Make Gnome look like OSX

[Laterix]

Hi you all,

I wrote another article about modifying your Gnome to look like OSX Tiger operating system.

http://users.utu.fi/ljtaim/pics/osx-logo.png

You can read the article (http://www.taimila.com/osx-guide-2.php) at my website. In this thread you can give feedback and comments about it. I hope you like it!

If you hate people who change their Linux to look some other OS, please read the disclaimer below. ;)


Ok, there are almost always misunderstandings when people modify their OS to look some other OS. This is NOT about "I want a mac" or "I want OSX". If I would want a mac, I would go and buy one of those. No, this is simply about having fun by imitating and finding the limits of Gnome desktop. I ofter read that Gnome is considered very plain and not very configurable. I can't agree with that. Gnome is usable and simple, but yet very powerfull and it is possible to modify Gnome into anything you want. Now, I challenge KDE and OSX users to do the same. Can you make your KDE to look OSX as well as Gnome can imitate it? Or can you change your OSX to look Gnome, KDE or Windows? I doubt it, but I love to be proved wrong! ;)

Just to be clear, I don't want that OSX-look would be the default look of the Gnome. Gnome is beautiful with Tango icons and it should continue to follow it's own clean and usable style. I'm glad I made that clear. :)

[Laterix]

Really? No questions at all. Must be pretty well written article then. ;)

[Extreme Coder]

Nice article, I plan to follow it later, after I follow your Orange-Look for Ubuntu article, since I find the Orange-look for Ubuntu more original ;) But I will try them both.

Extreme Coder

[signalat]

nice!! actually i read your first article and followed that one. now, i have a nice osx :) but one thing is really weird that when i installed the themes, i got the nice osx like system buttons on the title bar, but i couldn't change my ubuntu scrollbar to osx like scrollbar. even i tried the themes downloaded from your article. actually, all the other controls are still ubuntu controls, not those controls from the theme even though they are supposed to be replaced by the theme. could you tell me how to get the controls look like mac osx? thanx a lot.

[signalat]

ok, problem solved by installing gtk2-engines-pixbuf package.

[killbill]

Hi, ur gtk theme is great. But why isn´t there a metacity theme come with it?

Coz I´m using compiz. I ´d like to have the metacity theme from u.


And I´m waiting for ur macmenu package for feisty, too.

[Laterix]

Hi, ur gtk theme is great. But why isn´t there a metacity theme come with it?

Coz I´m using compiz. I ´d like to have the metacity theme from u.


And I´m waiting for ur macmenu package for feisty, too.
A the moment there is no metacity theme (at least made by me), but I'm planning to do one, because when I install Feisty I will use Compiz and not Beryl anymore. So, you might get lucky! :)

About that macmenu... I don't know how to create deb-packages (except checkinstall which is not good for publishing)...

[graphic23]

Hey Laterix, - So what exactly did you do to the macmenu applet to make the Lucida Grande fonts to work.? Because otherwise - its not aligned very nicely and you mention it in the article but I was wondering if you could post the patch? Thanks! Also, in your desktop, when there are tabs, the highlighted tab is also of the same height but on mine, the highlighted tab is slightly taller. Where would I fix that ?

[BOBSONATOR]

Wow, that is a nice screen.

But i cant create the OSX bar at the top, someone needs to write a better howto, gentoo has done it, but it needs to be modified
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mac-style_Menu_Bar_for_GTK

[PingunZ]

Looks interesting, I'd like to help with this :)

You could try to make a script which installs all of this .. ? :)
Or a complete icon set..
and of course a patch for the font + menubar !

Cheers

[Laterix]

You could try to make a script which installs all of this .. ? :)

Then people wouldn't learn to modify. ;) No... I'm just too lazy to do that.

Or a complete icon set..

I have this, but I can't publish it, because of licence issues.


and of course a patch for the font + menubar !

I have this, but I can't find the licence information of the original Mac-menu applet. I would like to know that it is released under GPL, before releasing any code myself.

[killbill]

read this:


gnome-macmenu-applet 1.0.14-1

Last Updated: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:09:04 +0000


# Maintainer: AqD <aquila.deus@gmail.com>


Maybe u can contact him via email. and I read somewhere else which says the author was called overseas(military).

[ububug]

Hi,

Laterix, could you please post the colors/configs that you used on the Avant Window Navigator?

Thanks in advance. :)

[el_rata]

nice work on the guide laterix!! congratulations ...

[Angafirith]

What about just the system tray icons? Do you have the same difficulties?

I'm very glad that I read this. I had been sorta migrating from a basic Ubuntu setup to a more Mac OSX setup anyway, since I've been using Compiz/Beryl's Scale plugin instead of a window list. I'm also glad that I installed those Mac fonts: Lucida Grande will probably remain my main system font, even after the allure of a pseudo-OSX look goes away. It's far nicer looking than the basic Ubuntu one.

[alfiejs]

I have 64bit ubuntu. Are there 64 bit debs? All the debs in links are i386. Do I need to compile from source?

[Laterix]

Ok, AqD's mac menu seems to be LGPL according to gnome-files.org, so I can put my modified version to the guide.


Laterix, could you please post the colors/configs that you used on the Avant Window Navigator?

Sorry, I don't have those anymore. I installed Feisty yesterday and I didn't take a backup of color settings. Acutally, my desktop is not OSX looking at all now.


What about just the system tray icons? Do you have the same difficulties?

I'm a little bit lost with all these copyright issues. For example this page (http://www.jonmega.com/iceman/stuff/systray/) is sharing those system tray icons for Windows. I downloaded icons from there and converted them to png with gThumb.


I have 64bit ubuntu. Are there 64 bit debs?

I have no idea. Sorry.

[andrek]

What's going on with your website, Laterix?

[Laterix]

What's going on with your website, Laterix?
Sorry, I have 25Gb / month bandwidth limit. I have requested more, but it's under process. I hope it will be open again soon.

After I released the guide, the daily bandwidth rose to 3Gb/day... didn't see that coming. :)

[killbill]

Hi, Laterix,
when will ur osx metacity theme come out?



And the network monitor icon has a light background, why not transparent? Does it have sth to do with the alpha channel?

[Laterix]

when will ur osx metacity theme come out?

Don't hold your breath. I haven't even started yet...


And the network monitor icon has a light background, why not transparent? Does it have sth to do with the alpha channel?
I have not created any icons neither have I released any. If you refer to those system-tray-icons that I linked above, then you're right. There is white background color, which is not optimal choice. I can't change that. Sorry.

[Laterix]

My website is open again and now you can download modified version of AqD's macmenu applet.

[centy]

That looks great! I wish you had gone into more detail as to the exact steps that you took to get things working though.

Do you intend to do the same thing for feisty? If so, do you plan on making it a step by step guide as opposed to a rough guide. I think there are many people that would love to have this theme but get lost in the complexity of it all.

Thanks again for the guide as it is.

[malachi]

Laterix, it the Application title still seems a bit high (seems like nothing has changed after using the hacked version). I followed the instructions; what am I doing wrong?

[alfiejs]

That looks great! I wish you had gone into more detail as to the exact steps that you took to get things working though.

Do you intend to do the same thing for feisty? If so, do you plan on making it a step by step guide as opposed to a rough guide. I think there are many people that would love to have this theme but get lost in the complexity of it all.

Thanks again for the guide as it is.

Yes. A very good idea. There are no clear instructions on making the mac menu applet at the moment. One page, explicit detail, with all files needed in the one place. With allowances for 64bit users as well. Don't think thats too much to ask. Or at the other end of the scale, someone show me how to do it and i'll write it up properly.

