Some time ago I noticed that several programs have no icons in menus though they always had. I really didn’t like the lack of icons in eclipse so I was looking for a solution for this. I found two working solutions. Install dconf-tools and run dconf-editor to set two keys to true: org.gnome.desktop.interface.menus-have-icons org.gnome.desktop.interface.buttons-have-icons Install

Window borders are very thin (1px) since ubuntu 11.10. So here is how to make borders clickable again. I use the Radiance theme, so the file to edit is /usr/share/themes/Radiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml. There you have the values left_width, right_width and bottom_height all with the value 1. Just edit the value to let’s say 3px to make it

If you don’t want a guest account just add allow-guest=false to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

I don’t want my login screen to beep. So I looked for a way to mute it. I couldn’t find a way to do this over a menu or another configuration. After looking a while I decided to move the soundfile away by the following command sudo mv /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg.old Now my login screen is

You can change the button layout the same way as in 11.10. See https://blog.coffeebeans.at/?p=11

changing panels also has not changed since 11.10. See https://blog.coffeebeans.at/?p=16

nothing has changed for this since 11.10. So just see https://blog.coffeebeans.at/?p=47