It’s time for a round up of the newest (and neatest) themes made for Linux desktop album art n’ controller app CoverGloobus — at least, the ones I’ve stumbled upon over the past few weeks.
Banner
I’ll start with a dozy: Banner.
The creation of sir-nimaj over on DeviantArt, banner is as minimal as heck, displaying just album cover art and basic player control buttons. Is that a negative? Heck no! The 3D perspective with drop shadows affects a super-stylish look.
Get Banner on DeviantArt @ sir-nimaj.deviantart.com/art/Banner-for-CoverGloobus-194516271
eDark Covergloobus
This theme has it all: star ratings, player controls, artist and track info, album art, progress bar, and lashings of style. It’s sleek, modern and tactile. The inner shadow around the track info area, and the bevelled progress bar are superbly executed.
Does it look a bit like the old iTunes mini-player? Yes, and Linux-purists may deride it on that basis. For most, it will be a non-issue since it’s not iTunes, and it’s not 1:1 clone: inspired, if anything.
Get eDark on DeviantArt @ aaron-a-arts.deviantart.com/art/eDark-Covergloobus-187966117
BTX
DeviantArt user ~g0rg0d has created something epic here. I love BTX for two reasons. First, it dares to use a unique shape compared to most themes. Secondly, it chooses NOT to display cover art. Like, at all. Given CoverGloobus has cover in its name, that’s daring!
This theme does use scrolling text for track info (only if the text is too long), and it can be resized without causing too much pixelation to the asset graphics — if you’re using the latest CoverGloobus, that is.
Get BTX on DeviantArt @ g0rg0d.deviantart.com/art/BTX-192527747
Smaller screen with titles
On a small screen, or just like discrete things? The ‘Smaller Screen with Titles’ CoverGloobus theme by Rafeviper is just the ticket:
This minuscule CoverGloobus theme now offers track info support, showing track title, album, and artist name in a small pod beneath the main frame.
Get it on DeviantArt @ rafeviper.deviantart.com/art/Smaller-Screen-Titles-190117492
Faenzoobus.2
Self promotion alert: I made my own CoverGloobus theme a while back, inspired by the popular Linux icon set Faenza. I recently circled back to it, and added scrollbar support plus a new play/pause button to better match the aesthetic.
Get it on DeviantArt @ d0od.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-CoverGloobus-Theme-2-176871146
How to install CoverGloobus Themes
Assuming you have CoverGloobus installed on Ubuntu, Linux Mint or another distro, you can use any of the themes listed in this post.
Once you’ve downloaded the theme you like, do this:
- Extract the .zip, .7z, .rar or .tar.gz archive you downloaded.
- Install any font(s) included in the theme folder
- Next open up your Home folder and press CTRL + H to show hidden files
- Search for
.CoverGloobus(Note the preceding period) - Enter the folder
- Move your extracted theme to the ‘theme’ folder within inside
Theme installed, now enable it:
- Right click on the CoverGloobus widget
- Select Configure
- Go to Theme
- Pick the new theme from the dropdown
Don’t have CoverGloobus installed? Install details in our recent post on the 1.7 release.