23 Awesome Themes for Ubuntu Linux
I started using Ubuntu 4 months back, and since then I’ve been looking for ways to customize and tweak it to make Ubuntu more productive and look good. During my search, I came across many cool themes from various sources that I’d like to share with you all.
These themes are all available for free download from Gnome Art. Do try them out and let me know if you like them. If you have more cool Ubuntu themes, let me know below in the comments. I love eye candy!
Murrina Triomphe
Hardy Theme 2.0
Bamboo Zen
Lux Theme
Burnt Orange Ice
Creamy
Glow
Moomex
Roy (Windows Royale)
Clearlooks Metallico
Aqua Dreams
Linux Mint
Real Minimal
Root Green
Light Coffee
Slickness Black
Murrina Aero
Tigris
Sofice
Blue Joy
Gaia Nova
Elegant Brit
Darker Ice Murrina
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Author: Haris NadeemHe is the founder of Sizzled Core and a Pakistani blogger who loves gadgets and exploring out the web!
51 Comments
Umar
awesome list there man!
great job on the post
Aug 9th, 2008
masoud123
wow very thanks .
Mercccccccci
Aug 9th, 2008
excrement
Sorry but I think most linux users have bad taste. Most IT people (the majority of linux users I guess) aren’t designers and don’t have any design skills. I wish I had them.
Aug 10th, 2008
Satbir Singh
Great Set of Themes… surely ry out the next time i use Ubuntu. (stumbled)
Aug 10th, 2008
3nigma
Some of those images show the skins on KDE and some are shown on Gnome, it would be helpful if you could either stick to one desktop environment, or make sure to note compatibility.
Aug 10th, 2008
Ben
Why did you linked directly to the file.. ?
I wanted to see the information about the theme.. Now am searching and finding them myself from GnomeLook :x
Aug 10th, 2008
jasmine celion
great post
thanks for sharing such nice themes
jasmine celion
cool-hotstuff.blogspot.com
Aug 10th, 2008
Noob
Ok…I’ve downloaded Roy and Bamboo Zen. Am guessing that they need to be extracted to a specific location–which location? Are both compatible with Ubuntu 8.04/Gnome? After extracting them, will I just look in System | Preferences | Appearance | Theme and see them or is there something else I need to do to use them? Thanks for any assistance.
Aug 10th, 2008
WAHM Tara
Oh the Bamboo Zen is very nice! Thanks for the links!
Aug 11th, 2008
LinuxMintUser
one of the best ways to improve the look of linux is to add some custom icons. you can add them the same way you add themes. also some mouse themes can be nice too, but as someone mentioned before linux people don’t seem to have the best taste, so you might have to sort through some crappy stuff to find the good ones
Aug 16th, 2008
Ben
Well it would be more interesting if I had a clue how to make the theme work - it’s not a theme package to be handled by ‘install’ in the Appearance appelet, and it doesn’t show up if I copy it to the ‘.themes’ folder… so what should be done with it?
Aug 17th, 2008
Arthur
Hey, that’s my theme (Root Green Square). Woots!
Aug 18th, 2008
gaguk
thaks you….
Aug 20th, 2008
Andrew
It’s nice to see you showing that gnome can look great as a desktop environment but please remember that gnome is not only for ubuntu. It is a standard on many distros and can be set up for most linux and unix machines and customized to no end. This seems more like a gnome article than an Ubuntu one. Nice themes though!
Aug 22nd, 2008
Guest
awesome ,thx for ur sharing
Aug 31st, 2008
jk
thnx!!
Sep 4th, 2008
Goatse
Really nice themes
http://s1.gladiatus.us/game/c.php?uid=93991
Sep 8th, 2008
Website Design
Simply Gorgeous :) thank you for sharing.Currently I used Slickness Black, but may be changing it up after looking through these.
Sep 13th, 2008
Sekko
How do you install them.. im getting a headache , and ready to drop the ubuntu out of my PC.. I took out Vista.. now I think Im going back to Vista…
Sep 22nd, 2008
STRATS
Thanks you’re great!!!!
:-)
Sep 23rd, 2008
chetan
i am using ubuntu 8.04…….plz help me how to install these themes
Sep 25th, 2008
sathis
after downloading the theme select system —-> prefrences——>
theme and drag the download theme and enjoy see the change
bye guys enjoy
Oct 7th, 2008
Indya Labs
Surely.. these themes are rocking..!
Thanks for the great collection
Oct 12th, 2008
Indya Labs
Thanks for the great collection of themes. They r superb.
I stumbled this :)
Now, using the moomex theme.
Where do i gt the background image shown in the screenshot? It’s not there in the pack..
Oct 12th, 2008
Shoban
Wow!! Nice colection! You could have added 2 more and made it 25 ;-)
Check this link for 5 more themese http://www.crankup.net/add-more-themes-to-ubuntu
Oct 17th, 2008
reptile
I love these themes, but could you tell me how to enable those OS-X types panel bar at the bottom… i have desklets, but that does not look so cool. I have ubuntu hardy, with compiz.
Oct 22nd, 2008
Mahbub
Three Letters. W O W
Oct 29th, 2008
Shane
What about Dust?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/DustTheme
Oct 30th, 2008
Catalin
Lux Theme is best !
Nov 11th, 2008
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