9:37 AM
Linux gives its users freedom to customize. We can change wallpaper, icon themes, cursor themes or even switch from one desktop environment to another, for example switching from GNOME desktop to XFCE desktop. Well, if you are one of many people who like customizing Linux desktop, you might interested in trying out these nice icon themes collection.
1. Faience
2. Meliae Iconset theme3. Gnome ColorsUbuntu users and its derivatives can install this theme via PPA repository:
- sudo apt-get install ppa:gnome-colors-packagers/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install gnome-colors
4. Hydroxygen_iconset5. Humanity Icons Colors VersionPPA repository for this theme:
- sudo apt-get install ppa:gnome-colors-packagers/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install gnome-colors
6. Vibrant Icons7. Awoken 2.4PPA repository:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alecive/antigone
- sudo apt-get update
Install in GNOME:
- sudo apt-get install awoken-icon-theme
Install in KDE:
- sudo apt-get install kawoken-icon-theme
8. AdriX icon theme9. Faenza IconsPPA repository:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme
How to install these icon themes?If the icon theme comes with PPA repository, simply run the appropriate command. Otherwise, if there is no PPA repository, you should extract the archive to
/usr/share/icons/ (root privilege needed).
To activate newly installed icon, please use your desktop environment appearance utilities. If you are using Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, please read
my post about how to change icon theme.
via:
Unixmen
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3:10 PM
Real-time Sunlight Wallpaper is an applications which turns your static wallpaper into dynamic wallpaper. While static wallpaper enhances your desktop with a static beautiful images, real-time sunlight wallpaper displays sunlight that changes every 30 minutes and a unique clouds displayed every 3 hours.
Watch the sun rise, sun set and cloud system all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness or watch the moon phases.
The main features of this applications are:
- Real-time Sunlight Wallpaper is completely free
- Lightweight software
- 4 different types of maps: Mercator, Peters, Mollweide, Equirectangular
- It can display all moon phases
- Dawn to dusk display
- It can follow the big clouds formations from all over the globe
- Accurate data
- Easy to install and use
- Simple and intuitive interface
- User friendly
Install Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users can install Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper by typing the following command:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:realtime.sunlight.wallpaper/rsw
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install gtk-sunlight
Once installed, Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper can be accessed from Accessories section in the applications menu.
Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper can be installed on other distributions too,
click here to download the application manually.
Enjoy :)
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7:57 AM
Emerald is beautiful window decorator which has a lot of fans back then. Unfortunately, Emerald is not included in Ubuntu Oneiric repositories so you can not easily. So, today I'd like to show you how to install Emerald on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot both compiling via sources and installing via PPA. Before we jump, please take a look at a sample of Emerald Window Decorator theme (image via: WebUpd8)
Installing from sourceLet's jump into our first method "Installing from sources". I found this method yesterday on Ubuntuforums.org, so please refers to
the appropriate thread for further information.
Open the Terminal and type the following command to install applications and tools for compiling Emerald from sources:
- sudo apt-get install git autoconf libtool libwnck1.0-cil-dev libwnck-dev intltool libdecoration0-dev
Once installed, you must download the Emerald source and patche to work on Unity (Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10), compile and then install it. Those steps can be done by typing the following commands:
- wget http://cgit.compiz.org/fusion/decorators/emerald/snapshot/emerald-0.9.4.tar.gz
- tar -xf emerald-0.9.4.tar.gz
- cd emerald-0.9.4
- cd src
- rm main.c
- wget http://www.learn-digital.com/ubuntu/emerald-0.9.4/src/main.c
- cd ..
- ./autogen.sh && make clean && make distclean && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && gksu make install
Installing via PPAThanks to Andrew @
WebUpd8 who provides PPA for Emerald so we can install it easily on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Type the following command to install Emerald via PPA:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install emerald
Once Emerald installed on your system, please select a theme from Emerald Theme Manager and activate by typing:
To have Emerald run at startup you must configure it via CompizConfig Settings Manager a.k.a CCSM. Have not installed CCSM yet? Type this command:
- sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Then open CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM), on the left pane select "Window Decoration" plugin and under "Command", enter: "emerald --replace".
Regards.
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