Nice Bespin KDE 4 Desktop, PART 1

This guide will show you how to set up a nice Desktop exactly shown in my previous blog post: KDE 4.4 with Bespin Theme Video

Open the konsole;

  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
  • sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion cmake
  • sudo apt-get install inkscape imagemagick libx11-dev libxext-dev libice-dev libxft-dev libxau-dev libxpm-dev libxdmcp-dev
  • sudo apt-get install automoc kdebase-workspace-dev kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-phonon-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev

The appropriate libraries are now installed to build the Bespin SVN themes.

Download & Installing of Bespin Style

Konsole;

You’ll be greet with a question:
–> Do you want to compile with KDE support? [Y/n]

Answer: Y

  • cd build
  • make
  • sudo make install

Bespin style and its windows decoration are now installed.

Bespin Icon Theme

  • cd .. && cd icons
  • ./generate_kde_icons.sh
  • mv nmfnms ~/.kde/share/icons

This may take some time, as the Bespin icon theme gets build.

Bespin KDM

KDM is the login screen of KDE.
If you like you can change Bespins default background picture of KDM, by changing background.jpg with your own. Just remember to rename it background.jpg and it’s a good idea to resize the background you want to fit the resolution you computer use.

You’ll find it at ~/Desktop/cloudcity/kdm

The One I use;

Also I use a little different login window then the default Bespin. The one I use don’t have “mirror reflecting”. The file is called window.png


The next thing to do is to change one of Bespins KDM colors. Open bespin.xml with kate and change highlight color to #808080
(Line 23)

  • cd .. && cd kdm
  • sudo mkdir /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/CloudCity
  • sudo cp -r * /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/CloudCity

The Bespin KDM theme are now installed.

Bespin Ksplash Theme

Ksplash is the action between KDM and your Desktop.

  • cd .. && cd ksplash
  • ./generate.sh X Y

X and Y is your screen resolution. So if your resolution is 1680×1050 it should look like this;

./generate.sh 1680 1050

Note, if you want a different splash screen you have to put the picture inside ~/Desktop/cloudcity/ksplash and rename the picture background.jpg. Otherwise the picture you used in KDM will be used at ksplash.

  • mkdir -p ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/Bespin
  • cp -rd . ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/Bespin

Ksplash is now installed.

Activating the Bespin themes

System Settings —> Appearance

Set Style to Bespin.

Set Icons to Bespin.

Set Windows to Bespin.

Set Splash to Bespin.

System Settings —> Advanced tab —> Login Manager

Set Theme to Bespin.

This is the end of the PART 1 on how to set up a nice looking Desktop.

Regards
Artificial Intelligence

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