Ubuntu Tweak Blog

By Mr. Dreadsoft on Sep 28, 2007 | Reply

Disabling/enabling mounted volumes on desktop (command line version)

[code]

gconftool --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible --type=bool false
[/code]

By Hooty on Oct 1, 2007 | Reply

Add options to configure bit torrent like: ports, encryption, etc…

By Harsh on Nov 10, 2007 | Reply

Please add the ability to change the usplash themes and grub themes.

Also the ability to resize left nav. menu would be nice.

And the Ok and Quit buttons needs to be Apply and Quit.

By shakaran on Nov 10, 2007 | Reply

English:

Hello,

Have you included your project in LaunchPad(https://launchpad.net/)?

It would be useful to resolve bugs and make future translations of the program.

—-
Chinese

你好，

你包括你的項目中的launchpad ？

這將是有益的解決bug和使今後的翻譯程序。

By philipp on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply

Starting Apps with Root rights should look like “normal” apps

sudo ln -s ~/.themes/* /usr/share/themes
sudo ln -s ~/.icons/* /usr/share/icons

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give nautilus a background

/apps/nautilus/preferences/background_set –>true
/apps/nautilus/preferences/background_filename — path to image

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nautilus quickinfo

apps >> nautilus >> icon_view
den Wert von “captions” editieren.

change none to bottom, size on top
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thanks in advance

By Martin on Nov 21, 2007 | Reply

Hi,
nice work. Thanks
I think you should really consider to get Ubuntu Tweak included in Ubuntus official repositories. Could help a lot of beginners. If installed by default I think Ubuntu can really benefit from your work.

cheers
Martin

By m1r0 on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

hi, very good project, keep it up.
will there be forum soon ?

By tervel on Dec 4, 2007 | Reply

Great tool, dude! I really like it.

By M!W on Dec 4, 2007 | Reply

This tool is great for beginners but it would be great if it had more languages, I could translate it in german for you! Just mail me if you’re interested

By phil on Dec 6, 2007 | Reply

Possible to include the function to configure compiz just the way mac os x does ? See picture

[img]http://666kb.com/i/au5i5w0s2sd89oxsm.png[/img]

By arkatis on Dec 31, 2007 | Reply

Hi,

thanks for your great tool! It would be very useful if you can add something to change the background color after you’ve logged in. Now I can choose the splash-image, but it would be fine if I can also change the background color of them.

Workaround for coding:
1) sudo gedit /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default
2) search for “#dab082″ (standard ubuntu brown)

Thanks a lot!

By MadsRH on Jan 9, 2008 | Reply

Hi.
Thank you for this user friendly tool.
I have some feature suggestions for your future development.

- A short description on mouseover with each button
- Add “keywords” to your website! I couldn’t find it when searching for tweak Ubuntu, but Ubuntu tweak worked.

And here is some for boosting the performance:
(http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28224/How_to_tune_your_Ubuntu_PC_for_faster_performance_)
- Swap memory from hard disk to RAM (see the link above)
- Freeing up more memory (see the link above)
- Concurrent Booting (see the link above)
- Scripted installation of fonts (http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28550/How_to_Install_Fonts_on_Ubuntu)

Good luck with this wonderful project.

By lukeen on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

@Harsh (“Please add the ability to change the usplash themes and grub themes.”)
try StartupManager! it’s a very good tool to change boot settings. (in universe repos since gutsy)

By Vadim P. on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

In the system information, it lists your hostname – would be nice if you could change it there too.

Right now, you have to go to system – administration – network – general to change it.

By Jesenko Mehmedbasic on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

Change the default filemanager would be a nice tweak, for those of us who prefer Konqueror in GNOME.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease

By Siegfried Gevatter (RainCT) on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

Will you try to get this into Ubuntu’s repositories?

If not please tell me (rainct at ubuntu.com) and I’ll do so.

By Robert Jakiel on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

Ubuntu tweak for KDE 3.5.x and KDE 4.x would be awesome. I just went into Gnome to check it out and was very impressed.

By sicofante on Jan 12, 2008 | Reply

Very nice app.

USER INTERACTION SUGGESTION: If the parent menu has no items, don’t ask the user to select a child but go directly to the first child. You can also choose to put some of the generic tweaks in the parent menu option, removing the child containing these options. For instance, there’s no need for a child in Security; since there’s only one, you can put those tweaks directly under Security.

By Ketil on Jan 14, 2008 | Reply

Can you please set this up for translation in Launchpad? A great tool for beginners (and others) should be localized.
Sorry if this has been asked before!

Also, add a button to CCSM (if installed) or Visual effects in the CF section.

On a broader note, I’d like to say that this kind of app should be bigger, including most settings that can be tweaked, with regards to window manager, desktop environment, etc (i.e. all visible, non application-specific tweaks)
For starters, implementing BUM would be nice.

By Glenn Tobey on Jan 16, 2008 | Reply

Editing of the grub conf file would be good. And how about some Flash/Codec install stuff?

By Jonas Haag on Jan 25, 2008 | Reply

Hi,
I don’t know if there’s anything to on the project.
I’m writing PyGTK-applications and I know how to program python. I don’t know all the commands, you know, but I understand how it works and so on.

However I’d like to offer you some help on the project. I’m interested in this tool.
I’m german so I could translate, too.

By Jonas Haag on Jan 25, 2008 | Reply

Oh, I meant
…anything to *do* on the project.
sorry.

By Asteroth on Jan 25, 2008 | Reply

A way to have a different icon set on each workspace would be great.
Ex.
Workspace1- office tools
Workspace2- internet shortcuts
and so on…
(currently I heard that there is a workaround to have this, but its very complicated, especially for newbies like myself)
Perhaps it would be possible to make it store content of each workspace in separate folder like /home/user/desktop/1
/home/user/desktop/2
etc
I don’t know if its possible, but it would be a great feature

By matiit on Feb 4, 2008 | Reply

I can help to port it for rest distributions.
But i have one ask: ex. Compiz.py need apt-module?

By MadsRH on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

Hi
I know this suggestion isn’t very linux like, but I would love to see a UPDATE button in the next version of Tweak Ubuntu

By Ketil on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

NOOOOO!

One package manager, all apps treated the same way. That’s how we like it!

By luke on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

I recommend input device settings. On a default ubuntu install, my mouse’s forward and back buttons were nonfunctional. I’d like a way to be able to config this without messing with xorg.conf.

Then some of my keyboard’s shortcuts that I had set via preferences>keyboard shortcuts don’t seem to work (lock screens shortcut never does), but this is more something for ubuntu itself to fix, probably. But mostly the mouse input config.

By Jonas Haag on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply

Tualatrix, send me a email to jonasNOSPAM@jonashaagNOSPAM.de.
But I’m not sure if I can help you.

By Blair Peery on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply

I agree with Vadim. I was about to suggest the same ability.

-Blair

By Blair Peery on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply

[To be more clear, Vadim's message was:]

“By Vadim P. on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
In the system information, it lists your hostname – would be nice if you could change it there too.”

I agree with Vadim. I was about to suggest the same ability.

