Are you logged in as root in a graphical session (not recommended) or using something like Sudo in a terminal window (recommended)? For the latter, just refer to Rbit's post on locating specific configuration files and append a command such as Nano or Vim to them.

For example, typing in sudo nano /etc/slim.conf will escalate user privileges by allowing you to directly modify the respective file. Make your changes, and then save with Ctrl+O. If you want to try a different preinstalled theme, you can then use cd /usr/share/slim/themes/ and type ls within that directory to view the available themes to choose from for the configuration file.

I already did. By using Xfce 4.12 DEB files on Daedalus.

The problem is that the current "solutions" are not reasonably sound for a lot of regular people who just want to use their computers without stuff getting in their way. Suggesting tiling WMs or doing everything in the terminal is like picking between burning to death and drowning.

That, and shifting the blame on the person offering some constructive criticism to go do the project maintainer's job compounds the whole enshittification aspect of FLOSS. There will never be a "Year of the Linux Desktop" until people stop allowing nonsense to affect code.

I'll be staying on Daedalus. This release is significantly more bloated and resource-hungry than ever before. A lot of GTK2 software essentially got deleted or replaced with their GTK3/GTK4 counterparts, even LXDE itself. Moreover, it's harder than ever to have a pleasant Systemd-free desktop experience, because literally everything is built against it or Elogind now.

And prize exhibit C:

You talk crap to your own users, but the moment someone wants to loosen the tensions here lately, you go all gestapo and start closing and nuking threads/posts. Yet, your own example is to berate people, just as you've been doing for years. That's some of the biggest bullshit I've ever seen, and particularly that you've never contributed a single line of code. Tinkering with generic Clearlooks CSS files and "hosting" a typical small forum is something anyone can do. Developers and maintainers on other distro forums don't pull nearly the kind of crap that goes on here with the (over)moderating, and when they need help, they do it correctly, instead of bitching and moaning to their own loyal users.

The real JOKE is the way things are run here, and maybe even Devuan (it really is just a Debian with some packages that happen to work with SysVinit, a package suite that Debian already provides). You micromanage the living shit out of a public forum. That's what drives people away from here and eventually Devuan altogether. Do you really want that? Keep it up, and eventually your active user count (sans the staff) will be zero. Your failure to listen to what people like Steve_V had to say regarding Devuan's future will ultimately fall on you, and people will move on from this distro. Make your bed, and lay in it.

Probably will be now, since I'm quoting your entire post. Whoops.

Another forum masterpiece from the one and only Steve_V.

Any updates on this?

All the GitHub URLs still point to a 404 page, which means either you forgot to point us to the active repository or this project is dead. What a shame... Especially in the wake of all this XLibre stuff.

Will continue to just use Xfce 4.12 (GTK2) until I'm finally done with all technology...

This looks pretty interesting. Thanks for your contribution!

Would this work with SpaceFM? Since it's forked from PCManFM (before the rewrite).

The GNOME blog article going off about "fascist maggots" was taken down (out of shame), but you can read the latest archived version here.

Looks cool. What toolkit are you using?

Apart from probably the search bar, you could also create this using YAD (maybe even Zenity). I've been studying up on some custom GUI boxes using this method. This example for reading system information is one of my favorites I've come across so far (a nice drop-in replacement for Hardinfo). It looks good on GTK2.