Turn Your Ubuntu Intrepid Into Mac OSX Leopard
This is an updated version of my previous post Turn Ubuntu Hardy into Mac OSX.
That post was written six months ago and many things have changed during this period of time: release of Ubuntu Intrepid, newer Mac4Lin theme, better globalmenu applet etc. As such, I have decided to rewrite this tutorial for the Intrepid platform.
Disclaimer: This tutorial was based on Ubuntu Intrepid and Mac4Lin RC1 themes. I don’t guarantee that it will work on other distro or other version of Ubuntu.
Download the Mac4Lin themes and extract it to your Home folder. You should see a Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC1 folder that contains all the configuration files in your Home directory.
Preparing the installation path
Next, in your Home directory, press Ctrl + H to reveal all the hidden files. Check if any of the three folders .themes, .fonts, .emerald exist. If not, create three folders and name them .themes, .fonts, .emerald. Create another folder within .emerald folder and name it themes.
Installing the Mac4Lin themes
Open a terminal, type in:
cd Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC1
sh Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh
This will install the Gnome themes (window border and icons), change the wallpaper and the panel background.
During the installation process, the installer will ask you for root access in order to install certain components (refer to the image below). Type y to continue.
After the installation, your desktop should look something like this:
Installing the AWN dock
(The AWN dock may/may not work in all machine. If you find that it does not work after following the instructions below, you may want to try out Cairo dock that is less demanding on the machine.)
The AWN dock requires a compositing manager to work. If your system supports Compiz, it will be able to run AWN as well. if not, we have to install the X compositing manager.
Go to System -> Preferences -> Appearance, click on the Visual Effects tab. Click on the Extra radio button. If you see the following image, then your computer does not support Compiz. (If you don’t see the image below, proceed directly to install AWN.)
You have to install the alternative X composition manager
sudo apt-get install xcompmgr
Add it to your auto-start list. Go to System -> Preferences -> Session. Add the following:
Install AWN
The AWN dock is already included in the Intrepid repository, so you can easily install it by clicking this link. Alternatively, you can also type the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator
Once the installation is done, go to Preferences -> AWN Manager. On the left pane, click on the Themes. On the right, click Add. Navigate to the Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC1 folder. Open up the AWN folder and select Mac4Lin_AWN_v1.0_RC.tar.gz. Click Open. The AWN theme should be installed now. Check the radio button beside the theme and click Apply. Click Close.
Before we launch the AWN, we need to remove the bottom panel so that there won’t be an overlap. At the bottom panel, right-click the mouse and select Delete This Panel. Activate AWN by going to Applications -> Accessories -> Avant Window Navigator. You should see the AWN loading up in the bottom of the screen. To add applications to the dock, click on the Applications at the top panel and navigate to the particular application you want to add. Drag the application icon to the dock. That’s it. You should see something like the image below:
To start AWN everytime you log in, go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions. Click Add. Fill up the following:
Click Add, follow by Close. AWN will now automatically load when you login to your computer.
Installing OSX font
Go to System -> Preferences -> Appearance. Click on the Fonts tab Change the following field to the same as the image below:
Make sure the Subpixel smoothing (LCDs) button is checked. Click Close.
Installing Global menu
There is a repository for Ubuntu Intrepid that you can add to the sources.list, but it is not the updated version (0.6) and it is buggy. Instead, we will download the latest version (0.7.1) from the code homepage. In the future when the repository is updated to the newer and more stable version, I will update this post again.
For 32-bit machine
Download gnome-globalmenu-0.7.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm to your Home folder from the Globalmenu Google code site.
Note that the file is of rpm format. We need to use alien to convert it to deb format.
In the terminal, type:
sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien --scripts gnome-globalmenu-0.7.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm
This will create a gnome-globalmenu-0.7.1-1.fc10.i386.deb file in your Home folder. Double-click on the deb file to activate the installer. Click Install Package to install Globalmenu.
For 64-bit machine
Open your text-editor (Applications -> Accessories -> Text Editor).
Copy and paste the following:
# Uncomment to load the GTK module
export GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gnome
# Uncomment to tell the GTK module to open a Gtk
# TreeView for all menus in the application you start.
# export GNOMENU_FUN=1
# Uncomment to disable global menu.
# export GNOMENU_DISABLED=1
# Uncomment to print a lot of debugging messages
# export GNOMENU_VERBOSE=1
# Uncomment to save the debugging messages to the given file.
# export GNOMENU_LOG_FILE=/tmp/gnomenu.log
# uncomment to disable the plugin for specific programs.
# export GTK_MENUBAR_NO_MAC="fast-user-switch-applet"
Save the file as .gnomerc in the Home folder.
In your terminal,
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line to the end of the file. Save and close.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ubuntu intrepid main
Back in your terminal,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome2-globalmenu
Now, on the top panel, remove all the icons and menu from the left side of the panel. Right-click on the icon and select “Remove from panel”.
On the right of the top panel, remove the logout icon. Still on the right hand side of the top panel, right click and select ‘Add to panel‘. Scroll down the list and add ‘Search for files‘. This will add the spotlight icon to the panel.
On the left of the top panel, right click and select ‘Add to panel‘. Scroll down the list and add Main Menu and Global Menu Panel Applet.
The Globalmenu might not appear or work well after you have added it. Logout and login again and you should see the globalmenu working perfectly on the top panel.
Right click on the globalmenu and select Preferences. Check “Enable Global Menu” and unchecked “Icon”.
The globalmenu is compatible with most of the GTK application. However, some programs, such as Firefox will not work with it.
Creating Dashboard effect
We will use a combination of screenlets and Compiz widget plugin to achieve the dashboard effect.
If you have not installed Screenlets, click here to install.
If you have not installed Compiz Configuration Settings Manager, click here to install.
Alternatively, you can also type the following command in terminal to install:
sudo apt-get install screenlets compizconfig-settings-manager
Go to System->Preferences->CompizConfig Settings Manager. On the Left, click on Desktop. On the right, put a check beside ‘Widget layer’
Go to Applications –>Accessories->Screenlets. Activate the widgets that you want to display. Right click on the widget and select ‘Properties’. Go to Options tab and select ‘Treat as widget’. Do this for all the widgets that you have activated.
You can now see your dashboard in action by pressing F9.
Fixing up some small detail
Until now, your desktop should be very close to a Mac desktop, but there are still some small details such as the Gnome icon at the top panel, mouse cursor etc. Let’s fix them up now.
Replace the apple logo
1. Download the apple icon (Right-click and select “save link as”).
2. Go to Places –> Home Folder. Press Ctrl + H to reveal the hidden files.
3. Navigate to /.icons/Mac4Lin_Icons_v1.0_RC/scalable/places. Scroll down to find the images distributor-logo.png, gnome-main-menu.png, main-menu.png and start-here.png. Note that all of them are the same image. Rename them to distributor-logo.png.old, gnome-main-menu.png.old, main-menu.png.old and start-here.png.old respectively.
4. Now, with the apple icon that you have downloaded, make four copies and rename them to distributor-logo.png, gnome-main-menu.png, main-menu.png and start-here.png. Copy and paste all of them to the folder.
5. Logout and login again. The logo at the top panel should change to the apple icon now.
Changing mouse cursor
Go to System –> Preferences –> Appearance. Select Customize. Click on the Pointer tab. Select Mac4Lin_Cursors_v1.0_RC. Click Close.
Configuring usplash screen
Until now, you have done up the interior, it’s time to fix the exterior: usplash screen and grub screen.
Install startupmanager by clicking here or type the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install startupmanager
Go to System -> Administration -> Startup-Manager. Click on the Appearance tab.
Press the Manage bootloader themes button. This will pop up a window allowing you to select the background image for the GRUB.
Click on the Add button and navigate to File System –> Home –> Username –> Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC1 –> GRUB. You should see three files. Refer to the below screenshots on how each file looks like. Pick the one that you like best.
Back to the main window, select the image from the drop down bar. Remember to check the box “Use background image for bootloader menu”.
There is a bug in Ubuntu Intrepid that prevent the user from changing the usplash screen. We have to do a workaround using splashy. Here’s the hack for it:
Remove the default usplash
sudo apt-get autoremove usplash
Download these two files to your desktop:
libsplashy1_0.3.10-1_i386.deb
splashy_0.3.10-1_i386.deb
Double-click the downloaded files to install.
Download the osx-splash splashy theme file to your Home folder.
In your terminal,
sudo splashy_config –i ~/osx-splash.tar.gz
sudo mv /etc/splashy/config.xml /etc/splashy/config.xml.old
sudo cp /etc/splashy/themes/osx-splash/config.xml /etc/splashy/config.xml
Now, we need to edit the GRUB file
gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Scroll down till you find the kernel entry. Append the term vga=792 to the end of the kernel line (see screenshot below). Save and close.
That’s it.
Complete Screenshots
Grub screen
Login screen
Intrepid Mac OSX desktop
Intrepid Mac OSX desktop with dashboard effect
Uninstallation
If you want to change the theme back to the original setting, here is what you need to do:
1. Remove the globalmenu from the top panel
2. Remove all the installed files:
sudo apt-get autoremove splashy libsplashy1 gnome-globalmenu
3. Restore the usplash theme and remove the vga=792 from the GRUB file.
sudo apt-get install usplash
4. Uninstall the Mac4Lin themes
cd Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC
sh Mac4Lin_Uninstall_v1.0_RC.sh
Enjoy!
References: Ubuntu Forum, Splashy, Bauer-Power
Tags: Intrepid, Mac, mac transformation, Ubuntu
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Thanks for the great tutorial Damien. Everything works fine on my system.
I just followed the steps, except for the splashy installation. I downloaded/installed it from the repo since I couldn’t install those from the link because of some dependency problem.
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Damien,
Great walk-through! Well done!
I am wondering if you have tried the new Gnome Do with Docky? I have followed your instructions however, I have substituted Docky for the AWN dock as it is compatible with all graphics cards and does not need any kind of Compiz manager to run. You could offer this as an alternative for less powerful systems? I also use the new splash screens from “The Count” who left a comment here and gave a link to a new upsplash screen. You might want to use his input as well?
Cheers!
-Matt-
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I had a problem with the GRUB and splash screen installation. My x-server Ubuntu GUI crashed out and I re-installed 8.10 all over again :(
But thanks for this tutorial. I installed again all EXCEPT the splash and GRUB theme :D
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You hit one out of the park with these instructions. I’m a dummy, and installed it without a glitch!!
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GREAT JOB AND TUTORIAL, THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYTHING WORKS GREAT, EXCEPT FOR THE USPLASH, COULDN’T INSTALL SPLASHY, I’M TESTING THE 9.04 VERSION, AND HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH 8.10, DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE BUG THAT YOU SAID, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST GREAT, I LOVE IT, THANKS AGAIN.
REGARDS.
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This is a great tutorial, Damien. My girlfriend is very into Macs and was struggling with my KDE setup. It looks almost identical to her OS X. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
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I have had some frustrating experiences as an ubuntu newcomer, however this tutorial was very easy to follow. I love my new look. Thank you so much for doing this.
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Everything except GRUB went well, which is no big deal in my opinion. I’m wonder if there isn’t a list where folks who have installed the OSX changes can ask questions. This seems to only be a “sign the praises” of the author list. If such a list exists, please post it here.
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Alec Reply:
April 26th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Yeah.
This is a great tutorial! I had the same issue as you Hozey…
Term kept giving me a ‘Missing argument’ prompt after trying to initialise the GRUB settings….
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I’m pretty sure all the necessary handles are there after looking @ Splashy’s MAN page…
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thanks man for the tricks, i use ubuntu 9.04 desktop. it looks good like Mac OS
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hi
that is very well. thanks. but i have a question. global menu applet didnt work. how can i solve this problem
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Christian Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 1:48 am
The same thing happened to me, I just logged out and then back in again and it worked fine.
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Thank you so much you are just amazing! i did all the steps as you said and everything is working just fine. I LOVE IT!!! :D
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Thanks for a great tutorial. I’ve only got one problem. When I move a window around the desktop it has a wave like appearance and will sometimes not go where I want. Can this be corrected? Thanks again.
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Damien Reply:
April 18th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
That seems like a Compiz issue. You can change the setting in the CompizConfig setting manager.
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Thanks for this tutorial. I really love the Global menu feature.
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Thanks for the tutorial. It works great!
Only one thing, you didn’t mention how to use the mac sounds. In the pdf-manual of mac4lin there is a screenshot of an older Ubuntu.
Can you help me setting the right sound event in Ubuntu Intrepid?
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i clear my panel and when i clicked on add to panel there was no Global Menu Panel Applet on my list…
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Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages [2869B]
Fetched 49.9kB in 1s (42.8kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7889D725DA6DEEAA
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
vendking@vendking-desktop:~$ apt-get update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
this problem appeared when i entered sudo apt-get update. what can i do??
