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So you choose Ubuntu as your OS but hate their Unity and so is Gnome-Shell it rivals? I know you would fall to KDE, LXDE as such. But what if someone forks the Gnome 3’s Shell and makes it awesome, pretty and simpler…… 

OK, dyan papasok ang Cinnamon Desktop na ginawa ng koponan na may pakana ng isa pang sikat na Linux Distro ang Linux Mint. Base rin ang nagawa nila mula sa mUbuntu rin kaya petiks lang para magawa ang ganito.

To install Cinnamon, fire up the terminal in ubuntu then enter this line

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa 

then press enter. Tatanungin ka ng password mo, itype mo lang then enter. Kapag nagtanong if you want to add blah blah blah…. press enter lang. Then after, enter this line naman

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cinnamon-session cinnamon

That’s it….. mag logout ka lang then sa login screen, sa pagpipiliian ng uri ng desktop na gagamitin ay lalabas na ang Cinnamon at maari mo na siyang gamitin.

Mine was using a custom theme that’s why it has a green something on the panel and it is called Cinnamon Mint Theme created by http://satya164.deviantart.com/ . To have that enter the following lines in terminal

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes

and after enter this line to install it

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cinnamon-theme-minty

After mainstall, open up Cinnamon settings “click menu->go to preferences then choose Cinnamon Settings” and go to themes. Makikita mo na ang Minty sa listahan at piliin mo.

If you look at the screenshot sa taas, may napapansin ka sa desktop na info apps. It is a custom conky theme inspired sa metro ui interface ng windows 8. to install, we will use again our trusty terminal……

- to install Conky on Ubuntu use this command:

 sudo apt-get install conky-all

- Via the terminal, create a hidden conky folder in your home folder using this command:

mkdir ~/.conky

- Then go to the folder with this command:

cd ~/.conky

- Inside this hidden folder (.conky), we need to download the conky theme and unzip it there:

wget http://www.deviantart.com/download/260230653/metro_style_conky_by_kant_o-d4axn99.zip

- then use this command to unzip the file

unzip metro_style*.zip

- Now run now these two commands to make the conky.sh and mail.sh files executable:

chmod +x conky.sh

chmod +x mail.sh

- Edit now the mail.sh file and enter your Gmail account details (username and password) using this command:

sudo gedit mail.sh

Now, you have the conky theme on your desktop. To make it start right away automatically, you need to do these steps.

1. On the menu, type Startup on the search bar then click Startup Applications.

2. Once it’s open, click Add button.

3. Give the theme any name of your choice (Windows 8 Metro Style, for example), then click Browse.

4. Press Ctrl + H to show hidden files and folders, access the “.conky” folder and open the “conky.sh” file.

5. Then click Add.

That’s it, that conky theme will start right away from startup. 

To get some awesome wallpapers, you can check wallbase.cc 

Souces:

- http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/cinnamon-project-keeps-gnome-2-style-desktop-alive/

- http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/cinnamon-desktop-gets-first-custom-theme/

- http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/10/how-to-install-windows-8-metro-style.html

PS. If you have bad things to say, I was pressured by my friends to make them this tutorial and I intended this for them and I just want it to share with the rest. :)