Modify Xfce Terminal cursor

Posted: 2018-06-05 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I’ve always liked to have my terminal cursor as a blinking underline. This feature is present for the new Xfce Terminal that ships with Slackware -current. Unfortunately it cannot be enabled from the preferences of Xfce Terminal in Slackware 14.2. It is, however, possible to set it by modifying the config file of the program.
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xflock4: lock the screen

Posted: 2017-06-19 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

I am using XFCE and I want to have an entry in the menu that will lock the screen. The command that locks the screen in XFCE is

xflock4

yes… it took me some time to figure it out. Anyway, from here it is quite straightforward. I made the following xflock4.desktop file:
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Industrial modified

Posted: 2016-10-16 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

One of my all time favourite GTK2 themes is the good old Industrial, part of the gtk-engines. I even maintain at SBo the GTK1 Industrial engine/theme. Unfortunatelly, there is no port to GTK3 and seems there will not be anytime soon. Just as with almost all famous GTK2 engines/themes. New themes are emerging following the flat design fashion that I am really not fond of.
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Legacy icons in XFCE

Posted: 2016-07-17 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I 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 »

Thunar: do not execute shell script files

Posted: 2016-04-12 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, SlackBuilds, system | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Every time I need to open a shell script file that is executable (typically a SlackBuild), I right click on it in Thunar and select my editor from the Open with sub-menu. I miss the functionality of Nautilus, where I could tell the file browser to directly open such shell script files in a text editor when double clicked.

I searched a little and found several discussions about it. Read the rest of this entry »

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