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The first thing I usually do is change the look, ubuntu's default UI is too basic for my tastes. Here's a shot of my desktop: http://www.flickr.com/photos/manv
by manvsmachine 19y ago
The first thing I usually do is change the look, ubuntu's default UI is too basic for my tastes. Here's a shot of my desktop:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manvsmachine/2319405794/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/manvsmachine/2319405794/
a good place to start for appearance is http://www.gnome-look.org http://www.gnome-look.org
as far as apps go, here's what I have running:
VLC (multi-format media player), songbird, deluge (GNOME BitTorrent client), Eclipse, GnomeBaker, Avant Window Navigator (OS X-like dock), Blender (3D authoring software), Inkscape(vector imaging), Picasa, some others... of course, all the plugins, apache, languages / libraries for whatever you plan on running...
There are a lot of different ways you can go with it; it would help if you gave an idea of what functionality you 're looking for. Is this for strictly dev, or do you do image / graphics work, etc? The Ubuntu forums are a good place to start.
- vikas5678 19y agoNice! Also loved the car pics you have put up there! Anyway, What do you do for messengers? I use yahoo messenger extensively for work(I work remotely) and I need the voice chat feature and it just doesn't work on ubuntu, I hate that :(.
- manvsmachine 19y agoI use pidgin as my main messenger, also have skype but don't use it much... The yahoo support for it is decent, not really sure about voice though edit: Try gyachi for better yahoo chat support. Haven't used it myself, but it seems to be pretty popular on the forum.
- ropiku 19y agoCan you post a link to the theme you use ? If you customized it, do you mind sharing it ?
- manvsmachine 19y agoIcons: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/black-white?content=70299 http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/black-white?conte... Window Theme: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Humanoid+-+OSX+-+Dark?content=72337 http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Humanoid+-+OSX+-+... I think I got the background from DeviantArt, not positive though. And I just messed with the window color settings until the menus were a grey / titanium color. edit: make sure you install the compizconfig-settings-manager package. That gives you the ability to set your own compiz settings for animations, transparencies, etc.
- german 19y agoThat's a great list, right now I' trying Avant Window Navigator, I'll just add Exaile! for music, Geany and Bluefish editors for coding and of course The Gimp.
- dskhatri 19y agoNice tips! I just configured my UI to the following: http://picasaweb.google.com/dskhatri/Screenshots/photo#5175662920915096914 http://picasaweb.google.com/dskhatri/Screenshots/photo#51756... I used: - avant window navigator (https://launchpad.net/awn https://launchpad.net/awn) - Murrina Eternal Blue theme from http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Murrina-Eternal_blue?content=44517 http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Murrina-Eternal_b... (uses murrine engine) - Humanoid-OSX Black window border (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Humanoid-OSX-Black-ColouredButtons?content=73130 http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Humanoid-OSX-Blac...) - Emacs theming: Clarity and Beauty (https://gna.org/projects/color-theme https://gna.org/projects/color-theme) - Conky system monitor (yet to create my own config file)
- aneesh 19y agothanks, nice desktop! Avant window navigator is pretty cool.