27th April 2010
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GNOME
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 [...]
Tags: Lucid Lynx, Ubuntu
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20th March 2010
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GNOME, cli
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
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Tags: Ubuntu
1 Comment
1st September 2009
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Applications, System
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[...]
Tags: GTK, theme, Ubuntu
3 Comments
30th August 2009
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System, cli
NTP sometimes greatly slows down your Ubuntu’s boot time. To disable it just do a simple
sudo apt-get remove ntpdate
[...]
Tags: ntp, Ubuntu
4 Comments