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This is a small preview of Soolive, my first experiment on customizing gnome desktop. I’m sure, it’s not the right or better way to do that, it’s just a “public experiment”.

HOW TO INSTALL:

First of all, open your terminal and make sure your’re your homedir
cd ~
Download the archive
wget http://blog.soolid.it/data/2006/02/Soolive-theme.tar.gz

and unpack it
tar -zxvf Soolive-theme.tar.gz

enter soolive directory
cd soolive/

Make sure all files listed below exists
ls -la

. gnome-splash.png soolive-login.tar.gz .themes
.. README soolive-wallpaper.png

copy soolive custom theme directory in your theme dir
mv ~/soolive/.themes/Soolive/ ~/.themes/Soolive/

Launch Gnome Theme manger, select Soolive from the menu and close
gnome-theme-manager

Now we’ll change login windows: come back to terminal and type
gdmsetup

Select “Graphic Greeter” tab , then “install new theme” button and point to and select “soolive-login.tar.gz” from soolive directory. Check it from the list on the left and close.

Back again to terminal, get root privileges, rename default splash screen and copy the new one
su
mv /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.old
mv /home/gallo/soolive/gnome-splash.png /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/

Now copy the wallpaper inside theme directory
mv ~/soolive/soolive-wallpaper.png ~/.themes/Soolive/

Right click on your desktop and and change the desktop wallpaper searcing inside .themes/ in your homedir (if you can’t see hidden files try with a right clip on file browser and select show hidden files)

Now logout and login again.