Initial tweaks when installing Mint 13 Xfce
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:06 pm
Here are mine!
Only small things
1) I change the Menu button logo from that strange cog to the Mint logo!
(right-click it and select properties, and replace its icon with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/22.png)
2) I change the shortcuts next to it to my three most used apps - Thunar, Firefox and Pidgin
(just drag them there from the Mint Menu and delete whatever you want too)
3) I stop the bluetooth app initializing so it disappears from the tray
(Settings Manager -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart -> Blueman Applet)
4) I install Electric Sheep as my screensaver as I'm really not too big on the default ones
(run "sudo apt-get electricsheep" in terminal or install from software manager, and then edit /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreensaver-nogl and scroll down to the long list of screensavers with /n/ after them and add this line somewhere in there:
if it's the last one just omit the trailing slash. You can now select it in the Screensaver menu.)
5) I edit the ~/.gtkrc-xfce and change line 2 from:
to
to give the icon text a nice translucent white border.
6) I turn on compositing to give the windows shadows, and so forth
(Settings Manager -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositing)
7) Some other minor tweaks like disabling some of the icon types on the desktop (like mounted filesystems)
(Right click desktop -> Desktop settings -> Icons)
And that's it!
Is there anything you do? ^^
Only small things
1) I change the Menu button logo from that strange cog to the Mint logo!
(right-click it and select properties, and replace its icon with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/22.png)
2) I change the shortcuts next to it to my three most used apps - Thunar, Firefox and Pidgin
(just drag them there from the Mint Menu and delete whatever you want too)
3) I stop the bluetooth app initializing so it disappears from the tray
(Settings Manager -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart -> Blueman Applet)
4) I install Electric Sheep as my screensaver as I'm really not too big on the default ones
(run "sudo apt-get electricsheep" in terminal or install from software manager, and then edit /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreensaver-nogl and scroll down to the long list of screensavers with /n/ after them and add this line somewhere in there:
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electricsheep -root /n/
5) I edit the ~/.gtkrc-xfce and change line 2 from:
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XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
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XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 100
6) I turn on compositing to give the windows shadows, and so forth
(Settings Manager -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositing)
7) Some other minor tweaks like disabling some of the icon types on the desktop (like mounted filesystems)
(Right click desktop -> Desktop settings -> Icons)
And that's it!
Is there anything you do? ^^