[graphic23]

Laterix, it the Application title stills seems a bit high (seems like nothing has changed after using the hacked version). I followed the instructions; what am I doing wrong?

Yeah, same here - only happens with Lucida Grande, obviously.

[Laterix]

Yeah, same here - only happens with Lucida Grande, obviously.
I had this "application name is high" bug with Lucida Grande when I had BOLD Lucida grande font installed. So look at your fonts directory and see is there only Lucida Grande or is there also a BOLD version of it. Remove the bold version (backup it) and restart X and see what happens.

This is because the font is buggy. So, I really can't fix it any other way.

You can find fonts at /usr/share/fonts and ~/.fonts

[malachi]

Perfect. You might want to put that in your guide...

[andrek]

Thank so friggin much for your tutorial, it kicks ***.. :guitar:
Just got one, maybe two questions :
1) How can I change the deskbar aka. spotlight icon? Gconf-editor doesn't seem to be able to change it :/
2) What's the way I should install your usplash and gdm theme?
Thanks!

[MannyZ]

Nice looking :P
I'm going to try this out :) Nice pages man :o
By the way I'm from Finland too :P

[Laterix]

Thank so friggin much for your tutorial, it kicks ***.. :guitar:
Just got one, maybe two questions :
1) How can I change the deskbar aka. spotlight icon? Gconf-editor doesn't seem to be able to change it :/

Icon is located at /usr/share/deskbar-applet/art. You can simply overwrite those png files with your own.


2) What's the way I should install your usplash and gdm theme?

You should be able to install GDM-theme with gnome Login manager. Usplash theme has instructions in the package. I copy them here:

1. sudo apt-get usplash-dev
- Installs usplash-dev package

2. make
- Compiles splashtheme

3. sudo make install
- Installs compiled theme

4. sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r)
- Regenerates initramfs

[andrek]

Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, i can still see the old usplash theme.. I did everything as you wrote and there was no errors during the operation.
Please have a look at this pic. http://i15.tinypic.com/2s8pm9w.gif
How can I remove that little black triangle?

Also, how can I remove that orange screen which shows right after i'm logging in gdm, it also says what's loading now - you know, those little icons with nautilus, beryl etc.
I'm using ubuntu 7.04

One more thing - how did you get the 'file system' icon on your desktop, as the screenshot shows?

[Angafirith]

Thanks for posting the icons earlier. It's not everything, but it's certainly a considerable step in the right direction. I've got NM and the Volume Applet using those pictures, now.

I do have one or two issues with your GTK Theme. In Network manager, when viewing the list of wireless networks, I get this odd blue spot where the quality bar should be. I also, in many applications, have buttons that seem to only show up as Labels. A pretty good example of what I'm talking about is file roller. I'll try to get a few screenshots to show you what I mean.

Thanks again for posting the article, it's been very fun to play around with these things.

[malachi]

Thank so friggin much for your tutorial, it kicks ***.. :guitar:
Just got one, maybe two questions :
1) How can I change the deskbar aka. spotlight icon? Gconf-editor doesn't seem to be able to change it :/
2) What's the way I should install your usplash and gdm theme?
Thanks!


I changed the deskbar by changing the icon in the /usr/share/deskbar-applet/ folder. I don't know if there's another way to change it.

To install GDMs, go to System > Administration > Login Window. You can drag the .tar.gz there.

For usplashes, it involves using the "update-alternatives" command. I would tell you how, but I'm in school right now....

[Laterix]

I do have one or two issues with your GTK Theme. In Network manager, when viewing the list of wireless networks, I get this odd blue spot where the quality bar should be. I also, in many applications, have buttons that seem to only show up as Labels. A pretty good example of what I'm talking about is file roller. I'll try to get a few screenshots to show you what I mean.

I've been reported some of these issues. I'll take a look of them when I got time. That button -looking-like-label is totally new one. I would like to see a screenshot.

[Laterix]

Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, i can still see the old usplash theme.. I did everything as you wrote and there was no errors during the operation.

Seems like you're not the only one. I don't know what to say. It worked for me. You can search this forum and find many posts about changing the splash screen. Maybe there's something useful for you...


How can I remove that little black triangle?

You can't without modifying the source code. I used USP-menu that doesn't have this triangle. USP = Ubuntu System Panel


Also, how can I remove that orange screen which shows right after i'm logging in gdm, it also says what's loading now - you know, those little icons with nautilus, beryl etc.
I'm using ubuntu 7.04

Look -> System -> Administration -> Login Window -> local. There you can change the orange to black or what ever. You can disable gnome-splash screen with gconf-editor in Feisty.


One more thing - how did you get the 'file system' icon on your desktop, as the screenshot shows?
I just created a new launcher that executes "nautilus /"

[Angafirith]

Attached is practically the perfect example of the button problem. In fact, it shows another (relatively minor) problem as well. I also often have it happen with fileroller, when I open some sort of archive from my 32 bit firefox.

Please disregard the glitchy panel. I'm working on it. I seem to have the applet working properly, but my GTK doesn't seem to have patched properly. I've got another deb file a brewing in the background here.

If I manage to get both working properly, I'll post my AMD64 Feisty debs here for both the modified macmenu and the patched GTK. Wish me luck.

[signalat]

hi, anyone knows how to replace the system tray icon? i could not find where these icons located.

[Angafirith]

I forgot to post the screenshot. I posted a second reply below. I'll report my own post in hopes that it gets deleted, since I can't seem to figure out how to do it myself.

[Angafirith]

I've made a ton of modifications to the macmenu, but I cannot manage to get the Title to line up with the menu. You can see it in the attached screenshot: "Text Editor" does not line up with the gedit menu. You don't seem to have this problem in the article. Is this on my end or is it a bug in macmenu?

Certain programs (like gnome-terminal) have dynamic title names that take up a lot of room. It would be impossible to do a simple title substitution, because it's always changing. I wrote some code (which you can actually see in the screenshot. Whoops) that will do the substitution based on the executable name. I modified the code to have two substitution lists: tsba (title substitution by application) and the traditional tsbt (title substitution by title). Any entry in the tsbt list will override anything in tsba list. It works pretty well and I've tested it a bit. I think I'll post it once I get this alignment problem fixed. I'll also post my modified gtk debs for amd64 at that same time.

A novel idea: Actually posting the screenshot this time!

[Laterix]

I've made a ton of modifications to the macmenu, but I cannot manage to get the Title to line up with the menu. You can see it in the attached screenshot: "Text Editor" does not line up with the gedit menu. You don't seem to have this problem in the article. Is this on my end or is it a bug in macmenu?


This problem has been discussed in this thread Please see this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2521956&postcount=27) post.

[oriol18]

My desktop is very nice now but... firefox menubar doesn't works. ¿Is working on Opera?

[Angafirith]

Oops, I guess I overlooked that post. I'm happy with everything now, so I'll go ahead and post my modified macmenu sources and the amd64 deb.

I mostly made this for personal use. I did comment all of the code I wrote, but there's several implications.

Notes:

1) Because I'm mostly making this for myself, I went ahead and forced Lucinda Grande Bold 10 for the font of the title. I'll provide the source so you can take this out if you want.

2) If you're a customization person and have already modified the .macmenu-tslist, you'll have to move it to .macmenu-tsbtlist. If you haven't made any changes, don't worry about it. The applet will populate it for you, using the same default list as came with the original applet.

