Anyone know any themes to make windows XP look like linux? [Archive]

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 03:20 AM

Id like my windows XP installation to look like linux. Anything you know of, post it. Like a KDE or Gnome theme or something.

No cygwin though.

So far ive found:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/18591720/

majikstreet

February 26th, 2006, 03:25 AM

I dunno, but YAY! Finally someone wants windows to look like linux, and not the other way around!

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 03:28 AM

Well duh =P

Linux just has a really smooth and nice look to it.

And that first one I found, a clearlooks port, has a version for normal gnome and a version for ubuntu human gnome.

Iandefor

February 26th, 2006, 03:40 AM

Which theme do you want ported?

briancurtin

February 26th, 2006, 03:55 AM

cant you run KDE on windows?

i think i read something about this once, not sure though.

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 03:57 AM

There is no way I could ask you to do alot of work and port a theme. That would take you along time.

But incase you know of any ones already ported, (again, I dont want you to take the time and port it yourself, or anyone else for that matter) i would just like any theme that has ether the gnome look, or the kde look. Ive already found a nice gnome look, so its on to the KDE look now.

cant you run KDE on windows?

i think i read something about this once, not sure though.

Yea, with cygwin, but its really hard.

eriqk

February 26th, 2006, 04:04 AM

Maybe use bb4win (http://www.bb4win.org/news.php)? It's, well, BlackBox for windows. Kind of replaces Explorer. Haven't used it myself yet, but it looks good.

Groet, Erik

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 04:12 AM

Maybe use bb4win (http://www.bb4win.org/news.php)? It's, well, BlackBox for windows. Kind of replaces Explorer. Haven't used it myself yet, but it looks good.

Groet, Erik

Looks cool, ill check it out =D

sapo

February 26th, 2006, 04:14 AM

Install Gnome as your window manager and be happy :mrgreen:

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 04:19 AM

Install Gnome as your window manager and be happy :mrgreen:

http://xs69.xs.to/pics/06080/command.PNG.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs69&d=06080&f=command.PNG)

Didnt work to well.

sapo

February 26th, 2006, 04:21 AM

http://xs69.xs.to/pics/06080/command.PNG.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs69&d=06080&f=command.PNG)

Didnt work to well.
did you check your repositories list? :mrgreen:

Iandefor

February 26th, 2006, 04:51 AM

http://xs69.xs.to/pics/06080/command.PNG.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs69&d=06080&f=command.PNG)

Didnt work to well. You're joking, right?

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 05:05 AM

You're joking, right?

Good obersvation ;)

vayu

February 26th, 2006, 05:54 AM

I like how many downloads it's had:

Downloads:
Total: 50,288
Today: 170

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 06:47 AM

WOW!

I now have a perfectly working blackbox on my windows install =D

All I did was download something, unzip it, and double click the program. Nice. Its fast even!

bored2k

February 26th, 2006, 06:50 AM

http://xs69.xs.to/pics/06080/command.PNG.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs69&d=06080&f=command.PNG)

Didnt work to well.
CyGNOME - Cygwin GNOME (http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/)

bored2k

February 26th, 2006, 06:50 AM

KDE on Cygwin (http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/)

benplaut

February 26th, 2006, 08:14 AM

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 06:18 PM

KDE on Cygwin (http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/)

"You may find bzip2 or gzip compressed tar files, which are designed to be unpacked unter your cygwin installation root using a bash shell."

Thats enough to make me not even consider it.

majikstreet

February 26th, 2006, 07:27 PM

i gotta see if that'll work on my school account.

