[SOLVED] Ubuntu 7.10 - What's the first thing you're going to change?

[farueulogy]

We all love to customize, I'm sure.

The first thing I do is remove the shutdown button from the top right - I don't want to go to close a window and get the shutdown script.

[tdrusk]

I haven't changed anything :(

I like defaults most of the time though.

[zach12]

sudo apt-get install gdesklets
then the light dock

[farueulogy]

sudo apt-get install gdesklets
then the light dock
I didn't really mean what you'd install - I sort of meant layout etc

I usually make my icons large instead of normal through gconf-editor

[marco123]

Merge the bottom panel with the top one.:)

[misfitpierce]

Prob get rid off shutdown button as well. Always do. I also remove volume icon from tray. Then I make the bars a bit smaller 22 or so.

[jingo811]

Make the top/bottom bars 50% transparent. Show hide buttons on both bars.
Make Terminal 50% transparent.

[Paul820]

I have gutsy and i have got rid of the bottom panel and shrunk the top to 15. I'm on a 1280x800 laptop so i need the space :) The next laptop i get i will get a big 17" screen because i can't stand these widescreens.

[rickycodie]

compizconfig-manager. it's still a little hard to configure without it.

[Billy_McBong]

Merge the bottom panel with the top one.:)
same, i hate having 2 panels

[dpar]

Leave everything the same, except change the background.

[Jimmyfj]

Other than changing the wallpaper, the default theme to Elegance and the icon set I would change nothing at all.

[Fixman]

Merge the bottom and top bars, give them 25% transparency (more transparent than opaque), white color. Then put a Matrix background on the terminal.

[farueulogy]

same, i hate having 2 panels

I love 2 panels!

[oomingmak]

The very first thing that I always do is to get rid of stupid double-clicking and switch it to single-click.

Only then can I start thinking about adjusting other settings to suit my preference. Of course, that's easier said than done on Gnome.

[GavinZac]

first thing i -changed- ;) was to merge the panels up the to the top, and mess about with the cube :D

[Sklasko]

Incorporate the functionality of the bottom panel into the top, like a lot of others here.

As well as change the background to (most likely) the Smooth Chocolate one from Feisty, that really depends on how I take to the new one though. It looks nice.

[apoclypse]

I didn't really mean what you'd install - I sort of meant layout etc

I usually make my icons large instead of normal through gconf-editor


I usually get rid of the quit applet in the gnome panel and put the deskbar applet there instead, to be more like OSX. That's why I was kind of peeved when they got rid of the drop down bar. Its supposed to be fixed sometime soon, though so I'll wait. Other than that I pretty much just stick with the defaults. i might change the wallpaper this time around, though it has grown on me a bit, though I still think it needs to be fixed since it seems to be low quality.

[ronacc]

shutdown button gone, move window close button to top left instead of top right , ( I hate accidently closing something I ment to minimise) , change wallpaper, customise fonts, panels autohide and 100% transparent , different background for root nautilus ,customise menus, change default apps (open with) to my preferences.

[smartboyathome]

Install splashy and get rid of Usplash (I just did it, it looks super good!). Also, change the whole theme according to what month it is.

[ronacc]

you mean 1 theme lasts a whole month ?

[syxbit]

sudo apt-get remove evolution

[smartboyathome]

you mean 1 theme lasts a whole month ?

Pretty much. I usually go by season, so October is Halloween, September is Fall, and November will probably be thanksgiving.

[Depressed Man]

Usually my first change is always to merge the bottom panel with the top, make the bottom panel my shortcut launcher and autohide it.

[ronacc]

Pretty much. I usually go by season, so October is Halloween, September is Fall, and November will probably be thanksgiving.

sometimes mine don't last a whole session . I had ADD before they knew what it was.

[w7kmc]

Usually, I have been using kubuntu, but I may try a vanilla ubuntu install this time around. Perhaps maybe try the studio ubuntu themes...

First thing: Change the background.

Auto-hide the lower panel...make it bigger (my eyesight going) and shrink it to 50%....put all the application buttons I use on the lower panel and lock 'em in place.

[chrism66]

2.6.22 Kernels!

[CalcProgrammer1]

First things I did in my working Gutsy install (my desktop, my laptop died during update) was install fglrx and Xgl for my Radeon X1k card. Then I installed the compiz fusion plugins and the compiz GUI and Emerald, then a Vista-ish Emerald theme and the Linsta GNOME style. Then I added a system monitor applet onto my top menu bar and set it to show everything and update every 50ms (I like seeing how much my computer is doing).