3) I have added .macmenu-tsbalist. It performs title substitution like the other list, but it does it based on the name of the executable. In this way, programs with dynamic window titles, like gnome-terminal, can be better controlled. The list takes the same format as .macmenu-tsbtlist, except that you use the application instead of the original title. The behavior is to check the Window Title for a direct substitution before checking the executable. I can't guarantee that it will work for 100% of all applications, but it at least let me rename my gnome-terminals. The default file only contains "gnome-terminal=Terminal".

If you want to make a deb for your own architecture, you should be able to use prevu or dpkg-buildpackage to create a deb from the sources.

EDIT: Fixed a bug already. Uploaded new packages with new version number.

EDIT: Added my patched GTK amd64 packages and source. If you try to bump this source to a new version, be sure to edit debian/docs.in and debian/gtk2.0-examples.examples.in for that new version. I couldn't get it to build without hardcoding it.

http://www.intentionallyleftblank.net/packages/gtk-patched-menubar.tar.bz2

[graphic23]

Could you make clear what are the differences between the regular one and yours apart from the font change ? Thanks!

[Angafirith]

Well, for one, my deb actually works. There was a bug in the one I had originally been using that meant that it would give me an error any time I added a macmenu applet or logged into my account. I fixed that.

Aside from forcing the font, there's only one major change: the title substitution by application that I discussed above.

[killbill]

Angafirith. I guess the latest version of macmenu-applet from AqD is 1.0.14.

Could u update ur package?

[Angafirith]

I suppose I can, but it might be a while. I've got a lot on my plate at the moment.

[killbill]

Hi, guys, How to get rid of this light white line in the mac menu applet?

[Max Randor]

ahh but can you make ubuntu look like a mac running OSX to other computers on the network :-) that would be much more useful for me :-).
:-)
Or it would have been but it does not matter now,

[andrek]

Hi, guys, How to get rid of this light white line in the mac menu applet?
Got the same problem, anyone know how to fix it?

[tgrisier]

This is really odd. After running the script for orange-look, I lost all of my desktop icons and can no longer get the context menu by right clicking the mouse. So far three hours of attempts have not restored any of these to their original state.

Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do...short of reinstalling Feisty?

[Laterix]

This is really odd. After running the script for orange-look, I lost all of my desktop icons and can no longer get the context menu by right clicking the mouse. So far three hours of attempts have not restored any of these to their original state.

Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do...short of reinstalling Feisty?
This sound odd that desktop icons disappeared. It sounds like your nautilus crashed. Did you try to restart X or kill nautilus? The Orange-look script was written for Dapper and it is NOT recommended to run it on any other system.

[galvatron1983]

Wow, Im impressed by the results, you could easily fool someone into actually thinking that was OS X! I reckon this is how Steve Jobs gets away with running Ubuntu in his office in Cupertino. :-D

[tgrisier]

This sound odd that desktop icons disappeared. It sounds like your nautilus crashed. Did you try to restart X or kill nautilus? The Orange-look script was written for Dapper and it is NOT recommended to run it on any other system.

Yeah, I've restarted a couple of times...I've even rebooted twice and it still is messed up. KDE and XFCE are fine though. What really is a bummer is that none of the modifications took effect.

UPDATE: Now, this is really really odd. After rebooting for the third time I have my desktop icons back and everything seems to be back to normal. But the effects of the script (changing icons, etc) still didnt' seem to take.

[XTREEM|RAGE]

ok got another noobie question ;D
I just followed your first osx look guide, but i cant change the top >_<.
Got everthing else, except the top bar.

So i tried your second, and there you got something from AqD and you had a modified version. How can i install this ;x?

i use ubuntu feisty 7.04

tnx

[Laterix]

So i tried your second, and there you got something from AqD and you had a modified version. How can i install this ;x?

i use ubuntu feisty 7.04


I haven't installed AqD's macmenu to Feisty, because as far as I know, it's not compatible with current GTK-library. So sorry, but I can't help you with this.

[XTREEM|RAGE]

Tnx for the info :D
But do you know to change the ubuntu logo @ feisty in the top-left on the top bar?
Can i not just copy the apple picture over the ubuntu logo, if i can where can i find it :) ?

[ThinkBuntu]

Laiterix, I've installed your Orange-Look theme using the installer, also adding the GDM and GTK theme as well as a wallpaper. I just realized that it does awful things (http://703designs.com/images/UglySynaptic.png) to the look of Synaptic. How can I fix this? I didn't see anything about it on your website...

[Laterix]

Tnx for the info :D
But do you know to change the ubuntu logo @ feisty in the top-left on the top bar?
Can i not just copy the apple picture over the ubuntu logo, if i can where can i find it :) ?
Yes you can. It's a distributor-logo.png and it's located in your icon-themes /22x22/places folder.

[Laterix]

Laiterix, I've installed your Orange-Look theme using the installer, also adding the GDM and GTK theme as well as a wallpaper. I just realized that it does awful things (http://703designs.com/images/UglySynaptic.png) to the look of Synaptic. How can I fix this? I didn't see anything about it on your website...

I'm not sure what you mean. But here is my guess. Run these commands in terminal:

sudo ln -s /home/YOURUSER/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -s /home/YOURUSER/.themes /root/.themes

Of course, replace YOURUSER with real username.

[el_rata]

a small tip for the user distributor logo:

I downloaded an apple icon from Gnome Look (http://www.gnome-look.org/) renamed it to distributor-logo.png and copied to the folder /scalable/places in the OSX icon theme folder. That's all, if it doesn't appear at once you have to restart the panel by typing this in the console:
killall gnome-panel
I suggest you restart X by hitting Ctrl+Alt+BackSpc (save everything before doing this!!) or selec another icon theme in the theme preferences manager and then reselect the OSX icon theme.
I hope i told the truth. Once again thanx laterix for the OSX guide. It's really great, keep it up.

[carlbastos]

Hi there!
I did everything just like your guide tells me. It's perfect, with exception of 2 little things:

- the tray icons(beryl-manager and gaim to be exact) are "colorful"
- the mac-menu applet, that doesn't align the title.

the title bar:
http://www.jpegr.com/uploads/1/issue03.jpg (http://www.jpegr.com)

when Lucida Grande Bold is removed:
http://www.jpegr.com/uploads/1/issue04.jpg (http://www.jpegr.com)

I searched all over the forum(like 2 days and all) for a fix about this last issue, but:

1- the (@#*@!%) applets i found don't compile AT ALL!!! and if they someday compile, I heard it may not work in most cases.
2- if I "delete" the Lucida Grande Bold font, the title finally aligns, BUT the space(width) for it becomes crazy... GNOME becomes "GN..." File Manager becomes "File Man..." etc.

somebody help me!
(I installed both macmenu/patchedGTK from some .deb package at once, so I can't "modify the source" or something like that)

[XTREEM|RAGE]

Yes you can. It's a distributor-logo.png and it's located in your icon-themes /22x22/places folder.

hmm i have made everything (except the .svg) that contained the ditributor-logo.png to the apple.png logo. But i still have the original ubunut feisty logo in top-bar on the left :(. Do i need to change those distirbutor-logo.svg also?

i have feisty 7.04

[Laterix]

hmm i have made everything (except the .svg) that contained the ditributor-logo.png to the apple.png logo. But i still have the original ubunut feisty logo in top-bar on the left :(. Do i need to change those distirbutor-logo.svg also?

i have feisty 7.04
Are you sure that you are replacing icons of the same theme that you are using? Because png replacements should be enough.

[XTREEM|RAGE]

hmmm after a lot of restarts, it suddenly changed :s
It works now, tnx for your help Laterix :D

btw do you have your apple.png picture in a higher format? lik 128x128?
i dont know really how to work with gimp or some, so i couldn't do it :(

[Laterix]

btw do you have your apple.png picture in a higher format? lik 128x128?

