Comments on: HOWTO Make Ubuntu Look Like Windows Vista

By: Ar4miS

Ar4miS — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:28:25 +0000

done this for my mother. I installed ubuntu on her laptop but keep looking like vista cause she used to the vista graphics…

By: admin

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:47:13 +0000

@Rothguard

Updated with the working links

By: Rothguard

Rothguard — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:54:20 +0000

could someone PLEASE post an updated version of these instructions with working links
im currently reading 4 copies of this page on other sites trying to peice it all together

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:06:01 +0000

Reading articles like makes me wanna customize my desktop again.
Customizing Ubuntu is really addictive.
I spend days customizing/tweaking/fine-tweaking my desktop/splash screen/gdm.
Don’t go to gnome-look.org, It is highly addictive!!!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:57:45 +0000

@ Nissan:
For Gnome, go to system->preferences->appearance
Then click on the human theme, select the Heron for the desktop and whatever else you would want to change back.

By: Nissan

Nissan — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:40:02 +0000

Can i change Ubuntu Back to what it looked like originally?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:06:05 +0000

@pompeyrodney

For the Beryl theme

You don’t need Beryl. Install Emerald (The Beryl themes are Emerald themes )

sudo apt-get install emerald

Open Emerald by typing in a terminal “emerald-theme-manager”, click on Import and find the theme.

2) For the GTK theme

Go to “System > Preferences > Appearance > Install” and install the theme.

To apply the Emerald theme, after you imported it, you must type in a terminal

emerald --replace

Sometimes emerald might crash and you don’t have frames on your windows, press Alt + F2 and type “emerald --replace” again.

By: pompeyrodney

pompeyrodney — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:12:22 +0000

Can you please amplify what you mean by “Install the Beryl and GTK theme as usual”, don’t assume your readers have the necessary knowledge please, I in particular need all teh help I can get !!

By: Denzien

Denzien — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:38:59 +0000

It would be nice if language like,”Install in the usual way” was abolished for people who might not know what “the usual way” is.

By: prasad

prasad — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:54:22 +0000

Hey If I change ubuntu to look like vista would it give me same problem as vista. kidding………