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How can I get a "minimize" button?
Apps designed for elementary OS save their state and open and close instantly. In this way, there is functionally little difference between close and minimize. You can read more about the rationale on ...
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I've changed my system stylesheet or icons and things broke, now what?
In general, changing these important system assets is not recommended. App developers consider the existence of system icons and stylesheet classes to be a given. There is no way to ensure quality or ...
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How can I get a "minimize" button?
You can get the minimize button with elementary-tweaks. Follow the following steps.
Step 1: Install elementary-tweaks (For Elementary Freya)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mpstark/elementary-tweaks-...
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How to replace wingpanel's "Applications" text with a icon in Freya
According to elementaryosnewbie's answer on Reddit. Thought it'd
be best to have this on the Elementary OS Stack Exchange. Big thanks
to him for sharing it. If this has already been posted I apologies ...
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How can I change the default Terminal font?
For versions 5.0 above:
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings font 'FiraCode 10'
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Is it possible to get rid of the title bar for Firefox?
Since Firefox Quantum, the extensions mentioned in the accepted answer has been discontinued. However, as noted by Mehmet Hanoğlu since Firefox 60+, the feature is supported out of the box.
To enable ...
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Is it possible to get rid of the title bar for Firefox?
In the article that you've linked, they recommend using the HTitle add-on. Afterwards, you also need to add the headerbar userstyle and set Hide titlebar: Always in HTitle's add-on preferences.
There ...
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How to solve Gtk-WARNING about “pixmap”
The workaround to eliminate the warnings/errors is by installing gtk2-engines-pixbuf
Open terminal and run:
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf
If you are using a 64-bit system, but using 32-...
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How can I change the icon of an application in the elementary OS
GUI method to change icon of an application:(Using nautilus and Main menu)
Method 1 : Using alacarte
Install Main menu (AKA alacarte)
sudo apt-get install alacarte
Open Main menu
Click on a ...
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How to change elementary OS themes
This answer does cover your question about how to change themes:
How can I add more themes on Elementary-Tweaks??
You can install new themes and themes' usually have their own instructions at their ...
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Applications look ugly when using third-party "Arc OSX themes"
You have installed a theme which generally only applies to applications which use GTK+ 3, for example all default apps in elementary.
There are other toolkits used by developers for Linux apps where ...
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Dark theme on Elementary Code instead of "Solarized Dark"
So, I managed to hack Code a bit in order to set a different theme. I like to have a consistent theme when using various editors, so I tried to make them look as close as possible. At the same time, I ...
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Elementary Tweaks - How can I Toggle "Prefer Dark Theme" via Terminal?
I don't think there is an command for this, but you can edit a file.
Create/edit the following file:
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
And change it to this:
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-...
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Are all GTK 2.0 or GTK 3.0 themes compatible with all desktop environments?
No. There are some themes that are specifically for ubuntu's desktop unity for example, and that works on elementary but it doesn't look good, some features aren't shown, some parts look broken. You ...
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Keep topbar transparent on maximized windows
The key has been changed in Newer version of Wingpanel like version 2.0.1. Use this instead
gsettings set org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel use-transparency true
If you want to reset, use
gsettings ...
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How can I change the default Terminal font?
If you already havent, install elementary-tweaks (For elementary freya):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mpstark/elementary-tweaks-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks
Then ...
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How can I change the icon for a specific file type?
Create a New Mimetype
We have to teach the system about GuitarPro as something called a "mimetype". To do that, we need to create a mimetype package file that contains info about how to identify ...
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elementary tweaks missing in Loki
It looks like there is a new version that's been updated for Loki at https://github.com/elementary-tweaks/elementary-tweaks.
First remove the old PPA as it does not work anymore and could cause ...
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How do I make all window corners to be rounded?
In what looks like a forward-looking change according to issue #5 on the stylesheet's GitHub repo, apps have to request the rounded corners via a class in elementary's GTK+ stylesheet. See pull ...
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GTK theming in snap apps
Snaps don't always work with the system stylesheet. An easy alternative is to use Flatpak apps from Flathub when apps exist in both places, because Flatpak has a mechanism to work with the elementary ...
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How to revert back to normal theme?
The script copied some setting changes into gtk config. So you just need to delete that file.
sudo rm -rf ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
The dock theme however is overridden by the script, so you ...
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Are all GTK 2.0 or GTK 3.0 themes compatible with all desktop environments?
It depends on the theme. Some themes are designed specifically for a desktop environment so it won't look so good when you try to apply it in another distro. You should just try, you can even make ...
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Problem with Transparency in menu
This should work (I can't try at my own OS because my wingpanel modified by code):
Open terminal and:
dconf-editor
(if you don't have dconf-editor simply sudo apt-get install dconf-editor)
Then ...
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Set transparency of the window for a specific application
Adding a transparent theme:
The first thing we need is to copy a GTK theme (i.e. elemantary default theme) and modify it to display transparent windows. This can be a tough task, editing and testing ...
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How do I change the background color and font color of wingpanel XGTK theme?
modify osd in gtk.css in Gtk3 folder
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Why are some apps dark and some apps light?
It was a design choice of the developers - light-coloured bar looks weird/distracting on generally dark apps like photo viewer or terminal.
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I can't install the elementary-transparent-theme
You can't install/use the themes from this PPA because they are TOO OLD. (Just look at the upload dates!) They support only the older GTK+ versions of older elementary OS versions. elementary OS Loki ...
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Screensaver installation
I'm not aware of a screensaver package that works well with elementary OS.
Other popular screensaver options include XScreensaver and GNOME Screensaver, but I wasn't able to find much information ...
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Well-rated gtk themes that work on Loki
MacOS-Sierra:
cd ~/.themes
git clone https://github.com/B00merang-Project/macOS-Sierra.git
Ant-Themes: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1099856/
OSX-Arc- deb here - requires sudo apt install ...
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