[monoufo]

i used to get rid of the top panel, merge it into the bottom. Sometimes, i made two bottoms, that was odd. Now however, I discovered avant window navigator, so i have no gnome panels, AWN does it all. I have it all themed out like OSX.

[TheMono]

I love having two panels - I actually use three (or, at least, kickers in the kase of kubuntu). One on the top and bottom of my left screen, autohiding, and one on the top of the right screen autohiding. The bottom panel has the systray and launchers, the two top panels just have the window list for the respective screen.

[temcat]

I change desktop theme (to Mist), GDM theme (to Avio-GDM), font settings, desktop background. And install quick-lounge-applet for easier panel launcher handling.

[infinito]

I didn't really mean what you'd install - I sort of meant layout etc

I usually make my icons large instead of normal through gconf-editor

How do you change icons size on gconf-editor?

[desertboy]

Like most people I've got rid of the the top panel and amalgamated everything I need to the bottom panel.

How do I change the applications/place/system names I want them to be called apps/places/sys?

I've also turned scale on and set it to the top left corner and loads of other little features in compiz.

[mostwanted]

I always remove the extra bloat (i.e. the shutddown button). In Gutsy I will also (re)move the incredibly misplaced Deskbar icon.

[Spr0k3t]

1. Remove the bottom panel
1a. Remove the notification area
1b. Remove the window list from the panel
1c. Remove extra launchers
1d. Remove visible viewport switcher
2. Change the desktop background
3. Change the Human/Tangerine to Clearlooks/Tango
4. Add in my own custom icons overwriting some of the Tango set
5. Get twinview working with Compiz
5a. Remove wobbly windows
6. Add in AWN from SVN
7. Change the fonts to Deja Sans
8. Change the font rendering to Subpixel (LCDs) with full hinting
9. Start ripping out menu options I never touch
10. Modify the terminal to green on black with 70% opaque
11. Install standard software

The results is a very minimalistic approach similar to what OS9 or XFCE looks like. I created my own emerald theme to go along with the elephant background. It gives a nice blue contrast to the "elephant brown".

PEBKAC: I almost forgot. I also remove MONO and anything associated to it. One of these days I'm going to find a way to block the installation of MONO from the repos.

[firstc624]

can you run awn under kde? it is telling me to install gnome common modules. will that mess kde up?

[Spr0k3t]

You can use it under KDE without any problems. However, you will need some gnome libs for it to work correctly though.

[tolremeno]

Ok, I give. How do you shrink panels and change their opacity?

[plun]

1. Remove lower panel

2. Install Avant-Window-Navigator

3. Shrink upper panel to a minimum

4. Install C-F from GIT, using C-F with full potential.

5. Install Screenlets

6. Patch Nautilus and Eel to use different wallpapers with C-Fs wallpaper plugin

:)

[peebly]

First thing

Uninstall tracker, why would I want my computer to record almost everything I did and use up system resources at the same time, sounds like M$ thing.

Remove User switcher applet, Don't want my name displayed on task bar and I am the only user anyway.

Also remove tomboy, what is it for.

Then to sessions and un-tick evolution alarm notifier, I hate evolution.

Turn-up volume.

Start installing applications.

The 1st thing I do when I start Firefox is delete the BBC bookmark which downloads the news.

[adamorjames]

Well... I have 3 panels, a different theme(metacity, gtk, icons) and lots of other different stuff. So, I like everything to be what I choose unless the default looks better than what I can do. You can see what mine looks like on gnome-look, same username... or I could put up a link if anyone wants. The one on gnome-look is pretty close to what I still have. Also, the reason i may change things so much is I am an artist.

[KStorm]

I usually add a GNOME Terminal launch icon on the panel next to the Firefox, Evolution, and Help icons, and on the other side, I add the weather applet and change the clock configuration to show seconds. Other than that, I usually leave things as is in GNOME; I like to install the KDE desktop, too, and I'll change a lot more on that.

[snake444]

i always install the vista theme when i install ubuntu.. never used vista but i like the theme
maybe you should add it to the themes that comes installed already

[leksdraven]

With 7.04, I have to adjust so many preferences that I cannot list them all here. However, the first thing that I do after everything is up and running: delete the bottom panel and add a new one. Then, delete the top panel. Now, I can start adding applets to the new bottom panel.

