Dream Accurate theme problems

Couple of problems I found on the Dream Accurate theme, they are not a big deal, but sort of a show stopper for me, at least for the moment (that's why I switched to the Human Tiger theme)


First, there is this sort of faint white ghost line on the lateral edges of every window, not along the whole border of the window, but near the top; personally, I found this to be the biggest one of the two problems.




The other one is that the "Eye of GNOME" ( link 1link 2) window (IMHO, one of the best image viewers available today) does not "return" from the full screen viewing with buttons on the window, that is, the 'close', 'minimize' & 'maximize' buttons are gone (they should be on the yellow box on the screen shot); the only way to make them appear once again is "rolling up" the window (double click the title bar) and then "rolling it down" once again.

My faux Os X

Right now using the Mac 4 Lin theme, with the Dream Accurate Emerald theme, for window-less borders, and drop shadows, this one, from the Lauri Taimila site.

Some screen shots of the settings as I set them right now, there is a screen shot of the Ubuntu desktop using that theme, here.

Importing iCal (Os X) Calendars to Evolution

I have many calendars onto my iCal.app, color coded and used to differentiate work projects, activities, etc, so it was really important to have all of them, with the data (doh!) and that I could keep the same color coding transfered as well.

On the Os X box, open iCal, select the Calendars you want to export from the top left, and then:

File -> Export

By default, it will be exported to the Desktop, with the same name as the Calendar, as and ics file. Transfer all the exported Calendars, the ics files, to the Linux box with the Evolution you want to import the data to...

So, to import them to Evolution, keeping the color, here is what I did, open Evolution, goto to Calendars (Ctrl + 3):

- First, create the Calendar on Evolution:

File -> New -> Calendar ('On This Computer', from the drop down menu, set a name like the Calendar you are importing, and set the color too)

- And then, import the actual Calendar onto Evolution:

File -> Import -> (The Wizard pops up) -> 'Import from a single file'

Navigate to the ics file, the Wizard should auto recognize that it is an ics file, and set the selection accordingly on the drop down menu, if not, set as an ics file. I had a problem with the Calendar for birthdays I have manually set, Evolution thought it was a vcf file...

Actually, it is not a Wizard, but an Assistant :)

Select the Calendar you have just created from the list, and Import the ics data to it.

Presto.

Tango screenshot (with Ubuntu)

Everything went smooth with the install, still fighting with the Atheros WiFi card tho.

OsX86 with a twist

Just read about a new USB dongle, called Efix that allows you to install, totally hassle free, Os X on a plain vanilla -if your hardware is supported- PC.

EFiX Dongle Perfectly Transforms PC to Mac

The advantage is that you don't have to spend hours Googling for instructions on howto install from pirated DVD ISOs, and that you are not forced to get yet another one of those ISOs every time there is an update released.
I did a little OsX86 testing, when my iBook past to another Universe, it was on a sh*tty Toshiba, and perhaps for that, I did not like it at all.

Would the Psystar crowd sue this fellas too? :p
Or would Apple sue both of them?

Os X wannabe on Vista

Another screenshot of Tango.
This time, using this theme Leopard 1.0a, just for the kick of it.

Os X wannabe (on Linux) Pt III

Yet another screenshot of a Linux desktop, modded to look like Os X. The instructions, which you can ind here: Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like A Mac - Mac4Lin Project Documentation.
This time the instructions, which are five pages long, are aimed towards making your faux Os X look like Leopard, and includes steps even on how to add Apple sounds to events, and what today is the coolest Linux Dock available: Avant Window Navgator (Awn).
This howto is more or less specifically for Linux boxes running Beryl or Compiz composite managers.

Border-less windows for Gnome

I have searched long & far for a way or program to get rid of the window's borders on Gnome, mimicking the look Os X has.
I have found Devil's Pie, but it removes all the borders.
So, I tried editing the 'metacity-theme-1.xml' file for the theme I'm using right now Unified.

Edited these lines:


distance name="left_width" value="0"/
distance name="right_width" value="0"/
distance name="bottom_height" value="0"/


Set all the values to zero, and presto.
The thing works best with the gnome-terminal having a black background.
I have also edited the same file, before this one, to get rid of the roundered corners on the bottom of the screen.

Os X wannabe (on Linux) Pt II

There has been an update on the Lauri Taimila's very good website with newer instructions on how to imitate Os X on Ubuntu, running Gnome.

The new set of tips includes things to make "do" things more like Os X, not just "look" like it. Specially animations, running Compiz Fusion

Os X wanna be (on Linux)

This time, running on top of KDE, this Os X theme it is the best one made so far, the one that better mimmicks the real thin.
It is called Baghira




Another very, very good Os X theming, this one running on Gnome, on top of Ubuntu.
The full instructions are here: Make Ubuntu look like OSX




This screenshot shows the hack that allows you (if you run Ubuntu) to have an "Apple like" Menu bar globally on the system.
From the Ubuntu forums: Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK and Java/Swing applications!
Also, this is a beautiful screenshot, it is hardly believable that it is not native Os X.




A version of Enlightenment's Engage but for Ubuntu.
The guide teaches you how to install it using apt-get.
ENGAGE on UBUNTU EDGY & DAPPER

Os X wanna be (on FreeBSD)

This one was while running Gnome, on FreeBSD, on a Toshiba laptop... The "dock" was Gdesklet's Starterbar, and the theme was: Gno-SX Gno-SX Gno-SX.
Actually, the whole thing looked kinda cool. (But only looked like that, underneath, it was a plain FreeBSD box; free but it is a lot of hard work to get things up & running)

And yet another one... Gnome, again, on top of FreeBSD, again, on the same laptop, again. The laptop was the same one I used to take the Os X86 adventure.
The same faux Dock, and the complete theme (GTK2, Metacity & icon set) on this case was: RPanther2 - RAqua - Exquisite.
This screenshot has a little more "Tigerish" look and feel, I think.

My little Os X86 adventure

Installed it on a Toshiba Satellite about a year ago.
Nothing new here, the install was a piece of cake, but there were many things that did not work at all on Os X. The trackpad, for instance, a royal PITA. iTunes, DVD Player, Safari crashed a lot.
Playing a DVD on a special VLC version for Intel Os X sky rockets the load on the system.





There were some really annoying artifacts on some of the windows, caused by the "drop shadow" effect. Not much, really, but it does pull the whole thing down, IMHO.





Safari kept crashing like a champ, over and over, had to install a special Firefox version that was able to remain open for a longer time.





Yes, this was during the release of the first gen iPod Nano's.





The system load maxed out while playing a DVD, using a special version of VLC.