Linux Desktop Themes

Desktop environments use user interface toolkits to develop menus, panels, and applications

Desktop Toolkits: GTK and Qt

  • GTK: Cinnamon, GNOME Shell, Xfce, and Unity
  • Qt: KDE Plasma, Enlightenment, and LXQt

Themes control the desktop appearance. Theme tool provides a list of currently installed themes, organized into three components: controls, window border, and icons.

  • Controls -> Covers the window appearance and dialog controls (buttons & slide bars)
  • Window border -> controls the display of title bards, borders, and window buttons.
  • Icons specify the display of all icons on the desktop
  • Color Panel -> To set the background and text color for windows, input boxes, and selected items.
  • Managing Fonts -> It is easy to manage fonts Using fontconfig method like adding, selecting, resizing, and configuring.
    On Large monitors with large widescreen and high resolution like 1900 x 1200, text size becomes small and hard to read. To overcome the issue, the font-size increased using System -> Preferences ->Look & Feel -> Fonts
    fc-list – to create a listing of all available fonts

The customize button opens the Theme details window with panels of different theme components. A user can select various elements to create a customized theme, which a user can save by clicking the Save Theme button.

GNOME Themes

GNOME is the default theme. Download additional themes from art.genome.org.

To Change Theme: GNOME Tweaks tool -> Appearance tab and change the themes

The themes, icons and fonts (True Type Fonts TTF and Open Type Fonts OTF) installed are placed in the /home/<user_name>/.themes, /home/<user_name>/.icons and /home/<user_name>/.fonts directories in the user's home directory. To share them with all users, move them to /usr/share/themes, /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/fonts directories, and change ownership to the root user.

# chown -R root:root /us/share/themes/new-theme

network-admin tool displays a Network Settings window with panels for Connections, General, Hosts, and DNS. The Connection entry lists possible connections like Wireless, Hardware, and Modem.

  • The Connection entry lists possible connections like Wireless, Hardware, and Modem. Active connections have checkmarks in their checkboxes, uncheck to deactivate a connection. To configure a connection, select, and click Properties, a settings window would open for a connected interface to select configuration like DHCP, Static IP, zeroconf.
    With Static IP, the user needs to enter an IP address, Netmask, and Gateway address.
  • The General panel: lets the user set the hostname and domain-name
  • DNS Panel: specify DNS servers and search domains
  • Hosts Panel: lists all manually specified hostnames on the network. A user can add or delete entries.

Linux Zero Configuration Networking is free, open-source, and derived from Apple Bonjour zeroconf implementation is used by GNOME virtual file system. Distributions like Debian and Ubuntu implements full zeroconf network support.

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