What's new in Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6? Well... first of all, there is no more Usplash (the boot splash screen). So it appears the the team has successfully managed to fulfill their initial plans for making a faster startup where a boot screen is no longer necessary.

Reseting Gnome Settings

If your gnome-panel corrupt , Application Menu, Places Menu and System Menu and some other menu items will disappear.
How to recover it

Boot the system upto Login Window. Press Ctrl + Alt+F1

Now You will get a Text based login screen

login with your username and password

now you will get a $ prompt.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4 was released today. It doesn't come with new major features except an option to customize the GDM (login screen), which you can use to change the login screen background, logo, disable the user list, disable the login sound and disable showing the restart buttons:

How to achieve a more unified login experience using KDE SC by modifying the KDM Login Screen and the KSplash screen to match your needs.

Here you can see the default login screen for Ubuntu 8.10. You simply add username and password and you have access to the Desktop. Simple, however, as you will see there are many options that can go with this login process. If you will go to System/Administration and select Login Window you will find that you have a lot of options available for login.

Back last month I covered a quick KDE tip on how to set the Num Lock key on when you log in to KDE. While that generally works, it doesn’t cover the KDE login screen (or KDM).

This is the prototype of the Kno a Linux based dual screen textbook replacement shown by californian startup Kakai at at the 8th Annual Conference of D: All Things Digital, otherwise known as D8

Why give away just a computer when you can give away an entire software system? Tinker with our Linux-based operating system, then come back later this week and show off in PM's new user-powered myMod community!

Customize easily your Ubuntu Login screen with different cool themes. [Watch the quick tutorial]