Ubuntu 10.10 on Core i5 - ASUS EAH5750
Here we go with a brand new and shiny Ubuntu Maverick.
The goal of this page is mainly to be some kind of `backup reference guide´ for my `customized´ system.
Post-installation
After installation, the system needs to reboot (without the live USB).
Graphical booting sucks because of the ATI drivers....
Theme
I'm sick and tired of the 'Dust' and 'Radiance' theme. In reference to Windows7 or KDE, Gnome looks bulky (big fat font for menus for example)
Also, I've tried Kubuntu 10.10: the look and feel is just awesome (but I hate working with KDE).
Then I tried Xubuntu (don't like working with xfce too much), but the theme is just great: BlueBird theme
Download the 'Bluebird-0.3.2.tar.gz'. Extract the archive (backdrops, gtk-2.0, xfwm4).
sudo mkdir /usr/share/themes/BlueBird
sudo cp gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/BlueBird
The BlueBird Emerald-theme can be found here.
A nice blue-ish icon set: Classy-V2_ocean_blue
Change your GDM theme at login (default is orange, make it compatible with BlueBird by doing the following):
link
(in short: sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow
Logout and login. On login, you can choose/set your theme. Continue to log in after setting theme.
When logged in: sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop
Done !)
Compiz-Fusion
Usefull eyecandy, updated to 0.8.6.
sudo apt-get install fusion-icon
Synaptic
Things I need to remove:
f-spot, tomboy, Evolution (via synaptic: all), ekiga, nautilus-sendto, totem (everything)...
Things I need to install
make, autoconf, gcc, irssi, cheese, bluefish, inkscape, build-essential, aria2c, smplayer...
pecan for pidgin
Firefox - Thunderbird
Firefox: standard in Ubuntu. But it constantly crashes on my system... So I'm using Chromium (it lacks most of the extensions I use on Firefox, but Chromium is crash-free...)
My main mailsystem is Thunderbird on Win7, so I use Popper (mailchecker, integrated in the Ubuntu messagesystem).
Pidgin - Empathy - aMSN
- Pidgin: still sucks donkey balls. Still no voice/video.
- Default Empathy (which is basically the same as Pidgin): lacks some plugins
- aMSN: since Facebook came along, a lot of people used that instead of MSN. Development of aMSN seems stopped (and no news on aMSN2).
I prefer the multi protocol Pidgin...
Ubuntu Tweak
A must-have ! Ubuntu Tweak helps you install needed packages easily.