Ubuntu Tutorials

For all of you that use the nautilus-open-terminal utility, which allows you to right-click on the desktop and quickly open a terminal, you may be interested in this quick-tip.  Thanks goes to a comment on Clint Savage’s blog for pointing this out to me.

In previous releases this utility would open the home directory by default when launched from the desktop.  I’ve noticed currently that this behavior has changed.  If you’d like to toggle this option you can use the following command:

gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir true

Set the value back to “false” if you prefer it to open the Desktop when used.  Enjoy.

I generally don’t jump on the meme bandwagon but I thought this one might be of interest to some of you.  My old co-worker, Clint Savage, jumped on a meme regarding “What’s the first thing you do after installing <distro>?”

I’d be very interested in what my reader-base does after first installing Ubuntu.  Perhaps you’ll discuss it in the Ubuntu Tutorials Forum?

In any case, this is the first command I run after installing Ubuntu:

sudo aptitude install htop nautilus-open-terminal ubuntu-restricted-extras vim-full gnome-do gnome-do-plugins

Did I miss anything?