Posts from the ‘Customization’ Category
While it is becoming more and more unlikely that a new icon theme will be featured in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, DevianatArt user franksouza183 has begun working on an icon theme based on the rumored YellowIcon icons I wrote about earlier. For now, only the main folder icons and some chat status are included. franksouza183 [...]
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Yesterday I wrote about an Android Ice Cream Sandwich Gnome Shell theme. tiheum, the creator of the much popular Faenza icon theme has created one as well. The Ice Cream Sandwich Gnome Shell theme can be downloaded here. It can be installed with the Gnome Tweak Tool.
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Deviantart user tmari0 has created a Gnome Shell and GTK3 theme inspired by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich’s default theme. With the dark color accented with the familiar blue, Android users will feel right at home. Gnome Shell theme His ICS Gnome can be downloaded here. The theme can be installed with the Gnome Tweak [...]
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One of the gripes from Ubuntu power user regarding the Unity dash is “Apps for Download” [from the Ubuntu Software Center] that shows up in the dash. I myself am one of the people that didn’t like this. One, it takes valuable space in the dash, and two, there never seemed to be any interesting [...]
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In the past, I have written about a classic menu indicator that can be used with Unity to give it a Gnome 2 style menu. The ClassicMenu Indicator’s developer Florian Dieschupdated updated the menu yesterday to version 0.07, which added “Personal, Hardware, System” categories to the menu, as well as, some bug fixes. Install Run [...]
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In Fallback Gnome with Ubuntu 11.10, the Ambiance theme makes the panel look weird. It has different color grays in different places. I will show you how to make the panel look the the panel in Unity and/or Ubuntu 11.04. How to: 1. Press the Alt key, right click on the panel, and go to [...]
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Jason Conti has ported the Gnome Indicator Applet to work with GNOME 3. It can now be used with fallback Gnome. Included is an Ubuntu Appindicator, Date/Time Indicator, the session indicator, network, Ubuntu Sound Menu, Messaging Menu and if you choose, the Global Menu too. Installation The indicator applets can be installed from the PPA [...]
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With Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, there is no classic Gnome 2 desktop and there is no way to install it, as Ubuntu 11.10 uses Gnome 3. However, “fallback Gnome” can be installed which is very similar to the classic Gnome 2 desktop. Installation Open the terminal and run: sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback After the installation [...]
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To remove the guest session, you will need to edit the LightDM configuration file. To do so, open the terminal and open the configuration file by running: sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf The file will read: [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu Add allow-guest=false to the end of the file so it reads: [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu allow-guest=false Save the configuration [...]
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Once again, installing Gnome Shell themes has changed a tad. Below are the instructions for installing Gnome Shell theme in Ubuntu 11.10. Installation 1. If you don’t have it already, install the Gnome Tweak Tool: sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool 2. Install the User-Theme GNOME Shell extension from PPA. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/gnome3 sudo apt-get update sudo [...]
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