I saw a few of the posts on r/unixporn with beautiful layouts and styled desktops with beautiful icons. While the only thing I have done is position my dock on the right lol.
I recently had an issue with my graphics driver and the screen was black on login. Someone answered my question on here and I changed the display manager to Lightdm which completely fixed the problem. but the desktop looks exactly the same and I want to change it. it seems that people usually have different distros looking incredible, like arch. I was wondering if I can do the same with Ubuntu
TLDR: what can I do to spice up my desktop? Any tips would be appreciated.
1 Answer
Install a program called gnome-tweaks (if it's not already installed), download themes from the internet (Google search Ubuntu themes). A good website to download Ubuntu themes is . GNOME tweaks will allow you to install these themes the easy way.
To install gnome-tweaks run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install gnome-tweaks.
Also, there are various other window managers. One that I really like is called Cinnamon. To install, run sudo apt-get install cinnamon.
Another cool window manager is called AwesomeWM, try running sudo apt-get install awesome. For key bindings, view
Another one is called KDEPlasma. To install, run sudo apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop. Note: If your graphic card sucks, running this might be an issue.
