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(Last updated : 18-06-2010 ) This is a collection of great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, these themes are from zgegblog a blog of François Vogelweith,on the blog exist a collection of wonderful gnome themes for Ubuntu (see the total collection). The installation is easy because can be done after adding a repository, so with sudo apt-get install theme-name you can have the theme installed.
Now i will show you the steps you have to follow to install the themes.
I - Add Bisigi repository
- For Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx:
Open terminal and and add the stable repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi/ppa- For other ubuntu releases ,open the source list :
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add these 2 lines at the end of the sources.list:
For Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu karmic mainFor Ubuntu9.04 Jaunty jackalope :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
after open the terminal and add the repository verification ke
gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371 --recv-key 881574DE && gpg -a --export 881574DE | sudo apt-key add -II- Update and install Bisigi Themes
sudo apt-get update
Now, To install all themes use this command :
sudo apt-get install bisigi-themes
If you want to install the themes one by one ,then you will have to type the command correspondent to the theme you want to install (first follow the steps above to add the repositories) :
1-Showtime for Gnome :
sudo apt-get install showtime-theme
2- Balanzan
sudo apt-get install balanzan-theme
2-Infinity
sudo apt-get install infinity-theme
3-Wild shine
sudo apt-get install wild-shine-theme
4-Exotic
sudo apt-get install exotic-theme
5- Tropical
sudo apt-get install tropical-theme
6-Bamboo Zen
sudo apt-get install bamboo-zen-theme
7- Ubuntu sunrise
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-sunrise-theme
8- Aqua Dreams
sudo apt-get install aquadreams-theme
To remove thethemes you have to use the command :
sudo apt-get remove theme-name
9- Orange
Orange is A New theme from Bisigi blog,This theme is lightweigh one with just 2 Mo, and it is based on a beautifull wallpaper the umar123.
sudo apt-get install orange-theme
10- Ellanna
Ellana , is the latest theme that bring us the famous Bisigi project. This theme is a little bit special. First of all, it’s the first theme drawn for women. And it’s the first theme, which is a special command too.
sudo apt-get install ellanna-theme
11- Airlines :
This is the first theme based on a walltime (wallpaper that change during the day).
It includes:
- 1 wallpaper
- 1 GTK theme
- 1 Metacity theme
- 1 icons pack
Install Airlines :
sudo aptitude install airlines-theme
12-Eco
This theme has been designed to be used in dark rooms. The various components are darker than is other bisigi themes! It includes
- 1 Wallpaper: created by Leo L.
- 2 Gtk theme (only one packaged in the repository)
- 2 Metacity theme (only one package in the repository)
- 1 Metacity theme
- 1 Icons pack
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Links : http://http://francois.vogelweith.com/
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Comments (82)
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2009-06-14 11:36:44 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
Yes are working, did you add the repository to source.list before to try to install ?
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2009-06-14 12:20:34 | ed
Sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
should be:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
capitalization matters in linux
Thanks, corrected
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2009-06-14 19:58:19 | delusr - Bad advise
Sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
should be:
sudo gedit
/etc/apt/sources.listcapitalization matters in linux
Thanks, correctedNow for some real advise.
If you know that caps count in linux then you should also know that its
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list or
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and not sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.listgksu and gksudo are for opening UI applications while su or sudo are for opening no graphical items.
Stop being sheep, stop with the Chinese whispers, find things out for your self.
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2009-06-15 00:51:39 | Anonymous
Actually, sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list works just fine from terminal... maybe you should "find things out for your self"
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2009-06-15 02:59:30 | Anonymous
sudo can cause unexpected and destructive results when running some graphical programs. gksudo does not. It is therefore good practice to use gksudo for graphical apps and sudo for terminal commands.
Editing a file with gedit, should not have problems with sudo
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2009-06-15 11:47:43 | BobCFC - True
He speaks the truth
If something goes wrong with sudo in the GUI it could potentially leave you with a broken system, I think because your home files could get owned by root.
gksu or gksudo for gnome
su or sudo for terminal
In practice it has never happened to me and I usually use sudo by mistake with no problems, but for a written tutorial it should be proper.
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2009-06-15 04:48:17 | Anonymous
Now for some REAL advice.
If you know the difference between gksudo and sudo, then you should also know that it's
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
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2009-06-14 18:18:23 | BlearyEyed - Where's the light colored themes?
