There is a nice gui and a patched notifyOSD available from leolik’s PPA sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik sudo add-apt-repository ppa:amandeepgrewal/notifyosdconfig Update source list sudo apt-get update Now install notifyosdconfig using the following command from your terminal sudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig Using notifyosdconfig Open notifyosdconfig from Applications -> Accessories -> NotifyOSD Configuration Share and Enjoy:

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on our main home computer (wife and kids use it), and Lucid Lynx s LTS which means it should (in theory) be updateable for a long period of time without those nasty 6-monthly dist-upgrade surprises. Little annoyances Apart from having window maximize/minimize/close buttons on the left, having to add [...]

As Ext4 was experimental during the release of Lenny, it wasn’t fully implemented. However, you can mount an Ext4 file system on Ext3 with Debian Lenny, but only in “Read Only” mode. As root tune2fs -E test_fs /dev/XXX mount -t ext4dev -o ro /dev/XXX /mnt/ZZZ I had Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Windows 7 on [...]

The new theme and lay out on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx introduced a new annoyance. When you open an application window, the minimize, maximize and close buttons are now on the left. This is easily fixed with one command in the terminal: Place just the buttons on the right: gconftool-2 –set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout –type string “:maximize,minimize,close,” [...]

**EDIT** – Since Crunchbang changed to a Debian Base, I am now using it as my main distro. I tried to get back into Ubuntu, but neither the forums nor the distro felt the same as when I started using them around 4-5 years ago. Due to having to restructure my freetime; Work, Family, Study, [...]