-Blair

By Anthony Laviano on Feb 18, 2008 | Reply

I’d like to see a graphical way to create a soundrc file, so users could get stereo sound through all speakers of a 5.1 or 7.1 speaker system

By Ubuntu4fun on Feb 24, 2008 | Reply

In my opinion very useful feature would be ability to edit bootloader (GRUB) and setting the order of booting the systems installed.

Is there any chance to implement this feature in Ubuntu Tweak?

By Vadi on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply

@ above: I don’t think that’s needed, especially when a program that’s designed for everything to do with grub/usplash already exists already: http://getdeb.net/app/Startup+Manager

I’d like to see Ubuntu Tweak do some “performance” tweaking too, also. A big one is to detect if the swap partition is mounted or no.

By Robvdl on Mar 1, 2008 | Reply

I’ve been using Ubuntu Tweak for a few weeks now, and it’s been a great program so far.

I just Googled for “ubuntu tweak” today, to put onto a friends PC, and Google gave me a stopbadware.org “malware warning” page page instead, indicating that ubuntu-tweak.com may harm your computer, in the end I had to come to this site by typing the address manually.

I knew this couldn’t be right, you may wish to check this out, and get the software cleared by Google.

By Pablo on Mar 6, 2008 | Reply

Does Ubuntu Tweak works fine with others ubuntus, like Kubuntu? I think the answar should be in “ABOUT”

By Lee Jarratt on Mar 7, 2008 | Reply

Not a suggestion for Ubuntu Tweak but for this page, I think new suggestions should be displayed at the top, working down rather than new suggestions at the bottom etc.

Lee

By frafa on Mar 7, 2008 | Reply

good job
please adapt the size screen
to eee-pc 800×480 …

By Lee Jarratt on Mar 8, 2008 | Reply

Put latest version change log in the ‘about’ pop up window. Make some sort of Button saying ‘change log’ etc.

By Vadim P. on Mar 8, 2008 | Reply

Another suggestion – to disable the Wacom stuff. Most people don’t have the tablets, and could be just fine without them…

Maybe you should make a special “Performance” category for that though.

By paul on Mar 8, 2008 | Reply

thank you for this.

By MadsRH on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply

Make an option to disable “Recent Documents” tab.

By Lee Jarratt on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply

Fix spelling/grammar errors on 0.2.10 – Power Scripts:

Correction -

You can do many kinds of work with Scripts.
Drag and Drop from the supported file manager.
It will be added to your context (right-click) menu as ‘Scripts’.

This is how I would change it but your the main man ^-^
Great job on the work, you put a lot of effort into this and it’s paid off for you

x

By javielinux on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply

You have a lot Scripts here:

[url]http://nautilus-scripts.javielinux.com/[/url]

You can work with images, sounds, pdf, etc.

By UTweak on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply

BUG:

“Search in folder”-script doesn’t support folders with space in the name!

By Lee Jarratt on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply

Add an option to remove the confirmation message when deleting items from the deleted items.

By Phil on Mar 16, 2008 | Reply

it would be useful to include an option to disable animations in gnome. there is an option in the gconf-editor /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources

By Oskar Hollmann on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply

Hello,
I’ve run into a small issue lately. It would might be good to have in Ubuntu Tweak an option to enable Num Lock after starting a session. Current solution in Ubuntu is fine for me [you are to do it only once], but for a beginner, poking in terminal because of such a detail is a bit annoying.

By leandrox on Mar 20, 2008 | Reply

Hi man, check this webpage

http://www.openside.com.ar/wordpress/?p=148

the are a lot of nautilus scripts!

hope u like it, they are very usefull!

By Thomas on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply

Hi,

Can you support all default ubuntu compiz versions?

Keep up the good work!

By Dave on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply

can anyone help me with Ubuntu Tweak? Does not seem to open up under system tools? Is it not supported by dapper drake?

By DnaX on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply

Hi! Look this page for KDE4 support: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Hidden+configuration

There are a lot of tips

PS. Look this blueprint on LP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+spec/nautilus-thumbnails

By n-pigeon on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply

Tool for installing apps from sources will be great. Good and comfortable for new and old users, with function finding libs that are needed.

By John on Apr 6, 2008 | Reply

It would be great if you had an option to set the vm.swappiness levels in /etc/sysctl.conf so the user can set a number between 0 and 100, and maybe be able to turn off/on the swap file altogether…

By Smegzor on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply

I think I’ve found a bug. If I use Ubuntu Tweak on Hardy, I lose the ability to change desktop wallpaper.

All I did with Ubuntu Tweak was hide desktop icons. Once only, when I unhid them, I got back the ability to change wallpaper but then I hid icons again and lost that ability again. I have not been able to repeat that and get wallpaper changing back so far.

Deleting .gconf fixes the problem.

By Stebalien on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply

There is a very small yet problematic bug in ubuntu-tweak 3.0. You wrote gcon.VALUE_STRING instaid of gconf.VALUE_STRING on line 55 in Settings.py.

By ProMIX on May 1, 2008 | Reply

Very Good Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

By Lee Jarratt on May 7, 2008 | Reply

Re-Design/freshen up the UI of Ubuntu Tweak

Keep up the great work,

Lee

By Ubuntu4fun on May 8, 2008 | Reply

What do you think about this idea:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8214/

Maybe Ubuntu Tweak could solve the problem?

By Okki on May 12, 2008 | Reply

You can change the number of documents recently opened by gedit with /apps/gedit-2/preferences/ui/recents/max_recents

Perhaps there are similar options for evince, eog or other applications, but I don’t found them.

By Okki on May 12, 2008 | Reply

/apps/file-roller/ui/history_len for file-roller, /apps/deskbar/max_history_items for deskbar, /apps/gthumb/general/max_history_length for gThumb…

That would be a good idea to have an option to respect privacy and put all these keys to 0.

By Jim on Jun 2, 2008 | Reply

Your tool is excellent but what i really wont to see in Gnome is that config button in the screen saver settings

By Nattgew on Jun 4, 2008 | Reply

Could you include the “Conservative” governor in the CPU scaling options? It’s like OnDemand, but it only increases the speed when there is a lot of load, while OnDemand increases when there is a little bit of load.

By unimatrix on Jun 5, 2008 | Reply

Hi. Could you please add a simple checkbox to disable the ugly Metacity minimize effect.
Thank you very much and keep up the good work!

By basic on Jun 9, 2008 | Reply

The ability to change domain would be nice for SAMBA…
“workgroup” is default and in hardy you can change it by using command line “shares-admin” however any normal user would be stuck with the domain “workgroup”.

By erriko on Jun 24, 2008 | Reply

hi, i’ve installed ubuntu-tweak and I’ve modified the desktop icons. Now my desktop doesn’t show icons and screenletes and if I click dx mouse button nothing happens… I’ve had this problem before and I’ve seen that if I create a new account this works well.
Why?
How can I solve without creating new account?

