I want another colour of mint (gnome)

[jungle_boy]

Hi all,

I am loving linux mint 9 (gnome), i like mint, it is good with chocolate, but my preferred colour in a laptop is blue...

I tried linux mint kde, it did not run fine, it could not install the wireless driver, and laptop without wireless is not good...

And I falled-in-love with the colours of linux mint kde...

I tried to change the plymouth directory (/lib/plymouth/, i thing), copying the kde plymouth to linux mint gnome, but, still the colour is green, I am using linux mint 9 (gnome) and I wanna change the following:

1- The background image in the window where we choose the OS to boot, I prefer kde blue

2- The window with the little points running from left to right with the logo of linux mint, I prefer the beautiful of kde blue

3- The background image where we choose the user, I prefer kde blue

4- The welcome window when the system is running, I prefer kde blue

5- The Menu icon, in the toolbar at button

Does anybody know how can I make the changes that I want?

Thanks

(sorry my English)

[eiver]

I do not know how to make a custom blue theme short of changing the background. I never tried making a theme, because green suits me just fine. But if you ever succeed in making a complete blue theme for gnome and decide you want to share it with us, the community will be delighted .

[axel668]

don't know about blue but if you want to go purple you can just go to synaptic and install the Ubuntu default themes (plymouth, gnome etc.)

[lolmint]

You can alter the appearance in the controlpanel then appearance, choose a basic theme, then click customize, then off you go, I made a custom gray/black one and a purple one, then I made a pink one, you can choose from exactly all colors in the universe except ultaviolet, infrared and neon brown. The background picture I think you can change to wahtever you like, I would go for a real photo in the "general desired color" you want, but thats just me.

You can get any color you want, right now I´m running black/gray to save my eyes and it looks classy, there is so much to do, change menu looks, window looks, icon looks, and thats was just what I found out was bundled inside the standard mint 9 Gnome DVD. Then you can probably download additional themes and window looks and whatever.

Have fun. I know I did.

[Carl]

You can alter the appearance in the controlpanel then appearance, choose a basic theme, then click customize, then off you go, I made a custom gray/black one and a purple one, then I made a pink one, you can choose from exactly all colors in the universe except ultaviolet, infrared and neon brown. The background picture I think you can change to wahtever you like, I would go for a real photo in the "general desired color" you want, but thats just me.

You can get any color you want, right now I´m running black/gray to save my eyes and it looks classy, there is so much to do, change menu looks, window looks, icon looks, and thats was just what I found out was bundled inside the standard mint 9 Gnome DVD. Then you can probably download additional themes and window looks and whatever.

Have fun. I know I did.

The OP is talking about changing the colour of everything up too the point of login...

[lolmint]

Aha

[lolmint]

But seriously I takes less than 1 minute for a computer to boot.

[unexistance]

Hi,

The beauty of Linux is that you CAN change all that, you just need to dig up a little bit on where to change anything.

OK, for your question:

3- The background image where we choose the user, I preffer kde blue

Select the image you want to use, rename it to

Talento-1.jpg

then put it under /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/

Now, for the other three question.
1. You need to know which package handles the image you want to change
2. Then open synaptic, search for that package, right-click on it, select properties, installed files.
3. look for anything that could be an image.
4. replace it

That's what I did with your question 3

Regards,

[jungle_boy]

Thanks for all;

I will try your tips and I'll post the results...



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[Mad_Sunday]

To change the desktop (wallpaper etc.) just right click on it and select "change desktop background", they couldn't make that any easier

Pete

[jungle_boy]

Thanks for all;

I verified that the /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint have the wallpapers..

I changed the wallpaper of my desktop...

I will search how can I change the windows that I said in my first post...

Thanks!