Gnome

This is my own self-indulgant reminder for how to do the things I like. I’ll keep adding to this as I think of them. Basic Setup Install Ubuntu Latest (currently 11.10), With the third party libraries and a home partition leaving at least 20GB for ‘/’. Then Update everything, during which time you can plod along to download the relevant packages for Chrome Beta, Dropbox, etc Once the update is done (I’d restart in most cases), additional packages I like to add are; ...

Unity Sucks, and I don’t like it. I prefer a combination of Avant Window Navigator, tilda, and Gnome-Do, to go from this ** to this ** Now, I haven’t kept track of all of the changes I’ve made to my configuration files, so YMMV, but gnome-do and Avant have remarkably good GUI configuration tools, so customise to your hearts content! Get rid of Unity sudo apt-get remove unity unity-asset-pool unity-place-applications unity-place-applications ...