Ubuntu themes
I was over in ubuntu_users, and someone was asking how to use the gtkrc files to make the handles (three lines in the middle) on the scrollbar go away. I didn't know such a thing was possible (save in the abstract sense that if you're a big enough computer geek, anything is possible). I tracked down my gtkrc files, figured out how to alter the code to get rid of the lines, posted my solution, and a whole new world opened up to me.
I am currently using the default Human theme in Ubuntu, which is a fairly ugly orange-brown scheme. However, it's the only one where I can figure out how to get the elegant diagonal bars on the scrollbar. So using what is probably the worst theme-fix ever (but hey, it's my first day), I adapted the Human theme to look like the Clearlooks theme, all in a nice light blue, with different icons for the logout menu, the trash, and the volume. The volume icon change actually turned out to be a bad idea, because the blue sound wave-thingies are nearly the same blue as the icon background. In Clearlooks the contrast is much sharper.
Icon substitutions are a PAIN, may I say, involving not coding but moving icons from one folder to another. Just getting the trash icon took me about 30 icon moves, I kid you not, and 30 deletions of the original files. All of which have to be done in the command line as root user. So I haven't made all the substitutions I would like, having called it a day after the volume change.
But I'm pleasantly surprised by my ability to understand the parts that involve coding, and to modify the scrollbars and color schemes and styles and such.
In other Linux-related news, I reinstalled the OS last Sunday, which gave me the opportunity to organize my bookmarks and documents, and to get the Brazilian Portuguese keyboard as my default. I'm pretty much used to it now, except I still haven't figured out where the tilde character (as opposed to diacritic) is.
I am currently using the default Human theme in Ubuntu, which is a fairly ugly orange-brown scheme. However, it's the only one where I can figure out how to get the elegant diagonal bars on the scrollbar. So using what is probably the worst theme-fix ever (but hey, it's my first day), I adapted the Human theme to look like the Clearlooks theme, all in a nice light blue, with different icons for the logout menu, the trash, and the volume. The volume icon change actually turned out to be a bad idea, because the blue sound wave-thingies are nearly the same blue as the icon background. In Clearlooks the contrast is much sharper.
Icon substitutions are a PAIN, may I say, involving not coding but moving icons from one folder to another. Just getting the trash icon took me about 30 icon moves, I kid you not, and 30 deletions of the original files. All of which have to be done in the command line as root user. So I haven't made all the substitutions I would like, having called it a day after the volume change.
But I'm pleasantly surprised by my ability to understand the parts that involve coding, and to modify the scrollbars and color schemes and styles and such.
In other Linux-related news, I reinstalled the OS last Sunday, which gave me the opportunity to organize my bookmarks and documents, and to get the Brazilian Portuguese keyboard as my default. I'm pretty much used to it now, except I still haven't figured out where the tilde character (as opposed to diacritic) is.