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