Ubuntu Unleashed

Now here is a pretty hot icon set, its more complete than the others I have shared...

The elementary icon set focuses on simplicity and clarity while being realistic. They are inspired by many different popular icon sets, such as Tango, Crystal, Developers Icons, Elements Icon Suite, etc






Howto Install:
wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/Elementary_1.7.tar.gz ; tar zxvf Elementary_1.7.tar.gz ; mv Elementary_1.7 ~/.icons

More info @ gnome-look.org

Enable:
Right Click Desktop->Change Backround->Theme->Customize->Icons->Select Elementary->Close

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Today im on a icon looking spree, im trying to find the best icon pack for my computer and I'll be sharing a few themes like this one today, let me know what you think of this one, its pretty sleek. Here is some info on this theme via Google code:

The Ultimate Gnome it's an icon theme for linux-gnome. It is a distro indipendent theme tested on Gnome 2.20.1 . It does not include any copyright violating icon cause every icon has been drawn from the author himself with Inkscape. Every icon of the Ultimate Gnome is in a vectorial format (SVG/XML) to have always the best quality.

Howto Install Ultimate Gnome Icon pack:
wget http://ultimate-gnome.googlecode.com/files/UltimateGnome.0.3.7.tar.gz
tar zxvf UltimateGnome.0.3.7.tar.gz
mv UltimateGnome ~/.icons
Right Click Desktop->Change Backround->Theme->Customize->Icons->Select Ultimate Gnome->Close

More info from the authors page here
Authors Google Code Here

Have any other themes worth mentioning?

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I just found a nice icon theme that others will probably like, its based off of the KDE Oxygen Theme ported over to gnome by Chris Smart










Howto Install:

wget http://kororaa.org/oxy-gnome/files/oxy-gnome-080504.tar.bz2
tar xvjf oxy-gnome-080504.tar.bz2
mv oxy-gnome ~/.icons
Alternatively you can install the icons globally by moving the icon folder:
sudo mv oxy-gnome /usr/share/icons/
Enable Icons:
Right Click Desktop->Change Backround->Theme->Customize->Icons->Select oxy-gnome->Close

Let me know what you think, also if you know of any other great icon packages let me know and I'll feature it here giving you credit!

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Want a really hot OSX like dock that blows simdock and awn out of the water? Well Cairo Dock comes fully loaded with a ton of fun features to play with, including its own widgets, themes, and auto update function! Checkout a youtube video:

And Checkout my screenshots:


Add the repository to System->Administration->Software Sources->Third Party Software->Add:
deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu gutsy cairo-dock

Click Reload.
Click here to install if you have apt-url installed with firefox and you added the above repository or:
Open up synaptic:
System->Administration->Synaptic and search for cairo-dock and cairo-dock-plug-ins then click install.


Once Installed you can access Cairo Dock via Applications->System Tools->Cairo Dock
Cairo-Dock has an update function so you will not need a repository or need to download it again

Check here for more plugins and addons

Additonal Documentation is here

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Ok I found an other awesome theme for Ubuntu, you gotta check this out, here is how I got my box setup....

Ok lets install this baby!

First lets grab Overglossed theme and install it!

wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/Overglossed.tar.gz
tar zxvf Overglossed.tar.gz
sudo mv $HOME/Desktop/Overglossed /usr/share/themes
sudo chmod 777 /usr/share/themes/Overglossed/overglossed.jpg

Now... Lets install the black/white 2 style icon pack!

wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/black-white_2-Style.tar.gz
tar zxvf black-white_2-Style.tar.gz
sudo mv black-white_2-Style/ /usr/share/icons

Now lets set up the Obsidian Cursor theme:

wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/Obsidian.tar.gz
tar zxvf Obsidian.tar.gz
sudo mv Obsidian/ /usr/share/icons


Ok now the fun part, simply go to System->Preferences->Appearance and select Overglossed as the theme and select the black white 2 style icon pack and go into cursor settings and select Obsidian, enjoy!
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[updated] Upgraded nodoka engine to fedore core 9's and added echo-icon-set from git

I really dont like fedora, but its theme is nice and crisp, check it out, if you dont like it rm -rf :)

1. Install build-essential and libgtk2.0-dev packages:
   sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev
2. Download Nodoka GTK+ engine 0.6 from here

3. dpkg -i gtk-nodoka-engine_0.6-1_i386.deb

   Install theme
4. Get Nodoka theme 0.3.90 from here. Then execute command in terminal:
   tar zxvf nodoka-theme-gnome-0.3.90.tar.gz
5. copy the Nodoka folder to themes folder:
   
cd nodoka-theme-gnome-0.3.90/
sudo cp -r Nodoka/ /usr/share/themes/
   
6. Grab the echo icon set & install it
   wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/echoicons.tar.gz
tar zxvf echoicons.tar.gz
sudo cp -R Echo /usr/share/icons/

   

   Use theme

   Click System → Preferences → Theme menu command. In Theme Preferences dialog, choose Nodoka item. Also click on the customize tab then click on icons and select "Echo"

Enjoy
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This is how easy it is to install Ubuntu Studio theme in Gutsy or Hardy Heron:
Click System-> Administration-> Software Sources and enable "universe repository"
Simply Click Here to Install and enter sudo password and your done.

Ubuntu Studio Screenshots:
Here

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I will show how to create a conky'esque transparent shell using only gnome-terminal and Compiz-fusion. Check out the attached screenshots.



First create a new profile in gnome-terminal (Edit->Profiles->New), name it "trans". Set the following characteristics:

Cursor blinks: off
Show menubar: off
Initial title: trans
Dynamically-set title: Isn't displayed
Color scheme: Black on white
Transparent Background: on
Set the transparency down to "None"

The important part here is that now the gnome-terminal is gonna have the title trans. We can now target the gnome-terminal windows that are using trans profile from inside CompizConfig by using "title=trans".

Open CompizConfig (System->Preferences->CompizConfig). Make sure you have the regEx plugin enabled.

Go to the Window Decoration plugin and add "!title=trans" to the Decoration windows field. This will skip adding window borders to our trans terminals.
Go to the Window Rules plugin. Add "title=trans" to the following fields (This will turn the terminals into a widget-like windows):

• Skip taskbar, Skip pager, Below, Sticky, Non resizable windows, Non minimizable windows, Non maximizable windows, Non closable windows

In the Fixed Size Windows section click add. Use "title=trans" for the the Sized Window field and put the height and width you want for your shells.

Go to the Place Windows plugin, go to the Windows with fixed positions tab, in Windows with fixed positions click add. Put "title=trans" in Positioned Windows field and put x and y coordinates of the default position you want for your shell (top-left corner is 0,0). After they have loaded you can move them by Alt-Dragging them.

To run the transparent gnome-terminal use:
Edit:
dock: avant-window-navigator
widgets: conky
conky theme: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=505

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This is my favorite demo of ubuntu in action, feel free to post others in the comments and maybe I'll replace this one :)

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Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu. It’s built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional. Because I don’t do audio, video and graphic editing or creation, so I didn’t install Ubuntu Studio. I really like the theme that is used by Ubuntu Studio. So I decide to install the theme into my Feisty Fawn.

1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and put this line:

deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main

2. Get the gpg signature for that repository

$ wget http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

3. Run

$ sudo apt-get update

4. If you want to install all the themes that is used in Ubuntu Studio, including gdm theme, wallpapers, icon theme, session splashes and gtk theme use this

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look

I did not install the gdm theme and session splashes so u can do this:

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-theme ubuntustudio-icon-theme ubuntustudio-wallpapers

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