Here is my november setup on my Asus eee 1101HA, running ubuntu jaunty (9.04) with gnome. I have to try a lighter environment because gnome eats too much memory, unfortunately no time at the moment. You’ll find below most of the used ressources in this setup.
Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.7 series from trunk on your desktop. This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step (dependencies install). Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. [...]
How to install globalmenu 0.6 on ubuntu intrepid
On 10 November 2008,
in applications, config,
by ayoli
Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.6 on your desktop. This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step. Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not [...]
After Elegant Dark, here comes the Elegant Dark MacMenu release, ready for global and macmenu. You’ll have to add Panel/menubar-black.png (from the theme directory) as background for your panel using panel properties dialog (right click on an empty part of the panel and choose “properties” in the menu). The corresponding metacity theme is included, there [...]
As I’ve seen requests for a dark elegant theme, I’ve started to work on this. This is again deerived of Elegant Brit (by fmrbpensador AKA What is in a name? on ubuntuforums.org) There is now a flat variant with corresponding metacity and emerald themes (links bellow). Here’s a first release of it, including the metacity [...]
Here’s two new versions of my Elegant mod : a flat gray one and a black bar one (the closest to elegant brit and elegant one). These two have the corresponding metacity theme included, based on elegant brit metacity theme (thanks once more to fmrbpensador). The emerald theme that comes with the MacMenu version of [...]
This is not the the first time that I modify a gtk theme to fit my needs but this is maybe the first time I’m really happy with it So I decided to release it. Maybe I won’t be alone to like it ! Elegant Cold Blue is a mod of Elegant Brit by fmrbpensador [...]
Global menu the new gnome macmenu
On 12 March 2008,
in applications, computing,
by ayoli
The popular hack to gtk and applet that imitates the Mac menu isnt’t maintained by its original creator AdQ. Fortunately, rainwoodman started a new project based on adq patch and applet (now, totally rewritten from scratch) : globalmenu. Now, the menus are detached to the panel applet only if this one is running, the menu [...]
Mac Menu GTK compatible themes
On 15 November 2007,
in applications, computing,
by ayoli
Here’s an (non exhaustive) list of mac menu compatible themes for gtk : imetal snow leopard mac4lin kougyoku black and more kougyoku (make a search on http://gnome-look.org ) You can also hack your theme, like I did. I edited the gtkrc file of the theme I use. (the gtkrc file of your theme is located [...]
MacMenu Bar hack for Gnome 2.20 – GTK+ 2.12
On 31 October 2007,
in computing,
by ayoli
Fortunately, some solutions came out from the ubuntuforums.org thread mentioned in the previous post. Here are the patch and the applet that I have grabbed from avb’s post in page 99 of this thread, the no underline patch has been made with an idea from page 52 of the macmenu ubuntuforums.org thread (post at the [...]
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