New Themes Available
To celebrate a year of Ubuntu Satanic Edition we’re releasing our biggest update yet. It includes new meta-packages for easier installation, two exclusive Gnome themes called Inhuman and Recant, a blood red icon set called Sanguine and subliminal login and logout sounds. See the screenshots.
The themes are intended to maintain the look of Ubuntu whilst giving it a dark and blood soaked edge. Our main aim was to provide usable themes which complimented our existing wallpapers.
Dark themes can pose a few issues, so be sure to checkout our dark theme tips section.
Note that the new packages are only available for Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10. To upgrade, just run:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-satanic
See our installation instructions for more details.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Haha, I took a glance at the new dark theme
I installed it some time ago. Seems we have common taste. At least I can say this is the most appropriate theme for the devilish fiends of linux underworld xD
December 14th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Hi Emzo,
Thanks. Dark themes are tricky - many of them are impossible to use, but if you find a good one then you’ll never go back.
December 17th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Amazing theme. I’ve installed it, and love it. I’m the envy of my peers thanks to your beautiful work.
Great job.
DAVE
December 17th, 2007 at 4:26 am
Sorry to double post. I seem to have found a small issue and was hoping that someone here may be able to aid me. First, before you ask, I followed the Dark Theme Tips. However it didn’t solve my particular problem. My problem exists in Firefox, I cannot see the ‘preferences’ menu, or the download menu. The window is white, and firefox is picking a white font as well. I’ve googled, and surfed, experimented, and cried. If you know of anything that may help me, I would greatly appreciate it. My email is DaveConnor76@gmail.com.
Thank you.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:31 am
fixed: the issue was the “Old Factory” theme for firefox. It’s all good now.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Hi Dave,
Glad you like it. Yes, I was gonna say that it was probably your Firefox theme. We should really put out a ‘fox theme, as I hate all the dark themes out there. I end up using rubyFox as the red kinda matches.
I’ll mention this on the tips page.
January 8th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I’m using Feisty and installed the Satanic GNOME theme. It doesn’t look like the screenshot - the text is all red on grey instead of white on grey, which makes it hard to read. Will it only work properly on Gutsy?
January 8th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Hi Anna,
Sorry, but yes, you need Gutsy for the theme to work. It uses some really up-to-date libraries which are only avaliable on Gutsy. The only option you’ve got if you really want the theme is to upgrade. I have to say that this usually goes very smoothly and with Gutsy you also get all the Compiz 3D desktop effects.
See the following instructions for upgrading:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades
January 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Oh dear, it’s still red text on grey in Gutsy. I even tried removing and then re-installing the theme. The Ashes one works lovely, but I’d prefer to use the dark one. Could it be because I’m using a laptop and not a desktop?
January 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Hi Anna,
Where do you get the red text? Is it everywhere or just in certain apps such as firefox. A screenshot might help - you could send it to my via the email address on the “contact” page:
http://ubuntusatanic.org/contact.php
Also, make sure you have followed the HOWTO for getting dark themes to work properly - they have a few issues in certain apps:
http://ubuntusatanic.org/dark-themes.php
…this affects all dark themes, not just ours!
March 15th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Another option to the Firefox problem is using this Firefox Theme: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4521
September 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
What for two themes, is just one is more than enough, and colour schemes like .gnomecc files (applied from gnome-color-chooser) tooks so less disk space? - as easy, a distribution like this can be provided with more than 20 colour schemes, for example, but of course an ammount of 666 colour schemes would be interesting as well, no doubt… ;-p
September 27th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
You should really use “aptitude install” instead of “apt-get install” in your instructions. Ubuntu uses aptitude as its backend, and if your users mix apt-get and aptitude usage too much, some dependencies are going to get borked.
And besides, Aptitude is much more powerful in many aspects, only downside is that it takes a bit longer to start.