For questions concerning themes, desktops and icon sets as well as less graphical customization on a system level.
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How to customize live Ubuntu CD?
I would like to customize Ubuntu live CD by installing some additional packages. I have followed this link but it doesn't seems to work. Can anyone provide clear instructions? Thanks in advance!
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2answers
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Conky Guides (links)
I want to take a stab at creating my own layouts for conky, but I'm having trouble finding any recent guides.
If you know of any, I would be grateful if you could post some links.
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2answers
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Creating .desktop files to use on the “Open with other application” tab
I am looking for the specs necessary to build a .desktop file to be used in Ubuntu 11.10.
Many terminal applications or even GUI application do not show on Open with other application tab anymore and ...
9
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4answers
3k views
How to customize the context menu in Nautilus?
From time to time I come to ideas of actions I'd like to have available in a menu which pops up when I right-click on files in Nautilus. How to add them there? Is there something like Thunar UCA ...
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6answers
90k views
How to customize the gnome classic panel
First the picture:
As you can see in the image, the colors used for the icons and the words Applications and Places (In spanish in this case) have a different background dark gray color than the ...
14
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0answers
729 views
How do I make my own customized Ubuntu version? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to customize live Ubuntu CD?
Is there any GUI tool for that?
10
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1answer
3k views
Will Unity be more customizable?
Will unity be more customizable and easier to use in later Ubuntu releases, and perhaps include more features?
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3answers
4k views
How can I customize the Ubuntu boot up logo?
I am making a custom distribution, and have a question about the Ubuntu Logo with 5 dots displayed when booting up.
The Ubuntu-Logo-Script in the /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntutext folder has the word ...
9
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3answers
3k views
How do I theme the Nautilus background image?
I want to change the background image in the Nautilus file browser. My idea is to put my own style in the background. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and Nautilus is version 3.
I know that I have to change ...
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5answers
9k views
How to change the purple background color in grub?
How to do this manually, not installing any tools?
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3answers
6k views
Installing ubuntu desktop without all the bloat
I am thinking of installing Ubuntu Server then from there install a desktop environment. Then I think ubuntu-desktop will not just include the desktop but other bloat too? How can I just get the GUI, ...
5
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2answers
4k views
How do I change the start up sound?
How do i change the start up background music in Ubuntu and can i add any customized music for startup? What are the various ways of setting this?
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2answers
2k views
How to make a custom boot-up splash animation
I just found some cool boot-up video and audio file, and I want to make a custom boot-up animation in Ubuntu 11.04. Any suggestions?
2
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1answer
245 views
Adding a Wine (.exe) file to open/play files in Thunar's 'Custom Actions'
What is the line parameter in Thunar's "custom actions" that would play a music directory in a Wine (.exe) program?
I want to put Foobar2000 (and possibly other such applications) in Thunar's Custom ...
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4answers
6k views
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2answers
1k views
How do I stop Unity from remembering search history?
Is it possible to stop Unity from remembering the past search history? If I search for "settings" and then close and reopen the unity dash, the word "settings" is still in the search bar. I want to do ...
2
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1answer
856 views
How can I change the color of the pane separator for my Ambiance theme modification?
I am currently messing around with Ambiance, trying to give Nautilus a dark sidebar (because I think it looks much better that way, especially with the current look having the dark-colored breadcrumbs ...
19
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4answers
7k views
How can I customize/disable notification bubbles?
Is there a way you can disable or customize the notification bubbles on Lucid?
6
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3answers
829 views
Creating an install of Ubuntu to clone
I work on a team with several other developers. We all have similar hardware and we all run at least the same base development software. We are wishing to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 doing a clean ...
3
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2answers
348 views
How do I hide a specific volume from the desktop, but keep all others?
I find the icons that show up when I plug a flash drive useful, as much as SD cards and devices. However, the icon to my Windows partition is useless. How can I hide it?
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3answers
6k views
How do I change the background color of the menu bar?
I'm trying to change the background color of the menu bar in Ubuntu but no luck.
My current theme is Ambiance.
I've tried to change the file named gtkrc in the Ambiance theme folder but no luck.
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3answers
2k views
how to change default launcher icons in unity for a new user?
I have customised my Unity launcher's icon list with custom launchers . Now I want the same customised launcher to appear when i create a new user. Currently the default ubuntu launcher appears when I ...
20
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4answers
9k views
How can I set an animated background?
I want an animated desktop wallpaper on Ubuntu.
For example, the animated Enlightenment background.
How does one achieve this?
12
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8answers
30k views
How to fix missing GPG keys?
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I added some repo and when apt-get update i got missing gpg key.
Following command seems to doesn't work for me:
apt-get update 2> /tmp/keymissing; for key ...
9
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3answers
327 views
How can I create a new kind of emblem?
The emblems in Nautilus don't quite fit my needs. How can I add a new one, just for my user account?
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3answers
4k views
How can I change the background color of the unity launcher?
I really dislike the slight dark-purple tint to the side-launcher bar and shell surrounding the menu after pressing the meta key. How can I set this to another color?
There are configure options ...
