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    [–] Asetru@feddit.org 124 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

    The thing is, though, that command line instructions work on most flavours of whatever distro you have running. If you have an xfce problem it's fair game to tell you where to click, but if your issue is not related to your desktop environment, giving a solution that works on most, if not all, systems that may have the same issue, is actually a good idea. No?

    [–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

    Also, command line allows for greater automation, has more granular control, often has more features and can be... I'm doing ain't I? I'm being a Freeza.

    [–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 44 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    And many folks have headless setups


    raspberry pis, home servers, VPSs, etc. It's kinda overkill to install a desktop environment on a headless box if the only reason you need it is so you can VNC into it for a simple task that could be done over ssh.

    [–] Enkrod@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago

    Yes! Command line instructions are often universal instructions. This is imho a huge boon for Linux.

    [–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    I use xfce and i like it so far, though it would be good if i could increase the minimize/maximize/tray toolbar's size

    [–] prunerye@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

    As long as I'm mocking help forums, I might have a stupid solution for your window decorations, which you can follow at your own risk. I saw your comment and, just out of curiosity, started playing around in a VM with imagemagick, a program I've never used before, but that might be useful for you. Here's what I did:

    1.) I copied a theme I liked, in this case "Sassandra", from /usr/share/themes into ~/.themes.

    2.) I renamed Sassandra (in ~/.themes) to Sassandra2 and switched themes to Sassandra2.

    3.) I opened up some of the images in ~/.themes/Sassandra2/xfwm4/ and made note of the geometry of the buttons. In this case, they were 24x17.

    4.) I opened a terminal in ~/.themes/Sassandra2/xfwm4/ and ran a command I got from an AI chatbot and fiddled with it blindly like an idiot until it ran:

    find . -type f -exec magick {} -scale 12x17 {} ;

    In this case, I wanted to use magick to shrink the icons from 24x17 to 12x17 (though you could just as easily replace "12x17" with an increased size instead), and I wanted to do all the files at once, using the find command as suggested by my robot overlord. It didn't work as I intended. I never bothered to read any docs. I'm not even sure I put the "{}" in the right spot. But it did shrink the images, preserving the aspect ratio. It also threw up a couple errors because I forgot about the readme and themerc files in that directory. Speaking of which, you can fiddle with the themerc file to make any minor adjustments, like offsetting text.

    Edit: In retrospect, the original image files were actually all different sizes and now Sassandra2 looks like crap, but you can always run magick on files individually.

    [–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

    There must be other ways to do it