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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 7.10). Continue reading →

Below are 9 GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) splash images freely shared and a brief explanation of how I got GRUB configured to display them. a) Find gzipped, 640×480, 14 color only, xpm images (like the ones above). b) Put the images in /boot/grub/splashimages/. c) Rename the image you wish to use to ‘splash.xpm.gz’.
d) Make a link to /boot/grub/splashimages/splash.xpm.gz and put it in /boot/grub/… Continue reading →

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… Continue reading →