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Samuel Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Follow ‘Adding the PPA to your Ubuntu repositories’ in the page :
http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/InstallingonUbuntu
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vendking Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
i tried this way and : W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7889D725DA6DEEAA
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7889D725DA6DEEAA
W: GPG error: http://download.tuxfamily.org feisty Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2D6CFB44DD800CD9
???
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Samuel Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:22 am
Hi,
Which “Trusted Software Providers” you got listed in the “Authentication” Tab of the “Software Sources” Tools ?
I have got:
DA6DEEAA 2000-01-22
Launchpad PPA for Globalmenu Team
Hi
I’m unable to install the global menu and get the following error
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7D2C7A23BF810CD5
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
I’m using 64 bit Ubuntu 9.04 beta
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Samuel Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Please find how at :
https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA#Adding%20a%20PPA%27s%20keys%20to%20your%20system
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Damien: sabes si funciona con la nueva versión 9.04?
Damien: you know is working on 9.04 version? (sorry but my english is poor)
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Patap Reply:
April 25th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I have updated my Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 and nothing have crashed but kept working. So I believe it would work on “fresh_installed” Ubuntu 9.04.
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Great Job!
I guess you can write an article about turn ubuntu jaunty into Mac OSX now :P
I am looking forward to it!
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hi i tried uninstalling the theme but am unable to. didnt do all other changes just had installed the theme. the terminal says
sh: Can’t open Mac4Lin_Uninstall_v1.0_RC.sh
in appearances i can change the themes so no problem but i keep getting the close-minimize-maximize buttons on left upper corner and not right upped after changing my theme to default. how can can i revert that back too??
oh yeah and i upgrade to jaunty after installing. i dont know if that had to do something with it
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it worked sorry for the trouble
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Hey, I am having trouble installing gnome globalmenu. I downloaded the file but the commmands do not work and say that the file cannot be found. I installed alien and the .rpm file is in the home directory.
any suggestions?
Thanks,
pete
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Roberto Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 5:41 am
I had a problem like this Pete, maybe I can help, are you running a 32 or 62 bit version??
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I put the leopard osx skin/theme/thing onto ubuntu 9.04, except for the part with the usplash and GRUB screens, and for some reason whenever I log in, instead of displaying the ubuntu jaunty default login screen I get this error message: “Can’t open file /usr/share/gd/themes/Mac4Lin_GDM_v1.0_RC/Mac4Lin_GDM_v1.0_RC.xml” and when i click continue or w/e, i get this ugly login screen with a sunflower n stuff. does anyone know how to return to the default screen? plz im a linux noob.
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Hozey Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Check to be sure you have only one login screen checked. I had the same problem and discovered the sunflower was checked.
Has anyone figured out how to get usplash to work?
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For the dock, i use Cairo-Dock(2.0) it looks far better then AWN. ^_^
Everything has worked on Jaunty. Am i allowed to load a screen shot?
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Great Post!!! I wanted to install the Mac on my Intel system since a while… I could get Mac on top of my Ubuntu easily with above steps. I am really happy!!!
One issue i faced, with Ubuntu 9.0.4 is Preference > Session has been renamed to “Startup Applications”.
Cheers!
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Hey that’s indeed a great post!!!
I wanted to install Mac on my desktop since a while, unfortunately I could not. Today I had to migrate to Ubuntu & I got Mac on top of new ubuntu with above steps very easily. I am happy!!!
One thing to add, is Preferences > Session has been renamed to “Startup Application”.
Cheers!
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as for the others; splasy problem on 9.04 :
sudo splashy_config –i ~/osx-splash.tar.gz
Missing arguments
usage: splashy_config [option] arg
[-h, --help][-s, --set-theme THEME][-i, --install-theme THEME.tar.gz]
[-r, --remove-theme THEME][--info][-c, --create-theme [args...]]
[-g, --get-key XPATH]
See –help for more information
Otherwise great job!
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Awesome. Great work. Only one question. How do you bring up the widgets? I have them installed, but to make them pop up?
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Great job. Same problem as everyone else on the last step on Ubutu 9.04
sudo splashy_config –i ~/osx-splash.tar.gz
Otherwise works great. Can’t figure out if there’s another way to get the screenlets to come up other than F9. It’ll be nice if they would show as a screensaver.
