By default, the new Light theme that comes with the latest version of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx are positioned on the left. If you want to reposition them to the old-fashioned right side, hit Alt+F2 and type gconf-editor. Click [...]
To find out more about your system’s temperature, install acpi. Then do a simple acpi -V to get a listing similar to this one: Battery 0: Full, 100%Battery 0: design capacity 7800 mAh, last full capacity 4988 mAh =[...]
By default, the Ubuntu System menu icons are rendered invisible. You can toggle them on with this simple command: gconftool-2 --type Boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons True [...]
So you want to wipe your hard drive clean and reinstall a fresh Ubuntu copy. Before you do that, it might be wise to make a list of currently installed packages and reinstall them in a jiffy afterwards on the new OS: sud[...]
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