Disable GTK3 window management
Posted: 2018-11-04 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: .bashrc, gtk3, gtk3-nocsd, lxdm, nocsd, profile, window, xfce Leave a commentSome GTK3 programs, such as file-roller and Evince, use their own custom title bar with minimize, maximize and close buttons. Under Xfce, I have experienced hiccups with Evince when maximized: it would refuse to unmaximize the window (or rather, does not remember the dimensions of the unmaximized window) and behaves kinda “sticky” to desktop borders. In another case, if I have the compositor turned off, the window edges are not smoothened and look ugly.
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Prompt colours
Posted: 2018-01-12 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: .bashrc, .bash_profile, .dir_colors, PS1 Leave a commentNow, I have set up my .bashrc and .bash_profile and I have colourful output in my terminal. I decided to customize things a just little bit more…
As a start, I copied the default colour scheme /etc/DIR_COLORS as ~/.dir_colors. I edited to my liking, for example, I do not want coloured files to be in bold.
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.bashrc and .bash_profile
Posted: 2017-12-26 Filed under: system | Tags: .bashrc, .bash_profile, export, source 1 CommentI never had the habit of setting up ~/.bashrc and ~/.bashr_profile or modifying them or any way. I was just happy with the prompt presented when I opened the terminal. It never bothered me that my normal user did not have a colour scheme, for example. Recently, I got curious about that and checked the Slackware Wiki.
Plenty of useful information there.
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