Explore “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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How To Use Custom Backgrounds In Grub2

Grub2 – the default boot-loader for new installations of Ubuntu 9.10 – has some nifty new features – including support for background images and custom font colours. Whilst the previous version of GRUB could also […]

4 November 2009
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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 […]

3 November 2009
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Humanity Style DropBox Icons

Continuing our series on ‘Humanity Style Icons’ for other applications we arrive at cloud storage service DropBox. There are two different versions available currently: –   Install Download the replacement icons @ gnome-look.org Extract the […]

1 November 2009
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One Click Install Of Adium Themes In Empathy

Oraerk on the Ubuntu Forums posted the following script, and i thought I’d share it with the wider world. It allows one click installation of Adium themes in Empathy through the Adium themes website; You […]

29 October 2009
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UbuntuOne Icons to Match Karmic Panel Icons

The current default UbuntuOne icon in Karmic Koala is a bright, colourful and cheery icon which is great – expect it doesn’t match the rest of the default panel icons. This is actually a design choice by […]

11 October 2009
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Humanity Icons for Cpufreq

CPUFREQ applet allows you to control your CPU speed directly from the gnome-panel. It sadly comes with some of the most awful looking icons ever created! If you’re using Karmic (or the humanity theme in […]

4 October 2009
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How To Customize The New GDM In Karmic

Karmic’s new GDM isn’t as customizable as the previous version due to a complete re-write from the ground up. Just take a look at the login preferences screen from Jaunty: – and this is the […]

2 October 2009
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Customize The Gnome Panel Clock To Match Karmic’s New Icons

Karmic may not be released, but this little tweak is too sexy not to mention! It changes the system clock applet to match the rest of the "new" style panel theme. For comparison, here’s the […]

29 September 2009
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Quirky Wallpaper Series: Real Time Earth View Wallpaper

removed. Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

29 September 2009
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Quirky Wallpaper Series: Random NASA Wallpaper Script

‘Quirky Wallpaper’ is a short series of posts about different types of wallpapers for Gnome/Ubuntu. These range from having a real-time earth displayed as your wallpaper to an entirely animated desktop! Random NASA Wallpaper This […]

28 September 2009
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Run OS X Dashboard Widgets In Ubuntu

Kuldgets is a small application that lets you run OS X Dashboard Widgets in Linux. Install Kludgets Grab the source: http://kludgets.googlecode.com/files/kludgets-0.9.1.linux.tar.gz Save it to your desktop and extract. (Right Click > Extract) Enter the extracted […]

21 September 2009
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5 Excellent Empathy Themes

One unique feature of Empathy is the ability to use Adium chat themes, which is great for those looking to have a different chat layout during IM’s. Since Empathy is the new default Messenger in […]

18 September 2009