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KDE global menu disappeared in Plasma 5.12

I upgraded to plasma 5.12 and the global menus disappeared, and the entry in settings also disappeared. Application Style ⇒ Widget Style ⇒ Fine Tuning I tried deleting the plasma* files from ~/.config and also the whole ~/.kde folder thinking it…
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How do I customize Gnome screen shield / curtain / login screen appearance?

Gnome desktop seems configurable in various ways: in "Gnome settings", with gnome-extensions, gnome-tweak-tool, gsettings or dconf-editor. However, apart from this procedure to change the login screen background, which involves a little bit of glib…
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Can I set appearance for GNOME Debian?

Is there any tool to set appearance for GNOME Debian 7.2.0? I feel title bar is too thick and font is too big. I'm just leaving Ubuntu for Debian, so I'm not so familiar with it.
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Change view in emacs dired mode

What options are there to change the view of a directory in emacs dired mode? How to apply it? How can I change it on the fly? In particular I want to know: How to make it show the file sizes in human readable format (MB, GB, ...)? How to omit the…
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How to change/remove blue panel glow in KDE4.6?

After a system (as well as KDE) update, I got this blue panel glow which appears on hover. I browsed through system settings, panel settings, desktop settings, but couldn't find an option to change/remove this blue glow. Did anyone else encounter…
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How can i fix the font size in XFCE after installing a proprietary graphic driver

After installing the Nvidia driver of my graphic card the font size becomes very tiny, how can i restore his size (I am Using Linux Mint 18.1 XFCE).
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make ls gray out files that end with tilde (`~`) using `LS_COLOR`

Problem: I am trying to modify LS_COLORS to gray out all files ending with the tilde character. Question: Can anybody spot my mistake? Here is what I did: # write dircolors file: dircolors -p > ~/.dircolors # add a line echo >> ~/.dircolors echo…
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How to turn off smooth scrolling in KDE4

I want to turn off smooth scrolling in KDE4 applications. By smooth scrolling, I mean the visual effect that causes the contents of a scrollable area to shift a bit at a time when I scroll with PageUp/PageDown: I want the transition between one page…
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How to change QtCurve style/theme without KDE via config file editing?

I have downloaded a QtCurve theme. I do not use KDE, I use a standalone WM (awesome). How do I change QtCurve style/theme via config file editing? Which config file contains this setting?
Danil Gaponov
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How do I change Xfce 4 "theme" tab colors?

I recently switched over to Xfce and really enjoy it. However, when I went in to my settings to change the appearance, the theme that I liked best was "Xfce-dusk" with one exception: The default colors for application tabs are so dark that it's hard…
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How to disable popup inscriptions in gnome 2?

When one moves mouse cursor to certain positions following inscriptions appear: "Window Menu", "Close Window" and so on. How to disable them?
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Minimalist window decorations etc in OpenBox or similar

I am currently customising my netbook's ArchLinux install. I really like the minimalist basic style of things like the ThinMC window borders in Gnome, and the FullFlat Firefox theme. What options are available to recreate this look on something…
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How to get default xfce4 color themes

I have switched from Debian with systemd to Devuan without systemd and my quality of life has much improved. Both operating systems have xfce4 as desktop environment. But I have noticed that all the color themes in Settings -> Appearance -> Style (I…
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Command for detecting whether the system is using a dark or light desktop theme?

There's a way in browsers to query if the user prefers a dark or light theme so that a website developer could adapt the website's colours according to user preference. Is there also a way to detect that on the command line? Is there a command that…
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How to automate switching between light and dark modes?

I am a user of 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…
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