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NemoPaice
October 9th, 2005, 01:33 PM
I am totaly new to linux. I am 2 days in, and learning pretty quick. (I guess all that Schooling paid off) My question is, I was looking around and saw desktops of other linux users that I like. How do you get them? ie: Transparent text documents, etc. example......

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Zelut
October 9th, 2005, 01:58 PM
Well as far as transparent terminals you can change that in your own terminal settings. Open it, select Edit > Current Profile and you can change the effects (transparent, colors, etc).

Other options are using the System > Preferences > Themes for a different style & look. Also look into gdesklets for some cool desktop apps & effects. (to install that, if you haven't, check out www.ubuntuguide.org)
NemoPaice
October 9th, 2005, 02:35 PM
Thanks for the speedy response. I will check that out.
Brentx
October 9th, 2005, 02:49 PM
That's the beauty of Linux.. especially Gnome and KDE, because you can skin them. If you are running Gnome (by far the best :P), check out http://art.gnome.org for some really cool skins for gnome. When you download the packages, just drop them into your Theme manager or icon manager to use them.
NemoPaice
October 9th, 2005, 06:12 PM
Good site Thank you. I Just want something out of the "Norm"
brt
October 9th, 2005, 06:20 PM
check out http://art.gnome.org for some really cool skins for gnome. When you download the packages, just drop them into your Theme manager or icon manager to use them.

yeah, just drag the downloadlink into the thememanager-window :D great !!
NemoPaice
October 9th, 2005, 06:28 PM
Now thats easy
Skatox
October 10th, 2005, 12:11 PM
I like the themes fron www.gnome-look.org
chajuram
October 15th, 2005, 01:20 AM
Hi,

I have been using ubuntu for about four months. One thing I absolutely love about gnome are the gdesklets, download it using synaptic and add displays and sensors from http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/

Gdesklets make your desktops look lovely and are also quite handy. They are also good to impress Windows users.

Chajuram.

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Captn
October 19th, 2005, 12:46 AM
Thank you everyone for the links, very cool.