Ultimate Edition Themes
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Ultimate Edition Themes
- Introduction (highly advised)
- Ultimate Edition 3.0 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.9 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.8 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.7 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.6 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.5 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.4 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.3 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.2 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.1 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition 2.0 Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition Theme pack (1.3 – 2.0)
- Ultimate Edition Xmas Theme pack
- Ultimate Edition Halloween Theme pack
Introduction
I have been under a large undertaking as far as this site. I am setting up a repository to be a simple solution. Some themes as I announce them will change. I have broken each theme into mini debs, and will provide source for each as I go down the list. You may wonder why I did so. Every Ultimate Edition theme uses the same sound scheme at 12MB 10 copies of each a chunk of the end users hard disk, the tip of the iceberg taking UE 2.8 as an example adding the repository and upgrading the themes will save 1.0GB+ of hard disk space. I am thinking of the future & will nip this in the bud now.
I am providing 2 solutions to the above problem a single package theme and hard disk bloat, unless you only want one Ultimate Edition theme. Solution 2 is a upgrade of all themes ultimately saving space, after eating the bandwidth involved, good thing I have tons of it
I am sure I lost many of you there.
Let me try and break this down in layman terms. If you only want one theme of Ultimate Edition download the full package. If you want more then one please add the repo and upgrade or install each one. I have currently tried this with the repo in place.
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-*
Results:
theemahn@SledgeHammer:~$ sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-*
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.0 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.1 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.2 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.3 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.4 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.5 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.6 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.8 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-themes for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-pack-2 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
The following extra packages will be installed:
ultimate-edition-2.1-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.3-plymouth
ultimate-edition-2.4-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.5-plymouth
ultimate-edition-2.6-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.8-plymouth
ultimate-edition-2.8-xsplash ultimate-edition-blue-velvet-cursor
ultimate-edition-icons-baby-blue ultimate-edition-icons-dark-glass
ultimate-edition-icons-dark-one ultimate-edition-icons-red
ultimate-edition-silver-cursor ultimate-edition-sound-scheme
ultimate-edition-theme-2.0 ultimate-edition-theme-2.1
ultimate-edition-theme-2.2 ultimate-edition-theme-2.3
ultimate-edition-theme-2.4 ultimate-edition-theme-2.5
ultimate-edition-theme-2.6 ultimate-edition-theme-2.8
ultimate-edition-themes
Recommended packages:
ultimate-edition-2.0-xsplash ultimate-edition-2.0-plymouth
ultimate-edition-2.0-usplash ultimate-edition-2.1-xsplash
ultimate-edition-2.1-usplash ultimate-edition-2.2-xsplash
ultimate-edition-2.2-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.2-usplash
ultimate-edition-2.3-xsplash ultimate-edition-2.3-usplash
ultimate-edition-2.4-xsplash ultimate-edition-2.4-usplash
ultimate-edition-2.5-xsplash ultimate-edition-2.5-usplash
ultimate-edition-2.6-xsplash ultimate-edition-2.6-usplash
ultimate-edition-2.8-usplash ultimate-edition-dark-glass-icons
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ultimate-edition-2.1-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.3-plymouth
ultimate-edition-2.4-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.5-plymouth
ultimate-edition-2.6-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.8-plymouth
ultimate-edition-2.8-xsplash ultimate-edition-blue-velvet-cursor
ultimate-edition-icons-baby-blue ultimate-edition-icons-dark-glass
ultimate-edition-icons-dark-one ultimate-edition-icons-red
ultimate-edition-silver-cursor ultimate-edition-sound-scheme
ultimate-edition-theme-2.0 ultimate-edition-theme-2.1
ultimate-edition-theme-2.2 ultimate-edition-theme-2.3
ultimate-edition-theme-2.4 ultimate-edition-theme-2.5
ultimate-edition-theme-2.6 ultimate-edition-theme-2.8
ultimate-edition-themes
0 upgraded, 23 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 787MB of archives.
