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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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