I'm so sick of these dark, shades of black, themes that are imphuckinpossible to read. Phuk all you douchephuckinbags for creating such horridphuckinsh1t. DieMotherphuckerzDie.
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2009-06-29 10:40:53 | Chris Moore
I hate to feed trolls, but I'll bite this time ;)
DID YOU EVEN PHUCKIN LOOK AT THE SCREENSHOTS??? ABOUT HALF OF THE THEMES ARE DARK AND THE REST ARE LIGHT!
Okay now that I have gotten that outa my system I'll go get some coffee
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2009-06-15 06:30:51 | Kholid Fuadi
Thanks for share, this is truly a great and easy way to install themes in Ubuntu.
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These are some absolutely fantastic themes and wallpapers. I mean, the wallpapers are worth it alone!
THANK YOU!
But if it's going to be all terminal work, you might as well supply a one line installer.
Try this:
echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/launchpad.list ; sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574de ; sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install showtime-theme balanzan-theme infinity-theme wild-shine-theme exotic-theme tropical-theme bamboo-zen-theme ubuntu-sunrise-theme aquadreams-theme
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2009-06-15 08:38:33 |SAdministrator| zinovsky - Thank you
Thank you, is a usefull command to install all at once
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The website - err !JoomlaComment - has made my script wrap, so you'll have to do some whitespace editing before running. If the author could fix that up it'd be much appreciated
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2009-06-29 10:47:17 | Chris Moore
Just a slight adjustment to make this a little easier:
echo 'deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' | sudo tee -a
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/launchpad.list ; sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys
--keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574de ;
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install zgegblog-themesCheers
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it works fine on Karmic, just saying , can you provide the ppa for karmic, or approach the guy to enable karmic also
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2009-06-15 20:39:47 | nice
For most of the GUI/themes/icons/.. i usually go to gnome-looks.org. Please do post these themes at gnome-looks.org. Quite sure you will surely see some traffic boost and admirers.
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2009-06-16 05:19:04 | Iura - Help!
I keep receiving this message:
gpg: requesting key 881574DE from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpgkeys: key 1781BD45C4C3275A34BB6AEC6E871C4A881574DE not found on keyserver
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0after I try to add the repository verification key.
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2009-06-16 13:40:53 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
The key server seems down, there is nothing todo just wait untill will back
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2009-10-22 14:58:33 | shailendra
it is saying that
key 881574DE not found on keyserver
what to do.....
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2009-10-22 19:37:47 |SAdministrator| zinovsky - Server was down, try again
i did check it several times was not working, i think the server was down, but now i checked and is working so just try again
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2009-06-23 21:28:08 | Joe - just get rid of ubuntu
if you want to get away from the nasty ugly brown just uninstall the dorky ubuntu garbage and install something nice like Mandriva or some other real linux distro. Then you would have a winner all around.
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2009-06-27 21:42:40 | ubuntulover - /woW
super cool themes! i have been fed up with d default theme! this made ma day!
Thanx a lot!
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2009-06-29 10:37:59 | Chris Moore
I have been using these themes now for over two months and love them! To install all of rançois Vogelweith's themes you can install the meta-package:
sudo apt-get install zgegblog-themes
This will install all of the available themes!
Chris
AMAZING EXCELLENT .THANKS TO SHARE-
2009-07-07 06:47:40 | Chris87 - Help pleas
i did
sudo apt-get install zgegblog-themesand some themes are in my appearance preferences but not all of them only like 6 new ones.
where are the rest of them located ?
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2009-07-07 07:26:08 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
All the themes has to be located at the same place, and normally has to appear in the theme manager ,Try to install one by one is better and see
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2009-07-11 07:10:47 | James Barber - Me
Just wanted to say this was great
the best direction on loading up themes
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2009-08-25 20:58:56 | Gavin - ???
I cant get it to work for some reason and its really making me mad can somebody plzzzz help me???
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2009-08-26 07:22:48 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
Hi,
Strange, try again, i changed the verification key
hope that will work for you this time
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2009-08-26 07:23:36 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
Hi,
Try again , i changed the verification key.
Hope will work for you this time.
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2009-09-27 11:44:51 | pranav
When both ubuntu and fedora use gnome, why are the themes listed above not found for fedora distros??
is there a way to get these themes to run on fedora?
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sudo is for cli apps, gksudo is for GUI apps. Here's an explanation: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo
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2009-10-31 19:10:21 | Raphal - Easier on Koala
On koala you can do "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi"
and save yourself from the hassle of editing sources.lst and adding the gpg keys.
