Mod your gnome desktop, change the colors the easy way.

Install the autoten application. You can find the instructions in my earlier post today <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/04/20/autoten-install-nvidia-gnome-color-chooser-and-many-others-in-one-click-on-fedora/">here.

Gnome color chooser is an application to allow you to change the color of your gnome DE in all aspects. Very easy to use GUI. Just install it and run it as gnome-color-chooser. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the application.

<img class="size-full wp-image-751" title="Gnome Color Chooser" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gnomecolorchooser.jpg" alt="Gnome Color Chooser" width="346" height="445" />

The beauty of this application is that it allows to use XML files as input so there are lot of possibilities. And one of the most lucarat5ive ones is to download a pack of color schemes from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/84941-daX_UltraPack220_3v2_gnomecc.tar.bz2">here.  This has 220 theme colors to select from in the form of XML files which can be used directly with Gnome Color Chooser. So enjoy.

Desktop with cairo-dock

Just love the look now.

Heres the screenshot:

<img class="size-full wp-image-472" title="Desktop" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/desk.jpg" alt="Desktop" width="840" height="525" />

bash script to change icon theme to check out all the installed themes (personal)

I am really annoyed with the time that is required and the number of clicks that it takes to change the gnome icon theme. So here&#8217;s a small script that I wrote to quickly check out all the icon themes that I have in my ~/.icons folder.

#!/bin/bash
[[ &#8221;$1&#8221; == &#8221;&#8221; ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ &#8221;$2&#8221; == &#8221;&#8221; ]] && (
cd ~/.icons
cont=&#8221;y&#8221;
echo &#8221;Select one of the icon themes&#8221;
echo &#8221;When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c&#8221;
for i in *
do
[[ -d $i/cursors ]] || (
echo &#8221;Now trying …. : $i&#8221;
gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme &#8221;$i&#8221;
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme &#8221;$2&#8221;

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bash script to periodically change the cursor theme.

#!/bin/bash
[[ &#8221;$1&#8221; == &#8221;&#8221; ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ &#8221;$2&#8221; == &#8221;&#8221; ]] && (
cd ~/.icons
cont=&#8221;y&#8221;
echo &#8221;Select one of the icon themes&#8221;
echo &#8221;When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c&#8221;
for i in *
do
[[ -d $i/cursors ]] && (
echo &#8221;Now trying …. : $i&#8221;
gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme &#8221;$i&#8221;
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme &#8221;$2&#8221;

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Spruce up your firefox with lightweight themes – Personas

Head over to Firefox addons site  for persona <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900" target="_blank">here. This addon will give you the ability to change the look and feel of the browser without restarting it. Though it is not completely like themes and does not change the look and feel of the buttons and plenty of other things but this does make the browser a lot better. Here are some screenshots to show you how it feels like: