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{ 2010 08 12 }

My sexy desktop

Well I received a lot of comments and mails about my overall *sexy* desktop layout and look…

So to get everyone down a bit here is what you need to use and set up to have your desktop look like mine…

  • Get the Elementary wallpaper right here

  • Get Dockysudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install dockyOnce done set your Docky settings window to look like this:

  • Ok now for the fonts:

  • And last but not least the Icon Set, I use Faenza: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme
  • I modified the theme by changing the controls to Dust

I hope you enjoy the experience like I do


Posted by Seif Lotfy on Thursday, August 12, 2010, at 2:22 am. Filed under Uncategorized. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

{ 22 } Comments

  1. ssh | August 12, 2010 at 2:58 am | Permalink

    there is a small typo:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

  2. Seif Lotfy | August 12, 2010 at 3:09 am | Permalink

    thanks fixed

  3. matt | August 12, 2010 at 3:11 am | Permalink

    SO, this is novice, but using the panel png you included I can’t get the whole panel to change. the notification area stays as it was. Is there an easy fix for this?

  4. nutznboltz | August 12, 2010 at 3:12 am | Permalink

    Brown Forever!

  5. hmmm | August 12, 2010 at 4:39 am | Permalink

    Isn’t there an easy way to package this / and give us a one click theme install? (or perhaps two, should there be any warnings)

  6. nixternal | August 12, 2010 at 5:54 am | Permalink

    As an avid KDE user and developer, and never one who enjoyed the looks of GNOME the least bit, I think you have made me like a theme with GNOME. Good work there, I really do like the spiffyness there :)

  7. Benoit Caccinolo | August 12, 2010 at 8:59 am | Permalink

    With this background, I’m pretty sure I can smell the wood.

  8. jonathan | August 12, 2010 at 10:51 am | Permalink

    thanks for this, i would also like to know how to get all of the above panel transparent. The applictations menu and notification area stays dark.

  9. jonathan | August 12, 2010 at 11:19 am | Permalink

    sorry, just missed the FineryDark theme.

  10. max | August 12, 2010 at 11:44 am | Permalink

    very nice, thank you! :smile:

  11. John W | August 12, 2010 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

    Very cool. It is nice to see excellent desktops, and it is very nice to see the steps to reproduce them! Thanks!!!

  12. ethana2 | August 12, 2010 at 2:31 pm | Permalink

    I see that ‘File’ and ‘Edit’ in the top panel, your guide here is not complete.

    Come now, the global menu bar is the best part of the whole thing. Is that the Ubuntu Menu Bar from Maverick or gnome-globalmenu on Lucid?

  13. Eric | August 12, 2010 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    Did you modify the FineryDark theme? It’s not looking the same on my end. Notably, I’m seeing the tab widget in a preferences dialog as the same color as the window, unlike in your screenshots.

  14. Seif Lotfy | August 12, 2010 at 6:16 pm | Permalink

    I modified the theme by changing the controls to Dust

  15. ryan | August 12, 2010 at 11:20 pm | Permalink

    thanks this looks great on my old dell laptop. But I could not figure out how to get the theme going under XFCE.

  16. Donat | August 14, 2010 at 7:50 pm | Permalink

    You can tell in detail how to make just one panel transparent?

  17. drako | August 17, 2010 at 2:44 am | Permalink

    Works for me in Lucid.

    The missing steps can be provided by Google.

  18. iheartubuntu | August 24, 2010 at 12:26 pm | Permalink

    I just made some alt versions :)

    http://sixty8doors.deviantart.com/

  19. vipek | December 6, 2010 at 12:13 am | Permalink

    May I ask, how did you move menu (File, Edit, …) to the top panel?

  20. bilal | February 12, 2011 at 11:21 pm | Permalink

    made a docky theme, will go nicely with it..

    http://bilalsana.deviantart.com/#/d39duso

  21. nardoxic | December 1, 2011 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

    do u guys have permission to distribute my wallpaper here on this website?
    http://nardoxic.deviantart.com/gallery/5662246#/d26qjjr

  22. Seif Lotfy | December 2, 2011 at 4:31 am | Permalink

    Your name and copyrights are on the bottom of the wallpaper :)

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