Roaming profiles download the user account from the server when you log in, and save changes back when you log back out. I have OO2, firefox, gimp, and xchat installed on mine. login takes about 5 minutes, and 10 for logout

add gnome to the mix, and i'll set a new school record :D
you can install stuff? well I've never really tried...

xe........... SCREENSHOT!!!

ice60

February 26th, 2006, 08:25 PM

hi, here are some VS (Visual Styles) themes you can use. there are more! - you need to patch the uxtheme.dll to use them.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/18591720/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/22538161/

here's a gnome one
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14772543/

you can also make dos alot more like a *nix shell if you go to the page below. i use the tab complete hack, but there are 100s more things you can do - wget, cat, chmod, gzip etc
http://www.infonomicon.org/text/cmd_linux.txt

there's also a T.W.A.T. Radio (http://twatech.org/index.php) episode (the same person as the above link) where he shows how to make windows more like Linux using things like the dos hacks and Blackbox 4 Windows (http://www.bb4win.org/news.php)

mcduck

February 26th, 2006, 08:45 PM

There's also Litestep. And here's a nice Gnome-theme. http://www.deviantart.com/view/28988222/ It even has Menu Bar with Ubuntu logo :D

ice60

February 26th, 2006, 08:50 PM

There's also Litestep. And here's a nice Gnome-theme. http://www.deviantart.com/view/28988222/ It even has Menu Bar with Ubuntu logo :D
that's really good :cool: for some reason i never used Litestep, i'm not sure why, it always looks so good.

mcduck

February 26th, 2006, 09:03 PM

that's really good :cool: for some reason i never used Litestep, i'm not sure why, it always looks so good.
Litestep is the only way to use windows :D And you can do amazing desktops with it.

Iandefor

February 26th, 2006, 09:06 PM

Good obersvation ;) Thank god. I was seriously hoping that you hadn't actually been serious :-D.

ice60

February 26th, 2006, 09:13 PM

Litestep is the only way to use windows :D And you can do amazing desktops with it.
i might try it out if i ever use XP again :D

i just downloaded this VS theme which i'll probably try
http://www.deviantart.com/view/20903764/

lol and this one :( maybe not, there's no download
http://www.deviantart.com/view/26195104/

:D
http://www.deviantart.com/view/28749269/

xequence

February 26th, 2006, 09:41 PM

Litestep is the only way to use windows And you can do amazing desktops with it.

Litestep is stupid. I cant figure out how to get it working o_O

It has NOTHING telling you how to accually make it work :P

you need to patch the uxtheme.dll to use them.

Already did that =)

hi, here are some VS (Visual Styles) themes you can use. there are more!

Thanks, ill check them out :D

K.Mandla

February 26th, 2006, 09:50 PM

K.Mandla

March 1st, 2006, 02:40 AM

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8595/thanks8ng.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thanks8ng.jpg)

This is the best ever!

midwinter

March 1st, 2006, 03:10 AM

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8595/thanks8ng.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thanks8ng.jpg)

This is the best ever!

Crazy... :D That's pretty damn good.

BoyOfDestiny

March 1st, 2006, 03:38 AM

lol... There is something just wrong with doing this... Maybe I should put a gentoo wallpaper, then upload my screencaps... ;) Oh well, I guess it's kind of fun to "dress-up" your OS as another just because you can...

xequence

March 1st, 2006, 03:40 AM

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8595/thanks8ng.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thanks8ng.jpg)

This is the best ever!

You should get the accual ubuntu wallpaper on it :)

K.Mandla

March 1st, 2006, 03:41 AM

Yeah, and it smooths the edges of running Windows for nine hours a day, when I'd rather be tinkering with Ubuntu.

Please excuse me while I reboot again, for the third time tonight. :mad:

K.Mandla

March 1st, 2006, 03:45 AM

You should get the accual ubuntu wallpaper on it :)
I was just googling for that. Is it a png or a jpg? I'm at work, so I need someone to find out for me. I'm running twin monitors (which is why I've got the odd screen dimensions), so I want the widescreen.

MetalMusicAddict

March 1st, 2006, 03:48 AM

http://xs69.xs.to/pics/06080/command.PNG.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs69&d=06080&f=command.PNG)

Didnt work to well.
Im late on this but damn that was funny. :)

xequence

March 1st, 2006, 03:51 AM

Im late on this but damn that was funny. :)

Thank you very much :)

Jucato

March 1st, 2006, 03:58 AM

ok, call me stupid and ignorant but...
how do you do these stuff? uxtheme.dll? what is that. I have absolutely no knowledge of these stuff, and I want my Windows to look like that... I'd appreciate any help.. please... :D

Btw, has anyone successfully installed KDE on Cygwin? I'm really curious about this...