Lets go the other direction:
theemahn@SledgeHammer:~$ sudo apt-get remove –purge ultimate-edition-theme-*Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.0 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.1 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.2 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.3 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.4 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.5 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.6 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-2.8 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-themes for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
Note, selecting ultimate-edition-theme-pack-2 for regex ‘ultimate-edition-theme-*’
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
ultimate-edition-2.5-plymouth ultimate-edition-icons-baby-blue
ultimate-edition-2.4-plymouth ultimate-edition-icons-dark-one
ultimate-edition-2.3-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.8-plymouth
ultimate-edition-2.1-plymouth ultimate-edition-2.6-plymouth
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ultimate-edition-theme-2.0* ultimate-edition-theme-2.1*
ultimate-edition-theme-2.2* ultimate-edition-theme-2.3*
ultimate-edition-theme-2.4* ultimate-edition-theme-2.5*
ultimate-edition-theme-2.6* ultimate-edition-theme-2.8*
ultimate-edition-themes*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,574MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
PLEASE REPORT ANY ERRORS
I want to explain what you are seeing, it may recommend the usplash’s, however I am sitting in a O/S as of current usplash is old news replaced by plymouth, lets get this out of the way you can only have one Xsplash. I have re-written the debs to understand. The repository knows you are running 64 bit or otherwise and will download the appropriate package based on those 2 factors. Once again PLEASE REPORT ANY ERRORS I am not perfect. I do not know if you have been paying attention, I wrote software to make this happen. Once perfected I will unleash the source. Once this is done automation at it’s finest. LVL 6 programmer
Let’s get down to the meat & potatoes.
Adding the repository:
1. Install the Theme Linux Repository deb.
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Download: Version: 0.0.1 Hits: 6624 hits Description: This deb will add themelinux.com's repository and GPG key. This not only ensures you get the latest version of the themes available on this site, but tools as well. |
2. To add the repo manually:
add to your software sources /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://themelinux.com/themes themes all #ThemeLinux Repository
and retrieve the key:
wget -O- http://themelinux.com/themelinux.key | sudo apt-key add -
Using either method you will need to update your software list:
sudo apt-get update
Ultimate Edition 3.0 Theme
JohnnyG created the default background & skydome, the GTK 3.0 non default is unknown who originally wrote it (heavily modded by me). I have used the Icon set from the Lava theme, previously created. The icon set is the most complete icon set I have yet to see to date. All logos created by Cowboy. Nothing is set by default.
Please Elaborate Further….
Repo method (after you have added it from a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-3.0
Ultimate Edition 3.0 Theme Pack Contents:
- 2 GTK2 Themes, 1 GTK2 / GTK3 theme
- 2 Metacity Theme
- 1 Emerald Theme
- 19,000+ Icons 16X16, 22, 24, 32, 64, 96, 128 & 256
- 4 Wallpapers
- 1 cursor set
- 1 Compiz splash
- 1 Compiz skydome
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Download: Version: 3.0 Hits: 15751 hits Description: Entire theme set used in Ultimate Edition 3.0 |
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Download: Version: 3.0.0 Hits: 6012 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 3.0 Plymouth Theme |
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Download: Version: 3.0 Hits: 3191 hits Description: |
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Download: Version: 0.0.1 Hits: 9515 hits Description: Icon set used with a majority of Ultimate Edition releases. |
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Download: Version: 0.0.2 Hits: 9062 hits Description: Silver Cursor set used in Ultimate Edition. |
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Download: Version: 0.0.1 Hits: 5825 hits Description: Default sound scheme for all Ultimate Edition releases to date. |
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Download: Version: 3.0.0 Hits: 6012 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 3.0 Plymouth Theme |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-3.0
Ultimate Edition 2.9 Theme
JohnnyG created the default background & skydome, the GTK theme is unknown who originally wrote it (heavily modded by me). I have used the Icon set from the Lava theme, previously created. The icon set is the most complete icon set I have yet to see to date. All logos created by Cowboy. Nothing is set by default.
I am sorry I do not have more time to do a write up of the theme. I am in process of having JohnnyG take over this site. He has more time then I do, no pun intended to Johnny. I am sure he will do a better job then I have. I can not stress enough how much better using the repo method explained above for installing themes.
