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Lubuntu (LXDE) 18.04 and transparency...

Posted 08-14-2020 at 06:47 PM by KGIII (KGIII's Blog.)

Tags compositing, lubuntu, lxde, terminal, window manager

I've been toying with other distros, much as I often do, and realized that I really liked the Xfce terminal. It's pretty sexy!

What I really liked was that it was transparent. It didn't actually have any major features that differentiated it with other terminal emulators - I just liked the transparency.

I hadn't ever bothered to try to use transparency in Lubuntu and, much to my surprise, my WM doesn't allow compositing. (This was conveyed to me by Xfce's terminal that...

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How to make a dock with LXPanel.

Posted 07-05-2020 at 06:46 PM by KGIII (KGIII's Blog.)

Tags customization, dock, linux, lubuntu, lxpanel

How To Make A Dock With LXPanel!

It's actually pretty easy to make your own dock with LXPanel, it has the ability to do so built right in. It's not too difficult, takes only a little time. When you're done, it can look something like this:

https://i.postimg.cc/yYHZb0C6/desktop-1-005.png

1. Right click on an unoccupied space in your existing panel, and click on "Create New Panel."

https://i.postimg.cc/DZwGBT9r/Menu-006.png
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Blog? Ah well - how about firejail?

Posted 03-20-2016 at 08:34 PM by KGIII (KGIII's Blog.)
Updated 03-20-2016 at 08:38 PM by KGIII (Added categories, of course.)

Tags firejail, jails, linux, privacy, security

I don't actually have anything to add at this time but I am a bit curious as to what this looks like. It looks to be a bit more feature-rich than the journal at Slashdot, so there's that.

I suppose I should put something pertinent here and I guess it's a good a time as any to mention that I've found firejail to be a neat thing and it's actually kind of powerful. There are some neat things you can do with it - some limits to impose and isolation features that have the power to not...

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