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2009-11-09 23:10:24 | Anonymous - Login screen
I downloaded the exotic theme and I can not figure out how to change the login screen to the screen shown on the above screen shots. Anyone have any ideas? Obviously a newb with Ubuntu...please point me in the right direction.
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2009-11-14 04:49:35 | Anonymous
hello sir.
what is this i cant get the themes i wantW: GPG error: http://repository.cairo-dock.org karmic Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 1392A97E41317877
ty
mel buendia
philippines
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2009-12-03 01:47:00 | nevex - the themes dont appear
hi every one, the themes are cool, (sorry my bad english) but i can use! i install on the terminal, but the themes dont appear at the theme menu, i kwon were you change for the availables
can some one help me!
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2009-12-16 12:18:38 | nevex - the themes dont appear
hi every one, the themes are cool, (sorry my bad english) but i can use! i install on the terminal, but the themes dont appear at the theme menu, i kwon were you change for the availables
can some one help me!
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2010-02-04 06:59:14 | ntcleric - W00T! Thank you
Loving this! Thank you so much
zinovsky ROCKS!!Robert
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Thank you Microsoft, for pushing Vista, it was the last straw that drew me to Linux and I'll never look back.
.oO(wishing I'd moved over sooner, oh well
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2010-02-13 20:38:25 | PARVEEN ARORA - GREAT
these are realy great themes...
now m badly addicted to linux ubuntu..
thanx alot........ 
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2010-04-02 04:55:12 | radical
jajaja esto es lo que andava buscando gracias y quisiera aprender massobre linux y sus distribuciones gracias a todos los que hacen posible todo esto
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2010-04-02 04:57:18 | radical
hery gracias por hacer posble todoo esto y kisiera aprender mas sobre GNU-Linux y sus distribuciones gracias t a todos por hacer posible todo esto y lograremos conquistar el mundo poco a poco dejaremos a un lado a windows jajajajajajajaja
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2010-04-24 21:19:01 | Northen Mike - Amazing
Your work should be part of the Release its amazing. I help a lot people with their systems and this is the first change I make right after I update.
Thank you
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2010-04-25 09:53:41 | Nathan Muirhead - Package Download
Utter Brilliance! A great package you have designed and put together. My hat goes off to you! Thank you!
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2010-04-30 12:32:07 | Steven M - Adding repository......
when i try to add the repository i get the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi/ppa
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 1781BD45C4C3275A34BB6AEC6E871C4A881574DE
gpg: requesting key 881574DE from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect to host
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0Any ideas?
P.S. The themes are great!
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2010-04-30 13:42:35 | Zinovsky
I think that the server is busy that`s why you got this message error
I just tested again the ppa and is working, please just keep trying until it works :sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi/ppa
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2010-06-04 14:30:25 | Andy
Hi !
I succesfully downloaded theme (infinity) and now I want my system to use this theme, I just don't know how to do that. I tried several applications, but none of them is aware of this theme (appearance just shows background)...
Take care,
Andy
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2010-06-07 17:27:13 | Tom
Hey, I installed some of the themes here, but when I clicked on them, they didn't look like the screenshots!
Some of themes I installed had an Apple OS style icon bar at the bottom of the screen, but I can't see it.
Know how to get that part working?
Thanks.
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2010-06-27 17:18:24 | Ted
Here is another nice list of themes.
http://all-things-tek.blogspot.com/2010/06/12- popular-ubuntu-themes.html
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2010-06-27 17:19:42 | Ted
Here is another nice list of themes.
http://all-things-tek.blogspot.com/2010/06/12- popular-ubuntu-themes.html
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2010-07-04 22:34:51 | Belo
"kiki@kiki-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install bisigi-themes
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package bisigi-themes"
Not working anymore?
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2010-07-05 03:56:25 | Belo
I got it!
I wrote in terminal sudo apt get update and it WORK after that )
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2010-08-08 22:37:13 | Crofty80 - Crofty80
Finally rejected Windows and have had Ubuntu Lucid for about 3 days now, "AWESOME" why did i not convert sooner javascript:JOSC_emoticon("
"), anyway i found this website followed the instructions and now i have an amazing looking OS.. Many thanks
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2010-08-16 14:55:17 | nitin singh - unable to install all themes
i have a problem .
i downloaded the entire package at once but when it was getting installed , only showtime theme got installed others did nt what to do???plz help.
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tks these are cool themes