If you like this how-to then feel free to comment below. So now your copy of Zorin 15 Core should look more like MacOS High Sierra. drag and drop the slingscold icon onto the docky dock, and now you should be able to access slingscold from docky. once you've done that, open up nautilus (the file manager) and go to usr/share/applications then scroll down til you see the slingscold icon. if you're happy with how it looks, then you can just click in the blank space between the apps to exit slingscold. Then you go to the zorin start/applications menu and click on slingscold to test that it's in working order. In an earlier section of this tutorial, we've already downloaded Noobs Lab's PPA so we can just copy and paste the following commands into the terminal
WARNING!!! INSTALL THIS NEXT APPLICATION AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! to quote Noobs Lab - "Slingscold may not work with some desktop environments and you see the blank launcher."įor this bit, we are going to download an application called Slingscold. Under the 'Interface' header, we are going to look for the option which says 'Titlebar Buttons' and then we are going to click on 'LEFT' instead of right (which is the ZorinOS default) Click on the Cursor dropdown there and select Macbuntu-OSX-cursors.Īfter that, we are going to go into Zorin appearance and click on 'Desktop'. Under the themes header, you can also find the options for the cursors. there's even options for XFCE, mate cinnamon and GNOME. I chose the 'MacBuntu-OS 3.2 High-SIerra-Dark-Master' from the dropdown, but you can choose from the other themes such as mojave and yosemite. Click on the Applications dropdown, under the Themes heading, and you can find the macbuntu themes there. Then you will want to go to gnome tweaks and go to appearance. Sudo apt-get install macbuntu-os-ithemes-v1804 Sudo apt-get install macbuntu-os-icons-v1804 Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/macbuntu
you will have to enter your password when installing the PPA onto your system Click on the dropdown menu and select glass or transparentįrom the Docks menu, you can also change the size of the icons, set the dock's hiding preferences (autohide, intellihide, window dodge, etc.), change the percentage of the zoom when you hover over the icons on the dock and check/uncheck the tickbox that allows you to set Docky to run at start-up when you log in on each new session.Ĭopy and paste these commands into the terminal, one at a time. On the "Docks" screen, you will want to go to the theme option. Once opened, you should get an option screen.
Next you will want to open up docky from the start or applications menu, depending on which theme you currently use on your copy of Zorin15. If the terminal doesn't open via the following shortcut, then just open it in the start or applications menu. Open up the terminal with CTRL+ ALT + T, then type in the following: We are going to be using a dock application called Docky. I'm just sharing their work and modifying it slightly to accommodate for ZorinOS 15
If you just want to recreate my minimalist mac setup, then keep reading below for the instructions.Īlso, full credit to Noobs Lab they put togethter the PPA with all these applications inside of it, not me.
In my case, I only want the mac theme for my application windows, the cursors, the dock and the launchpad.
The link I've linked to above will contain instructions on how to do a FULL Mac makeover, which also includes more applications such as Albert (Linux alternative to MacOS' Spotlight), the MacOS Icons and MacOS Wallpapers. If it isn't, then just click on the words "this link" which is where i've hyperlinked to the relevant page in this post. OK so we are going to look up noobslabs on your preferred search engine (i use duckduckgo, personally!) the term you will want to enter into the search engine is noobslab macbuntu 18.04
For those of us like myself who are too skint to pay to upgrade their ZorinOS and want their desktop to look like MacOS, fear not! It's possible to transform your desktop without having to pay to upgrade.