Ubuntu Menu Button : Window List : Tray : Volume : Clock : Search

This may sound control-freakish but...hmm...I got nothing. To be honest, if this was the default layout for Ubuntu, I would change none of it.

:guitar:

[farueulogy]

i always install the vista theme when i install ubuntu.. never used vista but i like the theme
maybe you should add it to the themes that comes installed already
can't be done - m$oft own it.

[Dyus36]

I have 2 screens with separate XServers
so i changed the top bar to not expand and then centered it on the top, removed the logout buttons and added a "Run" plugin, on the bottom i removed everything except for the window manager plugin
once i get compiz working il re enable AWN and replace the bottom gnome bar. then i finished it up with the dark theme included in gnome. i dont really plan to do much more until compiz is working, then il go nuts, just like when i had beryl

[adamorjames]

Well... I have 3 panels, a different theme(metacity, gtk, icons) and lots of other different stuff. So, I like everything to be what I choose unless the default looks better than what I can do. You can see what mine looks like on gnome-look, same username... or I could put up a link if anyone wants. The one on gnome-look is pretty close to what I still have. Also, the reason i may change things so much is I am an artist.

I was talking about how my Feisty is and how my Gutsy will most likely be. Just wanted to make that clear. :)

[jingo811]

....You can see what mine looks like on gnome-look, same username... or I could put up a link if anyone wants. The one on gnome-look is pretty close to what I still have. Also, the reason i may change things so much is I am an artist.

I couldn't find gnome-look so give me a link please.

[adamorjames]

I couldn't find gnome-look so give me a link please.
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Milk+flat+-+darker+blue?content=64535 :)

[Frak]

I installed Restricted drivers so I could use Compiz-Fusion :D

[greymongrey]

The first thing I do is to change the colors. I am not a fan of the brown and orange.

[ravenon]

I change alot of things; sometimes by mood. Check it out.

[adamorjames]

I change alot of things; sometimes by mood. Check it out.

I like :) Awesome colors.

[ryno519]

I'm going to (already have :P) get rid of that archaic taskbar. Compiz has about 50 ways for you to quickly get to a window, so I find the taskbar a lot less appealing then the 3D alternatives like Scale or Ring Switcher.

Plus, I'll make everything green. :)

[walkerk]

the WM was the first to go. Replaced with OB :D

[AgentZ86]

fix the make link so that you can make link to network shares / samba shares etc.

[Sunflower1970]

Switch over to the ubuntu studio theme, and make my terminal transparent.

Install VLC, SMPlayer, Amarok, k3b, & Frozen-Bubble..well that's all I can remember :P

[volanin]

I have gutsy and i have got rid of the bottom panel and shrunk the top to 15. I'm on a 1280x800 laptop so i need the space :) The next laptop i get i will get a big 17" screen because i can't stand these widescreens.

How do you do that?
When I select properties and try to shrink it, the lowest I can go is 22 to 24 (depending on the theme).

[tolremeno]

How do you do that?
When I select properties and try to shrink it, the lowest I can go is 22 to 24 (depending on the theme).
I'm wondering this, too.

Anybody?

[ronacc]

if you select autohide each panel only takes 3 or 4 pixels at the top and or bottom for its activation area unless your mouse is actualy in that area and the panel un hides you have very nearly the full screen height for windows.

[AlanR8]

Kubuntu user here!

Dolphin as a file manager. In the bin. Konqueror is far superior

[smartboyathome]

if you select autohide each panel only takes 3 or 4 pixels at the top and or bottom for its activation area unless your mouse is actualy in that area and the panel un hides you have very nearly the full screen height for windows.

Instead of doing that, I just set my bottom panel to completely autohide.

[macogw]

Well I upgraded so my stuff's already set, but no bottom panel and change the panel background. I also set my stuff to use "proper" Ubuntu colors.

[Kow]

I want to delete this but I'm not sure how.

[sawjew]

The very first thing that I always do is to get rid of stupid double-clicking and switch it to single-click.

Ditto

[jackmc]

I think the first thing i did was enable extra effects :)

Also, Now I have no panels (thanks to compiz widget layer) unless I need one - see pics.

First one is my desktop, second one is my widget layer - I'm looking forward to compiz being a bit more stable, then i won't need my metacity/compiz shortcuts.

I use AWN (cant see it in the pics though - autohide) with launchers for stuff I use.

Also I'm using the oxygen-refit icons - the repo version.