By romain on Jun 27, 2008 | Reply

Bonjour,
je vous ecris en francais car je ne parle pas bien anglais / I speak in french because I can’t speak english

j’ai une suggestion,
dans Ubuntu tweak, section Compiz fusion, vous vous etes trompé en marquant “menu opaque” alors qui faudrai dans ce cas marque “menu transparent”

merci beaucoup, en attendant une future version,
Romain

By sedra12 on Jul 6, 2008 | Reply

@Romain
tu peux nous aider à la traduction de Ubuntu Tweak sur launchpad.net
voici le lien
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/trunk/+pots/ubuntu-tweak/fr/+translate

By Peter Fitzsimons on Jul 15, 2008 | Reply

Great little piece of software. Thanks for all the hard work you have obviously put into this project.
I personally think you would be on to a real winner if you could take over where Automatix left off and supply codecs to download for playing DVD’s, but then I suppose you are going outside your remit to just provide “tweak’s” for Ubuntu.
Just a thought though.

By art on Jul 17, 2008 | Reply

program fails to start under Xubuntu, it complains about not being able to find some Gnome related xml files, so is it for gnome users only?

By Lee Jarratt on Jul 17, 2008 | Reply

@ art,

Yes it’s for GNOME users only unfortunately.

Lee

By Ahmed on Jul 21, 2008 | Reply

Thanks for the awesome software, but in the System>Power Management menu there should be a way to return the CPU Frequency Scaling Policy settings back to none. After selecting one of the three options, it is impossible to go back to “normal.”

By nakul on Jul 25, 2008 | Reply

ubuntu tweak make it part of control panel

By berciXcore on Jul 29, 2008 | Reply

This might sound a bit advanced suggestion, but… I see some great potential in ubuntu-tweak, possibly a later development into some sort of YaST for Ubuntu. Merging all the default GNOME settings apps and special ones as SUM, BUM, etc. into it. This would mean KDE and XFCE specialized versions as well.
What do You think about this idea?

By Lee Jarratt on Jul 29, 2008 | Reply

@ berciXcore

Ubuntu Tweak is Open Source so if you want to expand it’s features you can feel free to do so (or create a branch off the project), I don’t think TualatriX would mind anyway. Although in my opinion, it’s best to just help out in any way possible on the development of Ubuntu Tweak

But who am I to say?

Lee

By berciXcore on Jul 29, 2008 | Reply

Well, I’m not into developing anything at all, I don’t speak C, Python, mono, etc., only a bit of HTML, XML and even less CSS, so I just have my brainstorms.

By Lee Jarratt on Jul 29, 2008 | Reply

Fair enough

By Ahmed on Aug 6, 2008 | Reply

TualatriX, it is so awesome that you took my suggestion into consideration and even added the feature to the latest release. Thank you so much, the software is excellent. Keep up the good work!

By philip on Aug 7, 2008 | Reply

Hey!

Would it be possible to sign your packages so ubuntu wouldn’t complain about unsigned packages anymore?

By amd-linux on Aug 10, 2008 | Reply

Hello Tualatrix,

first thank you very much for this really really useful piece of software! Very well done!!!!

Second: Could you add Wine-Doors to the additional software? Wine-Doors is available as .deb package, but I unfortunately I did not find a repository other than getdeb, and their repos can not be accessed via apt.

http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/?page_id=3

Thank you again for your great work!

By amd-linux on Aug 12, 2008 | Reply

Another suggestion:

Could you maybe also add an entry in the Software menu for DVD playback and provide libdvdcss2 from the Medibuntu?

That would be really great.

By amd-linux on Aug 20, 2008 | Reply

And something else:
How about adding Truecrypt in the additional software section?

Truecrypt is available from ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~sniperbeamer/+archive

By John on Aug 27, 2008 | Reply

Add settings for Swappiness levels and a tick-box to turn swap partition on/off…

This would come in handy for most users with a little description of what swappiness does (0=use physical memory most, 100=use virtual memory most) etc.

By tibasic on Aug 28, 2008 | Reply

I think this would be a great thing to add to Ubuntu. I found out how to do it on this site:

http://www.varesano.net/blog/fabio/linux+howto+two+fingers+scrolling+a+regular+ synaptics+notebook+touchpad

And I’ve also discovered that it is a wishlist item but I’m guessing the demand isn’t very large.

Also on an above post… i’m assuming libdvdcss2 won’t be incorporated because then Canonical will not like this product at all.

By Rafael on Aug 30, 2008 | Reply

Hi there,

I’m not sure whether someone’s already offered you this, however you can contact me if you need Ubuntu Tweak to be translated into Brazilian Portuguese. I’d gladly help.

As for the suggestion itself, I need this program to work again on my ubuntu hardy! OS’s fully updated, yet, program refuses to open. I can only see the splash screen for some miliseconds. Perhaps I should go back to 0.3.4 for a while…

Keep up the good work pal

By lyceum on Sep 6, 2008 | Reply

I would like to see an easy way to add or remove fonts.

I would also like to see a way to use Ubuntu Tweak to mix and match different icon sets. So, if you want to move icons to the theme you are using, it could be done in one place to effect every instance of that icon.

For example, if you have OOo Writer icon on your desktop and you right click to change it, it only changes that instance of the icon. It would be cool if the icons could be swapped in Ubuntu Tweak, and it would either swap all instances for that program only by pulling from the other icon folder or remind you to use Ubuntu Tweak to swap thee other OOo Write icons. This may not be possible, but it would be cool.

By lyceum on Sep 6, 2008 | Reply

Also, wanted to say thanks for the product. I started a thread about it here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=874748&highlight=ubuntu+tweak

By True_Friend on Sep 11, 2008 | Reply

It would be nice to add Network configuration wizard in Ubuntu Tweak like KDE control center. And To be able to change themes, icon themes etc from it.

By ffsxsy on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply

第三方源加入qq怎么样？

By ffsxsy on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply

还有，登录界面分辨率难倒一批人！！

By jetpeach on Oct 14, 2008 | Reply

both google and firefox 3 currently think this site is dangerous because of a worm or something. can you do anything to fix it? even as a linux user who doesn’t have to worry much about viruses i was quite scared to copy and paste the URL from google to the site in order to come here (google won’t even hyperlink it on their warning page.

just letting you know if you didn’t know already…
jet

By Reynaldo on Oct 14, 2008 | Reply

The additional repos were a welcome suprise in this version. Great program as usual.
Plus the new interface is crisp and effecient…

Thanks!

By royto on Oct 25, 2008 | Reply

It could be interresting to have the possibility to configure the numbers of item present in the gnome panel “Places” menu. By default, it’s 5.

You could find more informations about it on this idea on brainstrom : http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14381/

By gilan on Oct 28, 2008 | Reply

more performance tweak…

By Sergio S. on Nov 5, 2008 | Reply

Could you please add an option to change the standard captions of main menu in Gnome Panel.
I’d like to change the “Applications Places System” to something shorter like “Apps GoTo Sys” so it would more space in the panel to display running apps.
I saw this thread with some info:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-89136.html
TIA

By Koma on Nov 11, 2008 | Reply

The panel logo icon demands a fixed size of 24×24 no matter how big the panel is. Please make it accept scalables and an option to restore default!!

