Disable NTP sync during USplash in Ubuntu Linux
NTP sometimes greatly slows down your Ubuntu’s boot time. To disable it just do a simple sudo apt-get remove ntpdate
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Disable the Linux screen blanking
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 change permanent, add the following to your ~/.xinitrc file: setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0xset s… Read More »
Make applications remember their last state in Ubuntu
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 “Automatically remember running applications when logging out“. Original tip source.
Create an autostartup script for Debian and Ubuntu systems
In Debian-based distributions (and here I’m also talking about the widely-spread Ubuntu), there is no rc.local file preinstalled. The good thing is that you can make one easily so you can have a place to put commands to be started up automatically at boot. Here’s what you have to do: sudo nano /etc/init.d/local.autostart You can… Read More »