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If like me, you've collected hundreds of browser bookmarks for each website under the sun over the years, you may find it a bit slow to search through all those bookmarks within your web browser to find what you're looking for. The Brave browser does have a built-in bookmarks search, but what if I told you that there …
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Adding a Compositor Those of you interested in ricing your window manager will no doubt have seen all the fancy looking desktop on r/unixporn which have a transparent/blurring effect behind app windows. This can really add a modern look to your desktop. This can be achieved by using a compositing manager. The Awesome …
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Wallpapers When customising your desktop, the thing that stands out the most is your wallpaper. It takes up the most pixels on your screen after all, and when it comes to setting a wallpaper on Linux on a normal desktop environment, you have more than a few options. When using a window manager, however, I find these …
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In part three of the "Awesome Window Manager Guide", we covered, how to add a "run launcher" for searching and loading apps, adding a "hotkey daemon" for launching your favourite apps and taking screenshots, how to create an "autostart script" which automatically launches apps …
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For those using the "Thunar" file manager in Linux — I've written a small script which adds a custom action to Thunar. It uses ffmpeg to convert large screen grab images to the size required for Lutris game banners images. For games that don't have a banner, you can screenshot your own to your Pictures/ …
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