How To: Installing Nodoka Theme on Ubuntu

September 22nd, 2007 · Posted by Toor · 15 Comments

Nodoka is a new default theme for Fedora’s GNOME. It contains GTK+ engine, GTK+ theme, Metacity theme and GNOME meta theme. This how to shows how you can install them on Ubuntu.

Install Nodoka GTK+ engine

1. Install build-essential and libgtk2.0-dev packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev

2. Download Nodoka GTK+ engine 0.6 from here.

3. Extract tarball package:

tar zxvf branches-0.6-gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6.tar.gz

4. Now go to gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6 directory:

cd gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6/

5. Configure:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation

6. Make:

make

7. Install:

sudo make install

Install theme

1. Get Nodoka theme 0.3.2 from here. Then execute command in terminal:

tar zxvf branches-0.3-nodoka-theme-gnome-0.3.2.tar.gz

2. Copy the Nodoka folder to themes folder:
cd nodoka-theme-gnome/ sudo cp -r Nodoka/ /usr/share/themes/

Use theme

Click System → Preferences → Theme menu command. In Theme Preferences dialog, choose Nodoka item.

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos

15 responses so far ↓

1 Scalper // Sep 27, 2007 at 2:00 am

bro, 1 question..

what program do you use for the launcher at your desktop? thanks..
2 toor // Sep 27, 2007 at 2:05 am

@Scalper: It’s Avant Window Navigator.
3 xcesarfrancox // Oct 3, 2007 at 6:07 pm

Hi!!! I would like to know the name and/or where I can get the icon theme on the screenshot… I fell in love with it… thanks
4 toor // Oct 3, 2007 at 7:26 pm

@xcesarfrancox: You can find it from here.
5 xcesarfrancox // Oct 4, 2007 at 10:05 pm

Oh man!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

I totally fell in love with the icon theme

Thank you again
6 Perje // Oct 29, 2007 at 11:56 am

Hi there,

I love your theme & would like to have it on my desktop as well, but after the 3rd step I got the following message:

perje@perje-desktop:~$ tar zxvf branches-0.6-gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6.tar.gz

tar: branches-0.6-gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I’ve got gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6.tar.gz on desktop and really don’t understand why it can’t find it!!!??? I’ve been searching on the net for 2days, but no luck what so ever. I’m kinda stuck, but don’t want to give up!!!
I’m new to Ubuntu and want to learn every bits, so if you can help me out that would be much appreciated

Thanx in advance
7 toor // Oct 29, 2007 at 11:32 pm

@Perje: First execute:
cd ~/Desktop

Then:

tar zxvf gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6.tar.gz
8 Roast Beef // Nov 7, 2007 at 9:38 am

What font is it you’re using?
9 Toor // Nov 8, 2007 at 6:52 am

@Roast Beef: Luxi fonts.
10 Ashley // Nov 11, 2007 at 4:16 am

Where can I get the desktop wallpaper you are using?
11 Jon // Dec 13, 2007 at 10:41 pm

Yeah, I second that. What is that wall? It’s very cool.
12 n00b // Dec 31, 2007 at 8:04 pm

thanks for the install help, worked great. Very nice theme IMHO
13 Vu sur le net : Installing Nodoka theme on Ubuntu « burningHat // Jan 30, 2008 at 10:48 am

[…] lassés de Human et appréciant la qualité du thème Nodoka de Fedora, phorolinux nous propose un petit guide pour l’installer sur notre distribution. En anglais certes, mais ça se limite à du recopiage de commandes dans le terminal donc rien de […]
14 Sergio // Oct 5, 2008 at 9:59 am

Ive installed the theme but the but the blue colors look so palid
15 jac0b // Nov 23, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Thanks for the help. I loved this them when I tried out fedora for my laptop.

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