More posts about “Eye Candy”

Give your Ubuntu desktop a stunning new look with GTK themes, free icon packs, Conky, visual customisation tools, rad wallpapers and more – all of which you’ll find badged with this tag.


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Unified – An incredible new Light theme for Ubuntu

If you’re a fan of light themes then the following slice of gtk pie by Zac Barton will surely impress. Taking a popular never-made theme mock-up adding a sprinkling of elementary metacity and then a […]

19 March 2010
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6 Google Chrome Ubuntu Themes (Radiance, Ambiance, Elementary, Dust etc)

Despite Google Chrome/Chromium being able to use native GTK colouring the results are more often than not disappointing. Thus getting Chrome to blend in with your desktop works best when using Chrome Themes. Ubuntu Chrome […]

15 March 2010
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Lucidity theme finally gets a GTK

Lucidity was a proposed theme for Ubuntu 10.04 but despite being only a mock-up it proved so popular with users that a Metacity based on it soon sprang forth. Now a GTK+ theme to match […]

8 March 2010
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6 Desktop Fonts to try in Ubuntu

A fresh install of Ubuntu yields one annoyance that seems to irritate most people: the default ‘Sans’ font is set at a gigantic 10px. The effect of having the font so large is evident from […]

6 March 2010
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"Ubuntu Light Re-Imagined" Theme Released

When we posted the following Mock-up by Deviant Artist fibermarupok a few short days ago most of you were impressed but frustrated that such a beautiful redux was mock-up only. Well be frustrated no more […]

6 March 2010
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5 ‘Twitter Style’ Replacement Icons for Pino

A selection of replacement tray/app icons for the Pino Microblogging client. This set are ‘twitter’ style – perfect if you only use Pino for Tweeting. Fresh, yo! A speech bubble with a twitter style ‘t’ […]

23 February 2010
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Enable RGBA Window Transparency In Ubuntu Karmic

Enabling RGBA GTK – or, for a helpful description, ‘proper window transparency’ – used to require a ton of compiling followed by a lot of groaning and wondering whether it was worth it. Well those […]

21 February 2010
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How To Install Nautilus CoverFlow In Ubuntu

Although a new name has yet to be decided for Nautilus-Elementary’s CoverFlow view (don’t forget to cast your vote on a new name in our poll) you’re probably itching to try it out, huh? Install […]

18 February 2010
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Elementary Theme Getting New Metacity

We love the Elementary theme here at OMG! and we know a large chunk of you do, too. If you’re not using the incredibly awesome eHomosapien metacity chances are you’re using the default Elementary metacity. […]

17 February 2010
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Awesome Lucid Mockup

An anonymous soul emailed me this mocked-up theme for Ubuntu Lucid. They provided some reasoning behind what you see: – The thing for me is that there are always little things that bother me with […]

12 February 2010
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How To Replace The Pino Notification Area Icon

Pino is a fantastic little twitter application. We’ve blogged about it many times previously and know many of you love it. One thing that still comes up as an ‘issue’ whenever we blog about it […]

10 February 2010
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Slim Homosapien Metacity edit

At some point I will have to stop talking about Homosapien but it’s hard when tweaks and edits, like the following edit by osliner, keep cropping up: – Slimmer, compact and users your selected background […]

7 February 2010