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Give Windows XP Look To Your Ubuntu 16.10/16.04/Linux Mint 18 With This Suite

Did you ever use Windows XP but moved to Linux or can’t use it anymore because support is ended? These theme is going to hit the nostalgia, if you grew up with Windows XP or used it anyway. Redmond theme pack gives your Ubuntu/Linux Mint a flavor of Windows XP/2000 and still you keep awesome Linux behind this eyecandy. This pack offers you 7 variants: XP embedded, XP homestead, XP Luna, XP Royale, XP Royale Dark, XP Zune and another theme kind of look like Windows 2000 called Windows Whistle.
Many people are going say like ‘Why you are so obsessed by other operating systems and so, Linux is great OS’, yeah I do agree with that last part of the statement and many geeks consider Linux ‘A great great operating system’ and I do too. The superiority of the Linux shows that you can do with Linux whatever you wants to, change look/design/develop and so, that’s called freedom. We should appreciate new comers to Linux instead of letting them down, and people leave Linux because they think it is quite difficult to survive with this OS.

There are Windows XP icons available here but we can’t put them in our PPA for copyright reasons, since this theme is for GTK and designed by individual under license GPL-v2, so there is no copyright issue. We recommend you to use Victory Icons with this theme. This pack is compatible with following desktop environments: Cinnamon, Unity, XFCE 4, OpenBox 3, Gnome Shell, Lxde, Mate, and GTK. Victory icons used in the following screenshots. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool.

Available for Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety/16.04 Xenial/Linux Mint 18/and other Ubuntu based distributions
To install Windows XP (Redmond) GTK themes in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

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Make Linux Mint look like Windows XP Luna

This post will go through how you can dress up Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon as the venerable Windows XP “Luna” theme, complete with sound effects.

The beauty of Linux Mint is not only the freedom from Windows Updates and Microsoft telemetry, but also:

• built-in driver support for many types of hardware
• integration of essential features:
  • PDF reading, fully-featured Office suite, graphics editor, music player, email client, video player, OpenVPN, SSH, keyboard shortcut management

  Linux has really come a far way compared to 5-10 years ago, where now you are able to set it up without touching the command line. It is also customizable in almost every way, as is the theme of this post.

  I have wiped Windows and installed Linux Mint on all of my laptops except one which I sadly need to run Windows for work purposes. I have set up my Linux Mint laptops as “faux Windows XP” machines, complete with the look and feel as well as the startup, shutdown, and other Windows XP sound effects.

  My experience so far can be summarized by the following sentence: using Linux feels like your computer is awaiting your next action, while Windows is the opposite.

  

  (I positioned my panel to the top of my screen, just a personal preference. Default is bottom.)

  The guide on how to achieve the same look follows.

  Requirements

  1. Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon: https://linuxmint.com/release.php?id=34 (you can follow steps #1-13 under “How to Install” in my previous blog post, substituting the link in step #3 on that page with this link)
  2. Asset Files (contains themes, sounds, wallpaper): https://gitlab.com/andryou/andrews-settings/raw/master/local/linuxmint/WindowsXPFiles.zip
     1. Credits: B00merang-Artwork, B00merang-Project, CinnXP

     Fonts

     1. Run in Terminal: sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts
     2. Copy font files in the XP Media/Fonts folder to the above folder (you will need to navigate to it in the file explorer, right-click in the folder and open as root)
     3. Run in terminal: sudo fc-cache -fv
     4. Start => Preferences => Font Selection
        1. Tahoma (Default, Desktop, Document)
        2. Trebuchet MS Bold (Window Title)
        3. (optional) DejaVu Sans Mono Book (Monospace)
        4. Font size for all: 9
        5. Hinting: Full
        6. Antialiasing: Greyscale

        

        Theme

        1. Copy the “.icons” and “.themes” folders to your Home directory (press CTRL + H in the file explorer to toggle hidden folders)
        2. Run: ln -s ~/.icons/cinnxp/cursors/ ~/.icons/default
        3. Right-click on an empty space on your panel and click on “Themes”
           1. Window Borders: xp
           2. Icons: xp
           3. Controls: cinnxp
           4. Mouse Pointer: cinnxp
           5. Desktop: cinnxp
              
              
        4. Right-click on an empty space on your panel and click on “Panel settings”
           1. Panel Height: 27px
           2. Icon size (all): 16px
           3. Adjust the above to your personal preference
        5. Right-click on an empty space on your panel and click on “Add applets to the panel”
           1. Add applet “CinnVIIStarkMenu” from “Download” tab (update cache when asked)
           2. Once downloaded, go to “Manage” tab, click on CinnVIIStarkMenu and press the + button
           3. Right-click on your panel and switch “Panel edit mode” on
           4. Drag and drop new menu applet to far left of panel
           5. Right-click on the old menu and remove it
           6. (optional) If you prefer to not have any launchers, right-click on launcher area (to the right of the start menu) and remove “Panel launchers” (or from the “Add applets to the panel” dialog)
        6. Right-click on the new start menu and click on Configure…
           1. Panel => Use a custom icon – on, then for Icon click on the icon button and navigate to /home/USERNAME/.themes/cinnxp/cinnamon/menu.png and select it (if you don’t see the .theme folder, press CTRL + H to toggle hidden folders)
           2. Set ‘Menu’-Button label to: start
              
