I decided to theme my Ubuntu into Mac OS X, which is admittedly strange since I

1. Don’t now, nor have I ever run a Mac.
2. Have spoken out consistently against Apple.

For now, let’s just ignore that.

I ran into some trouble with my ATI video card and Beryl, and also couldn’t quite figure out how to get the GTK control mods to take effect. Documented below is what I did to get it to work.

1. In order to install the proprietary ATI drivers - which have 3d acceleration - I followed these instructions, specifically Method 1: Install the 8.28.8 Driver the Ubuntu Way.

   Note that I also followed the troubleshooting link and performed the final steps to enable the driver under No 3D Accerleration.

2. I followed the How to install Xgl/Beryl (ATI) instructions to get Xgl and Beryl going.

3. For the OS X theme, I installed the Ultimate OS X Pack for the metacity, icons and controls, then the Humanx-osx-ish Emerald theme for Beryl.

   During this process though, I noticed that my controls - with theme installed - had not changed. Seems the problem was my GTK libs were older, GTK-1.2.0, and the controls in the OS X pack were for GTK-2.0. This was fixed by installing/updating my gtk2 engines: sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines

4. For the bottom OS X-ish application launcher I installed gdesklets: sudo apt-get install gdesklets
   Though this is basically what I want and pretty cool looking, I’m currently on the prowl for either a better launcher desklet or some other application providing a similar launcher.

Here’s how it looks: