Customize your desktop

There are lots of cool apps (such as Docky, Gnome-Do, various other dock apps) that add serious eye-candy and fun features, but for me at this point the most well integrated only will do.  So, without further ado:

• Install Nautilus Elementary for a less cluttered and overly-complex Nautilus interface.  This is really a slick deal.
• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && nautilus -q
• Install the Elementary theme which is gorgeous.  For this, I use the PPA (
• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementaryart/ppa
• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install elementary-theme elementary-icon-theme
• System>Preferences>Appearance and then under the Theme tab select Elementary
• If you have a nice video card, make sure your drivers are installed and enable System>Preferences>Appearance and enable Extra effects under the Visual Effects tab for some more snappy, fun (and completely unnecessary) eye candy.

More to come.