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If you start a GTK GUI with root permissions and you notice that it uses the old GTK theme, you can make all applications started as root to use your current theme by doing this: sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themessudo ln[...]

NTP sometimes greatly slows down your Ubuntu’s boot time. To disable it just do a simple sudo apt-get remove ntpdate [...]

If you want to disable X screen blanking (aka. disable the X screensaver) that comes up unexpectedly while you’re watching a movie in MPlayer, all you have to do is setterm -powersave off -blank 0 To make the chang[...]

If you want your most-used applications already opened when you boot up into your Ubuntu box, all you have to do is go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications and in the Options tab check the box next to [...]