Howto change the color/transparency of wingpanel

May 22, 2020July 8, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ 1 Comment

This guide shows you howto change the color of the wingpanel. If you wish to have different color than shown in this guide I suggest installing Gimp from the App Center to easily get the RBG numbers.

Open the terminal and copy/paste;

nano ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Insert the following;

/*********************

* wingpanel support *

********************/

.panel {

    background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);

    transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
}


.panel.maximized {

    background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
    
    }

This will make your wingpanel white transparent. The 3 first number in RGBA is the color numbers. Use Gimp to find the color you want. If you want a black wingpanel, change all 255 with 0. The last number is how transparent the panel is going to be. It range from 0.0 (complete transparent) to 1.0 (Solid).

Save: [ctrl]+[o]

Exit: [ctrl]+[x]

When done type;

killall wingpanel

Enjoy! ^_^

Tested on: elementary OS 5.1.4 – 5.1.6

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/elementaryos/comments/cru778/how_to_make_the_wingpanel_always_transparent/

Howto change the login screen with blur effect in elementary OS

May 20, 2020June 1, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ 1 Comment

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This guide show you how to give you login screen a background taken from your wallpaper of your user with blur effect.

WARNING: It’s on experimental level and can be unstable, so use it at your own risk!

Preparation

First you need to install proper packages/libs -dev to use for building a new greeter. Open the terminal and copy/paste;

sudo apt install git libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgranite-dev libgtk-3-dev liblightdm-gobject-1-dev libwingpanel-2.0-dev libx11-dev meson valac libmutter-2-dev

A lot of packages will now be install for compiling and building.

Downloading

This will download the source of the greeter;

cd && cd Downloads
git clone https://github.com/elementary/greeter.git

Compiling and Installation

Now to the compiling the source of the greeter and installation of it;

cd greeter
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install

Now logout and see your new greeter.

Enjoy! ^_^

Tested on: elementary OS 5.1.4

Howto enable system tray on elementary OS

May 19, 2020June 1, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ 1 Comment

Many applications still uses the old system tray implantation. This guide will show you how to enable it on elementary OS.

Open the terminal and copy/paste the following;

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yunnxx/elementary
sudo apt update
sudo apt install indicator-application wingpanel-indicator-ayatana

The next thing is to add Pantheon to your autostart/indicator-application.desktop

sudo nano /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-application.desktop

You’ll find a line called OnlyShowIn=Unity;GNOME; add Pantheon; to it. It should now look like;

OnlyShowIn=Unity;GNOME;Pantheon;

Save: [ctrl]+[o]
Exit: [ctrl]+[x]

There’s a bug that will show you two network indicators in your system tray.. To correct it, copy/paste;

cd /etc/xdg/autostart
sudo rm nm-applet.desktop

Reboot

Enjoy! ^_^

TESTED on: elementary OS 5.1.4

Howto use live wallpaper on elementary OS

May 18, 2020June 1, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ Leave a comment

It’s possible to have Live Wallpaper on elementary OS. This guide shows you have to install it. If you want a peak I have made a video on Youtube.

INSTALLATION

Open the terminal and copy/paste;

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fyrmir/livewallpaper-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install livewallpaper livewallpaper-config livewallpaper-indicator

You should now have to launcher in Slingshot. Press the LiveWallpaper Preference to set up your wallpaper and style/color etc.

Enjoy! ^_^

Tested on: elementary OS 5.1.4

Howto get rid of the text “Applications” in Slingshot (Application Menu)

May 17, 2020June 1, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ 5 Comments

If you are looking for a way to get rid of the “Applications” text in Slingshot here’s a guide to do so. This guide uses the default elementary theme as an example. Adjust the guide to the theme you use.

Open the terminal and copy/paste;

nano '~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css'

Add the following;

.panel.maximized > .horizontal:first-child > :first-child, 
.panel.color-dark > .horizontal:first-child > :first-child {
    font-size:0px;
}

Save: [ctrl]+[o]
Exit: [ctrl]+[x]

Logout and login and the changes should take affect.

If you want to change Slingshot magnifier glass with a custom one, please look at this guide: Howto change the magnifier glass in Slingshot (Application Menu)

Enjoy! ^_^

Source: Reddit

Tested on: elementary OS 5.1.4

Howto change the magnifier glass in Slingshot (Application Menu).

May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ 1 Comment

This guide shows you how to change the magnifier glass in Slingshot. This example uses (e)papirus icon theme as demostration and it uses the good old elementary logo for the purpose. If you are skilled with inkscape you can make your own.
If you’re using a different icon theme, you need to adjust this guide.

First download the “e” from here: Download

Extract it. When it’s done copy it to ~/.icons/ePapirus/symbolic/actions

Enjoy! ^_^

Source: https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com
Tested on: elementary OS 5.1.4

Howto stop app running in the background in elementary OS

May 15, 2020May 17, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ Leave a comment

By default elementary OS is pretty slim, but there may be some applications you don’t use and in no need of running in the background. Example I don’t need orca or onboard to startup as I’m using a stationary computer.

WARNING: If you disable something vital you’ll end up with a broken system. Use with caution!

Open the terminal and copy/paste;

sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop
gnome-session-properties

Now you can see what’s is set to running when starting elementary OS. Now be careful what you disable.

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Tested on: elementary OS 5.1.4

Howto run multiply planks in elementary OS

May 14, 2020June 1, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ Leave a comment

This guide will show you how to run multiply planks on elementary OS. It can be rather useful if you have more than one monitor.

Open the terminal and copy/paste:

plank -n panel-two --preferences

In this example I use the word panel-two, but you can call it whatever you want. You can call them panel-one, panel-two, panel-three etc.
Now setup your new panel.

When done, go to System Settings. Click Applications and pick Startup.

Add the following command;

plank -n panel-two

Now log out and log in. You’ll now have an extra plank.
Enjoy! ^_^

Tested on: elementary OS 5.1.4

Howto change Slingshot to the old style in elementary OS

May 14, 2020July 5, 2020 ~ Seth Storm Rosenaa ~ 1 Comment

This guide will show you how to change Slingshot back to how it should looks like.

First we need to get older libs. One for Slingshot and one for elementary Tweaks. Open the terminal and copy/paste:

cd && cd Downloads
wget https://github.com/ATVG-Studios/applications-menu/releases/download/2.5.0-c2/libslingshot.so

Next thing is to backup the current libs, so you can switch back if needed. Copy/paste:

sudo cp -r /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wingpanel/libslingshot.so libslingshot.so_backup

Now you can copy the downloaded libs into Slingshot and elementary-tweaks:

sudo cp -r libslingshot.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wingpanel

Lastly you need to download the schemas that tells on how Slingshot shall be structured: Download here

And you need to copy into /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

sudo cp -r io.elementary.desktop.wingpanel.applications-menu.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
killall wingpanel

Now you have the old look and feel from Slingshot.

To prevent newer release of slingshot and elementary-tweaks to reset the tweaks you made, you have to hold to packages back. Copy/paste: