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12 posts are tagged "eyecandy"

Change XTerm's Window Icon

Venerable and versatile XTerm. Carrying cruft from four decades. I am a big friend of lightweight terminal emulators - I want them to pop up immediately, without having to run a daemon. Despite all its baggage, xterm is extremely fast. Change the Window Icon (pixmap) The default icon is absolutely h.....

Change Application Window Icons Elegantly

The situation Sometimes you want to change the icon an application displays e.g. in the panel but cannot for some reason. Changing the icon theme does not help, and the application has no means of telling it to use another icon. Changing the icon referenced in the software's .desktop file (usually .....

Pico CMS TagBlog Theme

Symlink to README.md of the repository of the tagblog theme (as seen in this blog), with screenshots and instructions. Warning: can be ahead of the official repo.

Use root‑tail & top instead of conky

Conky is good for displaying things on the desktop. But it has a few disadvantages: There's no option to continuously show the output of a command (or file), like tail -f or dmesg -w, and update conky's output as that output grows. [X] Some internal conky commands measuring system resources are bug.....

Android: Create & Use Your Own Bootanimation

These are my experiences on a rooted Acer E39 (a.k.a liquid E700) with Android 4.4.2 (kitkat). I hope they apply to other models & Android versions, too. Most of the work (except where indicated otherwise) was done on an Arch Linux desktop computer. First of all you should have an idea what sort.....