No, but I'm pretty sure that there is such a icon at gnome-look.org. Look there.

[factotum218]

nice work. made me miss my g4 for a minute

[XTREEM|RAGE]

How can i change the network icon,i have tried to look in here

a small tip for the user distributor logo:

I downloaded an apple icon from Gnome Look (http://www.gnome-look.org/) renamed it to distributor-logo.png and copied to the folder /scalable/places in the OSX icon theme folder. That's all, if it doesn't appear at once you have to restart the panel by typing this in the console:
killall gnome-panel
I suggest you restart X by hitting Ctrl+Alt+BackSpc (save everything before doing this!!) or selec another icon theme in the theme preferences manager and then reselect the OSX icon theme.
I hope i told the truth. Once again thanx laterix for the OSX guide. It's really great, keep it up.

But i have put my icons in every folder in there and it still not working.

the volume icon i have changed worked well, but the network....does it have a special name, because i thought this was it: network-idle.png, network-offline.png... etc?

[killbill]

It deponds on ur icon theme.
eg: OsX_MoD/scalable/apps/48 for OS X Mod 2

For network manager applet, : OsX_MoD/scalable/stocks/network-idle.png or nm-device-wireless.png

[XTREEM|RAGE]

It deponds on ur icon theme.
eg: OsX_MoD/scalable/apps/48 for OS X Mod 2

For network manager applet, : OsX_MoD/scalable/stocks/network-idle.png or nm-device-wireless.png

the theme is in my home (hidden) folders and it's named .icons/OSX/scalable/stocks i have put the .png files, but they wouldnt take any effect :( .

cant test it again, i'm at work, but when i'm home ill try it

[Angafirith]

I do have a suggestion for the gaim system tray icon: get rid of it. There's a plugin for gaim that uses DBUS to communicate with Avant Window Navigator to do the same thing. In the first screenshot here, you can see it in action (I'm using Adium icons, so look at the green duck). My AIM status is set to away in this screenshot, so it's using the away icon instead of the usual one (the eyes are half closed). Colorful icons are not out of place on the dock, so it works pretty well.

As for Beryl, I don't know what to say. I had actually looked for an icon to replace, without any luck. Beryl runs really poorly on here, so I'm using Compiz 5.0.0 with Emerald.

I like how Screenlets and the Widget applet in Compiz/Beryl work together (second screenshot). I've never actually used OSX, but it reminds me of what I've seen in Dashboard.

I've installed an OSX icon theme from gnome-look and setup my own icon theme that inherits from it. Here's the thing that bothers me: the firefox windows still have that old icon. Does anyone know how I can fix that?

[killbill]

1.The plugin Not working for pidgin.
2.There are still lots of apps using old ugly icons when it´s active, u need to replace them.

Try to replace icons in /usr/lib/firefox .

And, others, not figured out yet: gimp, mplayer.

BTW: I´m using compiz with emerald, too.

And I´ve noticed u have no alignment problem for window frames, so which emerald theme are u using?

[Angafirith]

I'm using the Emerald Theme that's in the article. I think it's called "Dream".

I'm pretty sure you can modify the gaim plugin to work with pidgin. I'd look into it myself, but I don't actually have pidgin installed on here. I haven't found a satisfactory debian package for it yet.

[killbill]

I c. I use the DreamAccurateTiger theme downloaded from themes.beryl-project.org, but have window frame alignment problems.

I compiled pidgin myself. For pidgin, u can set the diffenrent tray icons from the status icon, so pretty like adium.

[Angafirith]

Go ahead and put away that ugly systray icon; I got the awn plugin to work with pidgen. Here's what you do:

Edit gaim_awn.c and change the include of "gtkgaim.h" to "pidgen.h".

Add the following two includes:
#include "gaim-compat.h"
#include "gtkgaim-compat.h"


These add definitions that allow you to compile gaim plugins for pidgen without rewriting everything.

Now, every time you see a call to "dbus_g_proxy_call(" and see "gaim" in quotes, change that to pidgen.

For example, say you have this:

dbus_g_proxy_call(proxy, "SetTaskIconByName", &error, G_TYPE_STRING,
"gaim", G_TYPE_STRING, filename, G_TYPE_INVALID);

Change it to this:

dbus_g_proxy_call(proxy, "SetTaskIconByName", &error, G_TYPE_STRING,
"pidgin", G_TYPE_STRING, filename, G_TYPE_INVALID);
There's a couple of instances like this.

Now, edit the makefile. On the pkg-config line, change "gaim" to "pidgen":

$(CC) -fPIC -c $(SRCS) -o gaim_awn.o -DVERSION=\"`date "+%Y%m-%d_%R"`\" `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gaim atk cairo pango glib-2.0 dbus-1`

becomes
$(CC) -fPIC -c $(SRCS) -o gaim_awn.o -DVERSION=\"`date "+%Y%m-%d_%R"`\" `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 pidgin atk cairo pango glib-2.0 dbus-1`

Now, modify the install line:

cp gaim_awn.so ~/.gaim/plugins/
becomes
cp gaim_awn.so ~/.purple/plugins/

Should be good to go now. I'd post my own sources, except that I went ahead and modified them and added another feature. Getting to be a bit of a habit.

[jarlath]

Wow, that screenshot on page 1 looks amazing. Great work! I'll make a second login and use this theme to demonstrate to people that you can have whatever look/feel you want.

[idn]

i installed the usplash theme but it doesn't seem to be working (I am in fiesty). I just get the old theme turn back up again when i reboot. Any ideas?

[marianoi]

Hello Guys,

I know it may sound like a pretty basic question but, How do I create a tar file with all the icons I like?

The thing is suppose I look around and find several icons I like. The how do I create an icon set so I can easily transfer them to my other PCs? I is a tedious process to change them one by one every time....

Thanks!

Mariano

[Laterix]

I know it may sound like a pretty basic question but, How do I create a tar file with all the icons I like?


The easiest way is to take some theme that has many icons like Tango theme. Then you overwrite those icons with your own. There is also an index file that you need to edit. Just change your theme name etc. And don't forget to rename the directory from Tango to YourThemeName. You can tar the directory with nautilus just select directory click right mouse button and select "Create archive..."

[marianoi]

Thanks a lot!

[samae]

Angafirith : how did you manage to patch gtk2 ? Compilation breaks everytime on my amd64 feisty !
Thanks for considering my request (and pardon my poor english) :)

[Fylk]

Any one here gotten Gnome Dock working?

[Laterix]

Those who have problems with macmenu applet, I suggest to read this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2591836&postcount=532).

[u-foka]

Hy!

Joust one hing :) At the article in your site the label of the screenshot for the login screen is "Screenshot of GDK-theme." ;)

[Laterix]

Hy!

Joust one hing :) At the article in your site the label of the screenshot for the login screen is "Screenshot of GDK-theme." ;)
Oops, fixed :)

[Fylk]

I have a question, why not just use englightment and the Engage dock?

[samae]

Maybe because it won't work on my Feisty64 depiste all my efforts :)
And having tried both engage and avan-window-navigator, I prefer using avant-window :d

PS : Angafirith : how did you manage to patch gtk2 ?

[Laterix]

I have a question, why not just use englightment and the Engage dock?
Well, someone could ask, why not just use real OSX. The answer is simple, I like gnome so I wrote the guide for gnome. And it's not only the dock. Can I have OSX-like topmenu in enlightment?

