Ubuntu Tips

1. Macbuntu 是一个可以将ubuntu改变成Mac Leopard的软件，一键式安装，但是也需要联网，在线安装部分需要的组件，如ubuntu-tweak。目前只有10.10版本，需要在install.sh、uninstall.sh中将10.10修改为11.04才能安装。根据安装后的效果个人感觉没有ubuntu默认的主题好看，颜色过于灰白。而且全局菜单不太好使用，经常导致标题栏不见。

下载的地址： http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbuntu/files/

#tar zxvf Macbuntu-10.10.tar.gz

#cd Macbuntu-10.10

直接执行install.sh 文件不行，脚步里面加了版本检测，不是10.10的话 不能安装

因此修改install.sh

2. Nautilus Elementary可看作是系统自带的Nautilus补丁版本。 安装：

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
nautilus -q

Now to enable Breadcrumbs(trust me you should), here is what you need to do. Open Terminal and copy-paste commands line by line.

cd
wget http://gnaag.k2city.eu/nautilus-breadcrumbs-hack.tar.gz
tar -xvf nautilus-breadcrumbs-hack.tar.gz

Now open Nautilus file browser and goto Edit - Preferences - Tweaks And Tick the show like breadcrumbs option. Now restart Nautilus. nautilus -q Done. Now open Nautilus and take a look at the mind blowing changes. Nautilus Elementary also comes with an embedded terminal. Select View->Embedded Terminal or press F7.  You can right click anywhere next to the toolbar / menubar and then select to hide various elements of the UI such as the main toolbar, side pane, menubar or statusbar. Hiding the menubar will display an extra button on the toolbar and you can re-enable it temporarily by pressing F8. You can customiz the toolbar any way you want. You can even add the "Edit location" button that was removed from the upstream Nautilus. Simply right click the toolbar and select "Customize toolbar". Gloobus Preview 同样在Nautilus Elementary的PPA中，它可以像Mac 中一样按下空格键预览文件。安装： sudo apt-get install gloobus-preview 卸载 sudo  apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa nautilus -a

安装新的主题： 下载Download Nautilus Elementary Ambiance theme first of all.

• Extract the downloaded ZIP file and copy "nautilus.rc" and the folder "nautilus" from the folder named "LAST VERSION".

• Open Terminal and copy-paste the following command.

gksudo nautilus /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/apps

• Insert your password when prompted.

• Paste the previously copied files ("nautilus.rc" and the folder "nautilus") into the Nautilus window you just opened(into the /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/apps directory ie).

• Reapply the theme(select a different theme and then select Ambiance once again).

Equinox Evolution Themes

• This is by far, my favorite collection of themes for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

• Latest Equinox theme pack update brought in 3 more themes namely Evolution Dawn, Evolution Dusk and Evolution Midnight taking the total number of Equinox themes to 5.

• To install them in Ubuntu 11.04, do the following in Terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-equinox equinox-theme

• Also see: How to enable breadcrumbs hack for Equinox themes in Ubuntu 11.04?

Orta Theme

• Orta Theme by SkiesOfAzel is again one of my favorites.

• To install it, copy-paste the following commands into Terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nikount/orta-desktop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install orta-theme

• Done. More details here.

Atolm Theme

• Atolm theme is also created by SkiesOfAzel, meant for dark theme fans.

• Though Atolm GTK theme looks pretty good with Awoken icon themes, I prefer Awoken Dark icon theme for it, think its slightly better.

• Atolm theme is available in the same PPA as above, so if you have installed Orta theme from above, you need only the third command from below.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nikount/orta-desktop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atolm-theme

• Done. More on Atolm theme here.

Divergence IV - "A New Hope" Theme

• Divergence IV - "A New Hope" Theme created by jurialmunkey. The next 3 themes we are featuring will also be of the same author.

• Download and Installation Instructions

Attack of the Clones Theme

• Attack of the Clones Theme - Download and Installation Instructions

There goes our list of favorite themes for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. A total of 10 themes have been listed above(including the 5 Equinox Evolution themes) and hope you found out your favorite. Two other things you need to know about Ubuntu 11.04's new Unity interface is the configuration options available through Quicklists and Application Indicators. Hope it helps.UPDATE: Nautilus Elementary Ambiance Theme + Orange Themed Clarity Icons looks pretty nice in Unity. What do you think?

You can now tweak Nautilus Elementary from within Nautilus: simply go to Edit > Preferences, on the "Tweaks" tab. Note: only new Nautilus windows will have the new settings (which you apply under the "Tweaks" tab), so simply open a new Nautilus window to use the new settings:

 

Nautilus Elementary 2.30 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx also comes with all the tweaks that were in Karmic such as RGBA, "F8" to toggle the menu bar and so on. The one thing missing for now is the ClutterFlow view. To enable RGBA transparency in Nautilus, please remember that it only works with themes which use the Murrine Engine (Ambiance, Radiance, Elementary, Airlines from the Bisigi themes and so on). Also, you need to enable RGBA in the theme settings. To do this, open nautilus as root:

sudo nautilus

Then navigate to /usr/share/themes and for the theme you want to enable RGBA transparency for, navigate to the gtk-2.0 folder, open the "gtkrc" file with a text editor, search for "rgba" and change it from "false" to "true.