How can I create a wallpaper that reflects my color scheme? Assuming the color scheme is available to you, save it in rrr ggg bbb format to a plain text file with a short header. Example for Gruvbox: GIMP Palette Name: gruvbox-test Columns: 5 # 142 192 124 69 133 136 215 153 33 204 36 29 60 56 54 Sa...

Other solutions involve installing Plasma integration, but this would pull in most of KDE. Fortunately, Qt apps still respect X resources. Add this to your login profile (e.g. ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.xinitrc): export XCURSOR_THEME="$(awk -F= '/gtk-cursor-theme-name=/ {print $2}' "$XDG_CONFIG...

Previews for my collection of Base16 color schemes.

I always thought that Xplanet is one of those ancient X apps that work despite being totally outdated, with aliased edges and overall painful graphics. Turns out I was more than half wrong. It's derived from xearth which has been around since 1993. Xplanet itself seems to have been around since at ...

Contains the base16 styles from this repository plus the default/builtin styles of Debian stable's version of Pygments. Each code block contains a few lines from the top of the generated CSS style, then some random python code. Pygments supports these lexers. The content below was created by pygsgal...

The README of the PicoPygments plugin (active in this blog) repository, which uses Python-Pygments and a variety of CSS styles for code block syntax highlighting.

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...

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 ...