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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.

Steve Langasek announces that Lucid’s Beta 1 will be postponed by one day.

It’s been about three weeks since the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 isos were released. Since then I’ve been seeding the desktop CDs, along with the Alternate i386 shortly afterwards, and have uploaded over 30GB worth of bandwidth racking up about 46 copies. lucid-desktop-i386.iso done 685.9 MB Rate: 36.8 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: [...]

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

Needed to add a symbolic link for the broken plymouth package that prevented Lucid Lynx from starting up.

So it’s been about a week since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx reached the Alpha 3 stage. With it comes what I can only describe as the most stable pre-release of Ubuntu throughout its entire schedule that I’ve ever had the pleasure to use. I don’t have it on a physical machine, yet, but in [...]

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.