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- Philluminati, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20#11: install compiz fusion
- localstatic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11The article/title refers to *Gnome* desktop tweaks, not *Linux* desktop tweaks, so I'm not sure why Gnome not being the default desktop everywhere detracts from this particular article...
- weizbox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Really poor site layout for getting any info.
'By default the Gnome menus have a built-in delay. One simple configuration file can remove this delay and increase the speed of your Gnome menus drastically.'
This would be great if they told you what/where it is... - Chicken001, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Personally, I tried KDE and GNOME and I still prefer GNOME. The reason why? More minimalistic. I know you can tweak the ***** out of KDE as well but god forbid I've never seen a super-sleek sexy KDE desktop so far.
- anjinash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8There's nothing wrong with KDE per se, but I'm just far more comfortable using Gnome. I wish geeks wouldn't get so ferocious over others' personal preferences. What do you care if I use Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc... or for that matter XP, Vista, OSX or BSD? Christ.. relax already.
- sloppychris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6desktop environment, but i agree
- Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I feel like some of these tweaks should be standard in the default environment.
- cry0x, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11and GNOME is the default for Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Debian... I'm sorry, but did you have a point?
- SocialPoison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Thanks for showing up to this years "KDE vs Gnome" fight, weird0science. See you next year.
- BrandonPerry, on 10/10/2007, -8/+13I love GNOME, but is /not/ the default desktop for Linux users. KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox and an assortment of others are the defaults for some Ubuntu offshoots, Knoppix, Slackware, etc...
- airmind, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4KDE 4 will only rock KDE fanboys world.
- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0
Insert that line into your .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory. - bigdan1754, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I *hate* the layout of this site. Pages with little information linked to other pages within the site at *should* provide more information but provide very little. If you're lucky they will throw in a link to a site with actual information. LH sucks
- DaniFilth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Parent is right, article shouldn't have said it was the default desktop for Linux. Certainly wasn't for my Kubuntu install :)
- Ademan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2there are other window managers besides fluxbox, in fact there's a family of *boxes including blackbox and (my favorite) openbox, along with icewm, sawfish and others.
kde = always looked like ass to me, but to each his own
gnome = personal favorite, "too default"? wtf does that mean? by that do you mean a unified look and feel? (some, including myself, prefer that, especially given the wide variety of gtk2 themes)
xfce = erm, it's in one of the preferences dialogs, "allow xfce to control the desktop" or something similar to that... - geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Probably should note that this key is in milliseconds, so if "instant" is too fast for you, try about 20. The default is 250ms.
- msiner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I think the point of that tip was to make it so applications running as root always look different. To be blatantly safe about it, you can make the window border bright red, that way it is painfully obvious when you are doing something as root. If you make a symbolic link to your own theme, then you can't have that distinction. Besides, making a symbolic link in /root to a users personal folder is not good form and it makes no sense in a multiuser environment.
- Tenoq, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Latest Linux Desktop Survey suggests GNOME is the most common windowing system. Perhaps calling it the 'default' isn't really correct - most widely used? Actually, the article really only needs one word to appease you lot:
"The default desktop environment for [MANY] Linux users, Gnome..." - felix21685, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2can anyone tell me the exact theme that the author is using in that first screenshot? I have checked gnome-look.org, and have not found the exact one.
- manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The "sudo themes" feature doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can set a root theme, but all windows continue to use my user theme. I want my sudo windows to have red titlebars so that they stand out, saying "DANGER". Whenever I run gnome-theme-manager through either sudo or gksudo, I get this error:
"Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME settings manager."
From the look of the comments on the linked Lifehacker page on the "sudo themes" feature, I'm not alone. - manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just thought I should mention this: I use GNOME on Ubuntu 7.04. I do not use Compiz, Beryl, or Compiz Fusion.
- stormgren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2But compiz has a desktop cube!
- Ademan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agreed, but having your themes directory linked to root's themes directory won't change that, it will just make your themes also available to root. To actually apply a theme (for, say, metacity) you either need to have the gnome-settings-daemon running, or you need to have a .metacityrc or something like that (.gtkrc-2.0 for gtk themes)
- SVPirate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1RTFA you gimp.
- Ademan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I love gnome as much as the next guy, but i've never felt that either one of them held a significant speed advantage over the other (xfce on the other hand...) My only experience with KDE, however, was on a relatively old and crappy box, and it performed less than stellar there.
- XISUPERMANIX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1YOU copy and paste it into mousepad and save it to your home directory.
- PsychoticDude85, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Regardless, that doesn't make the article description any more accurate. What I'm confused about is why you'd actually go to the trouble of removing the "many" and deliberately making it innacurate, when the article has it right (or perhaps they edited the many in later on the article and this was what it was originally, I couldn't say - the comments suggest that as an explanation after looking again).
- wiihuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1it says "Top 10 Gnome Desktop Tweaks". it also says, "The desktop environment for **many** Linux users, Gnome, is fast, organized and very easy to learn."
- justinjacobs, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3The tip that they give for applying your themes to root applications is bad advice. Instead type in the terminal:
sudo ln -s /home/{your user name}/.themes /root/.themes
This way, the themes for the root account are always the same as your normal user themes. Symbolic links FTW. - OmegaNine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Most fo digg is too. :-P *linux fanboy*
- shrewduser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Lifehacker? buried." ?
buried. - ha1f, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1When did Gnome become the Linux default?
- BobbyWu, on 12/28/2007, -0/+0What is your point? Gnome is friendly and powerful.
- Carroarmatozero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Why the hell is lifehackers site always unavailable when he diggs it??? Can he use mirror to sustain the traffic coming from digg and other sites? He's the lifehacker for heavens sake!
- buzzedlightyear, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6since when did "linux" make Gnome its default window manager?
- airmind, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2KDE 4 will only rock KDE fanboys world.
- Kevin108, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1#1 Gnome tip - Use KDE
- prashanthellina, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0You can add the "Matrix - Falling text" effect to your desktop in Gnome. http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/08/22/matrix-desktop/
- zebbers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0KDE is such a mem hog.Gnome flies on my box but kde lagged on the simplest things.
- mlblac02, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0The two distro's that use I don't even have Gnome in them out of the box, just the GTK libraries. Inaccurate. There is no default desktop environment in Linux.
- phpchris, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0http://digg.com/linux_unix/Making_GNOME_look_like_OSX
- angrykeyboarder, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Lifehacker rocks ma whirrled
- yevkasem, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1i downloaded the newest version of linux from kernel.org and it didn't even include a desktop.
for the last time, ubuntu != linux. suse != linux, and DISTRO X DOES NOT EQUAL LINUX. - cry0x, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0openbox --replace
- sylv3r, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1fluxbox = very minimalist
kde = eyecandy galore
gnome - kinda feels too default
xfce = what happened to right click on the programs list? o_O - Gneisbaard, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Fast?
- rotten777, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3i'd rather use fluxbox. i see no productivity gains in using compiz over multiple desktops
- shawnanigans, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3#12 just wait for KDE 4 to rock your world.
- weird0science, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3#13 Don't even use Gnome, because it is too clunky. Use KDE.
- mobilehavoc, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6Lifehacker = Linux fanboy
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