Chapter 5: Dressing up the Bird

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Overview

Customizing the Look, Feel, and Sound of Your System

Before entering the world of Linux, I had used just about every desktop operating system around. Despite the differences among them all, however, one thing that I eventually suffered from in each case was a kind of visual boredom. I suppose you might call it GUI fatigue. It wasn’t that I was tired of using a graphical interface; it was just that I couldn’t help but get sick of looking at the same old icons, window borders, and color schemes. Of course, there were some changes that could be made, but it just wasn’t possible to get around the basic look and feel without add-ons that demanded a price in terms of performance.

One of the features of Linux that pleased me to no end, and continues to do so, is that users can drastically change the look of things. I don’t mean just the icons and backgrounds, but everything, including the actual window borders and controls. Add to that the variety of GUIs available for Linux that can be milked for all their graphical worth, and you have a totally customizable system. Is it any wonder that there are so many more Linux desktop screenshots out there on the Web than for any other system?

You may not be as fickle as I am in terms of the look and feel of your system, but you can learn to use and enjoy all the graphical customization power that Linux offers you as you work through this chapter.



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Linux for Non-Geeks. A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook
Linux for Non-Geeks: A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook
ISBN: 1593270348
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 188

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