[darundal]

Those who have problems with macmenu applet, I suggest to read this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2591836&postcount=532).

How would I go about undoing this? It is making gnome act very odd (disappearing panels randomly) AND I really don't the mac menu bar anyway (although figured I would try it since I don't have any experiance with it).

[OMRebel]

Is the article of how to do this mirrored anywhere? I can't access the article due to it having exceeded bandwidth.

[Laterix]

Is the article of how to do this mirrored anywhere? I can't access the article due to it having exceeded bandwidth.
I don't know about mirror, but my site is back on. I have a little problems with bandwidth limit, but I'll fix this in next months. In this month download has already exceeded 52Gb which mainly consists of HTML and JPG files. That's a lot more than I expected. I have 25Gb/month limit, but my web-host is very understanding and willing to reset my limit now and then. So, if it's offline just wait a day and come back.

[Laterix]

How would I go about undoing this? It is making gnome act very odd (disappearing panels randomly) AND I really don't the mac menu bar anyway (although figured I would try it since I don't have any experiance with it).
Sorry, but I don't know. I have neither done those deb packages nor have I written the guide. But I assume that you just need to reinstall GTK packages with synaptic.

[darundal]

Yeah, but synaptic won't let me reinstall them. It will only let me remove them, and then reinstall them (after which I have to reinstall almost every program on my machine). Aptitude won't let me purge them, because it says there are too many dependencies, and offers me no other options. Synaptic thinks that those packages are the same as the ones on the official repos, so update attempts don't work at all.

[samae]

I successfully installed macmenu applet and the patched gtk2.
I built packages for feisty 64bit for patched version 2.10.11 of gtk.

For the people experiencing problems with feisty 64, here are the packages ready to be used : http://methu.free.fr/ubuntu/macstyle
Just download all the files in the same folder and then :
cd yourfolder
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Have a nice day

[paco1234]

Hi, I've tryed anything at all to produce this menu bar and I couldn't. Can you give some topics from which I can see how the things are going on. Thanks. My mail is:
anderson@mail.bg




Hi there!
I did everything just like your guide tells me. It's perfect, with exception of 2 little things:

- the tray icons(beryl-manager and gaim to be exact) are "colorful"
- the mac-menu applet, that doesn't align the title.

the title bar:
http://www.jpegr.com/uploads/1/issue03.jpg (http://www.jpegr.com)

when Lucida Grande Bold is removed:
http://www.jpegr.com/uploads/1/issue04.jpg (http://www.jpegr.com)

I searched all over the forum(like 2 days and all) for a fix about this last issue, but:

1- the (@#*@!%) applets i found don't compile AT ALL!!! and if they someday compile, I heard it may not work in most cases.
2- if I "delete" the Lucida Grande Bold font, the title finally aligns, BUT the space(width) for it becomes crazy... GNOME becomes "GN..." File Manager becomes "File Man..." etc.

somebody help me!
(I installed both macmenu/patchedGTK from some .deb package at once, so I can't "modify the source" or something like that)

[samae]

The only solution I found so far is to edit the source of the macmenu applet ... Maybe you can have so build it for you :D

[ssammy]

http://www.blogtoplist.com/software/blogdetails-4544.html

Make windows look like Gnome

[el_rata]

i use flyakiteOSX for windows ... it's kind of heavy .... but looks great ... it patches everything ... and since i installed a windows without ****** services, it runs faster now ....

[bodhi.zazen]

Nice How-to

This thread has been added to the UDSF wiki.

OSX_Look (http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/OSX_Look)

If you do a major update to your how-to please send me a PM. Either I can teach you how to add to the wiki or I can try to maintain the wiki myself (as time allows), thank you.

Peace be with you,

bodhi.zazen

[Garret88]

I have a stupid problem with the macmenubar's background. The shots talks clearly:

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/3489/barravc9.png

It's evident the contrast between che gtk theme of the macmenubar and the background... How i can make transparent also the macmenubar background(as in the guide's screen)?

[Laterix]

It's evident the contrast between che gtk theme of the macmenubar and the background... How i can make transparent also the macmenubar background(as in the guide's screen)?
This depends on GTK-theme. If you use my GTK-OSX-look-a-like theme then it's all the same. Some other themes may work as well, but I don't know which one.

[quirt3]

Hey, Taiila. Two things: by having the background transparent, you can have the check leave the box as in osx (by using a slightly bigger image for both checkboxes), and
WE NOW KNOW WHAT TIGER LOOKS LIKE....Do you plan to update:
apple.com

[Garret88]

This depends on GTK-theme. If you use my GTK-OSX-look-a-like theme then it's all the same. Some other themes may work as well, but I don't know which one.

Also with your theme i have the same problem :(

PS: for the new look of leopard the macmenubar background doesn't need anymore: just make transparent 70% of the gnome panel :p

[el_rata]

big problem in little box ....

in my "apple" icon in the menubar i get an ugly arrow ... how do i remove it? and why some people get "linux desktop" and i get "gnome" .... my snapshot speaks for me .....

[Laterix]

in my "apple" icon in the menubar i get an ugly arrow ... how do i remove it?

This depends on which menu applet you use. In my screenshots I used USP (Ubuntu System Panel) menu applet, which don't have that arrow. You can't remove that arrow from default gnome-menu unless you want to modify the source code.


and why some people get "linux desktop" and i get "gnome" .... my snapshot speaks for me .....
Mac-menu applet allows you to set there what ever text you like. There is a configfile in your home directory for this. I can't remember the filename, but see what hidden files you have in your home dir.

[asmweb]

Hi there, thank you for the guide is so interesting and so nice. Unfortunately I got a problem which seem to be common, the Mac Menu is not really working. I did follow all the steps in here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868&highlight=macmenu) but I could not make it work and moreover I can not really understand which are the ways to make it work. Here is a screenshot of mine, any help would really be appreciated. thanks

[vexorian]

I have a request to the people that make these themes, let's please stop using the apple icon? it is copyrighted and perhaps it is not good to use it on anything that is not an actual apple desktop...

[el_rata]

I have a request to the people that make these themes, let's please stop using the apple icon? it is copyrighted and perhaps it is not good to use it on anything that is not an actual apple desktop...

I'm actually using an apple icon .... but later i will replace it with an ubuntu icon ...

love the mac but i don't have any money to buy one ....

[el_rata]

Hi there, thank you for the guide is so interesting and so nice. Unfortunately I got a problem which seem to be common, the Mac Menu is not really working. I did follow all the steps in here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868&highlight=macmenu) but I could not make it work and moreover I can not really understand which are the ways to make it work. Here is a screenshot of mine, any help would really be appreciated. thanks

it's the GTK Theme you are using .... use the theme that laterix indicates in his guide and you'll be fine ....

[vexorian]

I'm actually using an apple icon .... but later i will replace it with an ubuntu icon ...

love the mac but i don't have any money to buy one ....
Found out since the icon theme inherits from tango it just have to stop declaring the vendor icons.

Was trying to get the look and see if Macs are really something, but there is only one Avant package for feisty and it is VERY broken, it replaces 1/4 of the desktop with black background and lies in the bottom of that black rectangle, did anyone succeed in getting it to work correctly on feisty?

I kind of liked the icons, but they are too fuzzy for me thus I switched back to tango, the widget style was harder to get rid off since when I switched to human you begin to miss the awesome looking menubar, but if you switch back to OSX you begin to wonder why toolbar icons need to look so flashy. I think the panel image got a permanent spot in my desktop from now.


