Henriolavi
Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:24:13 pm
How to change Zorin 9 free editions to Mac look and feel
This is a step by step tutorial how to change Zorin 9 Core or Educational to look and feel like Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite. I put this document here to a little more compact form.
If you want to have entirely Mac outlook to your Zorin desktop you have to move the AWN panel to the top, change its theme to “smoke” and change then windows' theme, icons' theme and cursors' theme to achieve the Mac outlook and style. You have to install also “Docky” dock and “Gnome tweak tool” either from software center or by using terminal and following command lines.
It is suggested to use preferably “Docky” dock to get stable and easy “Mac Yosemite” outlook to the dock.
What is included into this transformation?
-Themes that changes outlook like latest Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite
-Separate GTK themes for widows and interface
-Latest Mac icon set
-Three “Docky” themes
-Auto set themes and icons script
1. Installing Docky and Tweak tool
Here are the terminal commands to install Docky dock and Gnome tweak tool:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
2. Installing macbuntu window and icon themes
Install and add following “macbuntu” window and icon themes to tweak tool.
Here are the needed terminal commands to install the themes and icons:
Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mbuntu-y-ithemes-v4
sudo apt-get install mbuntu-y-icons-v4
To uninstall themes, icons and cursors from your system.
Terminal Commands:
cd /usr/share/icons/mac-cursors && sudo ./uninstall-mac-cursors.sh
sudo apt-get remove mbuntu-y-icons-v4 mbuntu-y-ithemes-v4
3. Installing “Docky” themes and applying installed other themes
To the "Docky" there are available three background alternatives according to Yosemite-theme. These can be added using following command lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mbuntu-y-docky-skins-v4
Use this command if removing docky themes from your system:
Terminal Command:
sudo apt-get autoremove docky mbuntu-y-docky-skins-v4
After installation choose from tweak tool windows and interface themes (MBuntu-Y-For-Gnome-Fallback), icons theme (Mbuntu-OS -Y) and Cursor theme (Mac-cursors). Open the “Docky” and add there your frequently used applications by opening the applications from menu and pinning those icons to the dock.
Note that there has been used the "Docky" dock and it has changed to "Yosemite-look" now by selecting “Mbuntu-Y-A” theme and without using 3D background from “Docky Settings”. Icon size can be adjusted and additional “Doclets” can be added also there.
4. Changing the wallpaper to “Yosemite background”
Next you can change the background to some “Mac OSX Yosemite” background according to the theme that you have. Wallpapers can be downloaded from this web page:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/08/18 ... allpapers/
After download copy those files to “pictures” folder, rightclick and select “Set as Wallpaper”. (There might be need to downscale the 4k resolution pictures to reduce the file size).
The deksktop looks after these changes like following screenshot.
Top panel is hiding but visible in this picture. Panel is still needed due to there are not ie. menu or shutdown buttons in Docky . The used backgroud is one of the "official" Yosemite theme backgrounds.
5. To change the LibreOffice to “Monochrome” outlook
To improve the Mac look and feel additionally, LibreOffice view-theme can be changed from “Human” to "Sifr" by using this terminal command.
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-style-sifr
Then open "Libre office / Tools / Options / View" and change outlook to "Sifr"
I think that here are almost all what can be done to get Mac "look and feel" to Zorin 9 free editions without problems. These has been tested using Zorin 9 Edu. There are still some small (optional) things that are possibly useful additions, like adding Mac fonts and changing the title bar buttons from right to the left corner.
6. Moving buttons to left corner and adding Mac fonts
The buttons can be moved to left by using this command in terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout 'close,minimize,maximize:'
And finally all looks like Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite , also the buttons.
If someone wants to use also Mac fonts those are available here:
wget -O mac-fonts.zip http://drive.noobslab.com/data/Mac-14.10/macfonts.zip
sudo unzip mac-fonts.zip -d /usr/share/fonts; rm mac-fonts.zip
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Then those fonts can be changed from tweak tool under "Fonts" to be used in the “Window Titles” , “Interface” and also when writing documents.
After installation there might still be same lacking “Yosemite theme” icons. I believe that there will come updates to add those afterwards.
