Ubuntu-My new primary OS

[Faun]

Songbird is good too, infact get the recent release. It's awesome.
Previously I was using Rhythmbox.

 

[infra_red_dude]

Hi I also use Ubuntu 8.10 as my primary OS ..my probs

1. I installed Ofiice 2007 through wine..Now my CV (word 2003) formatting is not correctly showing in MS Word 2007 .What to do now ?

2. I installed themes from gnomelook.org But it says theme GTK+ Theme smooth is not installed How to do that ?? Also how to make Ubuntu look ...like XP ?

3. My lappu has 14" screen ...and Ubuntu icons are very big consuming lot of space on desktop...resolution is max 1200*800..How to make icons smaller ?

Thanks !

1) Absolutely no idea regarding MS products and WINE compatibility.

2) How did you install them? You can simply drag and drop the theme archieves (.tar.gz etc.) into the System > Preferences > Appearances > Appearances tab and it should automatically install. If it still says that its not installed then extract the archive into ~/.themes folder (~/ is your /home/<username> folder). So that the folder hierarchy is now /home/<username>/.themes/<theme folder>/gtk-2.0. It should now appear in the Appearances > Customize window for you to select/apply.

3) Right click on the desktop icon and choose the resize option. Resize them from any corner. However, it depends a lot on the icon theme. If that doesn't allow smaller icons then you are out of luck. You either haf to live like this or choose another icon theme.

 

[Faun]

^^it looks like he is missing the theme engine for that particular theme

 

[infra_red_dude]

^^^ Maybe.. maybe not. I'm not sure. If he's missing a theme engine then the error should be regarding the theme engine and not the theme itself.

 

[Hitboxx]

Link me the Smooth theme you are trying to install from gnome-look, there are lots of it named that there.

And here is a little script utility to install theme and icons. Extract the folder in this into /home/<username>/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ .Then you will have a new option called Scripts in the right-click menu. To install theme and icons, right-click on the respective archives(tar.gz/tar.bz2) and go to Scripts>Utils> and install.

 

[esumitkumar]

Thanks all..but it happened again ..I drag n drop Raptor theme to Themes tab and I got this message

"This theme will not look as intended because the required GTK+ theme 'Raptor' is not installed '

I dloaded this theme ....*www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Raptor+(Slickness+remix)?content=86048

 

[Hitboxx]

-DO-

sudo apt-get install pixbuf OR gtk-engine-pixbuf OR search for pixbuf in your package manager and install it.