Laterix, I think I am going to modiffy your theme to be something else but keep some of the things I loved, thus am I allowed to redistribute modifications? I did not see any license disclaimer yet thus I am requesting some aclarations.

[mitchellthegreat]

I am an OSX user and I have to say, this is a real work of art. I'm on a PC for this moment and when I clicked on the picture and made it full size, I was astounded that I moved my cursor to the bottom of the picture thinking I was using OSX.

[mocqueanh]

You did a excellent job :popcorn:

[mthakur2006]

this is very good indeed, but i have run into a problem. I followed this guide on my user-area and now when my brother logs on, the toolbars from his terminal appear in the panel and he wants me to fix it. how do you fix this? i can do without the mac menu applet, but is there a way to restrict the macmenu applet to my user area only?
thanks,
mrinal.

[vexorian]

my computer got an issue with the gtk theme, the Create Launcher dialog is very wrong full of the menubar image, checking out if anyone else got this issue

[Laterix]

Laterix, I think I am going to modiffy your theme to be something else but keep some of the things I loved, thus am I allowed to redistribute modifications? I did not see any license disclaimer yet thus I am requesting some aclarations.
Yes, do what every you want with that GTK-theme. I don't care :)

[Laterix]

my computer got an issue with the gtk theme, the Create Launcher dialog is very wrong full of the menubar image, checking out if anyone else got this issue
This is true. I have experienced the same with other pixbuf GTK-themes. I believe that it's a bug in a quick launcher window, but not sure about that. Fortunately, you don't use that window too much, do you? ;)

[Laterix]

this is very good indeed, but i have run into a problem. I followed this guide on my user-area and now when my brother logs on, the toolbars from his terminal appear in the panel and he wants me to fix it. how do you fix this? i can do without the mac menu applet, but is there a way to restrict the macmenu applet to my user area only?

I believe that I already answered to your email, but let's say it again on the forum. You can't limit the mac-menu only for one user. If you install it, it WILL effect all users. As far as I know, the only way to uninstall it, is to reinstall GTK lib packages with synaptic.

[elusiver]

hi.. love the tut! just got a small problem with the usplash theme.

when i run
sudo apt-get usplash-dev

in fiesty all i get is
E: Invalid operation usplash-dev


any ideas?

thanks,
el :)

[Laterix]

when i run
sudo apt-get usplash-dev

in fiesty all i get is
E: Invalid operation usplash-dev

Oops, there must be an error on my page then. It should be

sudo apt-get install usplash-dev

[elusiver]

Oops, there must be an error on my page then. It should be

sudo apt-get install usplash-dev


thanks.. tried again.. usplash-dev has also been updated to libusplash-dev.

still can't get it to work. all seems fine till the last step.


Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.20-15.27 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.20-15.27 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub instead!

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done


el :)

[skiptomylou390]

Background: I tried going through your guide, and being the novice that I am, I could only get about half-way through. I decided to just put the main panel at the bottom and be happy with what I had, but a problem had arisen after messing with the guide's part related to the Mac applet...Here's what has happened:

For some reason, on some applications, the menu bar that contains things such as "File, Edit, View, Tools," etc, seems to be apart from the application window itself. The toolbar appears in the top left corner of my screen and the actual window doesn't have the bar attached to it. This happens for: Terminal, Gaim, and the Explorer.
A couple of screenshots are attached to show this...

I have included a screenshot of the packages I installed before this problem was born. These packages, as the site told, were intended for some reason to make the main panel act like "Mac OS X." You can probably notice how I have a Mac style theme...

Anyways, maybe there is some download that has the official packages?

[ackerleytng]

hi,

I'm using fedora... does anyone have instructions for fedora?

i saw the following but i dont know where is the gtk2 folder
To patch gtk2 manually:
0.Get gtk2 source
1.cd ...../..../gtk+-2.10.X (X means the version number)
2.patch -p0 < ......./..../gtkmenubar.diff (gtkmenubar-2.8.diff)
3.configure and make & install

also, i've no idea how to use PKGBUILD to build the applet at all...

sorry i'm such a noob please help!

thanks in advance,
Ackerley

[antitheus]

Well, how do I uninstall the macmenubar? I want the bar back to the apps.

[Eric_Jardas]

Is this legal ?
I mean using this theme,icons etc. ?

[vexorian]

Everything but the icons is probably 'legal'.

[edmondt]

I actually like the control buttons (min, restore, close) to be on the right side, and posted all the files for it if anyone is interested in making it look like my desktop:

http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-m1/m61601-1.png (http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/61601-1.jpg)

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/OSX-Tiger?content=61601

[Eric_Jardas]

Everything but the icons is probably 'legal'.
OK, I don't mind about the icons so much.
Where can I check if all else is legal ?
and why ' ' ?

[quantruong1985]

Sorry for my noob;), but I cant make my gnome panel look like Mac OS X menu. Can anybody give me a clear guide to do this? Thanks so much.
Best regards !:p:KS

[vexorian]

Exactly what part of the Mac OS X menu do you want? If you like the graphics, the link in the first post includes that image, if you like the menu bar of every app to be moved up there, the blog post in that link also takes you to some program.

If you had troubles getting them done, it would be nice to have soem extra details to know how to help

[GunZMAIET]

Does anyone know how to make a .deb file? I kinda need one because I can't find some things like the i.e. macmenu-applet or can't install them. :KS:popcorn::):(:confused::guitar::mad:

[DreamThief]

Background: I tried going through your guide, and being the novice that I am, I could only get about half-way through. I decided to just put the main panel at the bottom and be happy with what I had, but a problem had arisen after messing with the guide's part related to the Mac applet...Here's what has happened:

For some reason, on some applications, the menu bar that contains things such as "File, Edit, View, Tools," etc, seems to be apart from the application window itself. The toolbar appears in the top left corner of my screen and the actual window doesn't have the bar attached to it. This happens for: Terminal, Gaim, and the Explorer.
A couple of screenshots are attached to show this...

I have included a screenshot of the packages I installed before this problem was born. These packages, as the site told, were intended for some reason to make the main panel act like "Mac OS X." You can probably notice how I have a Mac style theme...

Anyways, maybe there is some download that has the official packages?

Hi!

Your problem is not so difficult. The Mac Menu Bar only works as intended if you put the mac menu bar applett on one of your GNOME panels. You just have one panel on the bottom of your screen und none one the top. You just didn't add the applett to your panel- In my oppinion having the menubar on the bottom pannel just plain sucks ;) Put a Panel on the top of the screen and add the Mac Menu Applett and it should work fine.

Apart from that I got just one remark: The lower panel just looks kind of messy because there are too many starters and tings you've put onto the panel and there is not much space left for the window list...

[GHermion]

HI Laterix!
I followed all the instructions you suggest in your article but I did not obtain the black icons on the top right of the bar. Please can you help me?
This is what I obtained....
Thank's a lot for your courtesy!

[vexorian]

that depends about the icon theme and how complete and accurate it is, try a search at http://gnome-look.org/content/search.php

[jlk]

the theme is in my home (hidden) folders and it's named .icons/OSX/scalable/stocks i have put the .png files, but they wouldnt take any effect :( .

cant test it again, i'm at work, but when i'm home ill try it

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache –force .icons/OSX/scable/sctocks

I had to use this when updating /usr/share/icons/Human before my replacement for the ubuntu logo would display.

[twrock]

Disclaimer: I didn't read all the way through this thread, so this might have been covered already. If so, I'm sorry to bring it up again. If not, it might help someone. Also, this assumes you are running Feisty. I don't know if this works on other versions.