Repo method (after you have added it from a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.9
Ultimate Edition 2.9 Theme Pack Contents:
- 2 GTK2 Themes
- 1 Metacity Theme
- 2 Emerald Themes
- 19,000+ Icons 16X16, 22, 24, 32, 64, 96, 128 & 256
- 18 Wallpapers
- 1 cursor set
- 1 Compiz splash
- 1 Compiz skydome
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Download: Version: 2.9.0 Hits: 3986 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.9 Theme pack |
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Download: Version: 2.9.0 Hits: 1587 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.9 Xsplash |
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Download: Version: 0.0.1 Hits: 9515 hits Description: Icon set used with a majority of Ultimate Edition releases. |
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Download: Version: 2.9.0 Hits: 1388 hits Description: Default plymouth theme for Ultimate Edition 2.9 aka poppers. |
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Download: Version: 0.0.2 Hits: 9062 hits Description: Silver Cursor set used in Ultimate Edition. |
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Download: Version: 0.0.1 Hits: 5825 hits Description: Default sound scheme for all Ultimate Edition releases to date. |
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Download: Version: 2.9.0 Hits: 1293 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.9 Source code |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.9
Ultimate Edition 2.8 Theme
Cowboy created the default background, many however are involved through out the theme. JohnnyG created the wallpaper used in KVirc. I have used the Icon set from the Lava theme, previously created. Some of the other wallpapers were created by Admin-Amir.
Ultimate Edition 2.8 Theme Pack Contents:
- 1 GTK2 Theme
- 1 Metacity Theme
- 1 Emerald Theme
- 19,000+ Icons 16X16, 22, 24, 32, 64, 96, 128 & 256
- 11 Wallpapers
- 1 Compiz splash
- 1 Compiz skydome
- 1 Screensaver
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Download: Version: 2.8.1 Hits: 10107 hits Description: Contains the entire theme set of Ultimate Edition 2.8 |
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Download: Version: 2.8.1 Hits: 10137 hits Description: Theme pack for Ultimate Edition 2.8 |
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Download: Version: 2.8.0 Hits: XSplash for Ultimate Edition 2.8 |
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Download: Version: 2.8.0 Hits: 658 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.8 Plymouth boot splash |
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Download: Version: 0.0.2 Hits: 9062 hits Description: Silver Cursor set used in Ultimate Edition. |
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Download: Version: 0.0.1 Hits: 5825 hits Description: Default sound scheme for all Ultimate Edition releases to date. |
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Download: Version: 2.8.1 Hits: 914 hits Description: Source code for Ultimate Edition 2.8 Full Theme pack. |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.8
Ultimate Edition 2.7 Theme
DESCRIPTION WILL GO HERE.
- 1 GTK Theme
- 1 Metacity theme
- 1 Emerald theme
- 1 icon set
- 1 cursor set
- 1 Xsplash
- 1 Wallpaper
- 1 Plymouth splash (lucid based only)
- 1 USplash (karmic base only)
Do to the nature of this theme is is highly recommended to use the terminal method of installing this theme (PLEASE CURRENTLY IGNORE THE BELOW UNTIL I HAVE IT IN PLACE ON THE REPO)
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.7
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Download: Version: 2.7.1 Hits: 2824 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.7 Theme |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.7
Want your Ubuntu Xsplash back?
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Ultimate Edition 2.6 Theme
This is under construction so please bare with me, I have a literally a ton of posts to update because of this very theme:
- 1 GTK Theme
- 1 Metacity theme
- 1 Emerald theme
- 1 icon set
- 1 cursor set
- 1 Xsplash
- 1 Wallpaper
- 1 Plymouth splash (lucid based only)
- 1 USplash (karmic base only)
Do to the nature of this theme is is highly recommended to use the terminal method of installing this theme (PLEASE CURRENTLY IGNORE THE BELOW UNTIL I HAVE IT IN PLACE ON THE REPO)
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.6
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Download: Version: 2.6.4 Hits: 3979 hits Description: This is the default theme in Ultimate Edition 2.6 |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.6
Want your Ubuntu Xsplash back?
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Ultimate Edition 2.5 Theme Pack
Ultimate Edition 2.5 theme pack is IMHO is the best theme pack of all Ultimate Edition theme packs, the GTK is at least. Considerable time and effort went into the creation of this theme as well as testing color compatibility. Dark themes are very, very difficult to make. Most applications expect you to be using a light theme and “hard code” things such as font color etc. this makes it almost impossible to find a theme that works with all programs that is dark.
This theme “trys” to take things to the next level by overriding font colors etc in the GTK itself. Unfortunately this would take nearly a lifetime to code in every application there is
As I said significant effort was put into this theme, none are absolutely perfect.
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.5
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Download: Version: 2.5.4 Hits: 2392 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.5 Theme Pack... |
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.5-xsplash
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Download: Version: 2.5.0 Hits: 534 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.5 XSplash |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.5
Want your Ubuntu Xsplash back?
