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The Linux distillery Linux incognito part one: the Leopard
The Linux distillery Linux incognito part one: the Leopard | Linux incognito part one: the Leopard |
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| The Linux distillery - The Linux user and switcher blog | |
| by David M Williams | |
| Monday, 20 October 2008 | |
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Page 4 of 4 The dock is slightly more troublesome because it requires some additional graphical grunt. We’ll use the program SimDock which implements just the very thing we want. It delivers an application bar and desktop launcher. It allows items to be docked onto it.Featured Whitepaper
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You could stop here if you liked. By no Linux will be a stunning lookalike of MacOS. Of course, there is also no need to stop if you want to take mimicry to the extreme. Of course, even though we have changed the themes these only really matter after you have already logged in. Let’s go back a bit and change the login screen itself. Click System / Administration / Login Window and then click the Local tab page. Click Add and - you guessed it - add another theme. In the Mac4Lin directory you’ll find the “MacOS X Leopard” login screen theme. Choose this and apply it. There’s really no end to how far you could take this. Some modders go so far as to change boot screens, replace fonts, skin Firefox and on and on. Professor Henry Higgins asked, “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” and in the same vein if you’ve ever wondered “Why can’t Linux be more like a Mac” then Mac4Lin is for you. Coming up next time - how to create a Windows XP effect! |
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