Now I'm going to install something called the Tweak Tool. This is the tool I was
referring to earlier that's going to allow us to really configure the system.
So, bring up terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T.
We're gonna run another task as an administrator. So, we are going to type sudo. The program we
want to use called apt-get which is what you use to manage software, either
install or uninstall. The action we want apt-get to do is to is install
unity-tweak-tool, and then hit enter. Put in your password, it's not going
to show the letters being typed but it is going in.
While it's installing unity-tweak-tool there's something we need to do with files. If we go to my
home directory, and then into downloads, here are the files we have saved. This is the
icon and the GTK themes. These are the actual directories we could see if we go in here we should
see other files, including index files. Wer'e going to select them
all and hit control + C to copy them. Then hit Ctrl + T to open a new tab in the file
manager. In the new tab we're going to go to home, but we can't see the hidden
directories.
So, hit CTRL + H to see all the hidden files and directories. Now any
file or directory that begins with a "." is denoted as a hidden location,
or hidden file. We need to create one of these for themes, so right click and select
new folder. Type in ".themes" and hit enter. Then in this themes directory, hit control + v we are
going to paste the themes that we selected in the other tab there. We need
to do roughly the same thing for icons. So, I go back to my other tab here,
back up to downloads, then into the icon theme directory.
So, it's one level up then we've got to copy. So, go back to downloads to CTRL + C.
Let's go back to our other tab here,
back up to home, and we need to create another hidden directory called icons.
It's very straightforward stuff, so ".icons" hit enter. It's taking a bit, there we go.
So, go in to this directory and then CTRL + V
to paste the previously copied files. Alright guys that actually took a really long
time.
I suspect because it's running in a virtual machine it's emulating the file system type.
I really can't wait until we can install it
directly to the hard disk, which is not going to be the next video, but the module
after that. But, we finally got the icon theme copied over into the icons
directory. We've also got the Unity Tweak tool installed. So, if I open up the dash
and type Tweak, it may not find it because we just installed it. There's an issue I've been noticing
with Ubuntu 15.10 so far, is that changes in the dash aren't made as soon as
they should be. Scroll through here and see if we can see, we don't, the dash has not been
updated. So, I'm gonna take this opportunity to explain to you guys a little bit
about how a file system works. If we go to computer that is going to go to the root
directory, as I explained in the previous video. Now /home is right here, that's
where our user directory is. /user is used
by the system for a lot of things. bin in this user directory contains binary
files that you can run, but you wouldn't typically run them by navigating to the
bin directory. I'm gonna go back to user, and you guys feel free to do the exact same
thing, if you have the same problem. We're gonna go to share and the shared
directory user basically is used as a place to house configuration files
for binary applications. We have an applications directory, and this directory has all
of the installed applications. These are all .desktop files, you can't see the file
extension, but that's what they are. And basically when you run one of these or
from the dash, these files contain what by binary files to run, from where, how, etc.
Unity Tweak Tool right here, there we go. So, if you double click on that it's going
to launch the Tweak Tool, which is exactly what we want to happen. And now
this is what we're gonna be using to customize the system. First thing I want
to do before I even do that, I want to change my desktop wallpaper. It's as
simple as this, find an image file on your file system, in this instance it's in our
downloads directory, right click it and select set as wallpaper. Good stuff. I
want to change some things about the launcher. Here we can also set it to
auto hide, which we're not gonna do. We can change the icon size so I'm gonna
take it down to 38 pixels,
gonna make it a bit more transparent. You can also change it to a custom color
rather than a color based on the wallpaper, so this would be blue in
this instance. If I turn transparency all the way down we see what color actually
was chosen. I'm gonna set that to about there. We can change the panel as well. We can
make the panel entirely transparent if we want. We can make it kinda transparent, or
make it not transparent at all. This really depends on the theme we're gonna be using.
Go back to overview, come down to appearance, and select theme.
So, let's have a look at my home directory, there we go.
Here's the problem so in each one of these, you need to take the directory, and pull it back to themes.
So, candra-theme-dark. Once we see that we see that we should be good to drop it,
there we go. To the other main theme file and drop right there. Now we do
actually have to restart Unity Tweak Tool.
Go to computer, user, share, applications, go down at the bottom, launch Unity Tweak Tool.
Now we can select the theme that we want to use. This is actually broken, it appears.
In the window you can see a bit of fray right there, it is indeed broken. So, this is one of
those broken themes I was talking about. It's not too broken though, you really can't notice.
Then, over in icons we're going to select the icon theme that we also just downloaded, ehich was
Masalla. Go over to cursor as well, black,
window controls, this doesn't work.
I noticed this and it hasn't been fixed yet. It's gonna keep the window controls up here.
Come back to the panel settings because their very transparent. That looks nice.
It's nice to be highly transparent. So we have briefly customized version of
Ubuntu. Feel free to explore a little more, do any configurations that you want to
do. In the next video we're gonna be discussing desktop environments, so this
is Unity albeit a slightly customized version of Unity. In the next video we're
going to be installing Cinnamon and maybe a few others. Thanks for watching and I'll see you
guys next time.