1 Change background picture

All green pictures will look really good in relation to this guide. Many free pictures can be found at Gnome-look. If you click here it will take you to the Gnome-look, wallpaper department. Be sure to pick one which has the same size as your desktop resolution. A link to the wall paper I have is here.

The new wall paper can be installed by right clicking in the desktop, click “change desktop background”, click the tab “background” and click “add” to install your new wallpaper.

Easy!

2 Change GTK2 theme with window border and controls

You would like to find a cool GTK2 theme to make your controls and window border to look nice. The best place for that is gnome-look.org. The theme I have used is called Shiki-Colors and it is truly a amazing theme. Here is the direct link to download that theme (I used the Clearlooks-only version).

Download the tar.gz file. Right clicking in the desktop, click “change desktop background”, click the tab “Theme” and click “install” and point at the file “Shiki-Colors-No-Murrine-SVN.tar.gz” or whichever theme you downloaded. You will then be able to chose “Shiki” for controls-tab and window border-tab. Shiki comes in three colors, blue, orange and green. All of them are great but I like the green which is called “wise”.

3 Change icon set

Now you need to download a nice icon set and the best place I know for that again is Gnome look. I will use the Shiki recommendation and use the “Gnome-colors” icon set. A direct link to the icon set is here. To install it is similar as for the GTK2 theme.

Download the icon set. Unzip and extract the tar.gz files. Install the icon theme by right clicking in the desktop, click “change desktop background”, click the tab “Theme” and click “install” and point at the “tar.gz”-file you like to use (I used gnome-wise.tar.gz). Click customise and click the “icon” tab and chose the new icon set. The change on the desktop will come immediately.

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