This Tutorial will explain how to change start up sound in Ubuntu . The format used in Ubuntu for startup sound is .OGG, so you have to convert music files into OGG before you set it as start up sound in Ubuntu . There are many converters available in market , so you can opt any converter.I have mobile Media converter to convert it into .OGG format. See also : How to : Install Mobile Media Converter in Ubuntu 11.10 Next step is to copy the converted OGG and paste into Ubuntu sound folder .To do that , enter following command in terminal . gksudo nautilus /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo Before you copy the converted OGG , rename it into desktop-login.ogg and copy-paste into Ubuntu sound folder. Note [&hellip
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By default , the Guest session is enabled in Ubuntu 11.10 . This tutorial will show you how to remove the Guest session from the logon screen in Ubuntu 11.10.It is not imperative to do ,but its good to remove guest session to maintain privacy . Step 1: Go to terminal and run the following command to edit lightdm configuration file. sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Step 2 : Add the following line at the bottom. allow-guest=false Step 3: Restart the system
This tutorial shows you how to configure Thunderbird in order to send and receive mails of Gmail account . Step 1 : Log on your Gmail account and Go to Options(Gear icon) which is at top & Click Mail Settings . Step 2: Go to Forwarding and POP/IMAP option and change the options as below . Step3: Next step is to configure Thunderbird which is the default mail client in Ubuntu 11.10 . Go to Mail -> Setup mail . Step4: Enter your required Gmail Login Credentials in Mail Setup . Step5: That’s it done !! If you face any issues , Please let us know
Generally whenever you install any package in Ubuntu , by default it installs all the components . This post is about reducing the no of components , in other words you can say unnecessary components which in turn increases the size of the package .To illustrate , lets take of example of XBMC media player installation. As usual , first i tried with sudo apt-get install package name format . sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone As you can see 118MB is required to install XBMC media player . This happens as it installs all recommended packages . Here we can reduce package size by installing only required components . To do that , Change your install code format from sudo apt-get install package name to [&hellip
Previously , you can create desktop icon in Ubuntu by using “Create Launcher” option which was available when you right-click on desktop . But now in current versions like Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 you cannot create desktop icon in that same manner . In Ubuntu 11.04/ Ubuntu 11.10 , you have to install package to create desktop icon . First of all , Install Package through terminal . sudo apt-get install –no-install-recommends gnome-panel If done , Create your first desktop icon through following command. gnome-desktop-item-edit –create-new ~/Desktop That’s it done !!
This is simple and useful tip for Ubuntu 11.10 users. By default , Autohide option is enabled in Unity & there is no option to disable it . This tutorial describes the steps needed to disable Autohide option in Ubuntu 11.10. Step 1 : Install CompizConfig Settings Manager . It can be done through terminal . Open the terminal and run the following command . sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager Step 2 : Go to CompizConfig Settings Manager , Navigate through Desktop ->Ubuntu Unity Plugin . Click Ubuntu Unity plugin , here you can see “Hide Launcher” for which Dodge windows is set by default. Change it to “Never”