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Desktop settings
- Introduction
- Theme and graphical tweaks
- Gpg configuration
- Email signature
.desktop
files for custom applications
Introduction
Many settings formerly present in this website’s index are related to my desktop settings, while some others are not.
Theme and graphical tweaks
GTK Settings
GTK2
General configuration
This file is tangled at $HOME/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
. This is an
equivalent for the GTK3 configuration file you will see below, and it
shares most of its settings. First, let’s select the Nordic theme for
GTK2. Let’s also set the icon theme.
# -*- mode: unix-config -*-
gtk-theme-name="Nordic"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Flat-Remix-Dark"
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintslight"
This changes the shortcuts in menu, let’s also make the menus snappier.
gtk-can-change-accels=1
gtk-menu-bar-popup-delay=0
gtk-menu-popdown-delay=0
gtk-menu-popup-delay=0
Filechooser
[Filechooser Settings]
The first option alows me to open the file chooser in the current working directory:
StartupMode=cwd
Next, setting the location mode to path-bar
will show the path as buttons that
can be clicked rather than the full path.
LocationMode=path-bar
With this configuration, by default we won’t see hidden files.
ShowHidden=true
And we'll also see the size of the visible files.
ShowSizeColumn=true
Now, let’s choose the geometry of our file picker. These two first lines set where the file picker appears:
GeometryX=566
GeometryY=202
And these two describe the size of the window:
GeometryWidth=800
GeometryHeight=400
With these two lines, we set how our files are sorted: by name, and in the ascending order.
SortColumn=name
SortOrder=ascending
Our default view mode is a list of files:
ViewMode=list-view
And finally, setting our icon view scale to -1
sets the icon view to the max
size.
IconViewScale=-1
GTK3
The following file helps me choosing the aspect of various GTK+ 3 software, including their theme and icons. First, let’s declare the header:
[Settings]
Now, let’s hint to GTK that I prefer dark themes. This can have an influence also on some websites that can detect this preference and therefore set their own theme to dark by themselves.
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true
Next, the icon theme is the Flat Remix Dark icon theme:
gtk-icon-theme-name = Flat-Remix-Dark
Now, the general theme for GTK3 is Nordic.
gtk-theme-name = Nordic
gtk-can-change-accels=1
gtk-menu-bar-popup-delay=0
gtk-menu-popdown-delay=0
gtk-menu-popup-delay=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintslight
# gtk-xft-rgba=rgb
Since window decorations are handled by my WMs, I will leave this variable empty.
gtk-decoration-layout=
Picom (Compton)
Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, and the successor to Compton, itself successor to xcompmgr-dana, itself a fork of xcompmgr. You can find my Picom configuration here.
Xresources
The main body in my Xresources declaration is the declaration of my color theme. It is based on the Nord theme, from their Git repository.
#define nord0 #2E3440
#define nord1 #3B4252
#define nord2 #434C5E
#define nord3 #4C566A
#define nord4 #D8DEE9
#define nord5 #E5E9F0
#define nord6 #ECEFF4
#define nord7 #8FBCBB
#define nord8 #88C0D0
#define nord9 #81A1C1
#define nord10 #5E81AC
#define nord11 #BF616A
#define nord12 #D08770
#define nord13 #EBCB8B
#define nord14 #A3BE8C
#define nord15 #B48EAD
,*.foreground: nord4
,*.background: nord0
,*.cursorColor: nord4
,*fading: 35
,*fadeColor: nord3
,*.color0: nord1
,*.color1: nord11
,*.color2: nord14
,*.color3: nord13
,*.color4: nord9
,*.color5: nord15
,*.color6: nord8
,*.color7: nord5
,*.color8: nord3
,*.color9: nord11
,*.color10: nord14
,*.color11: nord13
,*.color12: nord9
,*.color13: nord15
,*.color14: nord7
,*.color15: nord6
Gpg configuration
keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371
Email signature
This file gets inserted automatically at the end of my emails.
Lucien “Phundrak” Cartier-Tilet
https://phundrak.com (Français)
https://phundrak.com/en (English)
Sent from GNU/Emacs
.desktop
files for custom applications
Some software I use are not packaged (yet) on my system. Therefore, in
order to make them available in rofi
, I need to write a .desktop
file
so I can launch them.
Emacs
Emacs does have a default .desktop
file, but I want to override it so
I can just “open with Emacs” from other software (such as Nemo) and it
will instead open with emacsclient
.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Emacs
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Edit text
MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;
Exec=emacsclient -c %F
Icon=emacs
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;TextEditor;
StartupWMClass=Emacs
Keywords=Text;Editor;
I also have mu4e.desktop
which is used to set my default email client.
It relies on emacsmail
defined in this document.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Mu4e
GenericName=Mu4e
Comment=Maildir Utils for Emacs
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto;
Exec=/home/phundrak/.local/bin/emacsmail %U
Icon=emacs
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Network;Email;TextEditor
StartupWMClass=Gnus
Keywords=Text;Editor;
Then I also have org-protocol.desktop
so I can capture elements from
other software, mainly web pages from Firefox through the org-capture
extension.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=org-protocol
Exec=emacsclient %u
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=System;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/org-protocol;
FlowScape
FlowScape is a nice 3D compositing software I sometimes use to create
landscapes. I always install it in ~/.local/opt/Flowscape
, so the
.desktop
file is relatively straightforward.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.5
Name=FlowScape
Comment=Create gorgeous 3D landscapes with ease.
Exec=/usr/bin/prime-run /home/phundrak/.local/opt/FlowScape/FlowScape.x86_64
Path=/home/phundrak/.local/opt/FlowScape
Icon=/home/phundrak/.local/opt/FlowScape/icon.jpg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics
macOS
You did not read wrong! Yes I have an entry for macOS, but this is for
a virtual machine located in ~/VMs/macOS
.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1
Name=macOS
Comment=macOS in a virtual machine
Exec=/usr/bin/prime-run /home/phundrak/VMs/macOS/basic.sh
Path=/home/phundrak/VMs/macOS
Icon=/home/phundrak/VMs/macOS/macOS.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development
Minecraft
Yup, I play Minecraft. And yes, it does have a default .desktop
file,
but this one overrides it so it launches automatically Minecraft with
prime-run so my GPU is used.
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=Minecraft Launcher (Nvidia)
Comment=Official Minecraft Launcher
Exec=/usr/bin/prime-run /usr/bin/minecraft-launcher
Path=/usr/bin/
Icon=minecraft-launcher
Terminal=false
Categories=Game;Application;
OtherWorldMapper
OtherWorldMapper is a map creation software. It is always installed in
~/.local/opt/OtherWorldMapper
.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0.4
Name=OtherWorldMapper
Comment=OtherWorldMapper is a powerful yet intuitive fantasy map creation tool.
Exec=/usr/bin/prime-run /home/phundrak/.local/opt/OtherWorldMapper/OWM
Path=/home/phundrak/.local/opt/OtherWorldMapper
Icon=/home/phundrak/.local/opt/OtherWorldMapper/owm.ico
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics
YouTube .desktop
files
The first .desktop
file related to YouTube is ytdl.desktop
which runs
ytdl
defined in this document.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=0.3
Name=YTDL
Comment=YouTube (and more) video downloader
Exec=/home/phundrak/.local/bin/rofi-ytdl
Path=/home/phundrak/.local/bin
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;Video
There is also ytplay.desktop
for ytplay
defined in this document.
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=ytplay (YouTube in mpv)
Comment=Play YouTube videos in mpv
Exec=/home/phundrak/.local/bin/ytplay
Path=/home/phundrak/.local/bin
Terminal=false
Categories=Media