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Quick gnome tweaks

Posted by on December 24, 2010 No comments

Here are some tweaks for your gnome:

Print all subdirectories and entries under a dir, recursively:

gconftool-2 -R /

Change GDM font:

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \
/desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name "Ubuntu"
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \
/desktop/gnome/interface/font_name "Ubuntu"
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \
/desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name "Monospace"

Change GDM backgound:

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "/path/to_image"

Set default gnome terminal size in Lucid Lynx

Posted by on May 26, 2010 No comments

Use these commands to change the default gnome terminal size:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_size_columns \
--type integer 160
gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_size_rows \
--type integer 50