By sirex on Nov 16, 2008 | Reply

I tried to launch Ubuntu Tweak on Linux Mint Fluxbox and got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “ubuntu-tweak.py”, line 76, in
launcher = TweakLauncher()
File “ubuntu-tweak.py”, line 44, in __init__
from mainwindow import MainWindow
File “/usr/share/ubuntu-tweak/mainwindow.py”, line 109, in
if module_check.has_right_compiz():
File “/usr/share/ubuntu-tweak/common/systeminfo.py”, line 71, in has_right_compiz
if version.split(‘:’)[1] >= ‘0.7.4′:
IndexError: list index out of range

By Chim Chiminy on Nov 16, 2008 | Reply

The ability to disable ipv6 would be handy. Disabling it speeds a few things up (boot etc).

By Elven on Nov 26, 2008 | Reply

Hi

this is primary for ubuntu tweak developers…

what distributions are supported by ubuntu tweak?

Ubuntu is supported of course, i think that Mint too… what about the others?

Is it possible to add support for Greenie? Or… better said, is possible to add Greenie to the list of fully supported OSes?

Greenie is based on Ubuntu, and all works if in /usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml
it is named Ubuntu.

BTW in Greenie is the UT pre-installed.

Please contact me, if anything will be changed…

By Helper on Dec 7, 2008 | Reply

Hi,

Could it be possible to implement a cleaner inside your tool ?
Some of the needed tasks are already implemented, this link bind to other interesting about it.
http://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.ph…r?content=71529

Regards.

By Hammermensch on Dec 15, 2008 | Reply

The Dropbox respositories are the old one ubuntu-tweak adds.

The new one are there since a few weeks and can be watched under:
https://www.getdropbox.com/downloading?os=lnx

By mackos-gnu on Dec 20, 2008 | Reply

Can You add the option to show the number of elements inside the directories showed in the Desktop.

By K. Aning on Dec 27, 2008 | Reply

May be you should get a key for signing the ubuntu-tweak package.

By arkashkin on Dec 30, 2008 | Reply

Hello, I don’t know much tweaks of making Ubuntu more battery saving on my laptop.
So if you could add some tweaks for making a laptop more power saving I really really appreciate it.
Sorry for my bad English

By elli222 on Jan 3, 2009 | Reply

http://spring.clan-sy.com/

Found a really awesome game engine, that with some extra data, makes really awesome games!

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu intrepid main

it has its own launchpad repo too! this is ripe for adding into the 3rd party sources! (and i might try and make deb packages for the mods, and try and get them added)

By Henrique Lechner on Jan 10, 2009 | Reply

Hey this Software is great!!!
but have just one problem: theme of icons.

Ubuntu Tweak use Tango Icons,don’t have nothing wrong but is not a ideal.

the tango is good because license.but this theme have an rejection very big of users.

Solution: use default icons of gnome.(the theme selected).the program use selected icon-set of user.

if the problem is because have icons used on ubuntu tweak don’t have on icons-set,just program for verify,if have icon on theme,use.if not, use default of ubuntu tweak

i know it just modify icons.but users look and like very much.mostly on screenshots

Sorry for my extremely bad english

By pluckypigeon on Jan 11, 2009 | Reply

This works on arch-linux.

I compilled from source and installed ‘pyxdg’ from repos

By Patrick Regan on Jan 11, 2009 | Reply

On the downloads page you have the command:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/source.list

I would highly suggest that it be changed to:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/source.list

because using regular sudo with graphical apps can create a major security risk, and can cause complications later on. I know that these situations are rare, but it’s still an issue just the same.

Pat

By Tweenk on Jan 25, 2009 | Reply

The install instructions involve editing a text file in sudoed gedit and using the terminal. It would be better to change those instructions to use the Software Sources application instead, which is more user friendly.

By TuniX12 on Jan 31, 2009 | Reply

Is your project open for contributions ?

By durand on Feb 14, 2009 | Reply

Version 4.5.1 moins bien que la version présédante pour la bonne raison qu’on force les gens à faire un don en affichant cette stupide fenêtre “donnez nous des sous”

By Feeback on Feb 14, 2009 | Reply

For security reasons shouldnt ubuntu tweak itself have a password on it? like when u try to open firestarter (firewall) it asks for the system password, ubuntu tweak should do the same.

By Tianmm on Feb 24, 2009 | Reply

希望能支持一下Debian Linux

By Fred on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply

Hello, below the Mockup of two ideas. With the ubuntu-tweak them will be more attractive. I’m sure they are easy to implement.

I hope you enjoy.
Fred.

Parental Control
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/3320156747_37f4df91fd_o.jpg

Restricted Navigation Option
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3571/3320156933_d9c965e7b7_o.jpg

By amd-linux on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply

Hello,

may I also suggest to add EasyCam ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EasyCam ) support to Ubuntu Tweak?

Easycam adds many drivers for webcams that are not running out of the box with a standard Ubuntu. Easycam therefore helps newbies to get their webcam up and running wihtout hitting the command line.

By Fred on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply

TualatriX
Thank you. The image was created in an editor. You can from existing programs. As such below.

Parental-control of ubuntuce, timekpr, drakguard of Mandriva.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Security/Parental-control-24501.shtml
http://ubuntuce.com/
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ipblock-graphical-ip-blocker.html
https://launchpad.net/timekpr
Mandriva Linux / drakguard
http://people.mandriva.com/~blino/screenshots/drakguard/

I hope I have helped, and I would like to see the solution in the Ubuntu-tweak. This will make it even more attractive.

Thank you.
Fred.

By Fred on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply

TualatriX
Thank you. I used an image editor. The programs below can be used as a basis.

1. Parental-control of Ubuntuce
2. Timekpr
3. Drakguard of Mandriva.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Security/Parental-control-24501.shtml
http://ubuntuce.com/
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ipblock-graphical-ip-blocker.html
https://launchpad.net/timekpr
Mandriva Linux / drakguard
http://people.mandriva.com/~blino/screenshots/drakguard/

I hope I have helped, and I would like to see the solution in the Ubuntu-tweak. This will make it even more attractive.

Thank you.
Fred.

By Fred on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply

Hello TualatriX. I created another idea. I hope you enjoy. It is managed for shortcuts.
Fred.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3606/3321976817_b79bc660bb_o.jpg

By Fred on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply

Hello TualatriX. One more idea. A manager device. Practical and easy viewing. On Linux, we have an overview of the devices. We do not know which are not properly configured. It would be good to have ubuntu-tweak this tool.

View the idea
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3652/3322190287_5c60531e4a_o.jpg

By xfce on Mar 5, 2009 | Reply

Excellent work!
I wanna have a list of softwares and services of ubuntu tweak, so you can list them on this blog!
Thankx

By amd-linux on Mar 11, 2009 | Reply

Another very useful tool:

KeyPassX is a password manager that is cross plattform (Win, Mac, Linux) and very useful.

http://www.keepassx.org/downloads

By Manish Mahabir on Mar 15, 2009 | Reply

It would be wonderful if you could add support for cinelerra-the most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux…ubuntu repo here:
http://cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php#ubuntu

and Blueman a GTK+ Bluetooth Manager

Blueman is designed to be simple and intuitive for everyday bluetooth tasks such as:

* Connecting to 3G/EDGE/GPRS via dial-up
* Connecting to/Creating bluetooth networks
* Connecting to input devices
* Connecting to audio devices
* Sending/Receiving/Browsing files via OBEX
* Pairing

Blueman also integrates with Network Manager 0.7, making any Bluetooth Dialup/Network connections available (via HAL) to Network Manager.

repo here:
http://blueman-project.org/downloads.html

Thanks for your wonderful contribution !
Three cheers for Ubuntu Tweak!

