If you don`t like Gnome 3 and want the Gnome 2 desktop environment back on Fedora Linux, this guide is for you.
Open the terminal and run:
sudo yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
Tag: GNOME
GNOME desktop environment
If you – like me – don`t like Gnome 3 and want the Gnome 2 desktop environment back on Fedora 17, this guide is for you.
Open the terminal and run:
su
yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-2.fc17.noarch.rpm
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
When you`ve got an old server with CD-ROM and therefore cannot install the live edition, or you have another reason to install Gnome on Solaris 11 you should follow my very short guide;
Login onto the console and use the following commands:
sudo pkg install slim_install
sudo svcadm enable gdm
And if you want to run the deskstop:
startx
This post is an update for Howto install the Sun Nimbus Theme for Gnome.
I personally prefer the OpenSolaris look for Gnome because it`s more clearly then Ubuntu`s Humanlooks.
It`s possible to install this theme under almost any system running Gnome.
The easiest way is installing the proper package from http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Nimbus+(+Debian+and+Ubuntu+packages+)?content=70212
This site contains the packs for Ubuntu and Debian (both x86 and x86_64).
Another way is compiling and installing the latest version. This is how it goes!
Install the proper requirements and the source;
apt-get -y install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev intltool icon-naming-utils fakeroot devscripts debhelper build-dep gtk2-engines-clearlooks
wget http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/extras/nimbus/nimbus-0.1.4.tar.bz2
tar -xf nimbus-0.1.4.tar.bz2
Next step; compiling the source
./configure --prefix=/usr/
chmod +x debian/rules
Install the binary;
make clean
make
sudo make install
Select the theme in Gnome.
Thats it!
This article is the followup of Howto install the Sun Nimbus Theme for Gnome
Nimbus is the OpenSolaris Gnome theme.
This guide demonstrates how to install the Nimbus theme in Ubuntu version 8.04, 8.10 , 9.04 and 9.10.
Install the correct repository key
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0AAFAD78
Add the repository source to sources.list
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
And add the following sentence
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/merlwiz79/nimbus/ubuntu/ jaunty main
Update the repositories
sudo apt-get update
Install the Nimbus theme
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-nimbus nimbus-icon-theme
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