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Ultimate Edition 2.4 Theme Pack
Ultimate Edition 2.4 theme pack is quite colorful the black being my favorite. It comes in three colors Red, black and green. Based on a "aero" theme. Time permitting I will come back and elaborate more on this theme.
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.4
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Download: Version: 2.4.9 Hits: 789 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.4 Theme |
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.4-xsplash
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Download: Version: 2.4.0 Hits: 334 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.4 Xsplash |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.4
Want your Ubuntu Xsplash back?
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Ultimate Edition 2.3 Theme Pack
Ultimate Edition 2.3 theme pack is based off Azenis theme by James Hardy. The Usplash, xsplash and GDM were created using ultimate-edition-nautilus-scripts TheeMahn’s GDM maker etc. Time permitting I will come back and elaborate more on this theme.
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.3
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Download: Version: 2.3.5 Hits: 575 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.3 Theme |
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.3-xsplash
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Download: Version: 2.3.0 Hits: 316 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.3 xsplash |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.3
Want your Ubuntu Xsplash back?
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Ultimate Edition 2.2 Theme Pack
Ultimate Edition 2.2 The Usplash, xsplash and GDM were created using ultimate-edition-nautilus-scripts TheeMahn’s GDM maker etc. Time permitting I will come back and elaborate more on this theme.
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.2
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Download: Version: 2.2.5 Hits: 514 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.2 Theme |
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.2-xsplash
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Download: Version: 2.2.0 Hits: 321 hits Description: Xsplash for 2.2 theme |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.2
Want your Ubuntu Xsplash back?
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Ultimate Edition 2.1 Theme Pack
2 Themes (Carbon gold default), 2 Login (GDM’s), 10 Wallpapers, 2 icons set, 1 Usplash (x86 and x64), Ultimate Edition Cursor set, and sound scheme used in Ultimate Edition 2.1.
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KUDOS to MK64 for the theme and Cowboy for the wallpaper. I do want to take at least some credit, I built the deb, created the usplash, GDM using software I have written & offer openly to the world.
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.1
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Download: Version: 2.1.5 Hits: 20160 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.1 Theme |
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.1-xsplash
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Download: Version: 2.1.0 Hits: 2043 hits Description: Xsplash for Ultimate Edition 2.1 theme |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.1
Want your Ubuntu Xsplash back?
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Ultimate Edition 2.0 Theme Pack
DESCRIPTION TO BE FILLED IN
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.0
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Download: Version: 2.0.3 Hits: 4916 hits Description: Ultimate Edition 2.0 Theme |
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-theme-2.0-xsplash
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Download: Version: 2.0.0 Hits: 351 hits Description: Xsplash for Ultimate Edition 2.0 theme |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-theme-2.0
Want your Ubuntu Xsplash back?
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Ultimate Edition Xmas Theme 2009
So close to the holidays, I thought I would start off with the currently unreleased Xmas Edition 2009 Theme pack. This theme like the 2.5 theme is broken into 2 separate packs 1 the xsplash (karmic+ based users only), and the other the rest of the entire theme. This theme contains the following:
- 1 GTK Theme
- 1 Metacity theme
- 1 Emerald theme
- 1 icon set
- 1 cursor set
- 1 GDM login
- 1 Wallpaper
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-xmas-2009
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Download: Version: 1.0.1 Hits: 3503 hits Description: Ultimate Edition Xmas Theme 2009 ELABORATE |
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-xmas-2009-xsplash
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Download: Version: 1.0.0 Hits: 1721 hits Description: Xsplash for 2009 Xmas Theme |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-xmas*
Ultimate Edition Themes
[*] 3 Ultimate Edition usplashes (18 – 32 bit autodetects architecture)
[*] 34 Wallpapers
[*] 14 GDM logins
[*] 27 Icon sets
[*] 102 GTK / Metacity themes
[*] 49 Emerald themes
[*] 5 Cursor sets
[*] 2 Sound schemes
There is 1,927,028,880 different combinations, pretty crazy huh.
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-themes
Repo method of installing (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install ultimate-edition-themes
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Download: Version: 0.1.1 Hits: 785 hits Description: 100's of various high rated themes. |
Un-installation:
Not happy with the theme? It is easy to uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove ultimate-edition-themes