By Manish Mahabir on Mar 15, 2009 | Reply

today an article “Extra Repositories for Ubuntu 8.10 You Might Want.” made it to digg front page…you might want to have a look…
http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/03/extra-repositories-for-ubuntu-810-you.html

By Captcha on Mar 16, 2009 | Reply

are already all the points of gtweakui included? http://gtweakui.sourceforge.net/ They are installing 4 single menu items and blowing up my settings list.

By pikolo on Mar 17, 2009 | Reply

A great idea is select Tool to AUTOmount discs or partitions in fstab in the boot. Like NTFS.

Maybe using cat /media/.hal-mtab

Thanks for this great tool

By Fred on Mar 25, 2009 | Reply

Good idea
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2645/
1074 / votes

By manishmahabir on Mar 27, 2009 | Reply

eagerly waiting for a package for jaunty…

By Tim Westcott on Mar 27, 2009 | Reply

Hi there

First of all I would like to applaud your efforts, Ubuntu tweak is a brilliant application with ever increasing uses. It would be great if it were to work more completely with other window managers such as XFCE and OpenBox, I’ve made the switch on my netbook to Openbox to preserve resources and unfortunately Tweak doesn’t work as well (or completely) as it does under Gnome. That said, I wouldn’t expect you to put much work into an openbox implementation as few users are using it, however there is a reasonably large user-base on XFCE who cannot enjoy the full usefulness of Ubuntu tweak.

Keep up the good work.
Tim

By JDS on Apr 1, 2009 | Reply

GREAT WORK! Ubuntu Tweak is a well made, well thought out tool that really should be included in Ubuntu by default.

Thanks!

By Max on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply

it’s missing the famous game dofus in your repository, it’s’ a flash game close to warcraft ! i miss it !! please !!!

By Eric on Apr 12, 2009 | Reply

Yeah…usplash theme modifications would be great.

By Stan on Apr 13, 2009 | Reply

Have support for CrunchBang Linux and an alternative (perhaps for information/ version/ customizable) Appearance settings? (Sure, Ubuntu has nice managers by default, but think you can unify them in one place and better it ?)

By Stan on Apr 13, 2009 | Reply

(Oh, and if #! Linux is installed, make sure to include the issues mentioned in the FAQ: http://www.crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/faq

Especially the:
I installed X application. Why can I not find it in the menu?

The Openbox menu in CrunchBang does not automatically update when you add new applications. To change your menu, right-click anywhere on your desktop and select “Preferences → Openbox Config → GUI Menu Editor” and enter a new menu item for X application.
How do I go about getting an auto updated menu in Openbox?

The Debian menu is disabled in the default CrunchBang install. Follow these instructions to enable it:

*
Open the file ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml and find the following section near the bottom:

<!– system menu files on Debian systems
/var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml
debian-menu.xml –>

Change it to look like this:

/var/lib/openbox/debian-menu.xml
debian-menu.xml

Save the file and exit.

*
Install the menu package with the following terminal command.

sudo apt-get install menu

*
Add the following line to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml where you would like the menu to appear:

*
Restart or reconfigure your Openbox session.

)

By peaceman on Apr 24, 2009 | Reply

Can add the function to change the size of icons on the desktop?
您好，是否可以增加桌面图标的大小修改功能，默认的桌面图标感觉大了，我每次都要进配置管理器，
在/apps/nautils/icon_view将default_zoom_level从standard该为small，希望能在ubuntu中添加，谢谢

By Eric on May 2, 2009 | Reply

FIrst, thank you for this great apps, i wish you will take into consideration my suggestions.

There is a concept of optimisation unknow under linux : Optimize the xml (in gnome, like registry optimisation under windows),
the old script ( may cause some bug) http://gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1397 .
I think a tool like that may be usefull, a tool (or a bash/python script) that will optimize the gnome/apps xml.

You can find some usefull tweak for ubuntu tweak :
http://code.google.com/p/eee-ubuntu-support/source/browse/trunk/tweak-gnome.sh

This should be said to all user : the choice of your interface, plugin, options, icon, theme will make your computer more or less responsive, IT IS YOUR CHOICE (by default gnome or other can run faster).

A basic tweak but can boost you computer :-install and select xfce/xfwm theme it is compatible gtk/gnome (a great improvement)
Some big Icon theme can also slowdown ubuntu.

Concerning the softwares : Maybe you could add :
- Media player : Songbird http://getsongbird.com/
- Some DVD/video ripper like ogmrip (allready in canonical)
- Tv broadcast : Kaffeine and Metv
- Dvd : mandvd
- Freenet : http://freenetproject.org/
- Gnunet : http://www.gnunet.org/
- Apt-p2p : http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p/
- Debtorrent : http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/

- Add Wine repository : http://www.winehq.org/download/deb
( with a little comment on winetricks ? http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks )

-DJL, important for “gamers” and to attract “windows gamers” (in french “depot jeux linux”, “Linux game repository”, the program and the games are in english) composed of more than one hundred game fully and easily downloadable (freely)
http://en.djl-linux.org/

It could be usefull if we can select multiple type file, and select the right application.

I know ubuntu allready does it : but a little nautilus script in order to edit the sources list, could be REALLY USEFULL. Simple but necessary.

“Edit sources.list”
#!/bin/bash
#
script-worker open /etc/apt/sources.list root

An “Image resizer” script should be usefull.
http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/index.php

I don’t know if there is a need of an defragmentation tool : but you can propose it, never neglige the psychological aspect. ( e4defrag )

Maybe you can create ” a security tab” where you propose some security tool, for instance (they are allready on canonical repository) :
-Noscript (for firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/722
-Adblock Plus https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/1865 ( adblock can also be a security tool that block malware domain, but can slowdown firefox http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions )
-Chkrootkit http://www.chkrootkit.org/
-rootkithunter http://www.rootkit.nl/projects/rootkit_hunter.html

And for the “psychological aspect” (don’t neglige it) : you can add some link to free antivirus under linux (in any case it could be usefull on a server proxy, mail proxy)
http://www.clamav.net/
http://p3scan.sourceforge.net/
http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-for-linux-edition.html

“firewall” :
-Should be installed by default with ssh : fail2ban http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
-Firestarter (netfilter ) http://www.fs-security.com/
-Tuxguardian (host/application firefwall) : http://tuxguardian.sourceforge.net/
-Gufw http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/index.html

Truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/
with easycrypt http://www.squeezedonkey.com/wiki/linux/index.php?title=EasyCrypt

You begin to allow “custom theme modifications” with the splash screen, i think you may continu with gfxboot, theme and icon :
- gnome-art
(this is really well done under kde …)

THank you for ubuntu tweak !

