Elementary OS Loki - Customization

README.md

Elementary OS Loki

This guide will help you to have a better experience with ElementaryOS

Installing the 'add-apt-repository'

Elementary OS come out-of-box with a large set of applications available from the AppCenter. The ElementaryOS developers believe that this set of application will provide you a great user experience and you may not need any other third-party application installed on your OS. Thus, it does not have the 'add-apt-repository' installed on your system.

But, it is quite easy to install it on your EOS.

sudo apt install software-properties-common software-properties-gtk

Once you've installed it, you will be able to add PPA repositories on the Ubuntu Way using the GUI bellow, or through the good-old command line app 'add-apt-repository'.

Installing the Elementary Tweaks

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip.scott/elementary-tweaks &&
sudo apt update &&
sudo apt install elementary-tweaks

Customizing the Look and Feel

My current desktop looks like the bellow image. If you like it all you have to is follow the bellow steps.

Use the commands bellow to add the arc-theme to your repository. Note that you should do this manually, once the PPA (at the date of this writing) is only available for Ubuntu 16.10.

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Horst3180/xUbuntu_16.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install arc-theme
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list
sudo apt update

Now, lets install the awesome Paper Icon Set on your system.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/pulp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paper-icon-theme

Open the Elementary Tweaks, go to the Appearance tab ( Applications > Tweaks > Appearance ). Now, change the GTK+ theme to Arc, and the Icons to Paper.

looks hella clean