Script to try various themes from kitty terminal

2019-12-16 1 min read bash Learning
Here is the script. Very simple yet very useful script. #!/bin/bash - #=============================================================================== # # FILE: kitty-theme.sh # # USAGE: ./kitty-theme.sh # # DESCRIPTION: # # OPTIONS: --- # REQUIREMENTS: --- # BUGS: --- # NOTES: --- # AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), # ORGANIZATION: Individual # CREATED: 12/06/2019 10:15 # Last modified: Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:41AM # REVISION: --- #=============================================================================== set -o nounset # Treat unset variables as an error FOLDER=" Continue reading

Gnome Icons, themes and window decorator.

2010-07-14 1 min read Fedora Linux
Yesterday, I had tried fusion theme, but that did not work our that good for me. Reasons multifold: I like the features of GNome I am used to GNome Other window managers did not look that lucarative to me. Compiz was chocking my CPU.. and so on.. So I went back to my GNome but wanted to change the looks so searched enough today to get the right set of Icons and themes. Continue reading

bash script to change icon theme to check out all the installed themes (personal)

2010-05-19 2 min read Fedora Gnome Linux
I am really annoyed with the time that is required and the number of clicks that it takes to change the gnome icon theme. So here’s a small script that I wrote to quickly check out all the icon themes that I have in my ~/.icons folder. #!/bin/bash [[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1 [[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && ( cd ~/.icons cont=”y” echo ”Select one of the icon themes” Continue reading

bash script to periodically change the cursor theme.

2010-05-07 1 min read Fedora Gnome
#!/bin/bash [[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1 [[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && ( cd ~/.icons cont=”y” echo ”Select one of the icon themes” echo ”When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c” for i in * do [[ -d $i/cursors ]] && ( echo ”Now trying …. : $i” gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme ”$i” sleep $time ) done ) || gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme ”$2” Continue reading

Spruce up your firefox with lightweight themes – Personas

2010-04-29 2 min read Fedora Linux
Head over to Firefox addons site for persona <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900" target="_blank">here. This addon will give you the ability to change the look and feel of the browser without restarting it. Though it is not completely like themes and does not change the look and feel of the buttons and plenty of other things but this does make the browser a lot better. Here are some screenshots to show you how it feels like: Continue reading

bash – change theme for gtk in gnome and take screenshot from script.

2010-03-24 1 min read bash Fedora Gnome
I wrote a blog on bash script to change the icon/cursor theme using a bash script. Lets extend the same concept a little more and use the script to change the gtk theme for gnome and at the same time take a screenshot also. #!/bin/bash path=&#8221;/tmp/screenshot&#8221; [[ &#8221;$1&#8221; == &#8221;&#8221; ]] && time=5 || time=$1 [[ &#8221;$2&#8221; == &#8221;&#8221; ]] && ( cd ~/.themes cont=&#8221;y&#8221; echo &#8221;Select one of the icon themes&#8221; Continue reading

Bash styling(themeing), the stylist way.

2010-02-04 1 min read bash
For last couple of days, I have been looking for solutions to make stlying my bash easier. So, first a screenshot of the effort: <img class="size-full wp-image-703" title="bash style" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/a.jpg" alt="bash style" width="511" height="332" /> I was looking for the simplest solutions to do this. So, I installed two packages to make my life easier : bashstyle and fortune. sudo yum install fortune\* For bash-style you can download the source files <a href="http://www. Continue reading
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