Regarding OSX icons, if you are using these icons http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/OSX?content=31618
then you will discover that the Ubuntu logo is still the default icon for the Main Menu and other places. Apparently that icon set uses the Tango icon set for its base. That means that you can replace one scalable icon and achieve some good results.
Here is a link to a scalable Apple icon:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Apple_logo.svg
Just right click on the link and Save Link As... to your desktop (or wherever).
To change the color from black, open it in Inkscape and click on the graphic and click on whatever color you want. Save the file with the name "start-here.svg" to your desktop (or wherever you want).
Backup the original "start-here.svg" file in the /usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/places/ folder
sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/places/start-here.svg /usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/places/start-here.bak.svg

Copy your new Apple icon into that folder (but change the "username" to whoever you are in the code below).
sudo cp /home/username/Desktop/start-here.svg /usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/places/start-here.svg

Ctl/Alt/Bksp to restart Gnome and you should see your Ubuntu logo replaced by your Apple logo.

Final disclaimer: YMMV. Please don't yell at me if something goes wrong. I was just trying to be helpful.

[vexorian]

I think logo replacement shouldn't be promoted

[cast0r]

[trashed]

[twrock]

I think logo replacement shouldn't be promoted
I think I can see your point. I guess I'm not yet decided on what is "just for fun" and what is "too far". Since I change my desktop's "look and feel" about every five minutes, I'm imagining this logo replacement to be something people do on a whim for a short period of time before moving on to something else.
Personally, I'm extremely happy to be a Ubuntu user and "promote" it when the opportunity arises. But I also enjoy the flexibility it has when it comes around to playing with it and having it do all sorts of fun stuff, including having it look like a Mac.
But I will at least consider what you said.

[mzar]

Got any guide to make this OSX?

[tuura]

Hi!

Is there any way how I can get font rendering like os x for linux? Also, is there a real and nice Lucida Grande bold, becouse the default sucks. And when I remove the bold font, it looks bad too.

[infra_red_dude]

been working on it for quite sometime now. here's mac os leopard for free! :D

clean:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2193/screenshotum1tg7.th.jpg (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotum1tg7.jpg)

dirty:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7193/screenshot1uj9uz0.th.png (http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1uj9uz0.png)

suggestions welcome :)

wallpaper: leopard
composite manager: beryl
emerald theme: leopard self modded
gtk theme: leopard-gtk self modded
cursors: jaguar os x
icon set: OsX_Mod self modded
dock: avant window navigator-bzr
custom distro logo, custom top gnome panel background
clock: cairo clock
tray icons: lotsa hard work! :D
apps running: pidgin 2.1.0, exaile 0.2.11svn, nautilus, terminal

[BOBSONATOR]

For fun, i went for the osx look on my laptop, and have almost everything perfect, except, the notification icons, Does anyone know the locations of their directories?

ex:
nm-applet
gnome-power-manager

Thanks.
Here is a screen of my current one.

[infra_red_dude]

thats a nice desky :) btw, are you hafing probs due to the mac menubar applet in any app?

the volume icons are located in ~/.icons/<theme>/scalable/stock or /usr/share/icons/<theme>/scalable/stock

default battery icons in usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps, usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22apps and usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps (replace hicolor wid theme u are using if it bundles separate batt icons)

i'd replaced the gnome net monitor wifi icons, but i forgot the location !!! (thats not network manager, its animated network monitor applet)

[Aryding]

BOBSONATOR: Which dock is it that you are using in the picture above (Post #142)?

[infra_red_dude]

thats avant window navigator

[Kpax1]

I do not know the process to install gnome-dock. I have gotten all dependencies, and download the project from subversion repositories. However, when exectuting make in either the trunk or branches/initial-code directories, I am getting a bunch of errors printing out. In the Readme it says:

You need to have working .desktop files on ~/.cairo-dock.

Does this mean: $~cp /usr/share/applications/*.desktop ~/.cairo-dock

~/.cairo-dock

What is ~/.cairo-dock?

Can anybody help with some instruction?

[G3XOI]

That is a great "tutorial" Im going to give it a go tomorrow!

[fabounet]

Hi,
you can find some ressources on this site :
http://fabounet03.free.fr/
including some screenshots, videos, and the .deb to install the new cairo-dock. It's a new project taken from last year's gnome-dock.

see this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3249955#post3249955) for a little explanation about it.

[Kpax1]

I know have the dock installed. It is nice! Thanks.

[skattman83]

I have the awn dock working, but I can't seem to figure out how to install the pidgin plugin for it. Can anyone help me out with this?

[skattman83]

I found the solution while digging on the AWN forums. The .so file is the compiled file, and it just gets dropped into /home/username/.purple/plugins. Its just that simple.

[Staff]

umm hi. if i made gnome to look like OSX, would it be easy to make it back to look like gnome again?

[twrock]

Yes, quite easy. It should be easier than making it look like OSX since you have already learned how to do all the necessary steps.

[Maff88]

Hello

I have a questions

I have downloaded DreamAccurateTiger.emerald window borders.

How do i install it?

[BOBSONATOR]

Hello

I have a questions

I have downloaded DreamAccurateTiger.emerald window borders.

How do i install it?

Open up emerald-theme-manager and drag it in or select it from the install new theme.

[infra_red_dude]

inspired by this guide i haf compiled a transformation pack.

posted here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3309738&postcount=74

instructions to install are here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3313090&postcount=77

[guris]

heloo I have installed mac menu applet on my ubuntu fiesty desktop and I would like to remove it completely . Can i uninstall it? I have tried reinstalling libgtk 2.0.0. but it says cannot dowload :( canyouhelp plz.

[guris]

someone please help It's really annoying, I've finally configured my desktop the way I wanted and this F@#ER manu bar is not working, :(
nevermind I got it sorted.

[KiltLad83]

can anyone let me know what they used for the colour prefs in awn?

[TheRoot]

How can I uninstall it and go back to my old menu's ?

[infra_red_dude]

mac4lin version 0.2 has been releaed!!! download the newest and the greatest version! i've submitted a thread in the tutorials section. it is subject to moderation. once that is approved, we can continue the discussion there. meanwhile head to the SF.net project site and download the latest ver0.2!

continue all mac4lin discussions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=555373

[Alfa989]

Taken from the FSJ blog (http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/09/news-flash-you-can-make-linux-desktop.html)...

It is possible to modify Gnome into anything you want. Now, I challenge KDE and OSX users to do the same... can you change your OSX to look Gnome, KDE or Windows?

Wow, the guy has a point. I've always wanted my OSX desktop to look like Windows. I've also wanted to be able to have a Mercedes that looks like a Ford Focus; hence the reason I still haven't bought that Mercedes.

It's really got a point... ;)

[vbvamsi]

Oops, I guess I overlooked that post. I'm happy with everything now, so I'll go ahead and post my modified macmenu sources and the amd64 deb.

I mostly made this for personal use. I did comment all of the code I wrote, but there's several implications.

Notes:

1) Because I'm mostly making this for myself, I went ahead and forced Lucinda Grande Bold 10 for the font of the title. I'll provide the source so you can take this out if you want.

2) If you're a customization person and have already modified the .macmenu-tslist, you'll have to move it to .macmenu-tsbtlist. If you haven't made any changes, don't worry about it. The applet will populate it for you, using the same default list as came with the original applet.

3) I have added .macmenu-tsbalist. It performs title substitution like the other list, but it does it based on the name of the executable. In this way, programs with dynamic window titles, like gnome-terminal, can be better controlled. The list takes the same format as .macmenu-tsbtlist, except that you use the application instead of the original title. The behavior is to check the Window Title for a direct substitution before checking the executable. I can't guarantee that it will work for 100% of all applications, but it at least let me rename my gnome-terminals. The default file only contains "gnome-terminal=Terminal".

