Trisquel Awen wallpaper trick

I really like the way that Trisquel uses to setup the three different wallpapers, at least on the Awen release.
It uses a simple png image with the 3 color variants, to use it on Ubuntu it goes like this:

## sudo cp trisquel.png /usr/share/backgrounds/
## cd /usr/share/backgrounds/
## sudo ln -s trisquel.png trisquel-blue.png
## sudo ln -s trisquel.png trisquel-violet.png
## sudo ln -s trisquel.png trisquel-orange.png
## sudo ln -s trisquel.png trisquel-green.png

And then, on the file:

/usr/share/gnome-background-properties/ubuntu-wallpapers.xml

You need to add this:

  <wallpaper>
    <name>Trisquel Awen green</name>
    <filename>/usr/share/backgrounds/trisquel-green.png</filename>
    <options>zoom</options>
    <pcolor>#002F19</pcolor>
    <scolor>#8EC500</scolor>
    <shade_type>vertical-gradient</shade_type>
  </wallpaper>

  <wallpaper>
    <name>Trisquel Awen violet</name>
    <filename>/usr/share/backgrounds/trisquel-violet.png</filename>
    <options>zoom</options>
    <pcolor>#AA004E</pcolor>
    <scolor>#140016</scolor>
    <shade_type>vertical-gradient</shade_type>
  </wallpaper>

  <wallpaper>
    <name>Trisquel Awen orange</name>
    <filename>/usr/share/backgrounds/trisquel-orange.png</filename>
    <options>zoom</options>
    <pcolor>#E29E00</pcolor>
    <scolor>#B00C00</scolor>
    <shade_type>vertical-gradient</shade_type>
  </wallpaper>

  <wallpaper>
    <name>Trisquel Awen blue</name>
    <filename>/usr/share/backgrounds/trisquel-blue.png</filename>
    <options>zoom</options>
    <pcolor>#19387F</pcolor>
    <scolor>#5691C2</scolor>
    <shade_type>vertical-gradient</shade_type>
  </wallpaper>

The current Ubuntu Trisquel desktop

Been using Trisquel quite a bit, specially today.
Seems really nice, and of course, the mighty Hercules makes an amazing laptop, even after all these years.
It is a pleasure to type on it, the body/ chassis of this beast of a laptop feels as sturdy as a block of dried cement.

Trisquel post-install tidbits

/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_style icons --type string

In order to remove the text below the toolbar icons, all the other Nautilus & gconf tidbits were not enough for this.

A Trisquel touch of class

A nice touch, at least using the text install, of the Trisquel installer is that it lets you choose some optionals during the install.
The picture shows the dialog that allows you to choose what type of installation you want to make on your box.

The current Ubuntu Trisquel desktop

Sort of a slow Friday, making way to a long weekend with a Holiday on Monday... So...
Just installed Trisquel's LTS release, 4.0.1, on Hercules, just for spite ;)
Placed it on a 40 GB IDE HDD I had laying around for a while.

The distro itsefl seems really nice, polished to the max; of course the hardware is really sub par for todays standards, but the first impression is that it holds pretty much A Ok while running "the Trisquel".
Of course I have a lot of things to configure now...

The current Ubuntu desktop

Gnome Colors
Clearlooks
And, yes, the Trisquel wallpaper... Clarity, simplicity and beauty.

VirtualBox annoyances (yes, the Trisquel thing goes on...)

Yesterday tried to create a quick VirtualBox image on Sojourner in order to be able to -finally- get those icons and the wallpaper...

Found out, totally by accident, that there is a bug with VirtualBox and the EXT4 file system... This says a lot about how much virtualization I use... Actually, I use it quite a lot, but I mostly drag the same Windows 2000 Pro vdi image from box to box (and OS to OS) for over a two year now, talk about portability :)

In the end, had to create that VirtualBox image on Trantor, and then remove the icons, BTW, they weren't that spectacular, but I like the wallpaper, specially the blue one, a definitive keep.

A couple of screenshots from the process:

  

The hunt for (old) Trisquel (II)

Is officially over...
Found a place to get the old release... Here on this post they point to this repository

http://devel.trisquel.info/cdimage-old/

Presto, will dload that baby later to give a try maybe tomorrow.

The hunt for (old) Trisquel

The quest is on and goes on and on... But, let me tell you, it doesn't seem to be any easy to find that old release...
Been searching all around yesterday, all to no avail...

In the meantime fun is Minimal Desktop for Ubuntu.

(Old) Trisquel icon beauty

I really like this one, saw this Trisquel distro some time ago, and browsing for I don't know what, found this screenshot earlier tonight.

I particularly like the icons, they looks like a tailor made version of default Gnome ones, my beloved Clearlooks; the whole thing looks rather pleasant and relaxed. The volume icon seems really good, that is one of the few icons I dearly hate from the Clearlooks set, would like to see what the "WiFi icon" looks like on this set, tho.

Gonna see if I can find this (now old) icon set somewhere; the newer Trisquel releases look a lot like a blend of Ubuntu's and Debian's default Gnome look, sans the rounded top window corners...
I guess I'll might even install this old version just to extract the icons.