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+This repository stores and keeps track of the configuration of my
+NetBSD laptop computer.
+
+It is configured as a bare Git repository in /.git.  The following
+shell script (named gg) used to manage it:
+
+	#!/bin/sh
+	exec git --git-dir=/.git --work-tree=/ "$@"
+
+This README records important pieces of configuration that is not
+well represented in the file system.
+
+---
+
+Occasionally, I use programs that are written in some GUI toolkit
+whose default appearance I dislike.
+
+To fix this, I use a theme called cdetheme-solaris.  It is located
+in ~/.themes and selected using lxappearance.  It can be retrieved
+at the following address:
+
+	https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1231025/startdownload?file_id=1525737510&file_name=cdetheme1.3.tar.gz&file_type=application/x-gzip&file_size=30574522
+
+Gnome-look.org has poor browser support.  I recommend using Opera
+12 to browse it.
+
+---
+
+GTK (and other Pango-based toolkits) do not support bitmap fonts.
+To fix this, I use a couple of scripts stored in another repository:
+
+	http://git.ankarstrom.se/fnt/