Install Black-Amber Theme, Dragon-Equinox Theme, Gnombiance Theme in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/Linux Mint 12 Lisa (Gtk 2/3, Gnome Shell, Unity)

First of all install Gnome Tweak Tool to change Theme and Icons.

1 - Dragon Equinox

Dragon Equinox Theme is Compatible with (Gnome Shell 3.2.1 - 3.2.2.1/GTK3/GTK2)
1st Download Theme Wallpaper
2nd Install Awoken Dark Icons

To Install Theme on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install dragon-equinox-extension dragon-equinox-theme

2 - Gnombiance Theme

Gnombiance Theme is Compatible with (Gnome Shell 3.2.1 - 3.2.2.1/GTK3/GTK2)
1st Download Theme Wallpaper
2nd Install Faenza Icons

To Install Theme on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install gnombiance-theme gnombiance-extension

3 - Black Amber Theme

Black Amber Theme is Compatible with (Gnome Shell 3.2.1 - 3.2.2.1/GTK3/GTK2)
1st Download Theme Wallpaper
2nd Install Awoken White Icons
3rd Some theme tweaks open Terminal and enter following commands:
Following commands for lightdm:

• wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53319850/NoobsLab.com/unity-greeter.conf.zip
• unzip unity-greeter.conf.zip -d /etc/lightdm

Following commands for Unity Greeter:

• wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53319850/NoobsLab.com/unity-greeter.zip
• unzip unity-greeter.zip -d /usr/share/unity-greeter

Following commands for Unity Start Orb:

• wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53319850/NoobsLab.com/unity-start-orb.zip
• unzip unity-start-orb.zip -d /usr/share/unity/4

To Install Theme on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install black-amber-theme black-amber-extension

Source: Astral-1 on DeviantArt

Restore Panels In Ubuntu Back To Their Default Settings

Messed up your panels in Gnome? Maybe your new to Ubuntu and accidentally deleted items or the panel itself and now you can't figure out how to get it back.
 
Sure, you can add a new panel and rebuild it by adding the items back on the panel.
Instead of going through the trouble, there is an easy fix that will restore your panels back to their default settings quickly.

Open up a Terminal window, by clicking on Applications \ Accessories \ Terminal. Or, if you deleted the top panel and cannot access the menus, just press ALT+F2 and in the run dialog box, type gnome-terminal then click on Run.

You can also browse for applications, such as Terminal from the Run window, by clicking on the arrow icon next to 'Show list of known applications" and browse for Terminal.

Once the Terminal window opens, enter the following command at the prompt:

gconftool-2 – -shutdown

(Note: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)

EDIT – Reader nickrud has suggested a better method instead of shutting down gconfd. Instead use the following command (thanks nickrud!)

gconftool – -recursive-unset /apps/panel

(Remember: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)

Then enter the next command:

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

And enter one more command:

pkill gnome-panel

That's it!

Both top and bottom panels will appear (if missing) with their default settings. Now you can customize them to your preference and get on with using Ubuntu.





Source: ethernal.org

Udev Discover - Tool for udev testers, coders, hackers and consumers

Udev discover aims for being a gnome-device-manager-like app using gudev instead of HAL, and to provide some fancy features for udev users and hackers.

Main features:
Browsing the sysfs tree via udev
Reports udev device info and udev properties
Filter and search devices
Monitorize udev device events

Install Udev Discover on ubuntu Natty
Open the terminal and run the following commnads

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fontanon/udev-discover
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install udev-discover

You can run this application using the following command from your terminal

udev-discover

Screenshot

New GNOME 3 Icon Theme By Tiheum: Faience

Tiheum, who is best known for the Faenza icon theme and Equinox GTK themes has started working on a new icon theme for GNOME 3 / GNOME Shell called "Faience". The theme is work in progress (this is the first public release) and it currently depends on the original Faenza for many icons, but it looks really promising and it already comes with 3 folder color variations.

(Faience Azur)

(Faience Ocre)

Faience icon theme is especially designed for GNOME Shell so it's not recommended to use it with Unity / GNOME 2.

Tiheum is also working on a GNOME Shell and GTK2/3 theme which will complete the "Faience" pack. The GTK2/3 theme is not yet available but you can already use the Faience GNOME Shell theme:

(Faience GNOME Shell theme and the original Faience folder icons)

Installation

Faience icon theme

To use Faience, you must firstly install the Faenza icon theme. If you run Ubuntu, you can install it from its official PPA using the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

Alternatively, download Faenza icon theme from DeviantArt, extract the downloaded archive and copy it to the ~/.icons folder.

Faience is not yet available in the above PPA so to install it, download the archive and copy all the 3 folders (Faience, Faience-Azur and Faience-Ocre) to the ~/.icons directory (if this folder doesn't exist, create it), then use GNOME Tweak Tool to apply the icon theme:

Faience GNOME Shell theme

To use the Faeience GNOME Shell theme, download it from HERE, extract it to the ~/.themes folder and use GNOME Tweak Tool to apply it. If for whatever reason you don't want to use GNOME Tweak Tool (like... you can't install the user-theme extension which is required by this feature), just remove all the files under /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme and copy the Faience GNOME Shell theme files to this folder.

Download: Faience icon theme | Faience GNOME Shell theme


Written by Andrew in Webupd8

Gnome-agenda

Your calendars on the GNOME desktop. Supports Google Calendar, Novell Groupwise, Evolution

 Download

	gnome-agenda_0.3.1.2-1_all.deb
	gnome-gnome-agenda-0.3.1.2-1.tar.gz
	To install from the tarball, extract it and and run sudo python setup.py install If you don't have privileges to install software, you can just extract the tarball, and run ./gnome-agenda

Requirements

• python-gtk2
• python-pysqlite2
• python-gdata
• python-vobject
• python-configobj
• python-dbus
• python-gconf
• python-dateutil
• python-glade
• python-sexy

They can be installed on a recent version of Ubuntu, Debian, Mint with

sudo apt-get install python-dbus python-gconf python-gobject python-gtk2 

python-pysqlite2 python-configobj python-gdata python-vobject python-dateutil 

python-sexy python-glade2 python-gnome2-desktop

Note: You have to enable the "universe" repository to get all required dependencies
It is suggested to install the deskbar-applet to make use of the global keyboard shortcut.