My New MacOSX-like Desktop

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By SaigonNezumi (Kevin)Friday, August 29, 20083 commentsTechnologyopen source

For some odd reason, many Linux users have been configuring their Linux desktops to look exactly like Apple’s Leopard desktop. After reading this tutorial, http://maketecheasier.com/turn-your-ubuntu-hardy-to-mac-osx-leopard/2008/07/23, I decided to give it a try on my Thinkpad T60.

The tutorial was fairly good and straightforward. I had no problems making my desktop look exactly like an Apple desktop. After I got everything to work, I decided to convert part of the Apple theme back to Ubuntu‘s theme. I kept the nice dock and screenlets, even parts of the top menu replacing Apple’s logo with Ubuntu’s.

Since I am a fan of Firefly, I replaced Apple’s wallpaper with an image of Serenity. Now I have a nice, clean, and simple desktop.

3 comments on “My New MacOSX-like Desktop”

Mike Pham Friday, August 29, 2008
Woohooo!! There’s a really nice Firefox theme called iFox Smooth, you should give it a try.
Mike Pham Friday, August 29, 2008
btw, can you get the globalmenu to work with Firefox cuz I couldn’t.
SaigonNezumi (Kevin) Friday, August 29, 2008
You probably enabled more than one globalmenu since it disappears. I had to delete all of them and then add it.
Also, make sure you change the background image as per the tutorial.
Remember, the globalmenu will only appear when a window is open. It is okay but I want to see how I can edit it. Many menus from my other applications disappear for some odd reason.