By Lutfi on May 4, 2009 | Reply

Many good themes for Ubuntu ready on PPA here. I think is good if you put on 3rd party software source:

http://francois.vogelweith.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=18&Itemid=23

Also for WinFF (http://www.winff.org) for multimedia conversion format.

And SMPLayer (http://smplayer.sf.net) for multimedia player.

O yeah. What about apt-cacher? Any easy way to change every line on sources.list or sources.list.d using apt-cacher server?

By UTweak Newbie on May 4, 2009 | Reply

Glorious tool – thanks a lot!

Tooltips giving a few more details for the respective settings would be most useful.

PS: Under System > Nautilus, “privilege” is misspelled.

By Eric on May 6, 2009 | Reply

Oh i forgot ,

We need a real tool that can mount ISO, NRG , …
I suggest AcetoneISO

http://www.getdeb.net/release.php?id=4256

There is also “gmountiso” but it is really basic, it can only mount .iso.

If you want something that basic use a script :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87369
or
http://rob.pectol.com/myscripts/iso-mounter.sh.txt

I forgot playonlinux : http://playonlinux.com

A great idea is to create a “Desktop profile”, and i suggest also to create suggested profile : for performance/usability, usability/design, “high profile”, and “custom profile”.

I suggested a lot of thing :d

One more time thank you for Ubuntu Tweak !

By Amarpreet on May 8, 2009 | Reply

Add the ability to configure and install “powertweaks” to keep the Ubuntu Systems at peak performance!

By Eric on May 10, 2009 | Reply

Hello Tualatrix how are you ?

You cannot imagine what “tualatrix” means in french :d

Nevermind !

I worked on the “Desktop Xml Optimisation” or if you prefer the ” Desktop Xml Tweak” :
You can find my updated script here :

http://eric.chaudy.free.fr/wordpress/wp-content/Ubuntu_Tweak.zip

They all work now.

I created “_global-optimisation” (and home optimisation).
They working fine and no problem after running but
It is Buggy : i mean, the bash script create wrong tmp directory (because there are spaces in the name directories).
This is Still in beta.

The xfce tweak i told you :
apt://gtk2-engines-xfce
apt://xfwm4-themes
(then choose a xfce4 theme)
And if we want to read benchmark between different gtk-engines :
http://gianvito.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/gtk-engines-benchmarks-whats-the-fastest/4/

As you can see there are other gtk-engines (allready in canonical repository).

So this is a good tweak, for ubuntu tweak.

DO you know that gnome can change automatically wallpaper with a xml file ? This is a tweak with no extra software.
You can see how it work here :
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/All+Day+Long+(Animated+Wallpaper)?content=83443

A small tool to choose wallpaper and when they appears is great idea.

An other tweak : I think it could be usefull a gnome terminal configured like that:
Ctrl + Tab : open a new tab
Ctrl + C : Copy
Ctrl + V : Paste

By Will on May 17, 2009 | Reply

2 of the same screenshots on http://ubuntu-tweak.com/screenshots

haha

By Hakim on May 20, 2009 | Reply

Ubuntu Tweak it’s an Of the amazing Project of Ubuntu But UbuntuTweak Want a good job to become great and easy to use

I want Ubuntu tweak whit a small tutorial after install to explain the important tools of Ubuntu Tweak and i want OpenOffice 3.1 in the third parties apps and i want different tools to speed up firefox and INTERNET connexion in Ubuntu

By FRED on May 22, 2009 | Reply

add

sendToImageshack
Nautilus Script

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Send2Imageshack?content=100952

Description:
This scripts allows you to easily upload images or screenshot, and gives you links for: IM, Forums, HTML, Direct, Short, Forums Thumbnail, HTML Thumbnail and Twitter

By Clay Smalley on May 26, 2009 | Reply

Many of the third-party sources available for /etc/apt/sources.list are Launchpad PPAs. One problem is that sometimes someone has already manually set a source in the list, but Ubuntu Tweak does not recognize it. Here’s why:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu
is the same thing as
http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ppa/ubuntu
but Tweak only recognizes one of them. This is true of most Launchpad PPAs. It would be nice if Tweak could recognize either one.

By herkik on May 29, 2009 | Reply

Hi. The Application adder don’t work in linux Mint 7 Gloria.

By Clay Smalley on May 30, 2009 | Reply

Also, with the Third-Party sources, it might be good to say which ones contain proprietary software, and warn the first-time user about them. Or maybe this is already implemented, I really don’t remember.

By VangelistX on Jun 2, 2009 | Reply

Please, add support for Linux Mint 7 Gloria (main edition). After “update” Ubuntu 9.04 to Linux Mint some sections in Ubuntu Tweak don’t work. I’m using the latest version of UbuntuTweak from PPA: Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.7.2.

My system is recognized as Linux Mint 7 Gloria main, whereas it is Ubuntu with some Mint packages installed from the mint repo.

By Sloshy on Jun 6, 2009 | Reply

Add the pidgin and correct compiz PPAs.

Pidgin: the ppa information is located here: http://pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/

Compiz: exactly the same as what you have now, but an added /ppa in between /compiz and /ubuntu.

Also, if it does not already do this, adding the pgp keys for the repos as well would be great so I don’t have to add them myself.

By Sloshy on Jun 6, 2009 | Reply

By the way, here’s the ppa information for Mupen64Plus, currently the most functional n64 emulator for linux:

https://launchpad.net/~bojo42/+archive/ppa/

By Clay Smalley on Jun 6, 2009 | Reply

Make a CLI subroutine that does all this stuff and release it under the LGPL.

Maybe that’s just my pipe dream…

By tibasic on Jun 10, 2009 | Reply

Will the Alpha of Google Chrome for Linux be added to the 3rd Party Software Packages?

By tibasic on Jun 10, 2009 | Reply

Can you also display the extensions on the File Type Manager?

+———–+————+————+
|File Type |Extension |Support App |
+———–+————+————+
|Ogg Audio | .oga |Movie Player|
|Ogg Video | .ogv |Movie Player|

Also would it be possible to add mime types… for example to add .cmg extensions to be supported by klik?

By Dingu on Jun 14, 2009 | Reply

Nice work !. It would be better if it is ported to qt , so that this wonderful app can be used by kUbuntu users too.

By Clay Smalley on Jun 23, 2009 | Reply

Try not to put the default icon in /usr/share/pixmaps. If you can make separate icons of different sizes (and preferably a scalable one too), then it would be better to put them in the appropriate subdirectories of /usr/share/icons/hicolor. That way, other themes can make their own icons for this great application.

By Davim on Jul 1, 2009 | Reply

include launchpad-ppa fix script into ubuntu-tweak:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1056099
or this one:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6700382&postcount=66

thanks

By Sloshy on Jul 8, 2009 | Reply

VLC PPA (for VLC 1.0): https://launchpad.net/~kow/+archive/ppa

By Andrew Tierney on Jul 8, 2009 | Reply

Anyone have a mono 2.4.2.1 PPA that could be added to Ubuntu Tweak ?