This is a step by step tutorial how to change Zorin 9 Core or Educational to look and feel like Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite. I put this document here to a little more compact form.
If you want to have entirely Mac outlook to your Zorin desktop you have to move the AWN panel to the top, change its theme to “smoke” and change then windows' theme, icons' theme and cursors' theme to achieve the Mac outlook and style. You have to install also “Docky” dock and “Gnome tweak tool” either from software center or by using terminal and following command lines.
It is suggested to use preferably “Docky” dock to get stable and easy “Mac Yosemite” outlook to the dock.
What is included into this transformation?
-Themes that changes outlook like latest Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite
-Separate GTK themes for widows and interface
-Latest Mac icon set
-Three “Docky” themes
-Auto set themes and icons script
1. Installing Docky and Tweak tool
Here are the terminal commands to install Docky dock and Gnome tweak tool:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
2. Installing macbuntu window and icon themes
Install and add following “macbuntu” window and icon themes to tweak tool.
Here are the needed terminal commands to install the themes and icons:
Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mbuntu-y-ithemes-v4
sudo apt-get install mbuntu-y-icons-v4
To uninstall themes, icons and cursors from your system.
Terminal Commands:
cd /usr/share/icons/mac-cursors && sudo ./uninstall-mac-cursors.sh
sudo apt-get remove mbuntu-y-icons-v4 mbuntu-y-ithemes-v4
3. Installing “Docky” themes and applying installed other themes
To the "Docky" there are available three background alternatives according to Yosemite-theme. These can be added using following command lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mbuntu-y-docky-skins-v4
Use this command if removing docky themes from your system:
Terminal Command:
sudo apt-get autoremove docky mbuntu-y-docky-skins-v4
After installation choose from tweak tool windows and interface themes (MBuntu-Y-For-Gnome-Fallback), icons theme (Mbuntu-OS -Y) and Cursor theme (Mac-cursors). Open the “Docky” and add there your frequently used applications by opening the applications from menu and pinning those icons to the dock.
Note that there has been used the "Docky" dock and it has changed to "Yosemite-look" now by selecting “Mbuntu-Y-A” theme and without using 3D background from “Docky Settings”. Icon size can be adjusted and additional “Doclets” can be added also there.
4. Changing the wallpaper to “Yosemite background”
Next you can change the background to some “Mac OSX Yosemite” background according to the theme that you have. Wallpapers can be downloaded from this web page:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/08/18 ... allpapers/
After download copy those files to “pictures” folder, rightclick and select “Set as Wallpaper”. (There might be need to downscale the 4k resolution pictures to reduce the file size).
The deksktop looks after these changes like following screenshot.
Top panel is hiding but visible in this picture. Panel is still needed due to there are not ie. menu or shutdown buttons in Docky . The used backgroud is one of the "official" Yosemite theme backgrounds.
5. To change the LibreOffice to “Monochrome” outlook
To improve the Mac look and feel additionally, LibreOffice view-theme can be changed from “Human” to "Sifr" by using this terminal command.
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-style-sifr
Then open "Libre office / Tools / Options / View" and change outlook to "Sifr"
I think that here are almost all what can be done to get Mac "look and feel" to Zorin 9 free editions without problems. These has been tested using Zorin 9 Edu. There are still some small (optional) things that are possibly useful additions, like adding Mac fonts and changing the title bar buttons from right to the left corner.
6. Moving buttons to left corner and adding Mac fonts
The buttons can be moved to left by using this command in terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout 'close,minimize,maximize:'
And finally all looks like Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite , also the buttons.
If someone wants to use also Mac fonts those are available here:
wget -O mac-fonts.zip http://drive.noobslab.com/data/Mac-14.10/macfonts.zip
sudo unzip mac-fonts.zip -d /usr/share/fonts; rm mac-fonts.zip
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Then those fonts can be changed from tweak tool under "Fonts" to be used in the “Window Titles” , “Interface” and also when writing documents.
After installation there might still be same lacking “Yosemite theme” icons. I believe that there will come updates to add those afterwards.
