blog.linuxmonitor.net— In this guide we're gonna talk about customization, we're gonna make Ubuntu look and feel the way we want, so lets start!
Mar 7, 2007View in Crawl 4
For those with ATI cards, and not much Linux experience, who REALLY want Beryl: go buy an Nvidia card. I spent hours and hours with my ATI getting Beryl to work, breaking it, breaking my X, etc, etc... I finally bought a cheap Nvidia card off of eBay, put it in, and had Beryl working in about 2 seconds. And it's been working perfectly ever since.
Oh yeah, and breaking X. But thats easy to fix. If it boots you back into the command prompt when booting, simply type, sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and set it to defaults. Or use sudo dpkg-reconfigure -foninteractive xserver-xorg to have it try to auto detect your settings by the hardware (which usually works, as thats how it was done when you installed).
I'm trying to not be annoyed by this article. As kuribo said, it more of Gnome guide than Ubuntu. I also find it hard to imagine that somebody won't be able to customize Gnome like this the first they boot into Gnome. I'm not claiming to be elite or anything, but the very first time I booted into Gnome, I had this figured out within about 2 minutes.One thing I majorly question the guide on is why he's having the new users (the only ones that would even need such a guide) instead all the GTK theme engines through the CLI? That's pointless. Using the CLI is good practice, but is silly in this case. I seem to remember all those GTK engines being in Gnome-Art. If not, just use Synaptic.
It's not like the other themes, the GNOME theme preferences doesn't have any way to configure add/remove sound themes. Even the GNOME Art theme application doesn't have a sound tab.
bradleyboMar 8, 2007
For those with ATI cards, and not much Linux experience, who REALLY want Beryl: go buy an Nvidia card. I spent hours and hours with my ATI getting Beryl to work, breaking it, breaking my X, etc, etc... I finally bought a cheap Nvidia card off of eBay, put it in, and had Beryl working in about 2 seconds. And it's been working perfectly ever since.
aliarseMar 8, 2007
Oh yeah, and breaking X. But thats easy to fix. If it boots you back into the command prompt when booting, simply type, sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and set it to defaults. Or use sudo dpkg-reconfigure -foninteractive xserver-xorg to have it try to auto detect your settings by the hardware (which usually works, as thats how it was done when you installed).
mikedothMar 8, 2007
I'd like to see more cursors than what's available on:<a class="user" href="http://www.customize.org/list/xcursors">http://www.customize.org/list/xcursors</a><a class="user" href="http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=36">http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=36</a>
nefiMar 8, 2007
HOWTO: Not get annoyed by ubuntu articlesskip right over the article. don't click on it.
cdmarcusMar 9, 2007
How is that missing? There are tons of sound themes you can download at gnome-look.org, and most programs let you select sounds for different events.
sanguinemoonMar 9, 2007
I'm trying to not be annoyed by this article. As kuribo said, it more of Gnome guide than Ubuntu. I also find it hard to imagine that somebody won't be able to customize Gnome like this the first they boot into Gnome. I'm not claiming to be elite or anything, but the very first time I booted into Gnome, I had this figured out within about 2 minutes.One thing I majorly question the guide on is why he's having the new users (the only ones that would even need such a guide) instead all the GTK theme engines through the CLI? That's pointless. Using the CLI is good practice, but is silly in this case. I seem to remember all those GTK engines being in Gnome-Art. If not, just use Synaptic.
dhughesMar 9, 2007
It's not like the other themes, the GNOME theme preferences doesn't have any way to configure add/remove sound themes. Even the GNOME Art theme application doesn't have a sound tab.
megababuMar 9, 2007
pretty cool
jeezersDec 25, 2009
its dead now! :(