For Elementary OS users now there’s an OS X Yosemite like GTK theme for the 0.2 Luna desktop.
Some guys have created a new project called yellowstone, which is an OS X Yosemite like ElementaryOS Luna theme based on the excellent Elementary default theme.
Screenshots:
To install the theme:
1. Downloads Yellowstone theme at the link below:
2. Open file browser and press Ctrl+H on keyboard to view hidden file folders. Create a new folder called .themes folder if not exist.
3. Open the downloaded package via Archive Manager and select extract to the .themes folder.
To apply the theme:
1. Install Elementary Tweaks by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and then running below commands one by one:
Want to delete files or folders from your file browser bypassing trash? Well, this tutorial will show you how to add ‘Delete’ (Permanently) option to your context menu in Ubuntu Nautilus or Elementary OS Pantheon.
For Ubuntu Nautilus File Browser:
1. Open your file browser.
2. Go to menu: Edit -> Preferences
3. Under behavior tab, check the box where it says “Include a Delete command that bypasses Trash”
Once done, you’ll find an option “Delete” in context menu:
For Elementary OS Luna:
Thanks to Trisailing, he left a comment in another post with below steps:
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run command to create and edit the config file:
Add inode to the value list of MimeType will allow to delete folders. But (Thanks to @Trisailing) if you click Delete permanently on a blank space it will delete all files and folders in the current directory. Use it at your own risk!
CoverGloobus is a simple application that displays the cover and the info of playing song on your desktop as a nice widget.
If you have been using Ubuntu for years, you may have heard of CoverGloobus. The project was last updated 4 years ago, but it’s still working good on Ubuntu 12.04. I’ve tested it on Elementary OS Luna, here are the screenshots:
CoverGloobus downloads lyrics and covers from internet and supports the most popular music plays, including Amarok2, Audacious, Banshee, Deadbeef, Exaile, gmusicbrowser, MOC, MPD, Rhythmbox, VLC, Songbird, Totem, and more.
Once installed, open it from Application Menu and right click on the widget to configure the player, themes, etc.
To make it work with Noise music player, download the below package, extract and paste the “Noise.py” & “Noise.pyc” files to /usr/share/covergloobus/players
This tutorial shows you how to customize your Elementary OS top panel, including background color and transparency, auto hide panel, and show or hide Applications launcher.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to edit the /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/app.css:
This simple tutorial will show you how to add ‘Open as Administrator’ or ‘Open as root’ to Pantheon Context menu in Elementary OS Luna. So that you can easily open system files or folders with super user privilege through the default Pantheon file browser.
First take a look at the screenshots:
open file as root in elementary os
open folder as root in elementary os
Before getting started, search for and install gksu from Software Center. It is a Gtk+ frontend allows graphical programs to ask a user’s password to run another program as root / administrator.
Open files as root in Panthen Context Menu:
It’s a little different to Ubuntu Nautilus. Because I don’t know how to use if conditional statements in ‘.contractor’ files, so I divided this into two parts: Open files as root and Open folders as root.
1. Use your favorite editor to create and edit the config file. Here I use gedit (press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal for running commands):
2. Copy and paste below lines into the file and save it.
[Contractor Entry]
Name=Open file as root
Icon=scratch-text-editor
Description=open file as root with scratch
MimeType=text
Exec=gksudo scratch-text-editor %U
Gettext-Domain=scratch-text-editor
This will add an option “Open file as root” to Pantheon context menu, which open text files as root user with Scratch Text Editor (the default editor for eOS).
Open folders as root in Panthen Context Menu:
1. Use your favorite editor to create and edit the config file:
If you’re not comfortable with the eOS style window buttons, here’s how to add minimize buttons and move close, minimize, maximize buttons to right or left.
Because Elementary OS Luna is based on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. So the setting is kinda similar. All you need to do is install Dconf Editor and change the value of button-layout.
1.) To get started, first install Dconf Editor. Open Software Center from the dock, search for and install dconf-tools. Or you can run below command in terminal:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
2.) Open Dconf Editor from the top-left app menu.
3.) Navigate to org > pantheon > desktop > gala > appearance. There you can change the value of button-layout to:
:minimize,maximize,close will add the minimize button, and move all window buttons to right. close,maximize,minimize: will add the minimize button, and move all window buttons to left.
You may find that colon ‘:’ is the line of demarcation. Button names before (or after) the colon will set them to left (or right) of window title bar.
If the brightness controls don’t works in your system or you’re not satisfied with the default Fn function key, here’s an app indicator allows to change screen brightness in all the possible brightness values. The applet works in Ubuntu and its derivatives, such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS Luna.
It’s useful for me because the Fn+Arrow key in my laptop only change the brightness in 4 levels (zero, one third, two-thirds, full).
Features:
Clicking the icon shows you all the possible brightness values, to a maximum of 15 steps.
The current value is indicated with a dot.
Clicking a menu item sets the brightness to the desired value.
Scroll wheel event is enabled on the icon. Scrolling up means higher brightness, scrolling down lower.
Control screen brightness with custom keyboard shortcuts.
Install Brightness Indicator:
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one to install the indicator from PPA:
Or you can download the .deb package and double-click to install it from Launchpad.net
Once installed, open it from the app menu. Add these commands to your custom keyboard shortcuts to control brightness with your keyboard. You need Elementary Tweak to add a custom shortcut key.
The Elementary OS Luna – Ubuntu 12.04 Precise based system – comes with lightweight browser Midori. To get Flash working for it, you’ll need to install ndiswrapper and do some tweaking. It’s not difficult, just folow the below steps, copy and paste commands into terminal and hit enter to run.
1.) To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to install the flashplugin-installer.
Are you using the Elementary OS instead of Ubuntu? Well, here I’ll show you how to add the ‘Open in terminal’ option to the Pantheon file manager right-click menu. So that you can quickly open terminal and automatically navigate to the current directory in Pantheon.
To get started, use your favorite editor to create the config file /usr/share/contractor/openinterminal.contract and edit it. I prefer Gedit, so I install it and edit the file via below commands:
