Now that I had a fresh new installation of Debian it was time for me to customize it.

You can choose desktop wallpaper from the settings –> desktop in your X menu. I choose this one.

I even changed the icon to the menu button in the task bar by right clicking and selecting its properties. Under the icon prompt i selected the Debian logo provided at /usr/share/pixmaps/debian-logo.png

For the Emerald window decoration I downloaded Liberty Green. To install it I click on Emerald Theme Manager by right clicking the Fusion Icon. Then I click on the import button and find where I downloaded the file. I could see the new theme available and double clicked it.

I used Murrina Verde Olivo for GTK. I created the directory ~/.themes and copied the downloaded tarball into it. From there I extracted the tarball then deleted it. When i went to Appearances from the Settings menu I could see my newly installed GTK Theme.

Jungle Green was my choice for an Icon set. I repeated the steps above for the GTK theme, only I created a ~/.icons directory.  And in Appearances I found the new set listed under the Icon tab.

Finlay the mouse pointer I chose was Harmony. I had to replacate the above steps and as root I followed a similar procedure. I copied the file into the /etc/share/icons directory and extracted it there. I was not done however, I created the folder /usr/share/icons/default with the file  index.theme inside. edited as such (created the exact same file in ~/.icons/default):

[icon theme]
Inherits=Harmony

Now I went to Settings –> Mouse in the menus and clicked the theme (you might see it listed twice, this is okay.) tab and clicked on the new theme.

NOTE: the mouse has to be duplicated, otherwise I only had it working within Firefox but not the rest of the desktop.

Now I had a nice looking desktop!

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