a custom epiphany location bar

since i do much research on the internets, i often find myself in a web browser. my favourite of the lot is epiphany. this post isn’t about its merits or failures, but about the awesome way to make my location bar be exactly how i like it: monospaced.

just add the following into your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file and then restart epiphany. feel free to modify as you wish.


# ~/.gtkrc-2.0
style "Epiphany_Locationbar" {
# leave out the font size if you wish
font_name = "Monospace 12"
#bg[NORMAL] = "#ff0000"
}

# both of these seem to work...
#widget "*.EphyLocationEntry.*" style "Epiphany_Locationbar"
widget_class "*.EphyLocationEntry.*" style "Epiphany_Locationbar"


thanks to raphael for the original post, and the #epiphany developers.

vanilla: my favourite flavour of gnome

after a recent upgrade to ubuntu 9.04, it seems that i’ve been pushed into using some “unfeatures” that i didn’t ask for. well apparently they won’t be unfeatures forever, but for me, notify-osd and indicator-applet aren’t quite ready for my consumption. i realize that ubuntu is trying to improve the desktop experience, but i’m going to need to wait for some more polish first.

so how do i get rid of these horrible things ? i really liked the look of the notification-daemon, and i wanted it back. turns out i can do:

sudo aptitude install gnome-stracciatella-session

and when i log into x there is a “gnome (without ubuntu specific components)” option that i can choose. it seems to work and i’m running it now. hope this tip is helpful to you. thanks to martin pitt for making it easier for us to choose.