So, as you can see the first notable thing once restarting with guest additions
installed is that the resolution is now correct, it's running at 1366 x 768 pixels,
which is exactly what we wanted. I'll type my password and hit enter. Now we're gonna see if
it's actually going to speed up and provide better performance for us, and that looks
to be the case. I'm gonna open the dash.
It's a bit laggy but not too painful, that's good. Now we're actually getting into the
customization. Now the dash here, the launcher on the left hand side, already
has some items pinned to it. If you don't want something pinned, you can simply right-click, unlock
from launcher. Say I want to move stuff around, you can hold your left mouse
button until it slightly displaces it, and then you can move it up down in place
wherever you want to. In order to get the configurations that we want to make, we
need to download some files. So, open up Firefox and what we're gonna be looking
for a theme, and an icon theme. Now what is a a theme in Linux?
Unity is the desktop environment are currently in. The GTK theme controls
everything about how things look, and so these window controls appear this way
right now, the title bar is a dark grey, the selected color is orange, which means
if I select items it's orange, if I select something over here it's orange.
These are all things that we can change, but in order to do that we need
some GTK themes and we get those by going to get Gnome-look.org.
Now in my experience with Ubuntu 15.10 so far, where it's newer
it's using GTK version 3.18, and so older GTK themes appear to break. We may be able to
see that here, this is a theme for GTK 3.16 and 18.
We can click on the images here to see larger versions of the image, and that
looks like a neat theme, I think I want to use that. So, in order to do that
scroll down here where we see the download links, and we want to make sure
it's our compatible with our GTK version. So, click download on the second link, you guys feel
free to really explore the themes here on Gnome-look, and we will install them
together. You guys can pause the video if you want to and find some. Some of the links
to download the themes and icons link to other locations, this specific instance
is Deviant Art. So, I will click the download button here, it's a 4.5 MB archive file. So, I''m gonna open
my archive manager. You can also save to the file downloads directory, but i just want
to open it.
Now once it's open in the archive manager we can see the theme file here.
We're not going to select that, we're just gonna click extract. This is going to
open up a file browser where we can actually choose where we want to extract
to, so I'm just gonna put it in downloads and then select extract. Once it's done extracting
we can either close this message and leave the archive manager open, we can
show that files and leave the archive manager, or we can quit. Hit quit for now. We're also
gonna need and icon theme and there are similar issues with icons as there are with GTK themes
for different versions of GTK. Some icon themse don't appear to have every
necessary icon, so they can look a little messed up. I think I like this one.
I'm gonna check it out in a larger image here and that does look pretty nice,
that's nice and flat.
I'm gonna download that here. Now, icons themes are typically a lot larger than GTK themes.
I've seen archives as large as you know 300 MB's, that's quite
large. There's no download button here. Let's look and see if they have a different way
to install. Here's the download link right here.
Click that, then I'm also gonna open that with the archives manager. While that's doing it's
thing, we're also gonna find a nice wallpaper. So, I'm going to search
images,
gonna take this one,
right click, and click save image as. I'll save it in my downloads directory. We got one minute
remaining for the icons here, so I'm going to minimize Firefox and we
are going to install an application that we need in order to really configure
the system. You could go to the system settings and this is good for some
things, and I'll show you here in one moment, but there is actually a tool designed to
give you more control over your system. So, this is the system settings, in here
you can very, very minimalisticaly change the appearance, by that I mean it
let's you change the wallpaper and the size of the icons on the left, that's not
exactly how much customization we want to do. It also has a behavior tab. You can
auto-hide the launcher if you want to, we don't want to so I'm gonna turn that
off.
It gives you great control for the mouse, your power settings, you can change the screen
display of your screen as displaying at the correct resolution. It does sound
settings and you've got a lot of other things here, so explore that. I'm gonna
close that for now. Here's the icon archive download and extract this into my
downloads directory.