Comments on: Nice Ubuntu themes for Jaunty and Intrepid Users

By: rob

rob — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:01:40 +0000

I installed these they show up in the system->preferences->appearance and they kind of work but it looks nothing like the images given in this page, im a bit of a noob at this, so might i be doing something wrong??? thx for any help.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:05:08 +0000

Thanx man, these themes are niiiice

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:51:17 +0000

Got message: Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “zgegblog-themes”

I have these great themes successfully installed on my Karmic laptop. But couldn’t get them to install on my daughter’s Intrepid pc.

By: Japanese Phrases

Japanese Phrases — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:49:50 +0000

These are some of the best themes ever made for Ubuntu. To bad they don’t come as default. I am using the bamboo right now!

By: vik

vik — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:50:51 +0000

Great themes,..but hot do I set the login and splashscreen???

By: Vladimire

Vladimire — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:10:09 +0000

nice one ! installing the wild-shine theme…

By: fawaz

fawaz — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:41:20 +0000

thank you

By: ritam

ritam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:22:41 +0000

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Done
Writing extended state information… Done
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “aquadreams-theme”
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “aquadreams-theme”
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Done

By: Xanius

Xanius — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:39:53 +0000

Thanks so much! Great themes and despite being new, installing them was a snap. Great info.

By: zmdmw52

zmdmw52 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:57:58 +0000

Updated instructions for installing Bsigi Themes are at:
http://www.bisigi-project.org/?page_id=8&lang=en

By: mihai

mihai — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:42:52 +0000

utterly stunning! thanks for themes as well as the useful instructions. worked like a charm

By: david

david — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:34:49 +0000

Thanks for the article. Using Showtime theme and it’s gorgeous

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:08:46 +0000

So I installed them all via sudo aptitude install zgegblog-themes, in a vanilla Jaunty system. But only 4 of them show up in System->Preferences->Appearance.

The 5 that aren’t there are Showtime, Infinity, Wild-Shine, Tropical, and Ubuntu-Sunrise.

The files for all 9 of them seem to be installed in /usr/share/emerald/themes properly.

I thought about trying to re-install the ones that don’t show up, but apt-get install seems to want to uninstall all of them except the one I select, using the apt-get install line from the bottom of this post….

I’m no Ubuntu guru, but I’m at least not a total noob…

Anybody got any clues as to why only 4 of the 9 show up?

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:53:04 +0000

Hi and thanks for those nice themes you make us know! they seem very nice, you are wright!
I’m a Hardy Heron user and a linux newbie too. But the title of your feed “…for Jaunty and Intrepid Users” make me lost my lost my smile, what about the Heron!
So, in order to dress my Heron, i decided to install those themes by adapting repositories like this:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

..i also add the GPG key and reload my repositories list..
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574de
sudo apt-get update

…before doing this:
sudo aptitude install showtime-theme

sudo aptitude install balanzan-theme

After that, the showtime and balanzan themes have being installed without any problems. My resolution is 1280×768 and i use gnome.

Here is my question: Do you think the manipulations i have done to use those thmes are going to cause me troubles?

Thanks.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:51:34 +0000

Please donate your old boxes to a church-group or some needy student in these hard times! To comply with the law, and with Microsoft’s leasing policy, you can now replace Microsoft OS with the free (download from the net) Ubuntu OS, which can be set to erase the hard drive of all traces of the “illegal to give away ” Microsoft system and your private information, before donation! Now, explain to your lucky recipient that all the manuals they will ever need are available for free on the internet! Just ask for them in Google! OpenOffice, which is installed already is plenty adequate for homework assignments and with a little exploring, everything else can work well too! Happy computing!

By: Rukshan Chathura

Rukshan Chathura — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:29:32 +0000

Awesome, thanks…

By: TL

TL — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:43:12 +0000

these themes are awesome. I wish there were more like this.

and I like how they are installed through apt-get

By: grkatta

grkatta — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:34:28 +0000

I am having download problem with launchpad.net only.
All other repos and from ubuntu india I dont have any problems in downloading. Even from launchpad.net
I can download at good speed throug firefox. I have problem with launchpad.net if I try to download through package manager or through terminal

By: Moustafa

Moustafa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:25:36 +0000

the themes are marvelous ,,,
Thanks to Zgegblog for this fantastic themes and the installation steps too.

By: clint

clint — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:47:21 +0000

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