K.Mandla

March 1st, 2006, 04:06 AM

Apparently you have to run a patcher that will allow you to install .msstyles themes.

http://themes.belchfire.net/index.php?showtopic=8767

I've used it and it's fairly safe. You'll have to reboot after you run it, just so you know.

Move the unzipped clearlooks.zip into the /Windows/Resources/Themes folder, and drop the fonts into your Fonts folder.

Right-click on the .msstyles file and pick Open. Then pick the Ubuntu Human style from the Display Properties > Appearance menu.

Configure the cursors.

Whee! Almost Ubuntu! :mrgreen:

Now if I can just find the darn Ubuntu default wallpaper. ...

Jucato

March 1st, 2006, 04:11 AM

You'll have to reboot after you run it, just so you know.
I have yet to see a Windows-system-affecting install that doesn't require rebooting. :D

Thanks for the links! I'll try them out IF and WHEN I reboot into windows (which I find that I seldom do for weeks) :D

As for locating the Ubuntu wallpaper, shouldn't it be in the /usr/share/wallpapers directory?

K.Mandla

March 1st, 2006, 04:13 AM

As for locating the Ubuntu wallpaper, shouldn't it be in the /usr/share/wallpapers directory?
It probably is. But I'm at work now, so I'm surfing hoping someone posted it somewhere. Everything I find is a screenshot with the menu bars, etc., visible. And at 480x320 or something like that. I need the full widescreen.

Ah well. I'll just download the live CD.

xequence

March 1st, 2006, 04:15 AM

how do you do these stuff? uxtheme.dll? what is that. I have absolutely no knowledge of these stuff, and I want my Windows to look like that... I'd appreciate any help.. please...

Microsoft was stupid and only allowed their themes on XP. So you hack the theme thingy with a simple program to run normal themes.

K.Mandla

March 1st, 2006, 04:17 AM

Hey! This could be my first HowTo!

HOWTO: Make your XP box look like Ubuntu. ...

:mrgreen:

xequence

March 1st, 2006, 04:20 AM

Hey! This could be my first HowTo!

HOWTO: Make your XP box look like Ubuntu. ...

:mrgreen:

That is accually a good idea!

I am so gonna do that :)

But can anyone send me the default ubuntu wallpaper, please?

Kvark

March 1st, 2006, 04:46 AM

Wonderful thread! This will be the first thing I try if I am ever forced to reinstall Windows XP. Ubuntu human with clearlooks borders so much sexier then the 3 XP themes :D

Here is the breezy widescreen wallpaper. (http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=2116)

PS. The stupid wallpaper chooser hides which files the wallpapers actually are which confused me completely until I found an xml file that pointed out the wallpapers are called "warty" and not "breezy". I hate it when apps confuse me by hiding stuff from me in an attempt to avoid confusing me. :?

Iandefor

March 1st, 2006, 04:49 AM

There is no way I could ask you to do alot of work and port a theme. That would take you along time. I was actually making the point that there is no single "Linux" look.

Jucato

March 1st, 2006, 05:03 AM

EDIT: Nevermind...

Kvark

March 1st, 2006, 05:07 AM

EDIT: Nevermind...
EDIT: Ok, nevermind...

Jucato

March 1st, 2006, 05:14 AM

EDIT: Ok, nevermind...
\\:D/
Sorry about that. In the time it took to upload the pictures in Photobucket, your link was fixed already. Boy, do I feel sheepish :D

K.Mandla

March 1st, 2006, 05:19 AM

Here is the breezy widescreen wallpaper. (http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=2116)
Excellent! Thanks! I searched for about 10 minutes and couldn't come up with anything. Cheers!

