No Way Know How

God, I've spent ages googling this after I moved some wallpapers around and the lock screen background changed to a horrible gradiant. I should've looked more closely at the Arch wiki, of course, where I eventually discovered this entry . looking at  /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/mate-background.gschema.override of course, I discover that I've already set this for an absolute path that's no longer valid. Sorted via the following amendement: org.mate.background] picture-filename='/usr/share/backgrounds/default.jpg' where default.jpg is a copy of my currently selected wallpaper. THEN you have to glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ and restart x

sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/scalable/apps/archlinux.svg /usr/share/icons/Numix/24x24/places/start-here.svg sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/scalable/apps/archlinux.svg /usr/share/icons/Numix/24x24/places/novell-button.svg

I've been really bad at writing up what I've been doing recently, probably because I've just been trying stuff and I don't know ahead of time what's going to work or what I'll be happy with. I was trying to get plasma 5 desktop all configured up real nice, but I was struggling with it a bit. on one hand it was almost TOO slick looking for my low-tech tastes. on the other it didn't seem to be as infinitely configurable as it's made out to be. at least, not so I could figure it out. to cap it all off the thing started crashing on me , so I decided to try mate again. The only thing that's put me off mate when I installed it independent of Mint has been the look, which was dumb, beacause it turns out I was only a theme away from something I like a lot. Just had a thought; I'll dump my terminal history below. It has lots of stuff there, but other things are missing. I must've used different terminals for those. Anyway the main points are: ...