Ubuntu Studio theme

There is another version of Ubuntu, a mod if you will, designed for the more “creative” among us.  It comes with a bunch of applications depending on which flavour you go for – either image editing, music or video.  You can find out more here.  It sports a “realtime kernel”.  I must be honest I don’t know what that means, but I’m told it isn’t for everyone, especially if you use wifi, due to the way it plays havok with some drivers (I guess…)

What you may be interested in though is the theme.  It gives Ubuntu a charcoal grey look, which is quite attractive and looks a bit more professional than the default theme.  It also replaces the African drum sounds on the login screen with a more tuneful umm…tune.

Being linux, you can have the bits you want and leave the rest, in this case, the theme.  Here’s how:

sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look

type that into the command line and wait for it to download.  You’ll then need to go to System, Preferences and then Appearance in the menu’s to enable it.  You’ll find some nice new desktop backgrounds in there too.