maketecheasier.com— You can’t really turn a Linux system to a Mac, but you definitely can make your Ubuntu Hardy looks like a Mac OSX Leopard.
Jul 23, 2008View in Crawl 4
Hmm.. I don't like the way they use the apple logo (after all it isn't actually a Mac). How can I edit the theme files to replace the apple logos with the GNU logo?And is there anyway of making the windows (special) key act like the command key rather than control?
mrsteveman1,GPL has nothing to do with selling or not. Linux has been GPL since long before Novell bought Suse. GPL does not preclude selling the software. Just a week or so ago there were stories about Ubuntu boxes being sold for $20 in Best Buy. All perfectly legit.Allan
@ Kennu. You don't need to install Emerald unless you wanted Emerald. Metacity is built in and all you needed to do was go to Gnome-look.org and download all the Metacity window themes you wanted. Emerald only changes the window around programmes and has few advantages over Metacity.Also, if you DID choose to replace Metacity with Emerald it's as simple as starting Synaptic, searching for Emerald and clicking a tick box...done, it's installed! It doesn't even interfere with Metacity.The only thing I'll say is, there is ALWAYS an easier answer out there than Googling and following loads of random code...you could achieve all you wanted without ever firing up the terminal, but the FUD has you believing you MUST.Once Emerald is installed you go to Menu>Preferences>Sessions and create a new entry for it so it starts at system startup...the command would be "Emerald --replace" which would just replace Metacity. Now, I know you didn't know that, but you didn't know how to set up stuff in Windows once too. People get to a level of expertise over several years on a system, then demand the next system has them up to scratch on the first day! If you knew all you know now about Windows on the first day it was released than good for you...but I doubt it.
Geoken: Mac OS was the first GUI ever, before Linux had an interface, before Windows even existed, and the bar was at the top. If ANYONE did anything purely for the sake of being different, it was everyone else. Apple did it this way from the beginning.And if you actually measure the movements required, the bar on the top is FAR, FAR more efficient.My only complaint is that efficiency drops if you use a second monitor.
Closed AccountJul 23, 2008
thanks...nicely laid out article.
sephrJul 24, 2008
that doesn't work, I've tried it before
jamesmcmJul 24, 2008
Hmm.. I don't like the way they use the apple logo (after all it isn't actually a Mac). How can I edit the theme files to replace the apple logos with the GNU logo?And is there anyway of making the windows (special) key act like the command key rather than control?
axcairnsJul 24, 2008
mrsteveman1,GPL has nothing to do with selling or not. Linux has been GPL since long before Novell bought Suse. GPL does not preclude selling the software. Just a week or so ago there were stories about Ubuntu boxes being sold for $20 in Best Buy. All perfectly legit.Allan
Closed AccountJul 24, 2008
@ Kennu. You don't need to install Emerald unless you wanted Emerald. Metacity is built in and all you needed to do was go to Gnome-look.org and download all the Metacity window themes you wanted. Emerald only changes the window around programmes and has few advantages over Metacity.Also, if you DID choose to replace Metacity with Emerald it's as simple as starting Synaptic, searching for Emerald and clicking a tick box...done, it's installed! It doesn't even interfere with Metacity.The only thing I'll say is, there is ALWAYS an easier answer out there than Googling and following loads of random code...you could achieve all you wanted without ever firing up the terminal, but the FUD has you believing you MUST.Once Emerald is installed you go to Menu>Preferences>Sessions and create a new entry for it so it starts at system startup...the command would be "Emerald --replace" which would just replace Metacity. Now, I know you didn't know that, but you didn't know how to set up stuff in Windows once too. People get to a level of expertise over several years on a system, then demand the next system has them up to scratch on the first day! If you knew all you know now about Windows on the first day it was released than good for you...but I doubt it.
oobuntuJul 25, 2008
seems to break the network manager so that u can't see the strength of wireless networksedit: <a class="user" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4262080&postcount=646">http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4262080&pos ...</a>fixes it
luminousnerdAug 18, 2008
Geoken: Mac OS was the first GUI ever, before Linux had an interface, before Windows even existed, and the bar was at the top. If ANYONE did anything purely for the sake of being different, it was everyone else. Apple did it this way from the beginning.And if you actually measure the movements required, the bar on the top is FAR, FAR more efficient.My only complaint is that efficiency drops if you use a second monitor.
luminousnerdAug 18, 2008
Jailbreaking FTL.