Desktop

Aurora includes a visual theme for the GNOME 3 Desktop Environment.

GNOME Desktop in gNewSense 4

The descktop theme, called Aurora, is located in aurora/desktop/ and should be installed in /usr/share/themes/.

End users of the system should be able to change the theme from Applications ‣ System Tools ‣ Advanced Settings. Background images can be changed from User ‣ System Settings ‣ Background.

Icons

Two icon themes are provided: gnewsense and gnewsense-light. The former is a dark theme for light desktops; the latter is a light theme for dark desktops.

None of the icon themes provided is a completly new theme. They inherit almost all icons from the default gnome icon theme, except the branding, which is replaced for gNewSense’s.

Icon themes are found in aurora/icons/ and can be installed in /usr/share/icons/ in the file system.

Note that the desktop theme depends on these icon themes. This means both icon themes must be installed for the desktop theme to work correctly.

GDM3 theme

A GDM3 theme is available in aurora/gdm3 to overwrite Debian defaults. It contains the following files:

  • greeter.gsettings: these are the options for the greeter session that can be set through GSettings.
  • gnewsense-shell-greeter.svg: gNewSense logo image used by greeter when the user computer can render the new GNOME Shell.
  • gnewsense-fallback-greeter.svg: gNewSense logo image used by greeter when the user computer cannot render the new GNOME Shell.
  • aurora-wide.svg: background image to replace the debian background used in session lock screen (User ‣ Lock Screen).

To use the theme, the files above have to be placed in the following locations:

# cp aurora/gdm3/greeter.gsettings /etc/gdm3/
# cp aurora/gdm3/*.svg /usr/share/pixmaps/
# cp aurora/gdm3/aurora-wide.svg /usr/share/images/desktop-base/joy-wallpaper_1920x1200.svg