        7. (optional) Configure Window List applet to disable thumbnails by right-clicking on a window button in your taskbar, Preferences, Configure… and setting “Show windows thumbnails on hover” to Off
        8. Start => search for “effects” => disable window effects, fade effect, and session startup animation
        9. Copy XP Media/windows_xp_bliss.jpg to your Pictures folder then right-click on your desktop => Change Desktop Background => Pictures => browse to and select the Bliss wallpaper
        10. Run: sudo apt install dconf-editor
        11. Run: dconf-editor
        12. Navigate to: org => gnome => nautilus => desktop => trash-icon-name, set “Use default value” to off and set custom value to “Recycle Bin“
        13. Start => search for “desktop”, enable Trash and disable Home

        Sounds:

        1. Copy sound files in the XP Media/Sounds folder to any folder, I’d recommend creating a new subfolder under Music
        2. Start => search for sound => “Sounds” tab:
           1. Starting Cinnamon – Windows XP Startup.wav
           2. Leaving cinnamon – Windows XP Shutdown.wav
           3. Inserting a device – Windows XP Hardware Insert.wav
           4. Removing a device – Windows XP Hardware Remove.wav
           5. Showing notifications – Windows XP Balloon.wav
           6. Changing the sound colume – Windows XP Ding.wav

           

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           README.md

           make Cinnamon look and feel like the venerable Windows XP interface

           based on Mint-XP (fmcgorenc) and Adwaita

           

           

           

           

           

           

           

           • Tahoma (Default, Desktop, Document)
           • Trebuchet MS Bold (Window Title)
           • Franklin Gothic Medium (Start Button)

           These are required for full XP look, but not for theme to function. Fonts must be installed seperately.

           • QT apps have a few unavoidable bugs. If something «less buggy» is desired, open terminal, run qtconfig-qt4 and select «Windows» under GUI style (this will look Win98-ish but at least it won’t have bugs)
           • LibreOffice 5.0 and above may use gtk3 by default (sorta). to get the gtk2 theme add «export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk» to ~/.bashrc

           General Users (Arch Linux and other bleeding edge distros)

           Bleeding edge distros (Arch et al) should have sassc in the repo already. If not, need to compile from source. This will create a static-linked binary at /usr/local/bin/sassc .

           Install build tools and git

           1. git clone https://github.com/sass/sassc.git
           2. git clone https://github.com/sass/libsass.git
           3. cd sassc
           4. SASS_LIBSASS_PATH=../libsass make
           5. sudo SASS_LIBSASS_PATH=../libsass make install
           1. Run ./compile-theme in theme root directory. The result will be a file called «pkg»
           • Pass the -f parameter to specify the desired flavor
           1. Copy «CinnXP» directories in «icons» and «themes» into system wide paths ( /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/themes ) or user-wide paths ( ~/.icons and ~/.themes ). Create directories as necessary
           2. In ~/.icons , make symbolic link called «default» and point it to the CinnXP cursor directory (this is required for QT apps and probably other stuff)
           3. move menu applet to the first position on the panel and open configuration; point icon to CinnXP/cinnamon/menu.png and change text to «start»

           To compile for lower gtk versions, use the -g parameter. Pass ./compile-theme -h for details. This is necessary for Linux Mint.

           Run ./test-theme in the top-level directory to generate a directory of links to the appropriate gtk, cinnamon, and metacity files; the resulting file can be moved to ~/.themes or /usr/share/themes . This is to allow faster/easier live testing of these components without compiling the entire package as above. Note that cursor themes will need to be compiled during testing.

           Command line args are analogous to compile-theme

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           Чем замечателен Linux, это тем, что он легко нстраивается. Вы можете с лёгкостью переделать интерфейс ОС Linux под любую систему: MacOS X или Windows.
           В этой инструкции я вам покажу как трансформировать Linux Mint Cinnamon в Windows XP. Для этого существует тема оформления и значки Ylmfos.

           Вот как выглядит тема и значки Ylmfos после трансформации в Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon:

           

           Установка темы оформления и значков Ylmfos в Linux Mint 17 (Cinnamon) и старше

           Выполните следующие команды в терминале:

           Установка темы оформления Ylmfos.
           
           sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
           sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install ylmfos-theme

           Установка темы значков Ylmfos.
           
           sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons
           sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install ylmfos-icons

           А также можете загрузить обои Windows XP по следующей ссылке:

           Активируйте темы в Системные настройки — Темы — Другие настройки:

           

           Активация обоев. Системные настройки — Фоновые рисунки — Добавить обои:

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