I am looking a bit more in-depth at GTK styling - using GTK-Inspector to look at various settings.
Specifically I'm looking at CSS styling.
Under Ubuntu 16.04 GTK-Inspector correctly displays my revised CSS styling.
Under Ubuntu 16.10 it doesn't ... So anybody any ideas what the secret trick is to change the CSS for a GTK application using GTK-Inspector?
16.10:
CSS styling - the button labels do not change to red
16.04:
CSS styling - the button labels correctly change to red
What I do know about applying the same settings for applications to all new users is either defining a schema or override file in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas or copying the folder/file to /etc/skel. When a new user is created, that user is automatically given the gsettings/config file.
So, my question is:
~/.config)? If so which ones?I happen to be using either Gnome Shell or Unity, but I think the answer will apply to any desktop environment.
Note: when I say Chromium, I mean both Google Chrome and Chromium.
What I do know about applying the same settings for applications to all new users is either defining an schema/override file in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas or copying the folder/file to /etc/skel.
When a new user is created, that user is automatically given the gsettings/config file.
So my question is - how do I apply a theme to Chromium and get this to apply to all users? Does Chromium use gsettings type settings? If so, which ones?
Does Chromium use config files (e.g. in ~/.config)? If so, which ones?
I happen to be using either Gnome or Unity - but I suspect any answer will apply to any desktop environment.
I've found this link for a similar Q for Chrome - but for Windows.
Does this apply somehow to Ubuntu ... and also to Chromium?
Having had a quick chat in the general room ... /etc/chromium-browser/customizations was mentioned - so this may give a clue on what may need to be done for themes.
I seem to live my life in the terminal - many terminals in-fact.
I also love the Ambiance theme - but the new borderless windows does not provide the visual differentiation I'm used to (the same black windows appear to blend into each other).
Thus to my question - how do I add back the single pixel border for windows that is found in earlier Ubuntu versions?
I want to keep the Ambiance overall theme since this looks good and I dont want to swap to another theme.
Now I know that I can modify the Ubuntu Ambiance theme as follows:
mkdir ~/.themes
cp -r /usr/share/themes/Ambiance .themes
Then flipping between the theme options in the Settings - Appearance picks up changes in the theme in now in the .themes folder.
I presume I need to alter one of the .css files but I dont know which one.
I was also looking at this Q&A but the solutions there doesnt work for 14.04. I also looked at the community wiki but got rather lost trying to figure out which one applies to my situation.
I'm setting up my first Launchpad project.
In this case I would like to import from the Master branch from my GitHub project - the default branch is not Master - it is a release branch currently called "Release-0.6"
On Launchpad I have set up to automatically import:
As you can see, the import failed - the error log states:
2013-01-07 14:45:11 INFO Starting job. 2013-01-07 14:45:11 INFO Getting exising bzr branch from central store. 2013-01-07 14:45:14 INFO [chan bzr SocketAsChannelAdapter] Opened sftp connection (server version 3) 2013-01-07 14:45:17 INFO [chan bzr SocketAsChannelAdapter] Opened sftp connection (server version 3) 2013-01-07 14:45:17 INFO 291 bytes transferred 2013-01-07 14:45:18 INFO No branch found at remote location.
This is strange since my GitHub project is obviously at the correct web-location.
Thus - what have I done wrong in my configuration?
i.e. how should I have set up my Launchpad project to import from Github?
For historical reasons, the project I co-author is on GitHub and we feel comfortable with its development processes. Thus we don't particularly want to migrate the whole project to Launchpad and using bazaar.
Being good internet-citizens we want to provide our open-source application in as many languages as possible - we stumbled across whilst searching that Launchpad could provide such a service.
The above link gives lots of description on this service, but I need a concise - very brief - how to:
package.pot) from GitHub into launchpad.po) that are generated by the wonderful translation team back into GitHub.Does anybody have any practical experience do this that can help here?
I've been testing out the new WebUpd8 PPA for Rhythmbox which I used to upgrade from Rhythmbox v2.97 to v2.98.
However, when I added this PPA, when using my favourite plugins replaygain and coverart-browser, Rhythmbox crashes with a segmentation fault.
Worse, when this crash happens, my Unity desktop becomes unstable, with various applications failing to start with similar segmentation faults.
Does anybody know the reason for this - but more importantly how to resolve this?
I happen to be using xubuntu but I dont think the desktop-environment is applicable in this context.
I noticed that some gnome-based applications such as rhythmbox cannot fetch any information from the internet if the corporate network is using a proxy.
In this particular scenario - the cover-art search facility of rhythmbox cannot find coverart sought from the various providers on the internet.
I've tried the usual tricks such as setting http_proxy and running rhythmbox from the terminal, but this does not seem to work.
Any ideas?
Adding modified or new text files to my PPA package is simple enough:
Step 1:
apt-get source [foo-package]
cd [foo-package]
Step 2: add or modify new text files containing the changes
Step 3 - update the changelog:
dch -i
Step 4 - create a patch
dpkg-source --commit
Step 5 - create a source package
debuild -S
Step 6 - upload to launchpad
cd ..
dput [myppa]/[foo_source.changes]
However, I now need to add a new icon file (a .png file) to the existing package.
