Howto: Install themes on Xubuntu

I didn’t thought there was any good guide of how to install themes on Xubuntu so I decided to write one.

First step is to lookup a style you want, www.xfce-look.org is a great website to custom your Xubuntu.

Murrine themes
If the theme is a Murrine style (often named murrina/murrine) you need to install murrine engine. Simply write:
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine in Terminal.
If there is any problem or if you don’t run Xubuntu, check out http://www.cimitan.com/murrine/ for more info.

Installing themes
Next, we need to unpack the theme into ~/.themes , .themes is under /home and its hidden, to show all hidden files just do as follow while you are unpacking your theme

Next, unpack your theme in the map .themes. The folderstrukture should look like, Username/.themes/themename/gtk-2.0

Select the new theme
Now we have installed our theme, so the next step is to select it, goto Applications > Settings > User interface settings.
Select your theme and you are all set. Now keep customizing your themes, a good menu to reach all custom settings is Applications > Settings > Settings manager.

Icons

To install icons just do as you did with the themes, but unpack the icon stylepack in the hidden folder /.icons
If you can’t find the folder you have to create it.

Good luck, if you got any problems or something else that i could do better, just post a comment about it.

New operating system

Well, the os isn’t new but it’s new for me and I whant to share it :D

So 2 days ago I read a blog about ubuntu, and about freeware. Ubuntu is a linux ‘version’ and it’s a big community using it. I thought, what the hell lets try it out. So I got rid off windows xp and installed ubuntu. The nice thing about it is that it’s always going to be free end they release a new version every 6 months.

Another neat thing is that you can boot from the install CD, check out the enviroment and install it if you whant, if you dont – just reboot and go back your old os.

Well I installd the ubuntu version kubuntu, a bit nicer user interface but that was too much for my laptop to handle, so I installed ubuntu but I wasent saticfied with my laptop performance. so i tried the lighter version xubuntu and that it! A very good interface, easy to learn linux and it simple, works fast and just great. If it wasen’t for my webdeveloping I would install it on my stationary computer.

The coolest thing I discovered was not that everything was free, on “add/remove” programs there was a list of what could seem to be every program in the world :D and the easy part is that you just select the programs you want and ubuntu will install it for you. Thats a very neat and useful function, and you will never have to search developers websites or pay for the software.

I’m just saying that you should try it out for your self and have patients because it’s not windows and if you expect it to be like windows you will never learn it.

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