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The Nautilus location bar is now defaulted to button mode in order to be more user friendly. Here’s how to change it to text mode temporarily or permanently.

Here’s how to prevent Ubuntu from displaying icons on the desktop when media is mounted.

Prevent the recent history of opened documents from appearing in Gnome’s Recent Documents listing with a simple hack.

Lucid’s Radiance and Ambiance themes don’t make transparent panels easy. You have to tweak them just a little bit.

Lucid’s new button layout has caused some problems for users. Here’s how it can be changed.

A change in Gnome’s gnome-power-management package has hidden the “Do nothing” option making it difficult to run an external monitor on a laptop with the lid closed. Here’s a workaround.

All of my Karmic Koala installs had missing icons. Apparently they’re defaulted to off. One check mark later and they returned.

Karmic introduced Gnome’s new sound setup which includes sound themes, but with no clear way of changing them. Here’s how I hacked them.

Imac: I’m trying 9.10 and after I suspended it asked for my password when went back to the computer. How do I disable that feature? Not that I would recommend it, I can understand the need to turn the password prompt off when returning from suspend. On Ubuntu 9.10, Gnome has that as a setting [...]

I keep forgetting exactly how to do this without searching for it, so what better than to post it here for myself and others? I enjoy installing games that are either not in the official Ubuntu repositories or are newer versions than what is available. After downloading and extracting, I move them to /opt and [...]