Geek Speak

And so does Paul. So I set about sexifying my desktop yesterday and I’m quite pleased with the results. I used a really nice Ubuntu GNOME theme called Dust, a GDM Login Window the called Woobuntu 2.0, changed the default font to FreeSans and turned on Subpixel Smoothing. And it was good.

Now with Rhythmbox running. By the way, I’m really starting to dig Rhythmbox, the Last.Fm plugin is oh most sweet.

It’s what I’m looking at while I punch in my password, so why neglect it?! Thank you Woobuntu.

And how rad is my wallpaper?! This I actually made myself from a photo of a Maersk container ship we almost collided with in the Sea of Marmara.

Caveats:

• Firefox doesn’t apply the theme properly, but easy fixed
  • The web page for Dust also has a Firefox theme you need to install
• NetBeans 6.5 doesn’t seem to handle the Dust theme very well.
  • To work around I changed the default NetBeans theme to standard Java theme, Metal in my case
  • Edit etc/netbeans.conf in the NetBeans application directory
  • Append one of the following to netbeans_default_options
  • –laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel or –laf javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
  • Nimbus is only available under JRE 1.6+
  • I think Metal actually looks fine with a Dust window
• At first some applications (such as Synaptic, or anything running under gksudo) didn’t apply the theme
  • This is because the theme was just applied for my user profile
  • I copied the theme from my ~/.themes/Dust to /usr/share/themes and now it works for all applications
• OpenOffice text seems to not cope well with something I did as it looks a little “subpixely”.
  • I just zoomed in on the text a little to lessen the effect
  • The default text colour becomes a shade of grey, so I updated the default style to black instead of Auto colour