Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 Customizations
I finally have Ubuntu Lucid looking like I want it to. First a couple of screenshots and then some linking to the relevant packages etc. Here's the desktop with Firefox open.
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And here I've marked some customizations in the image. (Apologies for ugly text.) {.alignnone .size-medium .wp-image-173 width="300" height="187"}
Firstly, I want my panel (singular) vertically. That is unfortunately buggy with the Ambiance theme (Bug #534582) and indicators (Bug #533439). The latter does not look too bad, but the former had to be fixed with the instructions from Bug #160311: Remove the image from the theme gtkrc, set the scaling properties in gconf-editor and set the background image manually.
Instead of the menu bar, which does not like a vertical panel, I use Cardapio from the PPA. It has lots of great plugins for e.g. Google and Wikipedia searches, though I haven't really used them.
Replacing both the window list applet and launchers I have DockbarX from the PPA. The theme is Minimalistic and I have enabled Compiz previews and Opacify.
In the lower right corner I have Conky (from Universe), which I use to monitor the computer.
Firefox is still 3.6 (the default), since I'm refraining from Firefox 4 beta testing until they get their Linux version up to speed. Addons I use include at least:
- About:Me
- App Tabs
- Hide Menubar
- Link Target Display
- Stop-and-Reload
- StumbleUpon
I look forward to trying Lucid out on the laptop I just ordered.