The other day I was making some updates to a UI. For an icon font, I usually jump straight to Iconic (Open, the free version) because it’s small, simple, and sleek. Well, searching and copying icon names on their site is not what I would call ‘fun’, so I wrote this quick tool to make it bit easier for me (and anyone else still using Open Iconic): Open Iconic Search. The code is on GitHub too, so if you hit a bug or want to add something send a PR!

I couldn’t find any posts out there describing how to do this (probably from Googling the wrong thing), so I wanted to note it down for future reference. To remove all title bars in KDE plasma 5, create a Window Rule: Go to System Settings > Window Management > Window Rules > New.. Under Window class (application) choose Regular Expression from the drop down and enter .* in the input. Click the Appearance & Fixes tab. Enable the No titlebar and frame option. Select Force from the drop down click the Yes radio option.

The only other similarly sounding report I could find was in a Spotify Community thread, but there were a few others that were probably the same issue. ISSUE When the track changes in Spotify on Linux, the Spotify app’s UI would become completely unresponsive for about 30 seconds (most noticeably the scrubber/progress bar). You can’t navigate any pages, change the track, or use any of the controls. Then everything would pick back up normally.

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