Category Archives: Kubuntu

How to remove bluetooth icon on [k]ubuntu?

16 June, 2013 17:31 /

This is a silly customization thing but it’s my desktop and I’ll do whatever I want. In Kubuntu (I guess is the same on ubuntu, don’t really know because unity is too complex to use for my mind) you have a bluetooth icon. I’ve never used bluetooth in my entire life (true story) so I want to remove it.

You can accomplish this easily disabling the device. Something like this:

$ sudo rfkill list bluetooth
1: sony-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
$ sudo rfkill block 1

Obviously you must change the ‘1’ from the second command accordingly of the output from the first command. You could get bluetooth back executing rfkill unblock.

Posted in: Kubuntu, Linux

Kubuntu wiht ugly menus, buttons and weird look and feel?

17 January, 2013 11:27 /

This seems to be a popular problem in kde’s history, after an update your menus and general look & feel of your desktop is just weird (actually is just without any theme). Trying to set a theme again it won’t work. To fix this you just have to remove one file and regenerate the cache config with another command, just execute:

$ rm ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

Then restart your session (or close your apps and open them again) and there you go, pretty again!

Posted in: Kubuntu