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Turn off or limit the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu

If you want to turn off the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu, all you have to do is create a .gtkrc file in your home directory (if one isn’t already available): touch ~/.gtkrc-2.0 Now paste this line in there: g[...]


How to upgrade an obsolete Ubuntu installation

Do you still have an Ubuntu 7.10 laying around somewhere on a harddrive? You don’t want’to wipe it off and install a fresh Jaunty? or maybe you don’t have a CD-ROM drive and want to upgrade step by step[...]


Remove Update Manager’s pop-up in Jaunty

The Update manager in Jaunty tends to show up unexpectedly now and then. You close the window by reflex. But what if you didn’t have to cloes it anymore? Disable the application’s pop-up window by launching g[...]


Disable automount for removable devices in Ubuntu

Say you want to disable the automounting feature of Ubuntu. You can press Alt+F2 and type polkit-gnome-authorization. Press Enter and in the new window that appears go to Storage > Mount file systems from removable d[...]