Home Screen Sunday: mCOLe

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For this week's HSS entry, we have a simple setup by me based on Manjaro Cup of Linux Edition (or mCOLe) with a few tweaks!

WELCOME TO HOME SCREEN SUNDAY!

Welcome to Home Screen Sunday, a series every Sunday where we look at home screens from me or even others and explain how it works. It can be Android, iOS, or even Desktop!

LET’S DO IT!

For today’s entry, we have a simple setup by me based on Manjaro Cup of Linux Edition (or mCOLe) with a few tweaks!

REQUIREMENTS

For most of the stuff, you need mCOLe to have it pre-setup that way. It is possible on other Linux Distros but will be harder to set up.

Also, you will need:

Wallpaper

  • This Wallpaper

  • AutoKey

    This allows you to expand text shortcuts, optional.

  • Firefox

    Set it up like [this post]({% post_url 2015-01-17-firefox-tree-tabs %})!

  • Atom

    Text Editor by GitHub, optional.

SETUP

  1. Right click on Panel/Taskbar and click Panel > Panel Preferences. Then go to Appearance and choose None (Use System Style)
  2. Remove most of the Launchers/Pinned Items on the left side except Terminal, Home, Mousepad, and Firefox. OPTIONAL Right click on Mousepad and change it to Atom.
  3. Go to where you downloaded the wallpaper, right click on it, and choose Set as wallpaper from the context menu.
  4. Click the Start Menu, then the All Settings icon in the corner. Under Window Manager > Style > Theme, choose Borderless!
  5. OPTIONAL Download AutoKey and setup text snippets to make writing faster. For example, I can write lp for Lollipop and if I change the Capitalization, it will capitalize it for me!

CUSTOMIZE

Now that you got the basic layout, feel free to customize it!

ENJOY

I hope that you enjoyed this installment of Home Screen Sunday (HSS)!

If you want to send me a Home Screen to be featured, e-mail me at [email protected] starting with the subject [HSS Blog]!