If you want to turn off the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu, all you have to do is create a .gtkrc file in your home directory.
touch $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0
Then add gtk-recent-files-max-age=0 to this file.
echo ‘gtk-recent-files-max-age=0′ | tee -a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0
This is documented here.
This will also work in any other linux distribution running Gnome.
Enjoy!
In the latest release of GNOME, they decided to turn off icons in menus by default. This is ugly and if you ask me, not practical at all.
However, you can get those icons back by going to System → Preferences → Appearance, and under the Interface tab, you can check the box “Show icons in [...]
Here is a small script to remove all your Evolution settings:
#!/bin/bash
evolution –force-shutdown
rm -rf $HOME/.evolution
rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution
rm -rf $HOME/.gnome2_private/Evolution
kill -9 `pidof gconfd-2`
Next time you open Evolution, you will be prompted to add a new account.
Use this command in your terminal to clear the “Run Program” dialogue box invoked by ALT+F2 in Gnome:
gconftool-2 –set /apps/gnome-settings/gnome-panel/history-gnome-run –type list –list-type string "[]"
If you want to enable Ctrl+Alt+Del to open System Monitor you have to do this:
Go to System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts and search for “Logout” action (that is under Desktop actions) and you will see that Ctrl+Alt+Del combination is associated to Logout shortcut.
You have to click on that shortcut and press Backspace if you want to disable it [...]
I was explaining here how to install Nodoka theme on Ubuntu.
Or you can use this small script I made to automate this.
PS: You need to have libsexy-dev installed. If not, just run this command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get –assume-yes –force-yes install libsexy-dev
I hope you’ll find it usefull.
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
cd $HOME/Desktop
w3m https://fedorahosted.org/nodoka/wiki > page
daemon=`cat page [...]
By default Ubuntu Loads Gnome GUI.
If you need to disable X.org / Gnome under Linux, so you can get text only login, this is the right guide to follow.
Using command line (CLI):
Ubuntu comes with rcconf and update-rc.d command.
rcconf allows you to control which services are started when the system boots up or reboots. It displays [...]
Most computers these days come with a myriad of sensors to monitor the temperature of your computer. These sensors are generally located on the processor and the motherboard, and you might also have sensors on your video card. On top of that, all S.M.A.R.T-enabled hard drives have built-in temperature monitoring.
I can show you the steps [...]
After a few tests with the new beta from Ubuntu, I decided to write some of my thoughts about this release.
Please note that this is a BETA release, has many unresolved bugs and needs to be polished before the final release.
Overall, everything seems better. A new host-based firewall application, the new Vinagre VNC client, [...]
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