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Fedora 7: Theming the Gnome Screensaver Lock Dialogue

nick — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:29:00 +0100

[![Fedora 7 Flying High Locked Theme](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/05/locked-150x150.png "Fedora Locked")](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/05/locked.png)

I stumbled across this the other day, I've no idea why the fedora team would go to the effort of making a really nice theme for the lock dialogue for gnome screen saver then leave it "disabled by default". After a quick google I found the ubuntu guys have been up tosomething similar, so here a quick how to enable the fedora art work on the gnome-screensaver lock screen.

To enable paste this into a terminal (NOT root, as your normal user).

gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme system

To switch it back:

gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme default

The only "downer" is that your avatar isn't shown, but for my work laptop I prefer this theme, much cooler fedora advocate when I'm not at my desk ;)

Nokia n800 icon

nick — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:43:00 +0100

After seeing this post on planet maemo, I wanted to replace my "applications" button with an n800 icon, but I couldn't find one anywhere... I found a couple of icons in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon that where close to what I wanted (there's a bluetooth icon, and input one) but they weren't quite right, so this is what I managed to mash up. :cool:

[caption id="attachment\_530" align="alignnone" width="64" caption="Nokia Internet Tablet Icon"][![Nokia Internet Tablet Icon](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/10/n800.png "n800")](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/10/n800.png)[/caption]

(Image License)

Hope you like it!

Gnome Aqua Matrix

nick — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:18:00 +0100

...or Gnome Matrix 3... this would be 2! It makes sense if you're an art.gnome fan!

I don't know what it is this month, but the wallpapers are flowing out of me!! :-)

[caption id="attachment_542" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="It's like, Gnome meets Mac meets Neo!"][/caption]

EDIT: Now available on art.gnome :-)

Crash Pin Stripes ! (EDIT!)

nick — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:03:00 +0100

*EDIT*: Also avilable here on art.gnome.org

Look at this, dry for ages, and 2 posts in a day!

Actually this happened a couple of days ago, my laptop crashed, and this black & stripy screen is what I got, I thought it'd make a cool gnome art ;-)

[caption id="attachment_552" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Making good use of the time she crashed."][/caption]

Gnome Wallpaper - Blue & Simple

nick — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:35:00 +0000

It's been a while since I've done some art, so this eve' I felt like a dabble, this is what I came up with...

[caption id="attachment_569" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Not too much, not too little."][/caption]

I like gradients, blue and was aiming for something simple. A copy can be downloaded from gnome look here. I don't suppose it's good enough for art.gnome so I won't bother ;)

Frosty Grass On Video (Gnome XGL)

nick — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:03:00 +0000

[caption id="attachment\_512" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Tiz cold in here!"][![Tiz cold in here!](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/10/frostygrass-150x150.jpg "Frosty Grass")](https://www.linickx.com/archives/89/new-gnomeart-anyone-for-frosty-grass/frostygrass)[/caption]

Frosy Grass is by far my most successful piece of gnome art; it's got my best rating in art.gnome.org, and has a massive 3209 downloads (art.gnome = 2425 gnome look = 784).

Today, I just found something really cool, Frosty Grass is in a novel presentation video !!!!!! :cool:
Take a look at http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/58 it's a demonstration of new rendering for gnome; fancy transparent windows, flipping desktops, all that cool stuff. As you'll notice in the 1st few seconds of the video my art work is in the folder that gets moved,stretched and faded in the presentation !

As you can tell I'm over the moon about this, I think It's well cool, I just wish I'd found it earlier :-D

Gnome Blogger (Wallpaper)

nick — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:01:00 +0000

Inspiration hit me last night, how about using the gnome foot - which is a 'G' - as the 'g' in blog or blogger.

So here we have it... Gnome Blogger :)

The back grounds are transparent so you can mess with the colours, I've done a light and a dark one depending on your taste !

It looks like gallery2 has buggered up the screen shots :(, so you can see some at art.gnome or gnome-look:

GNOME Art - Tango Beer

nick — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:52:00 +0000

Tango Beer
Backgrounds - GNOME

It's under different name, but it's nice to see the art.gnome people like my simple beer wallpaper :D

Simple Desktop Wallpaper

nick — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:58:00 +0000

I thought it was time to clean up my desktop, you know had the usual mess of temporary files & shotcuts ! So to complement my cleaner desktop I thought I'd make a new gnome wallpaper.

My first draft was very plain, but then I remember this bottle top lid, I think it's just the right touch.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [![Simple Gnome](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/05/simple-150x150.jpg "simple")](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/05/simple.jpg) [![Gnome Beer on a Simple Background](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/05/simple-beer-150x150.jpg "simple beer")](https://www.linickx.com/files/2008/05/simple-beer.jpg) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope you like them :D

New GnomeArt: Anyone for Frosty Grass ?

nick — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:56:00 +0000

So I'm having a small issue posting, I've been in casualty due to my right eye not working properly. (More about this when I can see)

This picture has been on the camera for a week or two, but the recent additions to art.gnome have inspired me to crop this up to a nice shot. ;)

[caption id="attachment_512" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Tiz cold in here!"][/caption]