Linux

Use the same GTK theme for applications started as root

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[...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Install KDE 4.3 in Ubuntu Jaunty

Here’s how to install the newly-release KDE 4.3 in Ubuntu Jaunty.Open up your sources.list file: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list add the following line at the bottom of the file: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubunt[...]