I guess you could say i like minimalistic design :)

[LuisC-SM]

Desktop, window and icon theme

[sneax]

I use Ubuntu (gnome) first I do is put my favourite wallpaper and turn on about 70% opacity for the panels. I also change the metacity theme to something blue (clearlooks default).

I hate the brown it looks so much better when using a nice picture as background with half transparant panels.

[farueulogy]

I change alot of things; sometimes by mood. Check it out.

red on gray is scary - but nice wallpaper

[farueulogy]

Here's a screen shot:
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd217/albertysrael/Screenshot.png

[chrismine]

Merge the bottom panel with the top one.:)
Merge the top panel with the bottom one :lolflag:

[farueulogy]

Merge the top panel with the bottom one :lolflag:

all you "mergers" are crazy. fair play if you use AWN or similar - but it's just wrong to make things so compressed at one side!

[Onyros]

I upgraded, so there's not that much that I had to change (other than restructure the GNOME Menu and reinstall my customized Fluxbox theme).

I almost immediately got rid of Tracker. For me, it's totally unnecessary. Also got rid of other stuff that came by default with Gutsy after the upgrade, and I must admit: memory usage seems much more under control, not as many memory leaks here and there...

It's looking good... too bad about some choices for default, but I understand the logic for the regular user.

I like to control what I run... and that's why I love Arch. But Gutsy is lining up as the best Ubuntu release yet, as long as it doesn't drag too much on the performance side of things.

[Frak]

Here's a screen shot:
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd217/albertysrael/Screenshot.png
Tell me your icon theme and background image :)

[cbsim]

The first thing that I am going to change is the theme, follow by icon and wallpaper :)

[Ripfox]

I didn't really mean what you'd install - I sort of meant layout etc

I usually make my icons large instead of normal through gconf-editor

Where in gfconf do you do that?

[Ripfox]

Bump...heheheheheh

[adamorjames]

@ ripfox: I see you're ready for Halloween :)
I too want to know where in gconf-editor you do the icon size.... BUMP

[Massive Brain]

xorg.conf

Every ******* time I install Linux I have to hack xorg.conf to bring down the resolution to something sensible from the greatest my monitor can possibly produce at a head exploding 60 Hz.

Then I have to hack it again to use the back button on my mouse. That involves using a mouse driver for an old different mouse, add more buttons and try to remap them to this particular Logitech mouse.

Why are these steps needed? No one cares or is the Linux kernel not capable?

[bimmerd00d]

xorg.conf

Every ******* time I install Linux I have to hack xorg.conf to bring down the resolution to something sensible from the greatest my monitor can possibly produce at a head exploding 60 Hz.

Then I have to hack it again to use the back button on my mouse. That involves using a mouse driver for an old different mouse, add more buttons and try to remap them to this particular Logitech mouse.

Why are these steps needed? No one cares or is the Linux kernel not capable?

Why not use BTNX and make it easier?

[Frak]

xorg.conf

Every ******* time I install Linux I have to hack xorg.conf to bring down the resolution to something sensible from the greatest my monitor can possibly produce at a head exploding 60 Hz.

Then I have to hack it again to use the back button on my mouse. That involves using a mouse driver for an old different mouse, add more buttons and try to remap them to this particular Logitech mouse.

Why are these steps needed? No one cares or is the Linux kernel not capable?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=455656

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

And that is something to do wth Xorg, not the Kernel.

[aamukahvi]

Ok here's my desktop.

p.s. If anyone knows how I can change the decorator without the notification icon, let's hear it... I won't compile it and didn't find anything in gconf ...

[drbob07]

Apperance wise
-Turning on Compiz fusion and making it useful
-Changing the theme to something, blue... :)

Program-wise:
I will be adding desklets to all the tool bars, and installing my "essential" programs (WINE / All my windows games (that work in WINE)), and getting codecs set up so I can listen to those pesky .m4a files Apple liked to rip my music in.

[6205]

That would be a very long list :-) but default artwork is excellent and therefore i allways add/remove only various applications. First one get kicked off Rhythmbox in flavor of Banshee, Evolution (+ million depencies) in flavor of Thunderbird, Totem Xine replaces Totem Gstreamer, Mplayer NoGui + Firefox plugin, for burning GnomeBaker...Yeah and Tracker will be removed too because i hate desktop search :-) and the list goes on....

[Ripfox]

yea i find desktop search worthless

[abovett]

Change the default file manager back to Konqueror - Dolphin is _way_ too limiting. Maybe it'll improve in time but at present it's missing most of the features that make Konqueror the best file manager I've used on any platform to date. Maybe there's a place for it, but IMHO power users need a lot more than this. Fortunately it seems easy to change the default to Konqueror

Andy.

[Frak]

Change the default file manager back to Konqueror - Dolphin is _way_ too limiting. Maybe it'll improve in time but at present it's missing most of the features that make Konqueror the best file manager I've used on any platform to date. Maybe there's a place for it, but IMHO power users need a lot more than this. Fortunately it seems easy to change the default to Konqueror

Andy.
Yet the Target market are novice users, not power users. The easiest, most visually pleasing applications stay, while others like Konqueror (not touting it, I swear, its a very versitile FM) don't appeal to new users as much. It's "too confusing" to use.

@ripfox
I agree, DS is totally useless, and buggy.
I made a Gutsy package of Tracker somewhere that worked fine on Gutsy, but the default one is kinda messed up.

[Nakkis]

Change the theme.

[RevolutionMaster]

sudo apt-get install gdesklets
then the light dock

Light dock?

[adamorjames]

Light dock?
ooh? maybe this? http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/
if u want a light dock, try adesklets

[joelito]

No minimize or maximize buttons on windows.
Double click title bar set to shade instead of maximize.
Pager on top panel, remove bottom panel.
Glossy theme with a new walpaper.

[hbayar_morph]

1st put put terminal icon on the task panel and then change wallpaper^^, firefox homepage to google ... a loadz changes ^^

[KillerKiwi]

- remove volume control
- Panels to transparent
- wallpaper
- AWN
- Install banshee (I know its almost identical to rythmbox :) )
- Install tremulous for stress relief

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8854/screenshotla3.png

[adamorjames]

@ KillerKiwi: Yes another person who likes Banshee! Nice changes.

[Overbyte]

I'll Lightscribe the CD I used to burn the ISO. :lolflag:
(okay, so it's not the OS itself!)

Then...


Remove wallpaper
Remove bottom panel
Fire up the pretty effects
Remove shutdown button
Replace Menu Bar with the little Ubuntu button that opens a KDE style menu.
Put launchers to Terminal EVERYWHERE (yeah I mean in the desktop, panel, probably a keyboard shortcut if I knew how ^_^)
Copy-paste my sources list from the old one
Run a large list of apt-gets from a shell script (I don't know why I don't use Synaptic ^_^)
Sleep

[michael003]

Change keyboard layout to Dvorak ;-)

[oasick]

In the DESKTOP:

- Remove the down bar and install AWN
- Change the default (ugly and bored) theme, wallpaper, icons, gdm theme, splash session...
- sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox
- sudo apt-get install exaile
- sudo apt-get install blender

In the LAPTOP:

- Change the default (ugly and bored) theme, wallpaper, icons, gdm theme, splash session...
- sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox
- sudo apt-get install exaile
- sudo apt-get install adesklets (cpu, clock ...)

[fut21]

New theme and wallpaper. This is my favorith:
http://www.linuxin.dk/eyecandy/4545_2.jpg

[mech7]

Theme :popcorn:

[Azrael Nightwalker]

1) Install wajig - better than plain apt and aptitude
2) install sensors-applet
3) put sensors, temperature, and CPU speed applets on top panel
4) put weather applet on top panel
5) shrink fast-user-switcher applet to an icon only
6) put window list button on bottom panel
7) install thunderbird
8) install gajim
9) install ubuntu-restricted-extras
10) set up medibuntu repo, install codecs
11) install additional themes, icons, wallpapers, etc and set up a new look (currently I'm using: one of Ubuntu studio wallpapers, glossy gtk and metacity theme, dropline neu icons, crystalblue cursors); also set up a gdm theme
12) edit nautilus preferences to show file permissions under each file icon
13) set up a background tile for nautilus
14) set up browser mode for nautilus
15) install gnome-vfs-obexftp (for browsing my mobile phone in nautilus) and sshfs
16) set up .bashrc and .inputrc according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Spec/EnhancedBash
17) install exaile
18) run menu editor and clean up preferences menu a little (who needs all this java, palmos and other crap there?)
19) install qt3 config, polymer theme and set it up for qt along with a better font (sans serif 9 pt)
20) set up dejavu fonts for gnome
21) install amule, deluge and skype
22) install gnome baker (or brasero)
23) install wine
24) install preferences hide and seek ( http://hideseek.sourceforge.net/ ) and hide drive icons on desktop with it
25) remove 'quiet' option from grub
26) set up some extensions for firefox and thunderbird
27) enable laptop mode
That's all :]

[Azrael Nightwalker]

Put launchers to Terminal EVERYWHERE (yeah I mean in the desktop, panel, probably a keyboard shortcut if I knew how ^_^)
[/list]
Go to System / Preferences / Keyboard shortcuts

[r76]

- remove volume control
- Panels to transparent
- wallpaper
- AWN


KillerKiwi, that's beautiful - which wallpaper are you using? And how do you make the panel dark (with white text)?

