How Much I Don’t Know

I’ve been working with this Pop-OS! 20-04 for several weeks now. I like it. I’ve got it configured fairly well. It looks really cool.

There is one really big problem. The application windows have this ugly brown window title bar, with no obvious way to change it. I’ve been researching the problem for several days now and I’ve got the title bar changed to a color I like, but the buttons on the title bar are still the ugly brown.

Aarrggghh!

I’ve searched everywhere and tried everything. I’m thinking about heading to the Linux meetup next Monday and see if I can find some help. If I figure out how to do it, I’ll definitely write a story about setting the color of the title bar, including with the buttons on the title bar.

Start by adding the file gtk.css with the

touch ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

command. Then I added

.titlebar {
min-height: 0px;
background: #105664;
color:white;
}

.titlebar.backdrop {
background: #105664;
color:white;
}

.button.titlebutton {
min-height: 26px; /* tweak these two props to reduce button size */
min-width: 26px;
background: #105664;
color:white
}

I got some of that from Wonko the Sane at askubuntu, and some from Unix and Linux at Stack Exchange. I’ve tweaked it and I still have beautiful bluegreen title bars with ugly brown buttons. And one application, Text Editor, has the old brown titlebar with brown buttons, except the round x button is my pretty bluegreen.

I think it is sad that it is so difficult to set something as basic as the color of buttons and titlebars, but my ignorance is probably the main problem. So, it’s frustrating.

I’ve also been struggling to get my printer connected. I would like to get my computer connect to my TV.

I’m actually getting pretty good at setting Linux up. I’m not so good at connecting Linux to anything. Network File System (NFS) is another important tool I’ll be investigating and learning how to use.

Pidgin is the IRC chat application that I’ve recently installed. I’ll be learning how to use that. It’ll probably increase the speed of my progress substantially. I’ll be able to actually ask questions about my specific problems, instead of looking for generic questions and answers.

One big question I have is, the Symlink that you setup to get Python to work. I’ve got Python installed alright. The computer just can’t find it when I try to start using it. I haven’t been able to find an explanation of which two files I need to link.

I know there is a symlink that you have to setup to get Python to work right. Setting up a symlink probably isn’t all that hard to learn how to do. Which two files should be linked, is the really complicated question.

Like I’ve said many times, Linux is a complicated puzzle of complicated puzzles.