Recently I have installed Elementary OS luna, which is based on Ubuntu. I want to customize the wingpanel to display the menu toolbar of the selected application. This is my wingpanel: But I need it to look like this: The File, Edit, Selection and other menus, and the Close, maximize and minimize icons are on the wingpanel.

I'm currently using Compiz 0.8 to get blur effects and transparency, in place of xfwm4. I had been using Emerald to provide window borders, but I was unhappy with the selection available there. I would prefer to use my GTK theme window borders (the ones I get when I run xfwm4 --replace in the terminal). It turns out you can pass the command gtk-window-decorator --replace to use the standard GTK window borders. However, these use some sort of default theme that looks really out of place. I have no idea how to change it. I'm running Arch Linux with XFCE. The Arch Linux wiki provided me with the same answer that a lot of other pages did - to use gsettings to change some entries. This didn't work, probably because (as the wiki page says, albeit without any elaboration) that Compiz-reloaded, the project that represents the continued maintenance of the Compiz 0.8 project, have switched to using Marco instead of Metacity. So that leaves me at a loss. The change was rather recent, and Compiz is pretty far past its prime, so I can't find much on how to deal with this issue with the recent changes.

Recently, I modified my whole ext4 system to become a btrfs one, which was successful. Then, I modified the subvolumes to look like the following:

(btrfs partition block device):
├─@rootfs (subvolume for /)
├─@home (subvolume for /home)
├─@log (subvolume for /var/log)
├─@libvirt (subvolume for /var/lib/libvirt)
├─@opt (subvolume for /opt)

I was able to mount everything properly when booting after using Rescuezilla's live environment for the configurations (for /etc/fstab and grub-install), and I added root=UUID=[btrfs partition UUID] rootflags=rw,subvol=@rootfs to the grub kernel parameters. Now, I have the themes files in the /@rootfs/boot/grub directory, but Grub does not seem to recognize the location and defaults to the default theme whenever I boot into Grub. How can I make Grub recognize theme files in a btrfs subvolume of the root partition? Edit: I have created a separate luks1-encrypted boot partition to try to solve this. Everything still works but detecting the theme. The error message (that is thankfully inert) is about a nonexistent file somewhere in /usr/share/grub. I installed grub2 with grub-install --uefi-secure-boot --boot-directory=/boot --efi-directory=/boot/efi --directory=/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi --themes=vimix --target=x86_64-efi /dev/nvme0n1p1 The grub error message when booting is:

error: file `/usr/share/desktop-base/ceratopsian-theme/grub/grub-16x9.png' not found.

The file does exist though, at least in the @rootfs subvolume. I read this which seems to have the same issue, but the solution to stick to the default theme is not helpful: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/grub-error-no-server-is-specified/42389 Edit 2: Now, I have luks2-encrypted the root partition and boot partition (converting luks1 ⇾ luks2 keeping pbkdf2). A new error shows stating how the cryptodisk module cannot be found, and no server is specified. It is harmless, but it prevents the theme directory from even appearing if the root partition cannot be unlocked while using Grub. Post-boot unlocks fine. The link mentioned previously has these conditions. Significant parts of /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=UUID=[uuid of encrypted partition]:debian_crypt crypto=sha512:aes-xts-plain64:512:0: root=UUID=[uuid of mapped btrfs root device from encrypted partition at /dev/mapper/debian_crypt] rd.luks.name=[uuid of mapped btrfs root device from encrypted partition at /dev/mapper/debian_crypt]=debian_crypt rd.luks.options=[uuid of mapped btrfs root device from encrypted partition at /dev/mapper/debian_crypt]=tpm2-device=auto,password-echo=no,tries=1 rootflags=rw,subvol=@rootfs intel_iommu=on iommu=pt efi=runtime i915.enable_guc=2"

# If your computer has multiple operating systems installed, then you
# probably want to run os-prober. However, if your computer is a host
# for guest OSes installed via LVM or raw disk devices, running
# os-prober can cause damage to those guest OSes as it mounts
# filesystems to look for things.
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

...

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1200,auto

...