By zappete on Jul 23, 2009 | Reply

Hi!! My first comment here. Thanks a lot for Ubuntu Tweak, it is SO useful!

I’d suggest to add the “blur type” key to the windows section (gtk-window-decorator can use the blur plugin of compiz), the gconf key is

/apps/gwd/blur_type

possible values: none all titlebar

At least for me, this was disabled by default, which does not make much sense if you enable blur and transparent decorations!

Thanks again!!

By Sloshy on Jul 24, 2009 | Reply

Webkit PPA: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

By TheBootroo on Jul 30, 2009 | Reply

could you add some ppa :
- inkscape 0.47
- blender 0.50
- synapse
- qt (last version with sdk and qt creator)
- get deb
- playdeb

and some fonctions :
- configure grub/grub2 in graphically way
- a tool to get missing keys : we paste key given in synaptic message, and unbuntu tweak download it and add it to synaptic
- a tool to force mounting of corrupted ntfs volumes
- a tool to configure html boby of gnome clock applet (in graphical way for exemple with two bounded lists and up/down buttons to select and order day, month, month number, week number, seconds, hours, years …) and then change is color using is html notation ( color=#xxxxxx )
- add giver and qtcreator in programs list
- a simple way to configure deb-alternatives
…..

solve definitly python import errors (maybe in rewritting ubuntu-tweak in C++/qt : i could help you)

By zerothis on Aug 5, 2009 | Reply

Easy access to the hosts file would be nice. You know, the file that lets you reroute all traffic from spammer.net to 0.0.0.0 so it will not only not show anything from spammer.net, but won’t even let spammer.net into your bandwidth from any application.

By david on Aug 5, 2009 | Reply

añadir el repositorio de VUZE

By Cushie on Aug 5, 2009 | Reply

Please add instruction to remove installation (uninstall ugh!)

By Julian on Aug 8, 2009 | Reply

AWESOME!!! thank you for this wonderfull app. ^^

By coskibum on Aug 14, 2009 | Reply

First off thank you very much for your wonderful app.

May I suggest that you add additional information in the computer tab. It would be great if we could see detailed info along the lines of CPUID.com

Again thank you very much for all your hard work!

By SCkyzO on Aug 25, 2009 | Reply

Hi. Congratulation for this wonderfull app

i suggest :
Add launchpad spicebird (fork of thunderbird)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/spicebird/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/spicebird/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

i would like to know when a package is available for x64 in your “.deb store”

add lauchpad guake

By zappete on Sep 2, 2009 | Reply

Tualatrix, as requested, here are the screens:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/998584/without_blur.png
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/998584/with_blur.png

Of course you need the compiz “blur” plugin activated, with “alpha blur” switched on (just tested).

By zappete on Sep 4, 2009 | Reply

Thanks to you!!

By Ian MacGregor on Sep 5, 2009 | Reply

Ubuntu Tweak is extremely handy and should be included in Ubuntu in my opinion. I published a small review here: http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2009/09/review-ubuntu-tweak.html

Thank you for this wonderful app

By Alpimarc on Sep 12, 2009 | Reply

Thanks for this nice soft.

What about giving the way to use config files to add features?
For example, adding a file (with the good format) could add some sources or apps to install?
By this way, it could be easier to use ubuntu-tweak as a personalized post-install soft.

By Xhacker on Sep 15, 2009 | Reply

Real nice app! It would be better if it has a feature to config “grub.cfg”, change boot sequence.

And maybe another feature to config default input method, instead of im-switch.

Thanks!

By Ondra on Sep 19, 2009 | Reply

PPA for Anjuta – the famous GNOME IDE

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jhs.schmid/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jhs.schmid/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Signing key: 1024R/689C6DA5

By Joe on Sep 23, 2009 | Reply

Include “Auto Installer”, “Profiles” or something that would remember what we did with the fresh installed ubuntu (what we added or removed or tweaked, etc.) and would allowed us to save those changes and automatically re-apply them on another fresh install…
(generate some sort of install script???)

By shingeri on Sep 26, 2009 | Reply

Ubuntu tweak is the tool that nowdays is just really required on Ubuntu machines.

i do miss 2 options. The option to restart X. In the previous version of Ubuntu you did do it by holding CTRL+ALT+Backspace but the removed it in jaunty and i think also in the future releases of Ubuntu.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-enable-ctrl-alt-backspace-in-ubuntu-jaunty.html

It would be kind of cool that you only have to activated it by using a check-box.

the 2nd thing is the daily Ubuntu update notification
http://reformedmusings.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/recovering-daily-update-notifications-in-ubuntu-904-jaunty/

Also by using a check-box you could apply it immediately

By FC Truter on Sep 30, 2009 | Reply

SOFA Statistics is a nice program to include in the install and perhaps also the 3rd party PPA section

By Ripps on Oct 9, 2009 | Reply

I don’t know what qualifies to get into your third-party repo list, but I supply ppa’s for git builds gmpc and mpd on launchpad. They are shared fairly often within the mpd irc community and wanted to know if you’d share them as well. I also supply a stable gmpc ppa that allows ubuntuers to install the latest version from debian sid, instead of git.

gmpc-trunk:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~gmpc-trunk/+archive/ppa
mpd-trunk:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~gmpc-trunk/+archive/mpd-trunk
gmpc-stable:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~gmpc-trunk/+archive/gmpc-stable

By Lanch on Oct 10, 2009 | Reply

Hi, since this program is aimed at beginners I would like to see in the “Nautilus” section an option to clear shell history for obvious privacy reason, much like “history -c” does on Bash (but better since with that program “~/.bash_history” still survives with its content intact).

By coolwanglu on Oct 12, 2009 | Reply

提几个建议吧

ppa的key问题还是有点恼人，但是现在karmic有个add-apt-repistory实在好用，可以用这个

还有一些我常进gconf-editor改的选项

- gnome-panel的长宽，动画速度等（比如我原来想把最后一个panel去掉，但是不能直接删，于是按网上方法，设auto hide，然后unhide时间设成60sec )
- 标题栏排布，就是最小化，最大化，关闭，标题文字，图标等的位置
- clock applet的显示格式

我不太知道你的软件定位，所以乱提了一些选项，希望有点用。
ubuntu-tweak很好！加油！

By Daniel on Oct 14, 2009 | Reply

Optimize Ubuntu
– Use apt-build, in conbination with a custom script to build two lists (current installed packages, and build-dep of current packages).
– Test for packages that cannot be compiled and remove them from the list.
– Have a section on Ubuntu-Tweak to configure apt-build to match the CPU and ARCH.
– Install all Build-Dep for current Packages, recompile all packages currently install (prior installing the build-deps).
– Once compiling done remove all build-deps.
– invoke dpkg to force the new packages to install or set local repository and have it with higher priority, install optimized packages.
– Disable local repository once optimized packages are installed.
– When new updates become available have a section on Ubuntu-Tweak to fetch the update and recompile only the updated packages.

NOTE: Recompiling the whole system can take several days.

I would love to see a feature like this on Ubuntu-Tweak.

