Steve and I were chatting about the sketchiness that is Ubuntu themes and how if you change themes shit just randomly seems to stop working. This is obviously one thing they need to work on. The theme i use is Dust, which i think is pretty solid, and doesn’t cause any problems. There is actually an effort by some to make this the official Ubuntu theme.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/DustTheme
And firefox theme:
Resized it probably looks like ass, but click it for the full effect.
Running 1920×1200 on my 24″
The fancy dancy applets on the desktop is gDesklets which you can get from the Add/Remove Applications. Don’t add the rss feed one though, i tried pulling TSN feeds, and it just kills the applets. Also, don’t install a lot of themes, Ubuntu doesn’t seem to like that either. I’ve given up on trying to find something different. I’ll stick with my dark brown “Dusk” theme.
Here’s my desktop setup. She’s gorgeous!
(Click image to see full size on my flickr account)
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 64Bit
1920×1080 on my 32″ LCD
Cairo-dock is the dock bar on the bottom
For a huge repository of icons, themes, wallpaper etc… visit these sites:
http://gnome-look.org/
or
http://www.deviantart.com/
This is my desktop for awhile, I’ll keep refining it and the icons over time, but now I’m going to concentrate on the login screen and splash loader.
Post your desktops! Let’s see what everyone is rocking – Mybuntu included.
Tags: cairo dock, desktop, sexy
I don’t know if this is happening for anyone else, but after I installed 8.10, and set my resolution to a nice mind-blowing resolution of 1920×1080, when I logged out, the login screen was still some low-res fugly. And to top it off, the fields for the username/password were soooo miniscule, I could not physically see what I was typing.
I tried installing the restricted Nvidia drivers, but that didn’t change my predicament.
Anywho, after a little research, seems it happens to quite a few 8.10 users with Nvidia cards. I edited the xorg.conf file (terminal: gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf) with the following information (see screenshot).
To solve the login resolution issue, I had to manually add the line:
Option “metamodes” “1920×1080 +0+0″
And to solve the small text input fields on the login screen, I manually added this line:
Option “DPI” “96×96″
After adding these lines, I logged out and was delighted to see a high-res login screen with proper sized text input fields. I then made love to my 32″ screen.