GRUB_THEME="/usr/share/grub/themes/vimix/theme.txt"
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/desktop-base/ceratopsian-theme/grub/grub-16x9.png"

# Enable cryptodisk in case it is needed
GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y

GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt btrfs cryptodisk"

update-grub output:

Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/vimix/theme.txt
Found background image: .background_cache.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.15-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.15-amd64
Found memtest86+ 64bit EFI image: /boot/memtest86+x64.efi
Found memtest86+ 32bit EFI image: /boot/memtest86+ia32.efi
Found memtest86+ 64bit image: /boot/memtest86+x64.bin
Found memtest86+ 32bit image: /boot/memtest86+ia32.bin
Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries.
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
done

I need to install an icon for a custom MIME type under Linux Mint 22.1. I've figured out a solution: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/797501 . However, it only works for one icon theme, but I would like to install the icon so that it works with all icon themes. I believe to understand that hicolor icon theme is the standard fallback theme, and I tried installing the icon for hicolor, as suggested, for example, in this forum thread: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=433144 . It did not work for me. Moreover, the standard Linux Mint interface for selecting the icon theme does not even let to select hicolor on its own, so it is hard to debug. What should I do? Related questions: * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2647241 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/270250 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/404955 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/564816 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/585997 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/683023 * https://superuser.com/q/603020

This theme (Gently) used to make the highlighted areas of VLC in the image below transparent, now it doesn't. Other applications are working fine (Kate, Dolphin, plasmoids, menus). I've been playing around in InkScape for hours but no changes

I have read that Xubuntu 18.04 has a dark theme , but I could not find it anywhere. I have manually upgraded to the newest version from 16.04. Perhaps this is the reason why I could not find it, or do I need an extra tool?

I am using a fairly recent version of Cinnamon (5.4.12), with desktop theme Adwaita-dark (and Adwaita sometimes). When I start a gnome-terminal window, it has a very thin (1px?) white border all around it. But as I like black terminals, I configured a black background to it, but now, I cannot see the window borders anymore. This also happens with other dark background applications. It can be very confusing to know which is which when terminal windows are overlapping, or even just next to one another. I tried to change this colour with no success: - by searching in the theme files in /usr/share/themes/Adwaita, - by playing with ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css to override some configuration, - by reading other similar questions , but they are either outdated or not applying to my use case. So, **how can I change the border colour of gnome-terminal (and possibly all other) windows to white?**

I am not a fan of the newer “touch screen” looks that GTK has these days. I appreciate what the GTK devs are doing (and to be honest, they look great!) But, I am not on a tablet, I am on a laptop and my pointing device is very precise. I use a mouse, not my finger. Even though large toolbars with huge icons are great with touch devices, but they are not that great with laptops that has a mouse. I want to see more on a screen, not less. I also hate newer trends of having less information density on the screen. To avoid that I switched from GNOME 3 to GNOME 2 Mate. It works but a lot of GTK applications are still so bad. Here are some examples, On the left is what I want, but on the right is what I have on my MATE desktop. **Spacing:** (on left) _Menu, Applications_ are so close together without wasting any space. (on right) _Mouse Orientation, Locate Pointer, Pointer Speed_ have unnecessary space between them. **Spacing within sections:** (on left) Inside _Applications_ section, all the check-boxes and their options are on spot on. (on right) Inside the _Mouse Orientation_, the _Right-handed_ and _Left-handed_ radio buttons have too much space in between. **Sliders:** The sliders in the left is small but on the right they are too big. In fact it looks like they have been resize and hence the blurriness. The menubar and toolbar have too much padding on the top and bottom in the right (my MATE desktop) than on the left. Forget the icon labels, the icons are too big for me (on the right). Also the tabs _Untitled Document 1_ (on right) are much bigger than _Downloads_ (on left). And same with the drop downs menus. The menu on my MATE desktop are padded too much at the top and bottom than the bottom one. . And also buttons. The buttons are huge. Why the unnecessary space? The smaller buttons below are much better than the one on the top. Again, I get it, that touch screen devices need bigger buttons and imperfect pointing methods are the reason why they are so big. And I have no problem with that. But these modern trends of making everything big is so bad for laptops. I have tried many different themes to make it smaller and this is the most compact one I could get. There are theme that make these UI elements so freaking big (Adwita or something like that). Ironically, (with some quirks here and there) Kirta and Inkscape guys did the UI much better than GNOME and GIMP. I though GIMP would be better since they created the toolkit. Anyways, is there any way of making these compact so that I can have a lot of buttons/sliders/dropdows/other UI elements and windows on my screen when I am working. I don't care about the aesthetics. I want functionality. Does anyone know how to make make as close as the ones I showed in my examples.

