The differences between Gnome and KDE are mainly cosmetic. So all of non-cosmetic bullets here may be applied to Ubuntu.
- After installation of Kubuntu update all packages by executing sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade.
- Remove kde wallet prompt on startup
- Press Alt+F2 then type KDE Wallet Manager
- Right click kdewallet then click Change Password
- Select OK. A prompt will appear. Just select YES
- Bind window+D shortcut to Show Desktop. I’m used to window+D shortcut in windows.
- Go to System Settings->Shortcuts and Gestures
- Global Keyboard Shortcuts
- Select KWin in KDE component and search for Show Desktop
- Beside Show Desktop Action, click global and press window+D
- Disable maximize window when dragged on top and tile windows when dragged to the side of the screen
- Go to System settings->Workspace Behavior->Screen Edges
- Uncheck “Maximize windows by dragging…” and “Tile Windows by dragging…”
- Disable auto switch to next desktop when mouse reaches bottom or top edge
- Go to System settings->Workspace Behavior->Screen Edges
- Change “Switch desktop on edge” to “Disabled”
- Disabled desktop effects
- System Settings->Desktop Effects. Uncheck Enable desktop effects at startup.
- Use oxygen theme. System Settings->Workspace Appearance->Desktop Theme. Select Oxygen
- Install yakuake by executing sudo apt-get install yakuake. I’m a huge fan of drop down terminal just like quake and counter strike.
- Remove countdown timer when shutdown, restart or logout button is pressed. System->Startup and Shutdown->Session Management then uncheck Confirm Logout
- Install pidgin. See pidgin download page. Lunch pidgin after installation then go to Tools->Preferences and set show system tray icon to Always to avoid pidgin to terminate when close button is clicked.
- Follow Paul’s advice to cure kubuntu’s bad looking font.
- Install google-chrome. If default font settings of google chrome doesn’t look good, do the following
- open google-chrome and go to settings or simply type the following in url bar chrome://chrome/settings/
- Search for font and click customize fonts… and set the following
- Standard font = Ubuntu, size is 16
- Serif font = Nimbus Roman No9
- Sans-serif font = Nimbus Sans L
- Fixed Width font = DejaVu Sans Mono
- Minimum Font Size = 13
- Encoding = Western (ISO-8859-1)
- Currently, latest git of ubuntu is 1.7.x. To install Git 1.8.0.1. See
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/git-ppa-for-ubuntu
- Install Oracle Java 6 in Ubuntu via PPA
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install oracle-java6-installer
- I’m not comfortable using linux fonts in IntelliJ. Consolas font is not included in mscore true type font package of ubuntu too. So I searched the net and found this link installing-vista-fonts-in-ubuntu. Ubuntu light also looks good in idea.To make idea text look good add the following entries to idea/bin/idea.vmoptions
-Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd_hrgb
