How to make Ubuntu 10.04 faster

On May 12, 2010, in Ubuntu, by dipinkrishna

. Is your system upto the 10 sec boot time all talk about? In my earlier post I said about speeding up your boot time with profiling. This is a post combining all of the things I have done to make my system faster. Here are the things I have done.

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How to install Docky in Ubuntu 10.04 (PPA)

On May 10, 2010, in General, by dipinkrishna

  Docky is a full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker. Docky is fully integrated into the GNOME Desktop and features a no non-sense approach to configuration and usage. Some of Docky’s amazing features include themes, plugins, 4 different hiding modes, advanced indicators, zeitgeist integration, and window [...]

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How to disable shutdown notification in Ubuntu 10.04

On May 6, 2010, in Uncategorized, by dipinkrishna

After considerable searching, head-scratching and digging, I finally found that it is accessible via a Gnome configuration setting.  There are two ways to do it one by terminal and the other by gconf editor Method 1: Simply enter the command below in your terminal window sudo gconftool-2 -s ‘/apps/indicator-session/suppress_logout_restart_shutdown’ –type bool true Method 2:  Press [...]

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How to install multimedia and nonfree codecs in Ubuntu 10.04

On May 4, 2010, in Uncategorized, by dipinkrishna

Ubuntu aren’t allowed by law to ship certain multimedia codec’s out of the box. But you can install them pretty easy Open terminal and issue command: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras The Ubuntu Restricted Extras will install Adobe Flash Player, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (sun-java-jre) with Firefox plug-ins (icedtea), a set of Microsoft Fonts (msttcorefonts), multimedia [...]

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