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Hi all,
Thanks for the tutorial, everything works except the GRUB splash. Also when I activate the global menu why all shortcuts/accelerators don’t work at all ?
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hi everybody.
this is a nice theme but I want to uninstall it. how do I do that? can you help me?
thanks
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hi everybody
nice theme but I have problems with some programs. how can I uninstall it? I need some help because I’m new on this.
thanks
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I have a problem installing gnome global desktop.
when i type in sudo apt-get update into the terminal
I get
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7D2C7A23BF810CD5
And a source duplication error.
What am i doing wrong?
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I got the same thing about splashy too :( Hope Someone can help me.
By the way, I’m using Ubuntu 9.04(jaunty jakalope).
Hope Damien will re-write for the jaunty 9.04 too
One more thing, the System > Preferences > (Session) has been changed to Startup Applications in Ubuntu 9.04
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Will this work with Fedora (both use GNOME)?
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thanks for this great tutorial. i love this new look on my ubuntu 9.04.
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just tried this for Jaunty … works fine except for the splashy part — when trying to install the splashy package, I get an error
‘trying to overwrite `/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh’, which is also in package lsb-base’
Any ideas?
regards
MIke
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after uninstall my window controls are not back how they were.
i.e. max-mine on left of window instead of right.
changing theme dosn’t sort it out. how do I correct this ?’
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Big-W Reply:
July 1st, 2009 at 10:03 am
Go to “Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor” or using the “run program” action or a terminal, start gconf by typing: “gconf-editor” (without quote) and hitting enter. This program is a bit like the registry editor for windows.
- In the tree on the left you need to go to “/apps/metacity/general/”. There is then a key in the right pane called “button_layout“.
- edit this key so that it reads: “menu:minimize,maximize,close” to “close,minimize,maximize:menu” or “close,maximize,minimize:menu“.
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i need some help. i cannot uninstall the Mac4Lin theme. It say it can’t open the Mac4Lin_Uninstall_v1.0_RC.sh. how can I make the uninstall.
sorry for the english, it’s not my language ;)
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When I try to install splashy it fails. other than that it works so far.
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I’m a total Linux n00b, so bear with me. I have run into problems from the get go.
I downloaded and installed Ubuntu-8.10-desktop-AMD64 and then updated all the files it said to update, about 304.
I tried to prepare the installation path but I couldn’t even figure out how to do a ctrl-H in my home directory to show the hidden files/folders. So I went into terminal and created them manually, with the mkdir command.
I then extracted Mac4Lin_v1.0, and tried to:
cd Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC1
sh Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh
but I don’t have such a directory, I do have a Mac4Lin_v1.0 directory though (without the _RC1)
So I ran that instead. and it showed some promise (Installing Mac4Lin UI… Done!, Installing Mac4Lin Icons… Done!, Installing Mac4Lin Cursors… Done!) but then dispayed: Installing Mac4Lin Emerald Window Borders… [: 62: missing ] Done!
Hmmm, not sure if that was a good or bad thing. Then it asks if I want to enable Metacity Compositor? If you are unsure about this or use Compiz, type ‘n’. So I am unsure so I type ‘n’.
I say yes to Installing MacLin misc components, and finally get through this portion and there is no Mac OS X desktop. So I logout and log back in and still nothing.
I’m sure I must’ve done something wrong, because things did not go as described in the instructions from the beginning. Am I using the wrong files? I downloaded everything from the links above?! Help please!
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OK, I downloaded version 9.04 and I have gotten a lot further. Figured out how to show hidden files, duh. Got a lot working but ran into a couple of problem areas.
First, I can’t add the Global Menu Panel Applet to the upper left menu bar since it isn’t listed as an option to add. Where to find? So I skipped that for now, had to add the Main Menu icon so I could get to apps, system, etc
Next I ran into a problem when downloading and installing:
libsplashy1_0.3.10-1_i386.deb
splashy_0.3.10-1_i386.deb
libsplashy displayed a message saying a later version was available on the software channel
and then
splashy had the same message and also failed to install
Any help is appreciated!
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I am using Ubuntu 9.04. I have tried to add the global menu applet using the old instructions first, and then from these; neither wants to work, and the new deb installer can’t get past a part of the previous installation which it is trying to overwrite. How can I uninstall both and start over? YES I am a total noob in Linux…
Thanks!
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