Say Hello to an awesome desktop

Unity Desktop tweaks

So, this is a post for all those looking to skin up their unity desktop with some awesome tweaks to make their desktops stand out.

Let's take a look on what are the things that I have installed to achieve this look:

• Unity-tweak-tool
• Numix theme
• Variety

Lets get started with the first one i.e Unity tweak tool. I will be discussing a way to install it using ppa and then give some customisations which I like.

So here are the steps:

After installing ubuntu 16.04 or 14.04 simply do

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool



These two steps are sufficient to install the tweak tool. 

If all went well you would see something like this:

Okay, so now heading to the second step, we are going to install those awesome looking icons and the numix theme.

Lets add the ppa required:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:numix/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install numix-gtk-theme numix-icon-theme-circle

So over with the above steps, here is the snap of dash on the unity desktop showcasing the awesome icons.

Now the last and final step, we are going to install variety:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install variety

After completing all the above steps successfully, you will have to just go and open the unity tweak tool from the dash or from terminal by the command :


~$ unity-tweak-tool

After exploring the tool for some time you can adjust the number of desktops on the unity desktop.

Many people think that they can only have 4 desktops on the unity desktops but using tweak tool you can have so many that you might forget the number. XD

In the tweak tool , you can tweak the themes in order to apply the numix icon theme.


Have fun tweaking the unity desktop. Drop in your comments for any suggestions, issues etc.
Cheers!