Pimping CentOS 7

04 June 2016

Before you are able to tweak your CentOS installation, you will need additional yum repositories.

# yum install epel-release
# rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
# rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
# yum update

Fancy icons

Download and extract Super Flat Remix GNOME icons. After extracting, move folder Super Flat Remix into your ~/.icons folder.

Fancy themes

Download and extract OSX Arc White theme. After extracting, move folder OSX-Arc-White into your ~/.themes folder.

Fancy fonts

Edit /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css. The following CSS elements do exist so please search first then apply the tweak.

stage {
    font-family: Roboto Condensed, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11pt;
    color: white;
}
.screen-shield-clock-time {
    font-family: Open Sans Light Condensed, sans-serif;
    font-size: 90pt;
    text-shadow: 0px 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
}
.screen-shield-clock-date {
    font-family: Open Sans Light Condensed, sans-serif;
    font-size: 45pt;
}

Logout and log back in then apply this .