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    Talking What tweaks have you used on your Ubuntu box?

    What tweaks have you used on your Ubuntu box? Software wise... For example, setting vm.swappiness to 0 or 60. Any tweak that optimizes your experience with Ubuntu. The reason why I am asking this is because I just want to know what tweaks people use to make his/her box "perform" better, faster.
    Slow Ubuntu compared to Windows or Mac OSX, despite all the tweaking? You might have an NVidia graphics card. Read this post.
    Tweak your Ubuntu!

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    Re: What tweaks have you used on your Ubuntu box?

    My optimizations are here and here.

    My current top results:



    My browser benchmarks improvements along this month:

    Last edited by lovinglinux; June 23rd, 2009 at 03:28 PM.

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    Re: What tweaks have you used on your Ubuntu box?

    Making drives NOT show up on the desktop
    Yes -open a terminal and type

    Code:
    gconf-editor
    go apps->nautilus->desktop and uncheck "volumes_visible"
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    And I have done just about all of the tweaks here
    http://forumubuntusoftware.info/view...63c45d986485bb

    It's for Gutsy but they work fine on ultimate edition 2.0 which is the same as ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
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    Making the menu faster. In the home folder open a terminal and use
    Code:
    sudo gedit .gtkrc-2.0
    add the line
    gtk-menu-popup-delay = 40
    lower number = faster menu
    save and close. Restart (reboot) to apply

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    Loading menu icons faster

    The key is to get the icons cached in memory at startup.

    Change the 'Human' to whatever theme you're using.
    Nope, that latter code is shell code that must be executed by a shell interpreter such as 'sh'. The .gtkrc-file is parsed by gtk in a special way, and shell commands cannot be used in there.

    What you can do is create a script for this:

    Code:
    echo "find /usr/share/pixmaps/ | xargs cat > /dev/null" >> ~/mystart
    echo "find /usr/share/icons/Human/ | xargs cat > /dev/null" >> ~/mystart
    chmod +x ~/mystart
    Then add it as startup to gnome (System -> Settings -> Sessions -> Add, and write "~/mystart")

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    Re: What tweaks have you used on your Ubuntu box?

    Today's updates boosted my performance. Check this thread.

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