Get Windows Aero Style in GNOME [And I'm not talking Window Borders...]

By , Published November 8, 2009

It requires a serious amount of hacking, but you can get “aero style” windows in GNOME using this. (I’m not talking Aero style window borders, but the entire application.

I’ll be writing a tutorial on this once i’ve managed to get it working, but in the mean time you’ll find a slightly dense yet complete tutorial via the download on deviant-art.

Tutorial: http://janhouse.deviantart.com/art/Gnome-quot-Aero-look-quot-tutorial-142265951

Thanks to ~Grayson
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    Do you know how to simply make the entries in the application menu so big? Like in the screenshot?

  • Anonymous

    Looks good, but I think I’ll stick with Dust for now…. I love this theme!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      It’s not a theme, it’s a “hack” and it works with Dust.

  • http://twitter.com/yuretsz yuretsz

    Link is broken.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Works fine for me clicking on it.

      • http://twitter.com/yuretsz yuretsz

        deviantart was unavailable for some time.

  • Ben

    This looks cool. I’m trying it now.

    Unfortunately, it looks like including the Gloobus patch for Nautilus will not be a straight-forward procedure.

    One error thus far: in the constant definitions he provided for Murrine, WINDOW_OPACITY is 0788, not 0.788. Compiler interprets this as an octal value, and complains about the presence of an 8.

    Installation of the patched Nautilus just failed. Trying to overwrite /usr/share/pixmaps/nautilus/knob.png, which is also in nautilus-data.

    Eh, I’ll try it again later. Things to see, people to do.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I noted the decimal error. Not being overly bright it took me a good twenty minutes to figure out what it was trying to say! lol

      I didn’t get beyond that so used an older method which, whilst not using the “better” transparency values this one does, was okay. I soon got bored of it tho – a lot of apps hate it.

      • Ben

        Yeah. Anyone without programming experience would probably overlook it entirely.

        It did seem to me that most apps wouldn’t work well with it. I think he chose the apps in that screenshot very carefully.

        It’d be great to see more apps use this. It’d also be good to not have the opacity settings hard-coded. I shudder to think how long he spent getting those values just right…

  • Anonymous

    I smell a project!

    I’ll just create another user and go wild!

  • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

    Has anyone worked out a hack that makes the Nautilus background transparent? I personally find that more practical than having the toolbar area transparent, though having both would be good too. Considering Nautilus already supports custom backgrounds it seems like it would be easier to implement this hack right here.

  • krishna

    Hi
    plz write a step b step article on this soon

    thanks