Technical GNOME. Ambiance and Radiance Themes for App Launcher ‘Launchy’ Cross-platform app launcher ‘Launchy’ might be a helpful tool for getting things done quickly, but the default theme it ships with doesn’t look allthat great in Ubuntu. Thankfully we have a solution – Ubuntu user Maxime has created both an Ambiance and Radiance theme for theutility. And they look great: - What is Launchy? Launchy is an open-source, cross platform application launcher similar to GNOME Do. It can be ‘invoked’ by pressing theAlt + Space keys or by assigning a custom key-combo of your own. Once Launchy is on the screen you just need to begin typing the name of the program or file you wish to open (see image above).
Options for specifying the folder searched, the file types and frequency of catalog-rebuilding are amongst those available. Admittedly Ubuntu 11.04 has a “Launchy” of its own that works in the same way – The Dash – but for Ubuntu fans of this particular application these themes demand to be tried. Download Install gksu nautilus /usr/share/launchy/skins/ The top 5 desktops from our Facebook competition. Last week we ran a 5-day competition on our Facebook page, where fans were invited to submit a screenshot of their pimped Ubuntu desktop. We got over 500 submissions throughout the week, and it was certainly a tough decision to pick only 5 winners out of so many. Our panel of judges consisted of OMG! Authors Joey Sneddon, Tyler Brainerd and myself, one of our web developers, Anthony Stewart, and of course the infamous Daniel Fore, aka, DanRabbit.
This desktop, by Joakim Wahlgren, caught our eye due to its simplicity, and beautiful use of the Ubuntu branding to display system information. The awesomely original and unusual window decorations in this desktop by Gaurav Pareek really caught our eye. Every one of our judges chose this inventive desktop by Walid Alwawi, for a variety of reasons. The use of vertical panels is also something that not many people tried, but here it seems to work well. Lastly, Jacob Morgan Dunton really impressed us with his original use of panel positions.
Getting Back to a Pure Gnome on Ubuntu. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Newer tutorials have moved to the blog Note, this applies only to Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal). If you're using 12.04, go here. If you're using 11.10, go here. These removal commands were created based on what Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc. packages were added to a default Ubuntu installation. Remove Kubuntu Paste this command into the terminal: Remove Xubuntu Paste this command into the terminal: Remove Lubuntu Paste this command into the terminal: Remove Edubuntu Paste this command into the terminal: HylleBLACK_launchy by ~Hylle007 on deviantART. Eyecandy for your GNOME-Desktop - GNOME. SystemAccess GNOME. Plexi GNOME. London Smoke - Gnome-Shell GNOME. Prophet GNOME. Alduin Skin for Launchy by ~nDNA on deviantART.