For the record, the first thing I'm going to change is NOTHING! I do a complete backup of the fresh install with partimage so I can restore in a few minutes if I mess something up. Then I get to work...

[troy1of2]

The first thing I'm going to do is get rid of that confounded brown screen in between the login screen and desktop. AGAIN!

[Anthony M]

The first thing I'm going to do is get rid of that confounded brown screen in between the login screen and desktop. AGAIN!

How do you do that?

[Frak]

9) install ubuntu-restricted-extras
10) set up medibuntu repo, install codecs

Those now contradict each other, because there is no medibuntu repo for Gutsy. ubuntu-restricted-extras includes that now.

[troy1of2]

How do you do that?

A quick fix is to edit the hardcoded BACKCOLOR in

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default

Look for #dab082 (or BACKCOLOR=) near the bottom and change the 6 hex digits to the hex representation of the color you like. for example #ffffff for white.

But this is by no means the official way to do it. The fact that it's still there even after changing it in System>Preferences>Appearance>Background is a known bug with Gutsy I'm told.

[KillerKiwi]

KillerKiwi, that's beautiful - which wallpaper are you using? And how do you make the panel dark (with white text)?

For the record, the first thing I'm going to change is NOTHING! I do a complete backup of the fresh install with partimage so I can restore in a few minutes if I mess something up. Then I get to work...

For backgrounds https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Gutsy?highlight=%28art%29%7C%28gutsy%29

Panel colors changed with a .gtkrc-2.0 file in ~

style "panel"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
# fg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000″
# fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"
# fg[SELECTED] = "#000000″
# fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#8A857C"
# bg[NORMAL] = "#000000″
# bg[PRELIGHT] = "#dfdfdf"
# bg[ACTIVE] = "#D0D0D0″
# bg[SELECTED] = "#D8BB75″
# bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#EFEFEF"
# base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
# base[PRELIGHT] = "#EFEFEF"
# base[ACTIVE] = "#D0D0D0″
# base[SELECTED] = "#DAB566″
# base[INSENSITIVE] = "#E8E8E8″
# text[NORMAL] = "#161616″
# text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000″
# text[ACTIVE] = "#000000″
# text[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
# text[INSENSITIVE] = "#8A857C"
}
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "panel"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "panel"
class "*Panel*" style "panel"
widget_class "*Mail*" style "panel"
class "*notif*" style "panel"
class "*Notif*" style "panel"
class "*Tray*" style "panel"
class "*tray*" style "panel"

The is a UI for this some where.....

[Chymera]

change that background!

[jerrylamos]

This post could be related to an Ubuntu bug filed at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/149869 . ---------------------------- . .
Answer: back level to Tribe 5.

Network Manager worked fine for me at that level on this PC. On Beta Kubuntu and Release Candidate Kubuntu, can't get internet at all "no active connection". Tribe 5 works fine.

On Beta Ubuntu the network manager boots up saying no network connection. Manually elect the icon, select wired connectin, and wait. After a while it comes up. On Release Candidate, both Ubuntu and Xubuntu require manual intervention and waiting. This doesn't work at all on 7.10 candidate Kubuntu.

And yes there's a launchpad bug entry with documentation.

So the first thing I changed on Ubuntu 7.10 was to back level to Tribe 5.

Jerry

[adamorjames]

New theme and wallpaper. This is my favorith:
http://www.linuxin.dk/eyecandy/4545_2.jpg

Can you give the details?

[fut21]

Can you give the details?

Darkcaramel theme here:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DarkCaramel?content=65652
and clearlooks icons here:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ClearlooksOSX?content=56759

[fut21]

Can you give the details?

And wallpapers here:
http://cichlidae.com/wallpapers/default.php

if you like tank fish.

