Cosmetic changes - how to?

[Barkingmad]

Hello

I've just started using Bionic64 and there are just few cosmetic items I'd like to change so if if anyone could point me in the right direction for the following that would be great.

Hide some of the rive icons on the desktop. My hard drive has some Windows special partitions that Puppy makes icons for but it would be better if they were "hidden" and just mounted via Pmount if needed.

The overall black/grey/red colour scheme doesn't really do it for me. Can I change it to something more like the default in Taha?

Where does the desktop wallpaper hide? I might like one of my own pics up there sometime

[mikewalsh]

Hiya, Barking.

All pretty straight-forward.

Drive icons:-

Rt-clk any drive icon->Run Desktop Drive Icon Manager. Takes you to the 'Drive Icons' tab of the EventManager. I think you just untick ALL the boxes.....certainly, if you untick the first one, "Show desktop icons for each drive", you're then left with a single icon for pMount.

Theme:-

Menu->Desktop->JWMDeskManager. On the 'Desktop' tab, you want the GTK theme chooser.....and probably summat like zigbert's 'Stardust' theme would be nearer what I think you want.

Wallpapers:-

Any image placed in /usr/share/backgrounds will show up in JWMDeskManager, when you click on the 'Backgrounds' button (next to the Theme Chooser). You can then select it as your default. JPG or PNG images work best, and it helps to make sure the image you choose has already been set to the same dimensions as your screen ('Image'->'Scale' will let you do this in the GIMP. Then either 'Overwrite', or 'Export As' if you want to save it as a different file-name.)

Hope that helps!

Mike.

[Barkingmad]

Hello and thanks Mike

Themes and wallpaper sorted.

Drive icons: I'm don't know if what I would like is possible.
I have seven partitions that appear as icons for sda1 to sda7. Only 3 and 7 are likely to be used often in linux - 3 is the main "out of Pupsave" space and 7 is where the Pupsave lives. The others are things like Dell Windows recovery files and the Efi boot partition that I don't want to get altered accidentally.
What I thought would be best would be icons for sda3 and sda7 but not the others - can this be done?

Thanks again
Will

[taersh]

What I thought would be best would be icons for sda3 and sda7 but not the others - can this be done?

This would need to edit/modify the script/s that creates the drive icons.

These are the scripts in Bionic64:

/usr/local/bin/drive_all
/usr/local/pup_event/frontend_rox_funcs

Though I don't have any detailed guides and it might work only, if the order of drives being statically the same and won't change after doing reboots.

[Barkingmad]

Hi taersh

Thanks, it looks best to leave well alone with that. I might have a look at those scripts in live boot sometime but I think it will be low priority.

[Barkingmad]

Hello again

I'll be leaving drive icons well alone for now so back to themes.

I can change the GTK theme using DeskManager and it affects the "built in" programmes but I've added a "portableised" Seamonkey which seems to stubbornly stick with the default Bionic theme eg white on black menu bar etc. this is hardly a deal breaker but I'd be interested to know why it's happening?

Bye now
Will

[bigpup]

I've added a "portableised" Seamonkey

Give us a link to it so we can try it.

[Barkingmad]

Hello

Sorry, should have said what I was doing.

It's the latest Seamonkey from the Seamonkey project download page but "portableised" with the tool from the 2nd post in this thread viewtopic.php?p=12358#p12358.

Thanks for the continuing interest.
Will

[bigpup]

Seamonkey has it's own themes.
You seem to be describing it's default theme.
I wonder if that is what you are looking for.

Seamonkey->View->Apply Theme
Also here:
Change theme in Tools->add-ons Manager->Appearance

It only comes with a default theme and maybe one or two others.
Gives option to get more themes.
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/se ... te-themes/

[666philb]

seamonkey might be gtk3 now so you may need a gtk3 theme such as viewtopic.php?p=10319#p10319
or from here https://www.gnome-look.org/browse/cat/135/order/latest/

themes go in /usr/share/themes

you may also need to install lxappearance from the PPM to switch gtk3 themes

[Barkingmad]

Thanks for the input. When I next boot the "new" PC that I'm setting up I'll try those out.

The Seamonkey release notes say it uses gtk3 so Phil has probably nailed it.

Thanks again
Will

[Barkingmad]

Thanks everyone,.

Installing a Gtk3 theme and using lxappearance to switch to it seems to have done the trick.

Will