Give Wine a Human Theme on Ubuntu

Posted by Jim on September 12th, 2008 filed in linux

Wine may be a very handy application on Linux, but it does make your Windows programs look really (really, really, really!) bad. The default Wine theme is somewhat like Windows 95 and is a boring beige, which is a major eyesore next to the orange of Ubuntu’s Human theme.

Whilst you may simply change some of the colours Wine uses, the programs still look odd alongside native applications. Yet Wine has supported msthemes for a long time; although, they do put a slight damper on performance. You won’t really notice this if you have a nice dual core processor, but I can see a Eee struggling with a theme.

As you can see Photoshop CS2 looks much better:

You can download the theme from here. Just unpack the archive somewhere and open winecfg (Applications -> Wine -> Configure Wine; or just type winecfg in the terminal.) Choose the Desktop Integration tab and choose Install Theme. Navigate to the themes fodler and choose the .msstyles file. Now you can simply choose which theme you want :D

To remove it just switch the theme back.

Stupid Theme

I really need to update this theme

Running TFW in Linux


4 Responses to “Give Wine a Human Theme on Ubuntu”

  1. Jamsi Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 5:30 am

    Oh sweet. I was looking for something like this, because photoshop looks nasty! Cheers for the theme.

    Have you tried Google Chrome yet? I finally got it working under Unbuntu hardy. http://www.jigsawboys.com/2008/09/08/installing-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-hardy/

    Will add your blog to my rss list. cheers buddy :)
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  2. RnB-Radio-Addict Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    Wow, looks amazing! Thanks bro!!

  3. Jim Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    I’ve had some experience with Chrome. It doesn’t seem to like Youtube, which is strange since Google owns Youtube!

    I am yet to try it on Linux, I’ll have a looksie…

  4. Sassy Says:
    September 30th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    Thanks for sharing this template. Nice looking.

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