OpenSuse Customizing Tutorial

8/6/2019 OpenSuse Customizing Tutorial

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Linux customization tutorial

In this tutorial I will explain how to totally customize your Linux operation system. I work underopenSuse but it's probably similar procedure under any distribution of Linux.

Background

No much to tell about that. Anyone know how to change background.

Windows decorations

The most simple is if you go to configure desktop>workspace appearance>windows decorations>getnew decorations and choose which one you want and install.

After you install that,your new decorationshould be on list ofinstalled decorations,and that just click ondecoration and apply.

Desktop theme

New desktop theme can be installed same way as windows decorations described here, but if that don'twork there is alternative way to install desktop theme.First download new theme on computer. Kde-look.com is site with good themes. After you downloadtheme you should have something like this: ~.tar.gz. Extract archive, and in folder you should havesomething like on the picture below.



Now, all you need to do is to move the whole folder to /home/~user/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/

(Note. .kde4 is hidden folder so you need to check show hidden folders in options).After that your new theme should show up in workspace appearance>desktop theme.

Cursor theme

First what you need is to download cursor theme. You can't download cursor theme directly fromworkspace appearance window.After you download theme you need to install it in workspace appearance>cursor theme windows as isshown on picture.

Just choose ~.tar.gz file,and theme should appearin cursor theme window.

Splash screen

To install splash screen most easy way is to download it directly from splash screen window, or todownload it to computer and install.



Splashy theme

Splashy theme is background that you see when restarting computer, shutting down etc.To install splashy theme first you need to download .tar.gz theme archive to computer. After that extractarchive. Choose folder with appropriate resolution and in terminal as a root type :"splashy_config -i /Path to archive/~theme name.tar.gz"

and"splashy_config -s ~theme name"

KDM theme

Kdm theme is login screen.To install it, first you need to download archivewith theme to computer. Extract ~.tar.gz archive.Move the extracted folder “~theme name~” into“/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/”. After thatopen YaST and open “/etc/sysconfig/”. Now youneed to edit file “displaymanager”, and changethe value ofDISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME from“SUSE” to “name_of_the_theme”.

After that open the root terminal and run“SuSEconfig”.



Grub bootsplash

Grub bootsplash theme is background when you choose which OS you want to run.

First download theme. Extract tar.gz archive.Next move the extracted folder ~theme name~ into “/etc/bootsplash/themes/”.



Edit file “bootsplash” or “boot” in YaST in “/etc/sysconfig/” and change the value of THEME from“openSUSE” to “~theme name~”.

Open | YaST | System | Boot Loader |, edit your default bootentry and change the “Vga mode” to yourpreferred resolution.



In root terminal type “mkinitrd”(If the result does not work properly, try mkinit with -s option, e.g."mkinitrd -s 1024x768". As resolution you should use the one which you choose in bootloadersettings).

Icons

Again the most simple way to install icons is configure desktop>application appearance>icons and thenget new theme, or download archive with icons and install from that window or third way. Extract to“~/.kde4/share/icons/” or as a root to “/usr/share/icons/”. These particular icons had iconvert script thatneeded to be executed to build the missing icon sizes.After that just apply icon theme in application appearance window.



Widgets

Widgets can be downloaded directly from add widget window, downloaded to computer and theninstalled from add widget window, installed from rpm package or compiled by install instructions.



Documents

OpenSuse Customizing Tutorial