners and transparency/Opacity in Sway WM?

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snaxx_1•

I am completely new to Linux. I just installed Manjaro KDE Plasma and don’t like the overall aesthetic. How do I make my desktop look nice? Any tutorials or tips? Thanks

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mamg22:Ubuntu:•

I have a problem with vi mode in zsh (5.4.2), when I enter command mode and move back a few characters, then enter insert mode again, backspace won't work with the text that was to the left the cursor prior to entering insert mode, but it does work with the text that was after. The backspace will only delete the text that was to the left only if I enter any character in that part of the line, then backspace works as it would normally do.

It's like the text that was to the left of the cursor in command mode gets in some kind of read-only mode until I explicitly enter characters there.

Edit: typo

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nihad15Debian•

I am not entirely sure why, but I am unable to configure cwm. I created an .cwmrc and placed it inside my home directory, but nothing works even after I exit cwm completely and start it again. I even went as far as adding cwm -c ~/.cwmrc in my xinit, but that is not working either. Is there anything I am missing? I'm using nixos if that matters.

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