12 sexy Gnome themes for Ubuntu that are easy to install
by Lee Mathews Jan 6th 2010 at 1:00PM
Bisigi has created a dozen very nice options, and they're dead simple to install. It's just a matter of adding a key and source to your software repositories. First, add the Bisigi PPA key via terminal:
Then, head over to synaptic (or hack it into your sources via the terminal) and add:sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574de
Then update your sources and search for zgegblog. Alternatively, you can just grab them from terminal:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu [Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy] main
Once the command finishes, you'll be asked to select the correct aspect ratio for your screen (4:3 or 16:9), and then you're free to switch themes via your appearance preferences. That's Bamboo-zen in my screenshot above.sudo apt-get install zgegblog-themes
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Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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Andrew said 1:21PM on 1-06-2010
Just a few notes: the author of Tech Drive did a simple copy/paste job. Such websites should not be encouraged.
The right way to add the PPA GPG key is:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 881574DE
And [Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy] should be [karmic/jaunty/intrepid/hardy] (lowercase, otherwise it won't work.
Greetings
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Hel said 1:35PM on 1-06-2010
Pretty! I still wish these artists would cater their backgrounds to us dual-screen-using folks. I run 2 20" monitors at 1680x1050. Nothing ever seems to fit quite right.
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copex said 11:07AM on 1-07-2010
more detailed install info here...
http://www.bisigi-project.org/?page_id=8&lang=en
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