So I have installed ZSH + oh-my-zsh + powerlevel9k on my Ubuntu server edition. While it's working including the colors (I used darkorange background to display current user), I cannot get the glyphs to work. In place of the home folder icon () when I'm on the user home folder, all I see is a triangle. Can someone please advice how this can be done? Thanks

I recently switched to Fedora KDE 36, with Plasma 5.25.2. Using X11, because I'm experiencing bad visual glitches with Wayland (NVIDIA GPU). Now I would like to enable some form of **transparency+blur** on Plasma's Breeze theme (dark). I have been searching for some time now, but I have not found a solution that is applicable/up-to-date. Here's what I tried: - Go to System Settings -> Appearance -> Application Style, click the Configure style button on Breeze, go to the Transparency tab and change it: That doesn't do anything. - Look for transparent Breeze themes. I read somewhere that one "needs to use a theme that supports transparency". First result is always Breeze Transparent , but that's a Yakuake skin, so don't bother. Tried KvKonqi and Genome Dark with Kvantum. Not similar enough, and they don't respect the accent colour. They allow for some spotty transparency though (in Dolphin every other line is opaque...) - Go to System Settings -> Window Management -> Window Rules -> Add New... and create a transparency rule for every window. That works, but it does not apply blur - even though in System Settings -> Workspace Behaviour -> Desktop Effects, Blur and Background contrast are enabled. There is also the Translucency option, and it allows me to make moving windows translucent, which works okay. They don't blur either, though. - There is this Reddit post claiming that one can simply edit /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/default/metadata.desktop and change contrast to a higher value. This file does not exist on my machine, but I do have a /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/F36/metadata.desktop with the appropriate entry. Could not see any change. Does anybody have a working solution? Note that panel transparency is working, and the one app that allows transparency while respecting the blur settings is Konsole.

Just installed Linux Mint 17 "Rebecca" Mate. I'm trying to install a new theme. I've downloaded a couple and their instructions request that contents are copied to /usr/share/themes However, I don't have writing permissions to copy to this folder. I carried out a workaround to basically force the download into /themes, but encountered a fairly obstructive error upon booting wherein the ICE authority file could not be updated. This has since been resolved. What's a successful method?

I recently took the leap to Pop OS, but I am struggling to find a Sidebar & Clock / calendar similar to my Windows set-up, see pic attached. Would really appreciate it if anyone has a similar set up. I'm a currency trader and use the clock frequently, especially the second hand.

Distributor ID:	Pop
Description:Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

I'm using a dark theme in Debian, but the Dolphin file manager just ignores it. I have seen some examples of a dark theme in Dolphin, but I can't find a way to do it. I've seen some ways to set a background image, but of course that doesn't help me, because I would have black text on black background. From what I've seen I might need a KDE theme. I have found [this](https://store.kde.org/p/1005685/) , but it gives me a .qtcurve file. I looked up how to use it and [this page](https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-qtcurve-in-kde/) told me to use KDE system settings. Sounds weird, but ok, I installed the systemsettings package. But in the KDE system settings I only had the categories "shortcuts", "network settings" and "network connectivity". So I installed kde-config-gtk-style and it did indeed add the "application style" category to the KDE settings. There I first tried setting "BlackMATE" as the GTK2 and GTK3 theme, which did nothing. Then I tried importing the downloaded theme file, which didn't work, because it expected a .tar file. So I packed the theme file into a .tar archive (which seems weird, why would I need to do that?) and imported that, which made the settings window become unresponsive and then close itself. I guess it's not the sort of tar file it expects? When I click "download GTK2 themes" or "download GTK3 themes", it stays at "initialising" and does nothing. So how do I set a dark theme in Dolphin? Do I even need the KDE settings? Debian 9.5 Cinnamon 3.2.7 Dolphin 16.08.3

