Eye candy / How to change desktop appearance, any guides??

[mattgaunt]

Hey every1

Ive just installed kubuntu on my laptop, now i just wondered if any1 knew any good guides on how to change the appearance of the desktop menu bar cos ive seen a lot of screen shots of different menu bars and stuff

Also alot of cool things with CPU clock and stuff i just wanted to have a play around

Last question does any1 know how i can find out what driver im using for my graphics card?

Thanks for any help in advance

Matt

[cantab]

Re: Eye candy / How to change desktop appearance, any guides??

Alt+F2, kcontrol. Appearance and themes has some stuff.

Also, right click the taskbar, and you can add applets, menus, and other bars.

As well, check around in Adept, some stuff is around that's not in the default install.

[linuxwizard]

Re: Eye candy / How to change desktop appearance, any guides??

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...44187#msg44187
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...46458#msg46458

[XstatyK]

Re: Eye candy / How to change desktop appearance, any guides??

One that is pretty neat is "kooldock"
It has cool effects for the taskbar, there is another similar one which I can't remember the name for

to install type in terminal

sudo apt-get install kooldock

[Fluke Jay-Walker]

Re: Eye candy / How to change desktop appearance, any guides??

For all my eye candy needs, I use SuperKaramba. There are plenty of themes (CPU monitors, weather applets, even Mac-like docks and top bars) at kde-look.org. None of my themes are too taxing on my CPU (1.4 GHz.)

[mattgaunt]

Re: Eye candy / How to change desktop appearance, any guides??

cheers guy ill definately go and check it out