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140 CHAPTER 10 PERSONALIZING UBUNTU: GETTING EVERYTHING JUST RIGHT However, unlike Windows themes, most GNOME themes don t change the fonts used on the desktop, and the wallpaper and color scheme will probably remain broadly the same. You can change these manually, as described in the Setting Font Preferences and Changing the Wallpaper sections a bit later in this chapter. To alter the theme, select System . Preferences . Theme. Then it s simply a matter of choosing a theme from the list in the Theme Preferences dialog box, as shown in Figure 10-1. A useful hint is to open a Nautilus file browser window in the background (Places . Desktop), so you can see how the changes will affect a typical window. Note The default Ubuntu theme is called Human and is designed to represent the skin tones of the world s population. This is intended to reflect Ubuntu s mission of being accessible to everyone, no matter where or who they are. Figure 10-1. Ubuntu comes with several theme choices. My favorite themes are Clearlooks and Mist, largely because they re simple and uncomplicated. Remember that you ll be working with the theme on a daily basis, so it should be practical and not too distracting. Those miniature close, minimize, and maximize buttons might look stylish, but they re useless if they re so small that you can t reliably click them with your mouse. As well as changing the overall theme, you can also modify individual theme components, and even download more theme components.