Month: April 2017

• Arc Theme top-level https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme
• Arc Icon Theme https://github.com/horst3180/arc-icon-theme
• Arc Firefox Theme https://github.com/horst3180/arc-firefox-theme

My current terminal “Terminator” does not seem to adhere to the theming – or anything much for that matter, but gnome-terminal does.

Terminator’s use of tiling is probably redundant with i3 and tmux, so will switch to gnome-terminal (by changing i3-sensible-terminal to gnome-terminal in ~/.config/i3/config.

gnome-terminal inherits the font and themeing from gtk.  Apparently (u)rxvt is more customizable/has plugin ecosystem, but I don’t think I need a plugin-ecosystem.  Such things are probably best left to vim and shell.

fontawesome – unicode cut/paste.
http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/

Worked through this video tutorial, which had some great hints for making nice fonts appear in Linux.  Previously, I could only seem to get decent fonts in Ubuntu, and for other reasons (primarily Nutanix CVM is based on CentOS) I wanted to use CentOS as my desktop.

The two things which had most impact on font appearance were

1. Adding font that claims to be same as used in OS-X
2. Installing a tool named infinality, which improves randering.
3. Using lxappearance to set the default font for all GTK based  applications.

Both are described in the Tutorial

• Installing OS-X Fonts : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKIwOlazKI&t=130s
• Infinality Section : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKIwOlazKI&t=580s

Another nice idea from the series is to match, or at least give some thought to the Browser (Firefox)  window manager (i3) and GTK “Themes”.  The tutorial uses a single colorscheme across all elements to achieve a nice coherent look and feel.  Doing so has given me the ability to customize/use a lightweight window manager, but still retain nice fonts in the applications, browser and Windowing environment.