Is there an Ubuntu theme available to make it look like Windows 7?

Question

I want to know is there any theme available make it Ubuntu look like Windows 7 ?

Answer 1

Win7 theme for ubuntu versions prior to 11.10

Installing the Win7 Theme

cd
wget http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/ubuntu/files/help/theme/gnome/win7-setup.sh
chmod +x ~/win7-setup.sh
./win7-setup.sh

This will download a script file that will be used later to tell your computer what files to download to complete the Win7 theme packages install. Once finished, a window will tell you that the installation will start now so just press OK.

Press OK, then back in the terminal enter:

setup-win7-theme

This command will setup Win7 theme and your computer will start transforming into windows style immediately. Wait for a few seconds and you will see a window asking you to logout so logout and log in again.

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Answer 2

win7 theme in 11.10

what is not possible...

The Gnome-2 Win7 theme used two key capabilities that (as yet) have not been ported to Gnome-3.

• Talika - this is a panel applet that presents applications in an icon form and when clicked displays a mini-windows preview.
• GnoMenu - once customised this gave the windows 7 start menu format

Without these - as you can see, the desktop is a cross between Windows 7 (aero-like) theme with WinXP type panel & menu.

prerequisites

We need some prerequisites.

• Install gnome-classic as per this AU question & answer
• Ubuntu-Tweak - install ubuntu-tweak from the authors ppa
• Emerald Decorator - install emerald from the webupd8 ppa
• windows 7 fonts, icons and background wallpaper

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/ubuntu/files/help/theme/gnome/win7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf win7.tar.gz
cd win7

initial customisation

• Delete the bottom panel
• Edit the properties of the top-panel and change the "Orientation" to "bottom"
• Change the Background to "Solid Colour"
• Delete the standard menu & Clock
• Add to the panel "Main Menu" which adds the traditional start menu
• Add to the panel "Window List" that displays windows as buttons on the panel

configure emerald

• launch ccsm and in the "Window Decoration" plugin change the "Command" text-box value to be emerald
• launch from a terminal emerald-theme-manager and click the Edit Themes tab
• Select the engine oxygen, change the name to "Win7 Theme" and click the save button

extract icons/fonts/background

sudo tar -C /usr/share/icons/ -xzvf win7-icons.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/share/fonts/truetype -xzvf win7-fonts.tar.gz
sudo cp backgrounds/win7-wallpaper.jpg /usr/share/backgrounds

final tweaks

• Using System Tools - System Settings - Appearance, click the "+" button and navigate to /usr/share/backgrounds and double click win7-wallpaper.jpg. Select this wallpaper and the background should update
• launch Ubuntu-Tweak and click on Tweaks - Fonts
• change the default font to be Segoe size 9
• Click on Tweaks - Theme
• change the Gtk theme to Raleigh
• change the Icon theme to win7-icons
• Click on Tweaks - Desktop Icon Settings
• check (tick) each of the icon options under Show Desktop Icons

Finally logout and login.

Note - if the emerald decorator is not the glassy appearance you would expect then compiz is not running. Either run compiz --replace in a terminal or add this command as a Startup Application.