Monday, June 15, 2009

Mac4lin - Give that Mac OS X look to Ubuntu

Trust me, you guys out there will love this! Today I am going to tell you about a great customization pack. I think everybody loves the shiny look of OS X (an operating system). Guess what? Mac4lin does what you think! It will customize your normal Ubuntu installation and will bring that unique feeling to your desktop.



This pack has everything you are looking for in it: the GTK theme, the dock (of course), the emerald theme, the icons, themes for Pidgin and Firefox and everything you need.


Getting and installing Mac4Lin
1. Download the Mac4Lin .tar.gz file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/.
Once it's saved to your hard drive, locate it and right click on it, selecting Extract
Here from the context menu.

2. Once you've extracted it open a Terminal and navigate to the location you extracted it to, i.e. cd ~/Desktop/Mac4Lin_v1.0 if you saved and extracted the file to your Desktop. The you need to run the install script by running ./Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0.sh

You'll see the script go through its paces as it starts installing things.

via ubuntips.com.ar
see installation steps in the project .pdf
Posted by at 7:46 PM
Labels: , , ,

18 comments:

  1. Very Nice, although, it didn't install the Dock for me.
    ReplyDelete
  2. you need to install the AWN dock and than apply the theme to it. (think so, read the .pdf for more info)
    ReplyDelete
  3. Tried it, don't like it, how can I turn back to my old theme?
    ReplyDelete
  4. System > Preferences > Appearance
    ReplyDelete
  5. No comments that this is much better than anything/everything was made so far for unix/linux.
    ReplyDelete
  6. I'm very happy to announce that Mac4Lin has been declared as one of the finalists at Sourceforge.net Community Awards 2009 in the Best Visual Design category. The final phase of voting began today and will run till July 20th 2009. Please vote for Mac4Lin, if you feel it deserves to be voted. To vote click on this image:

    http://sf.net/community/cca09/vote/?f=414

    Optionally, you can also click on the first box in the right frame on my blog (http://phoenix-ani.blogspot.com). You do not need to Sourceforge.net login id. All you need is a valid email id. Each vote is associated with an email id, which needs confirmation that you actually voted (you will get an email giving a confirmation link, so all you need to do is click it). The whole voting process takes just 3 clicks.

    I urge patrons to vote for Mac4Lin if they feel it should win. Mac4Lin is completing with projects like Xbox Media Center (XBMC) etc. I once again thank everyone for their continued support, feedback and appreciation. Mac4Lin exists today because of you all :) Do spread the word around about this.
    ReplyDelete
  7. Oh Sweetness! i've know about this for awhile im just kinda scared of letting the install script go rapid on my system :( ?
    ReplyDelete
  8. Look nice? But I it is not possible to run MAC programs so its still only i nice looking linux GUI.
    ReplyDelete
  10. Really a very nice theme.... I love this..
    Thanks for ur work!
    ReplyDelete
  11. awesome!!!!!!!!!
    ReplyDelete
  12. great! but...how do i enable a Mac-like cursor? the instructions say to go to System -> Appearance and "enable the cursor theme," but i don't see anything about cursors anywhere in the Appearance panel. thanks...
    ReplyDelete
  13. oh, never mind, i found it - the instructions didn't point out (ark ark) that i had to click "Customize..." to get to the cursors. now i know.

    thanks - this theme is great! :)
    ReplyDelete
  14. will it work for the Ubuntu 10.04 lucid version too??
    ReplyDelete
  15. yes it will work in 10.04 too

    here is the link to the instructions;

    http://maketecheasier.com/turn-ubuntu-lucid-mac-os-x/2010/06/01
    ReplyDelete
  16. yes it will work....

    Instructions:

    http://maketecheasier.com/turn-ubuntu-lucid-mac-os-x/2010/06/01
    ReplyDelete
  17. Is this can be used in Ubuntu 11.04?
    ReplyDelete
  18. not working properly on 11.10 version
    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)