[Sov]

1 - Change the brown background with a better one, I use the gnome 2.20 default gnome-default.jpg

2 - Substitute the shutdown button on upper right corner with windows selector applet

3 - Remove fast user swithcing applet (I'm the only one using my laptop! :-))

4 - Add tomboy

5 - Remove trashcan from panel and activate it on desktop "gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible/apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible true"

6 - add multiload applet with CPU, swap and network monitors

7 - add force quit button

8 - install my orange version of human theme (much better than brown and more like theme icons) http://www.cortassa.net/files/Human-Orange.tgz

[gradedcheese]

Ugh, pretty similar to previous releases, with the addition of more things that need to go away:


get rid of the 'shutdown' button
make the top panel transparent :)
uninstall tracker/beagle and deskbar :mad:
change the background to a lighter one
remove the fast user switcher
remove the icons for Evolution, help, etc and add Terminal and minicom launchers
uninstall brltty so that my USB/serial ports work
make my shell bash
make my vim be the proper vim-full
configure avahi services
install ssh server
install the rest of the toolchain and other tools

[peebly]

Ugh, pretty similar to previous releases, with the addition of more things that need to go away:


get rid of the 'shutdown' button
make the top panel transparent :)
uninstall tracker/beagle and deskbar :mad:
change the background to a lighter one
remove the fast user switcher
remove the icons for Evolution, help, etc and add Terminal and minicom launchers
uninstall brltty so that my USB/serial ports work
make my shell bash
make my vim be the proper vim-full
configure avahi services
install ssh server
install the rest of the toolchain and other tools


You can actually uninstall Evolution now without having to remove Ubuntu desktop etc.

Just found out today.

[Frak]

You can actually uninstall Evolution now without having to remove Ubuntu desktop etc.

Just found out today.
Even if you remove ubuntu-desktop, it only removes the metapackage wrapper, because that metapackage depends on Evolution. It only removes a 14KB package, nothing major.

[Baby Boy]

New theme and wallpaper. This is my favorith:
http://www.linuxin.dk/eyecandy/4545_2.jpg
Yikes! You'll turn it into Vista :-&.

[Frak]

Yikes! You'll turn it into Vista :-&.
Looks like OS X to me.

[adamorjames]

Looks like OS X to me.

Looks like awesome to me.

[Frak]

Looks like awesome to me.
I won't disagree :)

[fut21]

Yikes! You'll turn it into Vista :-&.


Vista?????? whats that?

[adamorjames]

Vista?????? whats that?

I seen'd it with mine own eyes! It was this big, fat blackish ogre of a thing... with lots of makeup! I ran'd outta there so fast :O

[Frak]

I seen'd it with mine own eyes! It was this big, fat blackish ogre of a thing... with lots of makeup! I ran'd outta there so fast :O
And then'd crashd into the wallz.

[Boaslad]

aren't y'all getting off the topic a bit here? LMAO

first things first..
1. The wallpaper must go. Flames any one?
2. I like the red and brown thing.. But I am more of a Chrome and Black kind of guy.
3. Then the main menu is getting swapped out. Don't get me wrong. I like the Ubuntu menu. But I have my own ideas of how an OS menu should look. I don't have a screen shot for ya though. just think.."minimalist"
4. The Shut down button and the trash bin are trading places.
5. Then I am adding 2 more workspaces... or 3...?

oh and on that other subject.. the one about the black skin with the ugly fish behind it? Some ones been fishing in Mr. Bills pond again... get me a bucket.:-&

[vishzilla]

change the theme, wallpaper.

add some of the useful panel applets

[Hairy_Palms]

open up /etc/fstab and replace the UUID's with the device names
(UUID causes untold problems for me always)

[Caboose01]

got to agree with marco123 and Billy_McBong.

Only been using Ubuntu for 2 days now and as soon as i figured out how to, i merged the two panels.

[farueulogy]

Tell me your icon theme and background image :)

Icon theme? It's default apart from the pidgin icon which is a modded one off gnome-look.org.

Hopefully I've attached all of them.

[farueulogy]

Change keyboard layout to Dvorak ;-)
dvorak is hardcore nerd - niiice

[PippoFranco]

Disable IPv6 of Firefox setup in the live CD

PippoFranco

[r-mo]

First configure panels, I add window list to the top panel, remove user switcher and remove the bottom panel.

Second sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager and play with the settings :)

[Frak]

Icon theme? It's default apart from the pidgin icon which is a modded one off gnome-look.org.