By shingeri on Oct 24, 2009 | Reply

Eey guys i already posted a suggestion about 2 problems youll see it 7 suggestions above.

One of those suggestions was about the CTRL+ALT+Backspace.

I saw a Youtube videos how you could enable it in 9.10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdKffJCPvb0
Maybe you could edit this option in Ubuntu-Tweak like a shortcut

By dr garden on Oct 24, 2009 | Reply

For me the most useful thing in Ubuntu Tweak is adding third party repos. I just installed Ubuntu Tweak on the fantastic karmic RC and here some repos are missing. This includes Dropbox and the Bisigi themes. Both have repos for karmic on their websites.

Why are they not in the current Ubuntu Tweak release for karmic? It’s kind of obscure that my beloved programs disappear Please add them again and keep the repo database up-to-date. Do you need any help with this? I would love to provide it

By Themis P. on Oct 30, 2009 | Reply

Hello! Great software.

I would kindly ask you if you could add complete KUBUNTU support to it. I use KDE not GNOME. Thank you.

By WIser on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

I saw it mentioned by dr garden so I’ll vote on it too. I’d like to see an easy install for the Bisigi PPA.
http://www.bisigi-project.org/?lang=en

By filip007 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

Just add Tweaks from this list OK…Thanks

http://tuxradar.com/content/make-linux-faster-and-lighter

By Eric on Nov 1, 2009 | Reply

You can adds the getdeb repository :

http://getdeb.masio.com.mx/

There should be interresting things there !

By Eric on Nov 1, 2009 | Reply

Mirror for getdeb repository : http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu/

And playdeb : http://www.playdeb.net/updates/

http://archive.getdeb.net/playdeb/ubuntu/

By filip007 on Nov 2, 2009 | Reply

and…i like to have install option for Kompozer.

http://kompozer.net/

Thanks love you all…

By Eric on Nov 4, 2009 | Reply

Getdeb repository

deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu karmic-getdeb apps

wget -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

Playdeb repos

deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu karmic-getdeb games

wget -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

By Eric on Nov 4, 2009 | Reply

I thought this could help you : http://www.sourceslist.eu/

Huge list of repository.

By coskibum on Nov 5, 2009 | Reply

TaulatriX I saw this site and thought that it was a really cool idea. They allow you to group all the apps you want in a list and then be able to install with one click. Could you do something like that?
http://www.allmyapps.com/ubuntu-9.10/

By pedro on Nov 5, 2009 | Reply

hola uso ubuntu karmic 9.10 ..problema.. hay un error en las lineas a insertar en las lists sources de ubuntu ..falta una linea creo …pero no puedo instalar ubuntu tweak..gracias

By Isaac on Nov 5, 2009 | Reply

A Kubuntu-Tweak – the same as Ubuntu-Tweak, but without the GNOME dependancies, fully dependant on KDE instead.

By Eric on Nov 6, 2009 | Reply

ISAAC , there are allready a lot of stuff for tweaking under kde, right ?

It could be a good idea, but really gnome need this tool a lot more than kde.

By rtz on Nov 10, 2009 | Reply

Please use this new PPA for Docky 2!
ppa:docky-core/ppa

Thanks

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By Blümchen Blau on Nov 18, 2009 | Reply

As I posted in the Questions-Section in Launchpad, I’m not sure if this is as suggestion. So I copy it to this thread:

It would be great if it would be possible to add more shortcuts. The already possible 12 commands are not enough (according to my wishes )
Is that possible?

By Adrian Grzemski on Nov 24, 2009 | Reply

Hello, it could be nice to add more repo, for example with NVidia drivers, Docky files

By xxterry1xx on Nov 30, 2009 | Reply

Performance tweak’s
Security tweak’s
Application tweak’s
Driver Scanner

By janisozaur on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Since you use launchpad’s ppa, it would be wise to include the preferred method of adding software repos in recent ubuntu versions – hasslefree, easy, one line:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
or
add “ppa:tualatrix/ppa” in software repos in synaptic

By Anonious on Dec 12, 2009 | Reply

This software is very excellent !
I think you could adapt it for other *buntu distributions like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and why not for OpenSuse, Fedora, Mandriva…

By Andrea Köth (Karmicbastler) on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply

Hi Tualatrix,
it’s a long time since my last comment here. But I have a new suggestion for this nicce program Ubuntu-Tweak. I would like a tool like Gnome Iconset Builder to be integrated into Ubuntu-Tweak, because I like creating iconsets for gnome and would need a tool for this. Gnome Iconset Builder is not supported anymore and its developer is also not to reach anymore. Emails come back with the note: this account does not exist. So I would be happy, if you could do such a tool for Ubuntu-Tweak and I can’t hardly wait to have this for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

Do you think, such thing is possible for Ubuntu-Tweak??

Greetings
your friend Karmicbastler

By Tim on Jan 4, 2010 | Reply

Hi,

I really love your tool. I got a new PC and installed karmic (64-bit) to it. I added plenty of software sources that you reference. Unfortunately when I try to update the sources several pgp errors were thrown. Did I do anything wrong?

Thanks,
Tim

By coskibum on Jan 12, 2010 | Reply

Tualatrix – can you do something along these lines for PPA’s?

By coskibum on Jan 12, 2010 | Reply

Oophs for got the link…

http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/707-ubuntu-sources-list-generator

By patrick on Jan 20, 2010 | Reply

It would be nice if the user could decide how many items can be added to the gnome places panel before they are hidden in a submenu

see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1066964

By sergio.ub on Jan 21, 2010 | Reply

Please add support for modifying the number of restarts from witch file system control is performed in ubuntu. Some people that switch on the pc 2-3 times a day may find annoying to get e2fsck working every 7-10 days.
i modified the number of starts before automatic control (to 60, originally was every 25 times) using this command:
sudo tune2fs -c 60 /dev/sda2

By J.J. McClure on Jan 21, 2010 | Reply

Any chance Open Office can be added to the source list? It’s a pain to try and update them. Thanks.

By filip007 on Feb 4, 2010 | Reply

This game is not on nobody’s list why is that.

Unknown Horizons
http://www.unknown-horizons.org/site/

By guiodic on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply

Some very useful ppa (gnome-office, bashare, intel, radeon, linux kernel…)

http://guiodic.wordpress.com/repository/

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By Ben on Feb 15, 2010 | Reply

It would be great if you could add a column “dimensions” to Nautilus for sorting pics in landscape or portrait mode. (Scripts Move To and Copy To, unfortunately, don’t work any more).
- Great job, however. Thanks.
Ben

By alex1 on Mar 10, 2010 | Reply

Make it possible to install applications from source.

Have some kind of configuration, that you can set/run; for the package that was downloaded into a specific directory. The configuration would basically allow you to run:

./configure
make
sudo make install

or something to that nature.

then you can find some kind of app tar.gz or whatever(unzip it with the config command or by hand)and install it from ubuntu-tweak.

Just a suggestion, I think it would be kool.

By alex1 on Mar 11, 2010 | Reply

would be cool if ubuntu tweak could run winetricks while showing all the possible apps