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New Hard Disk - New OS: Time for Kubuntu

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I finally decided to listen to the funny noises my hard drive was starting to make - including slow starts, intermittent crashes, ... you get the idea. I got myself a shiny new SSD and installed yet another Linux variant, but sticking to the KDE desktop, so the Making (Manjaro) KDE look like macOS pages are still valid. I made some improvements to some of my scripts, because they would not work any more due to a different Python location, more secure process environment permissions, ...: wallpaper.py now requires  exportEnvironment.sh to copy environment variables to ~/.Xenv, because DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS cannot be acquired from the desktop process' environment anymore. Both of these scripts should run on startup, see System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart . fix-OSX-ElCap.py now includes an additional symbolic link to openhand. Needless to say, having an SSD instead of a (still fairly quick) SSHD makes working on my machine much more fun - esp

Working with OSX El Capitan Mouse Cursors

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The OSX El Capitan mouse cursors is my favorite theme at the moment. There are two drawbacks, however: The theme doesn't install from the KDE control panel (it comes with an installer script which you have to run manually). The theme seems to be incomplete I finally addressed those issues... Install the Cursor Scheme Download the theme (most current version) from gnome-look.org . Extract it and copy it so that is available for all users, especially for the login screen: t ar xvjf ~/Downloads/OSX-ElCap-\(KDE\).R2.tar.bz2  sudo mv OSX-ElCap-\(KDE\)/OSX-ElCap /usr/share/icons/ sudo chown -R root:root /usr/share/icons/OSX-ElCap/ Fix Missing Cursors I wrote a small Python script to create the missing links. I might add another few links in the future and I didn't want to have a ln -s cascade somewhere. Instead, I prefer adding another key/value pair to a hashmap and let the script do all the work... #!/bin/python import os, sys CURSOR_THEME = "/usr/share/

A morning well spent...

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A Sunday morning well spent. I finished part 2 of my instructions to make Manjaro KDE look like macOS . Have a look, enjoy and maybe try it yourself.

Hello Manjaro KDE - Instructions Part 1 Done!

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Looking back at the configuration it didn't seem to be that much. However, when writing up all the steps, taking screenshots, taking care of every detail, I soon discovered that I will need more than one page to describe all the customization. Anyway, I just finished  part 1 if making (Manjaro) KDE look like macOS. Have a look and maybe you'll try it yourself...

Good Bye Ubuntu MATE - Hello Manjaro KDE

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I have customized Ubuntu MATE to look like MacOS for quite a while now. I found a comment on Gnome Look including a lovely screenshot of a panel. This one is looking far better, especially the notification area: So, now I'm working on customizing Manjaro KDE. Made good progress so far - once I'm done I'll provide detailed instructions, just as I did for Ubuntu MATE . Update: Here is the first part of making (Manjaro) KDE look like macOS .

Fixed Global Menu Styles

After long digging and playing with CSS, I finally fixed the font weights and colors in the global application menu. See my updated page Making Ubuntu MATE look like macOS .

Got myself a 27" Apple LED Cinema Display

I have always liked the Apple design and finally someone in my town decided to sell one - quick and easy decision 😀. So I now had the display on my desk, connected via to my laptop via Display Port - great display, almost better sound. But I couldn't control brightness nor use the iSight camera, so I set to work. Check out the results: Using Apple LED Cinema Display in Ubuntu MATE .