How to customize ubuntu desktop

Jul 27, 2012, by admin

Do you ever wish you could tweak your Linux Operating System to top performance? If you are a Ubuntu user, here are some tweaks to get you and your PC Optimized.

Steps to customize ubuntu desktop

1.Open your terminal (Usually under System Tools)

2.Here is a way to tweak Ubuntu with Concurrent Booting by taking advantage of Dual-Core processors.

• In terminal, type “sudo gedit /etc/init.d/rc” without the quote marks.
• On Ubuntu installations before 2010-05-14, look through the file and you will find CONCURRENCY=none. You want to change it to:
• CONCURRENCY=shell
• Otherwise with newer installations the default is efficient already.
•  Save the file.

3.Open your file manager, (Konqueror or Dolphin)

•  Go to the directory /etc/
• Right click on the file “sysctl.conf”
• Click Actions –> Edit as root
• When the text editor opens, scroll down to the bottom of the file.
• Add this code: vm.swappiness=0
• Save the file and exit the text editor

4.Remove any files you don’t need to the Trash Bin

5.Empty the trash

6.Reboot.

7.Your PC is a bit faster, have fun!