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Qole, thanks for this! It really expands the possibilities of the tablet. I love being able to use Midori for more graphics-intensive websites; they load much faster than in Micro b. And running GIMP on this little machine is a hoot.

This is probably a bit newb-ish for this forum, but I thought I'd share how I tweaked the theme for the apps I added to make them easier to use. Specifically I wanted to increase the size of the scrollbars in Midori to make them easier to grab, bump up the font sizes in general, and add a little eye candy.

1. If Personal Menu is installed, go to "Edit Personal Menu" and make a new command entry:
Code:
debbie lxappearance
Give it a name like "Change theme." If you don't have Personal Menu, just run
Code:
debbie lxappearance
in X-Terminal.
2. Open Personal Menu and launch the entry that you just added to open LXAppearance. There should be several theme options available in the list; more can be downloaded in Synaptic Package Manager under the "Graphics" section. Choose whichever theme/font/font size works for you.
3. Launch the LXDE environment.
4. Launch ROXTerm and type
Code:
sudo leafpad
5. Once Leafpad has launched, open ~/usr/share/themes/Your_Chosen_Theme_Folder/gtk-2.0/gtkrc for editing.
6. To widen scrollbars (both vertical and horizontal, unfortunately), edit the line
Code:
GtkRange     ::slider_width =
The default setting was 15; I bumped it up to 25.
7. Save the file.
8. Logout/close fullscreen LXDE and enjoy your new eye candy.

NOTE: to change the theme for Synaptic, run
Code:
debbie lxappearance
in the Debian chroot.