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Gnome, with its Keep it Simple & Stupid (KISS) policy is the desktop environment of choice for millions and also the defaultoption for Ubuntu, which is arguably the most popular desktop distribution. Here are a few pointers towards tweaking Gnome a little more to satisfy the power-user in you.
Uniform theme for root applications:
If you’ve changed your theme that was installed as a different user, and then launch a GUI application with root privileges, you’ll notice that it still starts with the old theme. To do this, open the terminal and type in the following commands sequentially:
$ sudo ln -s ~/.themes
/root/.themes
$ sudo ln -s ~/.icons
/root/.icons
$ sudo ln -s ~/.fonts
/root/.fonts
This creates symlinks for the icons, fonts and theme directory between the current user and the root.
Gnome-DO:
Gnome-Do is an application launcher and much more, inspired by QuickSilver for Mac. Think of it as a supercharged replacement for your [Alt]+[F2] default Gnome-Launcher. In some distributions, it is available by default in the repositories. For the rest, there are detailed instructions on the official
web site at http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Installing_Do. For Ubuntu 9.04 the PPA repositories are as following:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
After this, a simple sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get install gnome-do should do the trick. You can summon gnome-do by pressing [Windows] + Space bar and then type the first few letters to launch an application, open a folder, update your twitter, do a dictionary lookup, control your music and anything just short of learning the art of Zen.
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