Linux for Keysers | Adventures in Open Source

I've been using Ubuntu for about 9 months now (wow, hard to believe - the time has flown by) and people often ask me what my favorite apps are or what I changed once I install it. Aside from some custom scripts I install for my own organizational sanity, there are a few recommendations I always give. However, I just stumbled upon what may be the most complete list I've ever seen. When I say "stumbled", I mean that. I just used StumbleUpon and this came up . Really great list for anyone looking to add or customize their Ubuntu 9.10 desktop. Happy customizing! UPDATE: I've also found a few additional add-ons that might be worth investigating. Here's a few: Guvnr's Picks Ubuntu Tips and Tricks

I've been dealing with this annoying bug in Gnome: Panel drawers take 3 seconds to open. This bug is tracked here . I've found a small help to this bug here : I found a setting in gconf-editor, but I was only able to set the animation speed to "fast". if I completely disabled animations, the drawer would appear over the top panel, instead of the bottom right where its supposed to be. To change the speed, open gconf-editor, navigate to apps->panel->toplevels->panel_0 there you can change the key for animation to fast. (your draw may have a different name, depending on your added panel elements - I think O_o ) Hope that helps.

When I left home last night, I had full functional working 3D desktop effects. Once I added my two 1600x1200 monitors this morning and resized my virtual desktop size past the breaking limit, that all went bye-bye. :( I vaguely remember reading that increasing the desktop size on my video card will automatically disable this wonderful feature. Surprise. It did. Well, at least with the old video driver, it's still smoother than the newer ones. Bummer though. I was really liking all the extra "new OS" bells and whistles. Maybe I can find a work-around someday, but I highly doubt it. EDIT: Here's the URL that discusses the root of the problem (I think it still applies to 8.10, but I'm not certain just yet... will look further): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580891 And some more specific to the Dell Latitude D430: http://www.winchen.de/PHPWIKI/doku.php/public/delld430 Workaround: Switch xorg.conf on bootup depending on whether or not external monito...