14
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1answer
8k views
How to change desktop background from command line in Unity?
I have a script that updates my desktop background every day with the NASA APOD. Since upgrading to 11.10, that script stopped working, presumably because I'm using gconftool-2 to actually update the ...
13
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2answers
1k views
Is it possible to add custom items to System Settings window?
For example, how to add a "Startup Applications Preferences" launcher to this Window?
5
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1answer
1k views
Editing GTK theme (adding a border)
I am using a GTK theme which I love except that it doesn't have borders around the windows. If I am on a web page (for example) with a white background and my wallpaper is white I don't know where the ...
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2answers
2k views
How can I customize a system locale?
At System → Administration → Language support → Text. I can only choose standard locales, but I would like to fine-tune. For example in Windows I could customise things like time and date format, ...
4
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1answer
619 views
How to run a custom set of programs in a specific workspace?
I use several workspaces in order to have different context for different works. Therefore, I run the same set of applications in the same workspace repeatedly. And also I run the same application in ...
5
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3answers
968 views
Is it possible to color the prompt in Bash?
Is it possible to color the prompt ("user@host:~/dir/$") in Bash? Some commands generate a lot of output and it's sometimes hard to find where it started. Coloring would help a lot.
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1answer
288 views
How can I add a custom item to the Sound Indicator (and make it clickable more than once)?
The original question
One of the strength of Unity are the various standardized indicators. I want to customize the sound indicator with an additional menu entry that runs a small shell script. ...
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3answers
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Is there a way to hide the Messaging Tray in GNOME Shell?
I find the Messaging Tray (the bottom bar) in GNOME Shell rather inconvenient. I'm looking for a way to disable it. KRSNA 2 ZED seems to have written an extension for doing just that, but I don't know ...
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2answers
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Does the CONCURRENCY=shell tweak work in 11.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do newer Ubuntu releases benefit from multicore processors at boot time?
I have a multi-core processor, so I just thought I'd make use of this tweak. But before I do ...
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3answers
5k views
Ubuntu on 256MB RAM [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to configure ubuntu for lightweight low-memory usage?
How can I reduce Ubuntu install size to the minimum, with GUI?
I was wondering if I can use Ubuntu (scale down ...
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0answers
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Build a custom Ubuntu based distribution [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make my own customized Ubuntu version?
I am working on making a custom Ubuntu 11.10 based distro.(64 bit)
I am adding non open source packages, replacing ...
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5answers
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How can I add more wallpapers?
How do I increase the amount of wallpapers that appear on the menu for customizing the desktop with my backgrounds in 11.10?
I added more images to the respective folder in /usr/share/background as ...
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3answers
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How to show ascii art at the top of the terminal when it's opened?
As you can see on this screeshot of Mik's Guake he have a statup message of ascii art when he opens it, and that's what I'd like to do, can someone help me?
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4answers
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How to get cursor click effect?
I've seen videos like this one in which a effect appears when the user made a click. What I want it's just the effect only, I don't care the colour of the cursor.
How can I make this effect when I do ...
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2answers
781 views
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1answer
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How can I make the window buttons in the panel match the window buttons in the window decorations?
When the Ambiance GTK theme is selected in Applications ▸ Appearance ▸ Customize ▸ Controls, the window buttons in the panel match the window buttons of the Ambiance Metacity theme's window ...
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1answer
2k views
How to add applications and GUI to the minimal Ubuntu?
I would like to build a custom Ubuntu from the minimal Ubuntu version. I plan to use the 11.10 version.
My question is, how to I add the basic necessary packages like networking, desktop, apt-get, ...
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1answer
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Customizing Ubuntu Mini Remix
I've been using Ubuntu for 2 years and now I want to make my own. I just decided to get the Ubuntu minimal iso for the core of my custom Distro ... but everything seems so confusing!!! could anyone ...
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4answers
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How to change the mouse pointer theme [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change mouse cursor and theme?
How can I change mouse pointer theme in Ubuntu 11.10, as in previous versions of Ubuntu?
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2answers
942 views
How to add packages to Ubuntu 11.04 Install DVD?
How can I add packages to the original Ubuntu install DVD.
I'm studing Math at university so after installing Ubuntu on my PC I downloaded math packages from the Ubuntu repositories and I try to add ...
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1answer
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Cannot see boot options after editing grub background
After solving this problem I managed to get myself into truble again out of nothing by trying to change the display of the dual boot option page in Boot Customizer.
I have changed the background, the ...
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2answers
6k views
How to change the background colour of a window?
Since 11.10 you can't change much in the appearance options, just the windows border styles but NOT the background colour like you could do it in Natty.
For some odd reason as I upgraded to 11.10, it ...
4
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1answer
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Possible to customize Terminal context (right-click) menu?
I am making the transition to Ubuntu 10.0.04 from years of Windows. It would help if the terminal could have the right-click context menu display the copy command first in the command list, instead of ...
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2answers
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How do I enlarge the mouse pointer/cursor?
In Ubuntu 10.10 I could enlarge the mouse pointer. In Ubuntu 11.04 I cannot find the option.