Hopefully I've attached all of them.
Thanks :)

[farueulogy]

Thanks :)

That's cool. That wallpaper really should be a default for ubuntu releases.

[odiseo77]

The things I'll change first are the Gnome theme and the icon set to look something like this:

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2645/istantaneabp5.th.jpg (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=istantaneabp5.jpg)

then I'll install gdesklets and probably activate compiz-fusion and start playing with it :)

[farueulogy]

The things I'll change first are the Gnome theme and the icon set to look something like this:

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2645/istantaneabp5.th.jpg (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=istantaneabp5.jpg)

then I'll install gdesklets and probably activate compiz-fusion and start playing with it :)

Bit messy :( - Compiz-fusion newb question - will it use beryl themes?

[Azrael Nightwalker]

Those now contradict each other, because there is no medibuntu repo for Gutsy. ubuntu-restricted-extras includes that now.

Oh really? :>
azrael@azrael-laptop:~/MyStuff/Download$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list |grep medi
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free

It's not mentioned on their site, but it works.
"I guess I'm smarter than an average bear" (c) Yogi Bear

azrael@azrael-laptop:~/MyStuff/Download$ wajig show ubuntu-restricted-extras
Package: ubuntu-restricted-extras
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/metapackages
Installed-Size: 32
Maintainer: Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 10
Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse, msttcorefonts, flashplugin-nonfree, sun-java6-plugin, unrar, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, liblame0, libdvdread3

I don't see w32codecs and libdvdcss2 here.

[Frak]

I don't see w32codecs and libdvdcss2 here.

Except for those. :P

Seriously forgot about those two. I didn't think they were going to release a Gutsy repo, but I guess otherwise.

[jocheem67]

First thing I need to do , is make all my harddisks mounted and visible on my desktop....
There's three of them, I have to unplug one when installing ubuntu. Later on I can connect the thing and do the fstab-trick....it's of course a grub thingie, and I really hate that piece of software. It always messes up...what I'm doing now is not really elegant, but it works for me..

Further on I replace totem-gstreamer with totem-xine.

To be honest, I don't really play around with themes and stuff. I like the way it is by default. Plain and simple...

[benjerman]

New theme and wallpaper. This is my favorith:
http://www.linuxin.dk/eyecandy/4545_2.jpg


This looks awesome. What is the name of this theme and where did you get it?

[anandanbu]

Change the visual effects from 'Normal' to 'Extra' ;)

[mlan]

Merge the 2 panels, change the the background, then get rid of Usplash.

[balthamaisteri]

ill arrange those panels, make them little transparent and change wallpaper. I'll have to change fonts a little bit smaller too :P

[marco123]

Focus follows mouse and raises windows after 1 second.:) Can't live without that anymore.

[fut21]

This looks awesome. What is the name of this theme and where did you get it?

Take a look at my answer here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=568843&page=12

[Nikos.Alexandris]

Question for Paul820: how did you manage to reduce the top panel to 15? I only can shrink to 23 (?). Have the fonts to do with it?

[Martje_001]

Question for Paul820: how did you manage to reduce the top panel to 15? I only can shrink to 23 (?). Have the fonts to do with it?
If think it's a gconf-hack. Search for your current number in 'gconf-editor'

[Tlon]

Xubuntu:

Get rid of the dock / start menu panel. Get rid of all of the icons. Enable show icon-list with right-click. Set key-bindings for Thunar and a terminal. Disable auto-play for CD / DVD's. Set wallpaper to poll randomly from my wallpaper folder.

[farueulogy]

I recently tried to install RC1[7.10] and it did not like my dell inspiron 9300 :(

Anyways - I slammed 7.04 back on (I did partition at first but on my second attempt I went crazy and said 'use the whole disk, just work!'. It didn't. Probably CD fault. This means I lost all my customization and I've not bothered to put it back yet.

However - I've given my Firefox a bit of a different look by relying totally on Google tool bar. It gives a nice minimal look/use - See screenshot.

Thoughts?

[Druke]

already running rc, first thing i did was go in and start using ubuntu's new extension manager for firefox :)

[farueulogy]

So today is the day for the final release - I wish all of those who haven't yet got stuck into 7.10 to have fun customizing it.

:-({|=

[neymac]

oops!

[Demz]

if i were to be running any saught of Ubuntu distro my first change would be its Theme then the wallpaper,

im still yet to try out Gutsy

[frenchcr]

my underwear...its too exciting