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Quick gnome tweaks

Posted by cviorel 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 /

1	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"

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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"

1 2	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 cviorel 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

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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

XMLStarlet: command line XML toolkit

Posted by cviorel on February 5, 2010 No comments

XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files […] Continue Reading…

Vacuum your Firefox 3

Posted by cviorel on February 3, 2010 No comments

This tip will hopefully speed up your Firefox 3 by optimizing it’s database.
Firefox stores your browsing data using SQLite – self contained, small footprint database.
Having database store your browsing data has one drawback, you have to optimize the database […] Continue Reading…

Turn off or limit the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu

Posted by cviorel on January 27, 2010 No comments

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

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Then add gtk-recent-files-max-age=0 to this file.

echo 'gtk-recent-files-max-age=0' | tee -a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0

1	echo 'gtk-recent-files-max-age=0' \| tee -a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0

This is documented here.
This will also work in […] Continue Reading…

Ubuntu One coming to Windows

Posted by cviorel on January 26, 2010 No comments

At PyCon 2010, Ubuntu One development team will focus on helping Ubuntu users who also use a Windows box. This is great news!
Source.

Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2

Posted by cviorel on January 21, 2010 No comments

Skype just released Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2 aka “Talking Screens”.
Chats are faster, UI supports switching styles on the fly, and audio is a lot better than before. You can download it here.
What’s new in this version:
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Disable splash screen in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Posted by cviorel on January 18, 2010 No comments

You can disable the splash screen and instead view details about your boot process by following the next steps:
1. Edit grub

sudo vi /etc/default/grub

1	sudo vi /etc/default/grub

2. Locate the following line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

1	GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

and remove quiet and splash.
After that, the line should look like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

1	GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

3. Save and exit.

:wq

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:wq

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Karmic Koala Beta on ThinkPad T61 (continued)

Posted by cviorel on October 20, 2009 No comments

After the latest updates, enabling touchpad on/off key (fn-f8) is now working. There are some annoying gdm random restarts without a trace in the logs. I suspect it’s the nvidia proprietary driver and I hope it will be fixed […] Continue Reading…

Search and remove duplicate files

Posted by cviorel on October 14, 2009 No comments

Here a small piece of code which will search for the duplicates in the path you supply. It will generate a new file which contains the commands for deleting those duplicates.
Make sure you double check the resulting file!
The script […] Continue Reading…

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