4 Change Fonts

Your desktop already looks quite nice but there are more important steps to do. One of the most important but often forgotten design feature in order to get that super feeling is to change to a good looking font. One free group of fonts which I personally have fallen in love with is the Liberation font group and especially Liberation sans. (sad to admit its a Vista look a like) It can be found for download all over the Internet and one of those places is here.

First you need to unpack the font files and put them in a folder called .fonts and place them in your home folder. My user name is daniel so I have this folder in /home/daniel/

Once the font files are in the font folder they can be used by Linux.

You will have to chose “see hidden files and folders” in nautilus.

Next step is to change the system fonts. Right clicking in the desktop, click “change desktop background”, click the font tab. Play around and make your configuration as you like. Mine look like this. If you know any good pages discussing system fonts, please let me know.

5 Configure the top bar.

Configure the bars as you like. I have deleted the bottom bar and kept the top one.

To configure a bar, right click and chose “properties” to increase or decrease the size.
To add things to a bar, right click and chose “add to bar”.
To delete things on a bar, right click on that thing a click and chose “remove from panel”.
To move things on a bar, right click on that thing a click and chose “move”.

6 Install a cool dock (AWN)

There are many cool Apple-like bars around and my favourite is Avant. Go to synaptics, download “awn-manager” and “avant-window-navigator”. Even more simple nowdays, click Add/Remove and serach for avant and install.

To make this dock autostart when Linux start go to system - preferences - sessions. Click add and write a name for the dock and write avant-window-navigator in the command line. Restart Ubuntu and the dock should appear. You can add launchers by using drag and drop from the normal start menu. Configure avant by right clicking in the end of the dock (can be hard to find the exact spot) and click preferences.

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