I use gnome-terminal on Ubuntu / Fedora. For color schemes I use [base16-shell](https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell) , along with its corresponding settings for my editor vi. I have configured my .bashrc to set the base16 theme on start up. I sometimes switch between themes by changing this bashrc file. This works for occasional changes to my color scheme, as I can just my .bashrc once in a while and all future windows open with the correct color. **What I want?** I want to be able to change color scheme on all open gnome-terminal windows with a single click / command. Is there a way to do that? **About my Workflow** I usually have a bunch of terminal windows open with different settings on them. Some of them have text editors open, and some text editor program (vim) in the background, to allow multi-tasking with multiple text editors on the same terminal window. Depending on the lighting in the room, I feel it is better to switch between two color schemes - A light color scheme during the day / brightly lit room, and dark color scheme during the night, not so well lit room. I don't want to go and type a command to switch color schemes on each open terminal windows. Besides some may have a program running in the foreground printing, which I may not want to interrupt. Is there a way to "signal" the terminal to switch to a custom color scheme? I understand it might be difficult to do it on terminals that have a program running actively in the foreground. But at least can I do it for all other terminals which have programs in the background, or no command running. I am willing to explore other terminals if that would help. I have been thinking of using gnome-terminal profiles, but can't seem to figure out how to achieve exactly what I want. Thanks in advance!

I am using xubuntu 18.04, but this question should preferably be applicable to all linux installations having both desktop managers "xfce" and "fluxbox". So I have started with xubuntu (i.e. ubuntu with xfce) but I have also apt install fluxbox as well. In "Xfce" I use xfce4-settings-manager to select a theme, the result for "Adwaita-dark" theme is shown below, for the "x-terminal-emulator" application: However, when I switch to "fluxbox": As you can see the window's menubar, as well as the preferences window do not obey the selected theme. This is a problem in "nautilus" file manager as well, but not for other applications (such as "Thunar" file manager, which works correctly) Does it perhaps not follow "gtk-2.0" styles ? For that I have set gtk-3.0 in "~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini" [Settings] gtk-theme-name = Adwaita-dark gtk-icon-theme-name = SimplyGrey gtk-fallback-icon-theme = gnome gtk-font-name = Sans 10 # next option is applicable only if selected theme supports it gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true I have also setup QT to use GTK+ styles, but the issue persists. What am I missing here ?

I am trying to create automated routines to switch between light and dark modes for my desktop as described [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/620351/how-to-automate-switching-between-light-and-dark-modes) . The only problem is, I don't know which gsettings commands correspond to the various settings that I wish to change. The settings that I want to change are: * Switch my GNOME terminal from my "light" custom theme to my "dark" custom theme (or vice versa). * In the "Appearance" section of GNOME tweaks, switch the "Applications" theme from Adwaita to Adwaita-dark (or vice versa). * In my chosen text editor (gedit), switch from The "Kate" theme to the "Oblivion" theme (or vice versa). But again, **I don't know** what commands correspond to these changes. Thanks in advance for the help. **EDIT:** I am on Rocky 9, using GNOME.

I have installed Zorin OS Core 17 and I am trying some customisations on it. I want to set an image as background on taskbar. I tried few things but could not find a proper solution. Below are the things I tried: modifying CSS in /usr/share/themes/ZorinGreen-Dark/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css

#panel {
        background-color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 1);
    }

It seems taskbar is denoted with #panel. I currently have Zorin Dark mode with green accent active. On adding this code to CSS file, the color of taskbar changed to red. But this does not seem to work when setting color to transparent, or setting background-image property:

#panel {
    background-image: url('file:///home/username/Pictures/background.jpg');
    background-size: cover; /* Makes the image cover the entire panel */
    background-position: center; /* Centers the image */
    background-repeat: no-repeat; /* Ensures the image does not repeat */
}

The above code made taskbar grey in color. I also tried setting background-color: transparent on top of this, but no effect.

