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  1. 01-23-2011 #1
    Persson121
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    Make Linux Look like Windows 95/98

    Hello! Im new to the ubuntu family. I have just install Lubuntu beacuse not that i have i trash computer. I have a fast computer but i want back to the 90's in the computer world.

    Thats beacuse I install Lubuntu beacuse it's the base of ubuntu. It's fast and extremley smal.

    Anyway, i just wonder which desktop-program shall I install to have the Windows 95/98 desktop theme?

    I have found one desktop theme who is look-a-like windows 95. But it's very old and I don't know if it's stable, beacuse it's like 10 yeras old.

    QVWM
    Homepage: csg.is.titech.ac.jp/~kourai/qvwm/

    Or should I take it and install it?
    Image: csg.is.titech.ac.jp/~kourai/qvwm/screenshots/iconful_startmenu.gif

    MvH P
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    Check out these 2 links;

    SourceForge.net: Windows 98 Theme for Unbuntu 9.10 - Project Web Hosting - Open Source Software

    https://github.com/paldepind/Gtk98Icons#readme

    These are themes, not programs.
    Themes are nothing more then window skins with added icon packs.
    If you go to LXAppearance you can see which themes you already have installed and can also modify or download others.

    BTW..... Lubuntu is a branch of Ubuntu which is based on Debian.
    Debian is the base distro for all the others.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TaZMAniac View Post
    Check out these 2 links;




    These are themes, not programs.
    Themes are nothing more then window skins with added icon packs.
    If you go to LXAppearance you can see which themes you already have installed and can also modify or download others.

    BTW..... Lubuntu is a branch of Ubuntu which is based on Debian.
    Debian is the base distro for all the others.
    Is there any images of this desktop themes?
    I can't se and play the .megp file.

    Gtk98icons is icons.
    Windows 98 Theme for Unbuntu isin't done yet.
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    I don't know what mpeg file you mentioned but the link I found
    takes me to .png (image) file.

    http://i55.tinypic.com/xat7bt.png

    Looks like 98 to me.
    The only reason he said it's not done is because there 'may' be a few icons missing.

    Let me say this.
    I am quite surprised to even see this stuff.
    Why anyone would want to take a superior product like a Linux distro and make it look like Windows, especially 95 / 98 is beyond me!
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