It may not be new to many of you, but all of this is new to me, and quite welcome. Firstly, I’ve moved from the bash shell to the fish shell (version 3.7.0), and as I’ve written of before, I’ve moved from neofetch to fastfetch.

I went to the fish shell first. First modification I made to the shell was its prompt, where I installed powerline-shell (pip install powerline-shell) and then overrode the fish prompt to call powerline-shell to set the prompt:

function fish_promptpowerline-shell --shell bare $statusend

You’ll also need to add to fish’s $PATH where powerline-shell is located with fish_add_path $HOME/.local/bin. Once that’s done you can pretty much set fish as you login shell (well, after you make sure your path to all your other custom tool locations is properly configured). I’ve not uninstalled bash and probably never will because there are decades of critical bash scripts that need bash to execute. As for fastfetch, it’s fast. And it produces a lot more information.

I continue to be amazed by the Raspberry Pi 5 and all it can do for well under $100. The Raspberry Pi series has reached a level of compute sufficiency unheard of even a decade ago.

Lately I’ve been working with Ubuntu 24.04 on my Raspberry Pi 5 8 GiB. On this system I like to tinker with my installation’s desktop from time to time, trying out new wallpapers just to see how they look. Recently I’ve noticed that my installation “forgets” my icon selection, Papirus, and reverts back to an icon family I’m not particularly keen on, Yaru-Red. The lead screenshot shows my desktop with Gnome Tweaks open showing my Icons selection, Papirus-Dark.

However, as soon as I bring up the wallpaper Settings > Appearance view (right click on the desktop and select Change Background…), Ubuntu immediately switches the icon family back to Yaru-Red. I don’t even have to change a wallpaper. All I have to do is bring up the Appearance panel and Ubuntu switches it immediately.

I use Gnome Tweaks to set my icon family. Whenever I install Tweaks I get a Dread Warning about how Tweaks is frowned upon by the Gnome Desktop High Holy Developers. To which I respond (inside my head) then give me a friggin’ way to select my icon family within the Officially Sanctioned Settings application. I’m sure that Tweaks isn’t setting one of myriad locations within Gnome’s configuration files to the proper value for Papirus-Dark, which is why some High Holy Gnome Desktop Developer decided to make sure all the locations were properly configured and fix it if they weren’t, thus changing my selection back to what is considered Proper on the Ubuntu 24.04 desktop.

Maybe I’ll Get Around To It one day and either file a bug report and/or just fix the issue on my end.

Maybe…