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Seeing that this is a big Ubuntu community, I have never looked at someone's Ubuntu desktop and thought "that looks cool, I wish I had X. How did you do that?"

What are the must have add-ons for look and feel?

e.g conky, tilda, album art, emerald, docky etc...

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Ubuntu Tweak is bound to help you a bit. It makes basic tweaking REALLY easy.

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One trick is to look at the gconf settings for apps, such as the screensaver, nautilus, panels, etc. Often there are tweakables in there that aren't exposed in the app's preferences settings.

Run gconf-editor for a GUI interface to examine config settings, or if you prefer command-line tools use gconftool-2.

For instance, I make a script to customize a new Ubuntu install (I'm frequently installing/reinstalling and like to have the look and feel customized to my preferences automatically). I use gconftool-2 to do all these customizations. For example:

gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/session/idle_delay \
    --type int 30
gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled \
    --type Boolean FALSE
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    REMEMBER! It can be quite "dangerus" for you GUI to messup the gconf settings, so do this with care or backup your ~/.gconf folder. Aug 10, 2010 at 7:59
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For the latest Ubuntu 17.10, the GNOME Tweak Tool is a very helpful appllication to customize the desktop.

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