How to get this fancy Ubuntustudio-theme in Ubuntu Feisty

You sure hear of Ubuntustudio which was released recently. “A multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.” Maybe you have seen the nice theme too (like the screenshot on the right)

I will show you now how you can get this theme on your ordinary Ubuntu Feisty.

Add the ubuntustudio repository to you sources.list and download the key and update:
sudo su -c 'echo deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main >> /etc/apt/sources.list' wget -q http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
Then install the packages as follows:
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-gdm-theme ubuntustudio-icon-theme ubuntustudio-look ubuntustudio-screensaver ubuntustudio-theme ubuntustudio-soundsI am neither sure if you need all this packages nor if there are some missing, but for me it worked fine
Now activate the theme and wallpaper:
1. Go to System -> Preferences -> Theme.
2. Scroll down and choose UbuntuStudio (a nice dark theme).
3. Click Apply Background
4. Click Close
If you want you can change the login manager too. (I did not because I use autologin and personally find the default ubuntu login manager nicer.
1. To do this go to System -> Administration -> Login Window
2. In the Local-Tab choose Ubuntu-Studio and click Close.

PS: The sound will be automatically applied. For the screensaver I do not know what is the ubuntustudio screensaver but it seems you have to set it manually.
Source: http://www.ubuntu-austria.at/printview.php?t=397&start=0

7 Responses to “How to get this fancy Ubuntustudio-theme in Ubuntu Feisty”

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1 Silver June 23, 2007 at 2:29 am

This theme is Great I have UbuntuStudio on my other PC and I couldnt install it on this one so I enjoy this theme.
2 JavabeanJames July 10, 2007 at 1:55 pm

Great! Thanks for the tip and how to on this excellent Theme Manager.
Ive only been using Feisty for a few days and still exploring its
potentials, And how to customize to my needs. This helped me in my first steps to that aim. Thanks again.
3 peter August 1, 2007 at 7:41 pm

it certainly works for me!
what fonts do you use it with?
4 mike August 28, 2007 at 3:15 pm

It worked for me, but i decided to try to use the human bootsplash with this theme, and for some reason I can not get the boot up or shutdown splash screens to show. my /etc/inittab is missing, so all i get is text boot and shutdown screens. does anyone know how to restore?
5 imot October 9, 2007 at 5:14 am

thanks alot, my LinUb look so elegent.
6 vish October 21, 2007 at 9:20 am

thanks