Jucato

March 1st, 2006, 05:22 AM

Just a thought, I wonder if anyone has been able to make a theme that mimics KDE... (I'm a KDE user). ClearLooks is GNOME right? No matter. Anything to make my XPerience less XP and more Linux is, in my book, downright cool. :D

ice60

March 1st, 2006, 06:00 AM

you can also use Linux icons, you need to change them from png to ico, i think you can just do it in Paint. then you can use this program below to make the change once you have your icons in the .ico format
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html

in case anyone missed this link earlier in the thread, here's how to make DOS work alot more like a linux shell.
http://www.infonomicon.org/text/cmd_linux.txt

ice60

March 1st, 2006, 06:07 AM

here are two short (about 10 minutes) podcasts explaining how to make windows more like Linux - shell commands, windows managers etc

http://www.twatech.org/eps/twat024.mp3
http://www.twatech.org/eps/twat055.mp3

if you download any of the DOS command programs you can put them in
C:\WINDOWS\system32
or
C:\WINDOWS

cmd.exe automatically searches there when you run a command, it saves you having to navigate anywhere when you want to run them.

K.Mandla

March 1st, 2006, 06:15 AM

you can also use Linux icons, you need to change them from png to ico, i think you can just do it in Paint. then you can use this program below to make the change once you have your icons in the .ico format
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html
I see that there are some kind of icons in the clearlooks package, but to be honest, I don't have the time or desire to get them all arranged. Perhaps that program would expedite it.

in case anyone missed this link earlier in the thread, here's how to make DOS work alot more like a linux shell.
http://www.infonomicon.org/text/cmd_linux.txt
That's useful. I've already built ls.bat. I do that all the time.

xequence

March 1st, 2006, 01:22 PM

I was actually making the point that there is no single "Linux" look.

But there is a "gnome" look, which I think I found, and a "kde" look, which I have yet to find.

Just a thought, I wonder if anyone has been able to make a theme that mimics KDE... (I'm a KDE user). ClearLooks is GNOME right? No matter. Anything to make my XPerience less XP and more Linux is, in my book, downright cool.

No, I have not found a KDE theme, but I am looking =)

And yes, clearlooks is gnome.

Here is the breezy widescreen wallpaper.

Thank you, but do you also have the non widescreen one? (Ill need both for my how-to :))

Jucato

March 1st, 2006, 01:41 PM

Here? (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b277/Fenyx0/warty-final-ubuntu.png)

EDIT: Dang, Photobucket compressed it's size... :mad: I'll post another link in a while.

TrendyDark

March 1st, 2006, 01:52 PM

http://xs69.xs.to/pics/06080/command.PNG.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs69&d=06080&f=command.PNG)

Didnt work to well.

LMAO, THAT DOES NOT WORK IN COMMAND.COM :-P

Jucato

March 1st, 2006, 02:13 PM

Here's the Ubuntu default wallpaper (non-widescreen)

Ubuntu Wallpaper (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=2123&c=5)

xequence

March 1st, 2006, 08:53 PM

Here's the Ubuntu default wallpaper (non-widescreen)

Ubuntu Wallpaper (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=2123&c=5)

Thank you =)

LMAO, THAT DOES NOT WORK IN COMMAND.COM

You sure? I could have swared I had it working before...

Jucato

March 1st, 2006, 08:56 PM

You sure? I could have swared I had it working before...

LoL!! \\:D/

Bender the Robot

March 22nd, 2006, 06:30 PM

Litestep :- http://www.litestep.com/ has a selection of KDE type desktops for windows. Install "Litestep", disable "Explorer" then visit customize.org :- http://www.customize.org/list/ls - or one of the other third party theme sites.

TeeAhr1

March 22nd, 2006, 07:12 PM

I cannot imagine wanting to make my XP machine at work look like Gnome. It would just depress me when I tried to switch desktops or Ctrl-Alt-F1 to another session..."oh, shite, f!ing Microsoft.."

bradlis7

March 22nd, 2006, 07:28 PM

i gotta see if that'll work on my school account.

Roaming profiles download the user account from the server when you log in, and save changes back when you log back out. I have OO2, firefox, gimp, and xchat installed on mine. login takes about 5 minutes, and 10 for logout

add gnome to the mix, and i'll set a new school record :D

That's really neat. This is college, right? I imagined high school at first, but I don't see a high school giving this much ability to students.

John.Michael.Kane

March 22nd, 2006, 07:46 PM

Is it just me or do those themes link to at DA. seem to render diffrent then say themes for linux distros. the text,and icons seem sharper. not sure if this true fact or not. it just looks that way in some of the screenshots.

bradlis7

March 22nd, 2006, 07:47 PM