Seems messy. especially when the actual ulm_templates directory is nicely manicured structure.
It isnt. Its your special use case, not part of the main project and thats why its a custom component. In my case I would create custom_colors directory and put the template you need named custom_blue_not_off into. So you have it structured in the right place.
On the other hand its hard to get support if you have a problem and own modifications in the main part of the project.
But I think this gets a little offtopic.
This docs does explains it correctly Configuration - UI Lovelace Minimalist
As long as you but any files/dirs under custom cards they will be copied over to the custom components dir when reload or restart is triggered. And HA will just make one big YAML out of it. So I recommend create your custom stuff in /config/ui_lovelace_minimalist/custom_cards dir. And if you want to see changes or have improvements please create a issue or an MR.
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Hello all, I need help once. I am in the process of creating a tablet view. However, I just have problems with the alignment of the cards.
I would like the cards (rooms) to fill the whole screen. But there is always a gap in the lower part. I would also like to resize the media card on the left side.
But it does not work for me. Here are a screenshot and my code. Maybe you have a tip for me. 
button_card_templates: !include_dir_merge_named "../../custom_components/ui_lovelace_minimalist/__ui_minimalist__/ulm_templates/"
title: "Minimalist_Tablet"
theme: "minimalist-desktop"
background: "var(--background-image)"
# views:!include_dir_merge_list "views/"
###################
# Grid Layout #
###################
views:
- type: custom:grid-layout
title: home
path: 0
layout:
grid-column-gap: 1px 1px
grid-template-columns: 30% 35% 35%
grid-template-rows: 100% 0% 0%
grid-template-areas: |
"sidebar rooms rooms"
background: center / cover no-repeat fixed url('/local/background_grey2.jpg')
cards:
.
.
.
.
Hi,
The sizes of the cards are defined by the available width of a card. So the height is a ratio of the width. I would not recommend to stretch the cards and change the ratio of it. That can have some nasty effects.
Although you can change the overall alignment with CSS. There is a great guide online to use A Complete Guide to Grid | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks.
Edit: most cards have a fixed height defined by margins and icon sizes others use the ratio I have described.
Could you tell me where to put the popup code ?
In button-card-template in ui-lovelace.yaml ? Do i need minimalist for it ?
Yes it’s included in minimalist
The code needs to be added within the card config in the dashboard.yaml (under the dashboard/views folder). You need minimalist and browser_mod (HACS)
Hi guys, is there a way to animate the icons?
For example in this card rotate the icon when the device is on? Thanks.
- type: "custom:button-card"
template: card_power_outlet
entity: switch.fan
name: Fan
variables:
ulm_card_power_outlet_icon: "mdi:fan"
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Hi guys! I just switched to minimalist theme and I like it so much, it’s amazing.
I need your help a little bit. I need to make a button for resetting a helper but I need to have a confirmation dialog like ‘are you sure… Yes/no’.
Do you know how can I achieve something like this?
Thanks a lot!
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Reloading through the Developer tools → UI Lovelace Minimalist entry (the entry in the documentation seems to be outdated as far as where this setting is) has never worked for me, even after forcing the browser used to access HA to refresh the cache. Only a complete restart of HA works which can get pretty tedious when working on custom cards.
Am I doing something wrong and are others here able to get things to properly refresh without having to restart HA?
edit: Found I had to use “refresh” under the three dots in the top right in the dashboard views, HA seems to have it’s own cache independent of the browser and that one wasn’t getting cleared.
Where exactly are you seeing these dots? The ones Im clicking on dont have a refresh option and this could be the answer to my prayers with a cache issue i’ve been having
I see that you’ve been linked here from the Mushroom Cards topic. The refresh option I mentioned doesn’t apply to dashboards in the “overview” tab. Minimalist right here creates it’s own entry and has different options.
Ah ok then lol Thanks for the reply. I have a weird one where clearing the cache works fine everything looks great and then every once in a while it reverts back to the previous cache and I have to pull down on my phone or hit refresh on the browser to clear it again. My mission continues to find an answer
I’ve had that happen in the overview panel as well when switching between different tabs that use a similar theme but have different styles declared in the yaml for example, HA definitely caches some styles. Refreshing clears it like you said, you’re going to have to ask in HA’s own discussions because I’m pretty sure that this is something inherent to the program.
Am using the Scenes Card (the one where you can have up to 7 entities - here), and the Minimilist Github shows that each Pill has its full complement of text (“name”) underneath it. See below screenshot from the above link, specifically see the ‘Film Scene’ pill and its full complement of text under it:
Now see my attempt at this below, and note that two of my pills cuts short the text shown (e.g. ‘Video…’ should be ‘Video Call’, and ‘Eveni…’ should obviously be ‘Evening’)
How do I get it to show all text?
Have hacked around with the card_scenes_welcome.yaml (having put it into config\ui_lovelace_minimilist\custom_card), but cannot find the place where I can get required text under the Pill(s) to show correctly.
Any help much appreciated!
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Hi,
This will be fixed when the next release is launched 
This is the vertical button card: Vertical Button Card - UI Lovelace Minimalist
Note: the image is wrong on the wiki
I searched the topic and I saw that there are others that have this problem with the tpx01 aircon card. Have anybody succeeded using this?
I don’t have any other custom thermostat cards installed right now. Thanks!
Have you also set the entity outside the variables section?
Based on the code this is needed, but it is not reflected in the documentation.
- type: custom:button-card
template: custom_card_tpx01_aircondition_with_buttons
entity: climate.livingroom
variables:
entity: climate.livingroom
name: A/C Livingroom