I have just replaced the Hitachi 160GB 2.5" SATA disk with a Kingston 96GB 2.5" SSD.
Create a boot SDHC using a computer with network access to download the desktop ISO and an SDHC adapter.
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
System Tools ->
Administration ->
Startup Disk Creator
When booting the Revo, press F12 to select to boot from USB card reader.
I dislike Unity:
$ sudo apt-get install gnome gnome-color-chooser nautilus-open-terminal
Log-off, and at the log-on prompt select "Gnome clasic (no effects)" from the little splat-menu by your username, and log-on.
I dislike the dark theme:
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
System Tools ->
System Settings ->
Appearence
And select
Radiance as the Theme.
I want tool-tips that are readable
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
System Tools ->
Preferences ->
GNOME Color Chooser
Switch to the
Specific tab.
Activate the
tool-tip group and set your tool-tip colors (I use black foreground on white background).
At the bottom of the window select the value
Theme Default for the
profile.
Press
apply.
For those who may be interested, gnome-color-chooser will change your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.
I want propper scroll-bars:
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ gsettings get com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode
'overlay-auto'
$ gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
I want the day and date displayed in the indicator in the menu-bar:
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ gsettings get com.canonical.indicator.datetime show-date
false
$ gsettings get com.canonical.indicator.datetime show-day
false
$ gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime show-date true
$ gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime show-day true
I dislike terminal beep
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Terminal menu:
Edit ->
Current Profile...
Select the General tab. Uncheck the
Terminal bell checkbox.
Enable trim and disable writing atime to preserve SSD life:
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
And add the options
discard and
noatime to the partitions on the SSD, like this:
UUID=22c6bea7-d2e6-49fe-8668-102170ebc58b / ext4 discard,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
Install usefull stuff from Ubuntu repository
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ sudo apt-get -y install curl putty filezilla
$ sudo apt-get -y install gparted
$ sudo apt-get -y install git subversion
$ sudo apt-get -y install samba system-config-samba cifs-utils
$ sudo apt-get -y install fuse autofs sshfs
Enable talking to old and insecure NAS server:
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
At the bottom of the
[Global] section, add this:
client lanman auth = yes
client ntlmv2 auth = no
Stop using mdns
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ sudo gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf
replace the line:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
with:
hosts: files dns
Configure autofs
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ sudo gedit /etc/auto.master
$ sudo gedit /etc/auto.misc
Install Oracle Java 6
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ cd ~/Downloads
$ git clone https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6.git
$ cd oab-java6
$ ./oab-java.sh
$ sudo apt-get -y install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-source sun-java6-plugin
Install Eclipse
Download Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers from:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Extract the tar.gz - I put it in $HOME/shared/eclipse
Add Eclipse to the
Application menu
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
System Tools ->
Preferences ->
Main Menu
Add a
New Item to the
Programming menu.
Run Eclipse, then add some more parts
Eclipse menu:
Help ->
Install New Software
Collaboration -> Eclipse EGit
Collaboration -> Subversive SVN Team Provider
Programming Languages -> C/C++ Development Tools
Linux Tools -> Valgrind Tools Integration
Windowbuilder Core UI
Install Wine
Start terminal
Desktop menu:
Applications ->
Accessories ->
Terminal
Type
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.4-i386