Legacy icons in XFCE
Posted: 2016-07-17 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop | Tags: gnome, gnome-colors, gnome-icon-theme, icons, tango, xfce | Leave a commentI finally upgraded to Slackware64 14.2. I made a clean install and set up the system to be -multilib
. I use XFCE and I wanted to use my favourite GNOME Colors icon theme. It is not available at SBo for Slackware 14.2 anymore and it depends on gnome-icon-theme that was removed from Slackware in favour of adwaita-icon-theme. Read the rest of this entry »
Extra toolbar buttons in SeaMonkey
Posted: 2015-10-30 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: customize, extension, firefox, icons, plugin, seamonkey, thunderbird, toolbar | 1 CommentA very nice extension for SeaMonkey is the Toolbar Buttons. It provides many additional buttons for the browser — just right click on the toolbar, select Customize and drag whatever you need on the toolbar: Read the rest of this entry »
SeaMonkey private browsing
Posted: 2015-09-20 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: .desktop, browsing, icons, private, seamonkey | 1 CommentI prefer to have a separate menu entry to start my web browser in private mode. I have been using SeaMonkey for quite some time and I always did: Read the rest of this entry »
XFCE semi-transparent desktop icons text background
Posted: 2015-07-01 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop | Tags: icons, xfce | 1 CommentTo make the XFCE desktop icons text background semi-transparent (as opposed to fully transparent) create this file in the $HOME
directory: ~/.gtkrc-2.0
and put the following in it: Read the rest of this entry »
Custom xdg user directories
Posted: 2015-04-02 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: .desktop, folders, icons, xdg, xdg-dirs, xfce | Leave a commentI do not particularly like the standard folders that are automatically created in my $HOME
. I used to just delete them and then set emblems on my own folders in XFCE. Some time ago, I found a discussion on LinuxQuestions about what program creates these automatically. Read the rest of this entry »