Linux is known for letting users configure settings to customize nearly every aspect of their desktops. In the past, this has largely been relegated to the more advanced crowd, since it often required editing text-based configuration files; but as Linux becomes more mature, many GUI programs are being written to allow easy customization of the user interface. The Nautilus Actions Configuration utility is one such program that lets you add custom commands to the right-click menu in Nautilus, the default file manager in Gnome.

To do this we only need to change two lines in the Configuration Editor. Here's how to do it:

1. Press Alt + F2 and enter:

gconf-editor

2. In gconf editor, navigate to apps > panel > applets > clock_screen > prefs

...the humble Gnome editor is often compared to Windows notepad app. A simple editor with minimal features that is pathetic for anything else.

Not true!

*nix-style is a GNOME graphical interface for configuration options in your system or current user account. It makes no attempt to be comprehensive, nor does it focus on options that are available from the desktop menus or GNOME system utilities. Instead, it concentrates on lesser-known configuration options, such as customizing the bash prompt or suppressing the initial splash screen in GNOME.

Docky, the new GNOME Do interface in the form of a dock, is getting more and more used and causes sensation among GNU / Linux users.

I’m a relatively new GNOME user, but as a long-time KDE and Windows user, and a single panel at the bottom, with some sort of menu on the left hand corner just “makes sense” to me. I’ve often wondered why more of the popular Linux distro’s don’t adopt what most new user’s to Linux would feel as “normal” as a default layout.

Nano is a popular and user-friendly text editor for console which is mostly used for editing quickly configuration files, sources or various other text files. It does not compete with advanced development environments like Vim or Emacs, but it's fast and easy on resources.

"I enjoyed reading Mark Pilgrim's "My Good Easy" blog post last year. In it, he described his Linux configuration and included links to all his main configuration files. I wanted to try out the new Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron release so I decided to re-create my Linux configuration on an older Windows laptop that I still have. The key things to note about my Ubuntu configuration: ..."

Gnome Shell consists of two big parts: the panel and overlay. The panel part is pretty much obvious - system tray, user name, and clock stuff and the activities button which activates the overlay -, and about the "overlay", well, take a look at this screenshot: