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Oct 07

AWN (Avant Window Navigator) Themes

For those of you who have installed the fantastic AWN (Avant Window Navigator) animated dock to add that last extra Wow! to your desktop, I give you the following AWN Themes. Remember you will need to first enable a composite window manager for AWN to display properly (Compiz Fusion is included by default in the new Ubuntu). For help installing AWN in Ubuntu, see this thread in the Ubuntu Forums.

To install AWN themes…

  1. Pick a theme below and download by clicking the theme title.
  2. Open up AWN Manager via System/Preferences or by right-clicking the AWN dock.
  3. Drag the downloaded theme package into the themes window (or use the ADD button).
  4. Choose the theme, hit apply and then use the refresh button at the bottom left. Sometimes you will need to restart AWN before your new theme applies itself fully.
  5. All themes below can be switched from the Flat Bar style to the 3D Look style (and vice versa) in the Bar Appearance tab.

Click on the images below to see a complete desktop with the particular AWN Theme in use.

Invisible Transparent Glass 3D
Shadow Black Milky
Ubuntu Camouflage Blue
Green Swirls Ancient Brick
Blue Flowers Pink Floral Stained Glass

If you wish, you may download all 15 themes here.

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Apr 07

9 Grub Splash Images

UPDATE: If you use the Avant Window Navigator, I have just posted 9 AWN Themes. You might also like Compiz Fusion Skydomes 4096×1024 here on Queer Visions.

Below are 9 GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) splash images freely shared and a brief explanation of how I got GRUB configured to display them. (I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows Vista.)

Buddha Face Daisy
Skull Space Mandalas
Vase Grass Klimt

(image sources: TheMattrix, pscott, Metzgermeister, t_graye, stewie, firinel, e-things, Slayer)

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Mar 07

Compiz Fusion Skydomes 4096×1024

UPDATE: If you use the Avant Window Navigator, I have just posted 9 AWN Themes. Also see 9 GRUB Splash Images here on Queer Visions.

My frequent trips to the Ubuntu forums often bring me in contact with posts about the visual wonder that is the Beryl composite window manager (now known as Compiz Fusion). I decided to take the plunge and see if my experience lived up to all the hype. In short, it has. I now find working with a regular desktop window manager limiting. Though I love the Gnome desktop environment, 3D desktops are so freeing it’s difficult to go back to anything less.

See for yourself!
(hat tip: BastionPL)

Installing XGL + Beryl on Ubuntu Edgy Eft with an ATI card is relatively easy once you get the fglrx video driver working properly (that can be the tricky part). By the way, I use Trevino’s Beryl SVN repository. However, when I tried to enable the ANIMATED SKYDOME feature in Beryl-Manager under Desktop / Desktop Cube / Skydome, I had trouble. Browsing the Beryl forums led me to the realization that I needed to use a PNG image with a specific resolution ratio. I’m still at a loss as to the specifics beyond that but I have found a formula which works for me on my laptop with a screen resolution of 1280×800. The formula: a PNG image at a resolution of 4096×1024. That’s it.

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