If you want to make a deb for your own architecture, you should be able to use prevu or dpkg-buildpackage to create a deb from the sources.

EDIT: Fixed a bug already. Uploaded new packages with new version number.

EDIT: Added my patched GTK amd64 packages and source. If you try to bump this source to a new version, be sure to edit debian/docs.in and debian/gtk2.0-examples.examples.in for that new version. I couldn't get it to build without hardcoding it.

http://www.intentionallyleftblank.net/packages/gtk-patched-menubar.tar.bz2

Thanks Angafirith,

I tried these packages and was able to successfully configure Mac-Menu. I tried everything else before this. Nothing worked for me on my AMD 64 laptop.

[aletheianalex]

i just stumbled upon this thread... very interesting.

One thing though: It is one thing to look like OSX, but I have seen very little about getting the HUI to ACT like OSX as in mapping all the common Apple command-click keystrokes and F-key options and Apple standard keyboard buttons (volume, eject disk, etc).

Most of the common Apple keystrokes involve the commany key, which is in the position of the 'alt' key on a standard keyboard, and the Apple default for 'alt' is 'shift+option' with the 'option' key being in the position of the 'windows' key on a standard keyboard. I have tried manually mapping the keys, but some of the keystroke combos interfere with common Linux commands. Is there a simple way to map all the Linux 'alt' commands to a 'shift+option(aka windows button)' tier while setting the standard Apple keystrokes to the 'alt (aka command)' button?

The point would be to take a Windoze PC that might be collecting dust in the closet, set up linux, slap an Apple extended keyboard on it and run linux in an OSX skin so that you can work back and forth between it and an Apple machine with out the keystroke headaches like trying to open a new tab and inadvertantly bringing up the terminal or some such nonsense?

[runemaste644]

Okay, i have it looking like OS X almost... I just need to get the Mac Menu applet fixed. Anyone got an i386 deb? l have a screenshot, the mac menu is on the bottom-top panel. Well, you'll find it.

[infra_red_dude]

for mac menu debs look into this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868&page=88

regarding the menu on ur botton, thats not the mac menu. thats the dock.

[runemaste644]

i mean right below the top panel. Thats where the mac menu is. And also when i go to the link where the deb is supposed to be, i get an error saying it didnt find it.

[infra_red_dude]

i've uploaded the mac menu debs on the mac4lin project website. you may download it from there. its under ver.0.1alpha: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin

[Tex-Twil]

Hello,
I would like to reintstall the normal gtk and gnome panel. Sever people have already asked how to do this but no answer has been given yet.

Could anybody help me ?

[Tex-Twil]

Hi,
the answer to my own question is in this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868

just search for "uninstall" within the thread and there it is.


cheers

[runemaste644]

For some reason when i try to apply a different theme, it stays on the same old theme. I DO NOT WANT THAT THEME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO I FIX THIS???????????????????????????????

[kotak07]

how do i make the dock look like a mac dock?

[prasadz8]

how do i get this package? its not in synaptics pac manager.

[maximilion]

I would love the OSX style on my Ubuntu. But I think I'll stick to changing borders and icons.

The only problem is that the OSX icons are huge, I'd prefer them almost half the size. How would I go about it? Is there a complete "port" of OSX icons pertinent to Ubuntu use? If someone could point me to a how-to get them into the theme manager, I could resize them and maybe make a theme!

Thanks

[Marktheawesome]

Is the original page down?
http://www.taimila.com/osx-guide-2.php

I can't load it. It was loading earlier just fine.

[Marktheawesome]

it's back up now.:)

[Distortedgamer]

The link to Gnome-Dock isn't working right now.

[BOBSONATOR]

gnome dock schmome dock, use awn (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Flaunchpad.net%2Fawn&ei=5hc7SK-UM5mIsAOfn4G8DQ&usg=AFQjCNEhEf_w5NDvgswlp87kO20cJ1q0vA&sig2=t3t7ea6Wy9w-q1D693Dvxw)

[lviggiani]

Hi,
did someone managed to get macmenu applet working with Hardy?
If so, where can I get the deb?
Thanks!!

[sox fan Matt]

the last time i tried it fried my computer...:(

[linux guy #5]

for some reason my icon next to where applications was is an apple thats black and not blue like in the screeenshots. Sorry if this was already posted.

[vidgms]

I installed the OSX and it looks great but I do not know how to change the title bar of my windows with the Close/Expand/Minimize buttons. Can anyone help me with this.

[Quantux]

I installed the OSX and it looks great but I do not know how to change the title bar of my windows with the Close/Expand/Minimize buttons. Can anyone help me with this.


Here (http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=5509) are some instructions, it's quite easy. I actually just changed my buttons to match osx and left the menu button off (I've never used it in any OS. Ever.)

[SnakeMedia]

He?? IO know that Menu of gnome can to be transparent like new Mac Leopard OS X V LOL

I wish my desktop to Mac OS X Leopard X V = 10.5x :D

Hehe.. what do i use that tool for theme, costumizing and etc... Bootsplash like old version of Mach kernel Apple Boot.

Thanks for tips! SnakeMedia

[qrwe]

Hello,

Things look promising for me in several ways. My problem now is that when I select the desired theme (found a random OSX theme at Gnome-Look (http://gnome-look.org/); the package from the guide page (http://www.taimila.com) didn't work at all), the theme manager applies:

This theme will not look as intended because the required GTK+ theme engine '' is not installed.

When searching for gtk engines (sudo aptitude search gtk2-engines), it comes up with several choices. Does anyone know which one I should look for with my new OSX looking theme?

[infra_red_dude]

Its an error generated by the engine coz of a particular line in the gtkrc file. The engine entry in the line is empty. The previous versions didn't bother to throw up this error but the newer version does. You don't hafta worry about anything. Just go ahead :)

[qrwe]

OIC! The problem is that the frames around my windows is not OSX style at all, just the Human style as before (but blue). Sorry for not being specific :-)

[infra_red_dude]

Oh.. that has got nothing to do with the error. For that you need the select the relevant "Window Border" theme by clicking the Customize button in Appearances window.

[qrwe]

I tried that too, but the OSX theme is not available there, maybe because of lacks in the theme package. All available frames are by the way right-aligned, can't find any function to change that. Any thoughts? If it works for you, maybe you could share what OSX themes you're using.

[suncoolsu]

I have the same problem as well - I have blue sliders in all the applications but the border is still from the human theme - Panel colors and the theme is still human :) - So u wont realize any diff from human theme until u click anything or slide anything (coz then its lie OS X)

Thx (i hope i am clear enuff)

[infra_red_dude]

I use Mac4Lin and don't face any problems. In fact, I'm the developer of Mac4Lin.

[Cloud4Twenty]

I seam to be having an issue getting the fonts... anyone know where I can get a good chicago font and how to install it?

EDIT: NVM I got it, wow was way ez when I actually tried >.<

[qrwe]

I use Mac4Lin and don't face any problems. In fact, I'm the developer of Mac4Lin.

..which I hereby promote and recommend. Awesome work!

[Rog-Mahal]

Anyone have a cursor theme that matches OS X? I'm specifically looking for the beachball and the really skinny text-entry cursor.

[infra_red_dude]

You can download Mac4Lin package (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin) or from the OSX Guide mentioned in the first post of this thread (http://www.taimila.com/osx-guide-2.php) for OSX Cursors which includes the beachball one.