Switch to Zsh & Oh-My-Zsh
Here's another piece of shell 'coolness'... used by this old geek. Oh My Zsh is a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration : Here is their…
pfetch
If you are like me and like your terminal to offer some status info, but might prefer something a tad more minimal in use and look than neofetch, I recommend…
ascii Terminal Art / Info (Linux)
If you like ascii terminal art (?) here are some entertaining ideas/ links/ guides. ItsFOSS provides some interesting options. Because not everything can be found in every distribution, I have…
Get respect from your QT apps….
If, like me, you have been irritated by QT apps rarely respecting dark themes (or any GTK themes), here is a link that will allow you better alignment of your…
Openbox, simple tiling and other tweaks
If you enjoy Openbox but are looking to implement a few 'non-standard' functions, here are some I find useful. The work below has been tested and runs successfully on PeppermintOS…
POP!_OS how-to replace gnome-terminal
Many of the readers here know that dwm is one of my favorite desktops (window managers). As I have evaluated/ used POP!OS 21.10, I decided to replace (not remove) gnome-terminal…
POP!OS 21.10- Tweaked!
Recently, I decided to give another run at using POP!OS. There were a number of factors that prompted my choice but the most significant was: System76's decision to move their…
dwm-xsetroot based status bar
For those who might be looking for an xsetroot approach for use on their dwm status bar, I made some mods (to a script from clusterF on BunsenLabs). The below…
i3wm (not gaps), rofi, conkybar, conky(2), st (terminal), Nordic Palette on MX21(b2) running Debian Bullseye
Nordic Palette for your desktop.
For those who asked for pointers on arranging their GTK Desktop to Nordic colors, here are my recommendations. If you are unfamiliar with the Nordic Palette here is information on…
xterm & URxvt – make ’em look nicer
If you are interested in small footprint, low resource use terminals, there are few skinnier than xterm and URxvt. The 'thing' that scares most people away from these tiny terminals…