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Easy XSlpash Background Changer App
Last November (has it been that long already!) we posted an article highlighting a script that automatically changed your XSplash background to that of your desktop wallpaper. It was very well received by readers here (and other blogs that posted it subsequently) so i’m pleased to report that the script has since received some rather [...]
Sublime XSplash Theme – “Clean Xsplashâ€
If you’re bored of your current XSplash theme, bored of having your desktop wallpaper set as your XSplash background or even just tired of the other gorgeous XSplashes we’ve shown you, try ‘Clean Xsplash’ by Maike05. It’s strikingly beautiful. Download @ Gnome-look.org Install Unpack the .zip and palce in /usr/share/images/xsplash Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk
Elementary Theme XSplash
For fans of the ‘Elementary project‘ and their associated artwork you’ll be pleased to hear that the simplistic and minimal tones of Elementary have finally touched XSplash. Created by design supremo Dan Rabbit (like the Karmic Humanity icon set? Send your thanks his way!) the XSplash has to be seen in action to be properly admired. ‘The [...]
3 Karmic Mock-Up Xsplash’s Brought To Life (.deb’s inside!)
Below are three very awesome Xsplash themes based on some of the original proposals for Karmic’s XSplash. They all come with handy .deb installers, too! All are the work of the respective designers but brought to “life” by a nifty dude called Andrew. Golden Based on Mr doobs’s “iteration 5” design Download Link Sugar Plum [...]
Automatically Change Your Xsplash Background To Your Desktop Wallpaper
Change your XSplash background from to that of your wallpaper automatically. Download @ Gnome-look.org Installation/How to use Extract the archive you have just downloaded. Move ‘wallpaper_daemon.py’ somewhere safe where it won’t get deleted Make it executable via the terminal using ‘chmod +x wallpaper_daemon.py’ Run ./wallpaper_daemon.py –install to set necessary permissions etc. Add the ‘wallpaper_daemon.py’ to [...]
Ubuntu XSplash Animation – "Human Swarm"
Further to my post on ‘How to use Xubuntu’s XSplash animation in Ubuntu‘ one enterprising reader, going by the moniker of pezmanlou, turned the cool blue hues of the Xubuntu animation into an ace Ubuntu coloured variant! Excellent work! You can grab it @ http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=114875 Whilst we’re talking XSplash, if you swapped your animation out [...]
Get Xubuntu’s Boot Splash Animation In Ubuntu Karmic!
Xubuntu Karmic has a really nice XSplash animation effect during it’s boot up. It resembles, to me at least, a bunch of swarming fireflies. You can see it for yourself in this dodgy handheld video of Xubuntu’s boot: – It’s a snap to get this effect in regular Ubuntu Karmic’s start-up screen. So if you’re [...]
Karmic Alpha 6 Gets New Boot Screen & Ubuntu Software Store
Alpha 6 of Ubuntu 9.10 has been released, and brings with it a few nice surprises. Alpha 6 (once you’ve run update manager) finally has the gorgeous new XSplash Screen. This is the xsplash design that will be in the FINAL release. I personally think it’s a great improvement on previous boot screen designs, and [...]