So at step 2 - just copied into the [foo-package]
At step 4 - I get the following errors:
dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to foo-package/foo-icon.png: binary file contents changed
dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source
If I attempt to move to step 5 I get the following additional errors to the above:
dpkg-source: error: add foo-package/foo-icon.png in debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in the Debian tar-ball
...
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S failed
Any ideas how do I add a binary icon file to my existing PPA package?
More information
By running:
debuild -S --source-option=--include-binaries
This then allows for the source package to be built and step 6 is possible.
However this isnt really the answer - because I subsequently cannot then make further code changes (step 2) because I'm still getting the same errors.
It doesnt look like I can do dpkg-source --commit --source-option=--include-binaries because this just gives errors:
dpkg-source --commit --source-option=--include-binaries
dpkg-source: warning: --source-option=--include-binaries is not a valid option for Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::quilt
dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to foo-package/foo-icon.png: binary file contents changed
dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source
Now that the dust has settled and Rhythmbox has become (again) the default music-media player in 12.04 & 12.10, I'm interested in extending its functionality.
For example, the default lyric plugin does not work for me and there doesn't appear to be an sound-equalizer by default.
Having done a search, I came across the Gnome-website that lists a number of third-party plugins, some-of which I wish to install which can resolve the above.
However, there doesn't appear to be .deb packages or a repository containing these plugins.
Instead there are links to source-code websites such as GitHub and others.
So, I'm confused - I don't know which plugins works in 12.04 or 12.10 versions of Rhythmbox (v2.96 & v2.97) and I'm not sure how to install these.
I would like to create a brand new deb package to install series of files. If at all possible, I would like to untar the folder containing these files as part of the installation into a known folder location. Failing that, some knowledge how to package the source folders and files would be very useful.
Question is - is this possible and if so - how?
Lets give an example:
~/mypluginfolder/ contains the files x, y, a subfolder called abc and inside that another file called z.
I want to tar this folder: tar -cvf myfiles.tar ~/mypluginfolder
I presume my debian package would look like
myfiles.tar.gz
myfiles+ppafoss_0.1-1/
myfiles.tar
DEBIAN
changelog, compat, control, install, rules source
Is it possible to somehow untar myfiles.tar to a known folder location for example
/usr/share/rhythmbox/plugins/
Thus the final result would be:
/usr/share/rhythmbox/plugins/mypluginfolder
/usr/share/rhythmbox/plugins/mypluginfolder\x
/usr/share/rhythmbox/plugins/mypluginfolder\y
/usr/share/rhythmbox/plugins/mypluginfolder\abc\z
If - presuming launchpad needs source, advice is sought as to where I should drop the source folders and files into the deb package structure.
This will eventually will become a series of individual launchpad PPA packages.
What I prefer (but may not be able to achieve...) is to keep my packaging to a minimum - create a series of packages from a template and adjust the bare minimum (changelog etc + the tar file/file & folder structure).
I've reading about about the Cinnamon Desktop through this Q&A:
How do I install the Cinnamon Desktop?
I've also been looking at the various possible various flavours of Ubuntu such as Unity/Gnome-shell and KDE:
My concern is about running applications on Cinnamon - I'm fairly new to linux and am unsure about running software - especially about potentially mixing different software that may have been targeted at different desktops.
Can I run a Kubuntu or Unity applications in Cinnamon or do I have to get specific Cinnamon only applications? For example, KOffice/Libreoffice, Okular/evince etc.
Any help understanding what potential impacts such as extra software I may need to use or additional configuration to make sure that various different software behave and look like each other would be gratefully received.
I've been reading about the Cinnamon Desktop through this Q&A:
How do I install the Cinnamon Desktop?
Also I've been reading these theming questions:
I'm trying to understand downloading & installing themes. I see that I can download GTK2 & GTK3 but I'm unsure I understand the differences.
I see there are themes such as Unity Themes, Gnome-Shell themes from websites such as Gnome-look.org
How do I apply these themes to Cinnamon? I'm new to Cinnamon so a beginners guide would be very useful.
I have read that there is a new Gnome-2 like interface called Cinnamon produced by the Linux Mint developers.
Is this available for Ubuntu users - and if so how do I install it?
With the plethora of potential interfaces available
my question is - what is meant by "the lightest desktop interface" - and can you now consider Unity-2d as "Light"?
Any guidance on the pro's and con's would be extremely useful for my evaluation - my target computer is a
I would like to use it for web-browsing such as youtube, google-earth, simple graphical picture editing and word processing - all aimed for school student aged 10-15 yrs.
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What download managers are available for Ubuntu? Can you provide the link as well?
Are there any configuration options for the Unity desktop?
There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over several versions of Ubuntu. For your convenience an index of each below (How can I tell which Ubuntu release I'm using?):
If you're looking to configure Unity 2D, look here.