#panel {
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; /* Fully transparent */
    background-image: url('file:///home/username/Pictures/background.jpg') !important;
    background-size: cover !important;
    background-position: center !important;
    background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
}

Similarly no effect due to above code. A workaround I found for this is to set the wallpaper with image of taskbar appended to its bottom, and then set taskbar transparent using 'Zorin Appearance' and setting taskbar opacity to 0, which makes it transparent and shows the image from wallpaper, mimicking image-on-taskbar effect. But this is a workaround, and in case of any other window behind the taskbar, covering the wallpaper, it will ruin this effect. Another observation: There is an extension zorin-taskbar@zorinos enabled that has some settings regarding transparency and image involved as found using LookingGlass. **It would be of help if someone could point out the way to actually put an image on background of taskbar.** *PS: I would appreciate someone guiding the way to debug and figure out custom UI tweaks for this Linux OS, as I am interested in making further tweaks and customisations.*

I play around with dwm and would like to use dolphin as my file-manager. I want dolphin to use a specific coloring. So i copied the theme colors I've created using the system settings from ~/.local/share/color-schemes/*the-theme*.colors to ~/.config/kdeglobals. This works for most KDE-apps like Kate and Okular, but Dolphin does not use some of the attributes. Here is a minimal config I've put to ~/.config/kdeglobals. [Colors:View] BackgroundAlternate=236,199,161 BackgroundNormal=236,199,161 [Colors:Window] BackgroundAlternate=255,219,76 BackgroundNormal=197,158,124 The result i get for Dolphin and Kate looks like this: Is there some other setting for Dolphin i have to add to the file? Thanks to everyone who can provide some info!

I am a user of [Linux Mint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint) . One feature I often wish I had in Linux is the ability to switch between light and dark modes depending on the time of the day, as in macOS and mobile devices. I have put together the following script for switching from light to dark mode:

#!/bin/bash
notify-send "Switching to dark mode"
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme Mint-Y-Dark
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme Mint-Y-Dark
gsettings set org.cinnamon.theme name Mint-Y-Dark

and I have another one for the opposite direction

#!/bin/bash
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme Mint-Y
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme Mint-Y
gsettings set org.cinnamon.theme name Mint-Y

Currently, I run these manually when I want to switch between the two themes. Most programs respect the OS-wide theme meaning this method works surprisingly well! However, there are three problems that I would like to solve with this approach: 1. Automated switching between light/dark modes depending on the time of day (as in macOS). I tried using cron and anacron but they don't work well for this purpose. When my computer is turned on after a period of being off, I would like it to realise that the time to switch has passed and perform the mode switch (as in macOS and various mobile devices); 2. I would like my terminal (GNOME Terminal, Cinnamon default) to switch from a light theme to a dark theme (and vice versa); and 3. I would like my text editor (Emacs) to load a light/dark theme. Even getting just (1) to work would be quite nice!

I prefer the breeze-dark KDE theme. Unfortunately, some gnome apps (such as Firefox) are problematic. In particular, in text input fields in Firefox, one ends up with white text on a white background or dark text on a dark background. I have: Settings -> colors -> options -> apply colors to non-Qt applications enabled Settings -> Application Style -> Gnome Application Style (GTK): GTK3 Theme: Adwaita-dark Icon theme: Adwaita I am not aware of any Adwaita-dark icon theme after extensive searching. To enable breeze-dark for KDE I have: Settings->Application Style-> Widget Style: Breeze Settings->Workspace Theme -> Desktop Theme: Breeze Dark It should not be necessary, but I have also installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/breeze-dark/ . cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini [Settings] gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true gtk-button-images=1 gtk-cursor-theme-name=ComixCursors-Opaque-Orange gtk-fallback-icon-theme=Numix-Circle gtk-font-name=Liberation Sans Regular 11 gtk-icon-theme-name=Adwaita gtk-menu-images=1 gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=1 gtk-theme-name=Adwaita-dark gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS After all of this, Firefox text input fields still have either white text on a white background or dark text on a dark background, making them impossible to read. (Temporary workaround is to highlight the text in a field so I can see what was entered, but that is very clumsy.) The following question claim this closely related issue was a bug that was fixed: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/243435/kde-problem-with-dark-themes However, I a running Arch Linux with the latest KDE Plasma5 and what appears to be the same issue still exists. However, I notice it mainly in text input fields, not necessarily drop down combo boxes.