How can I create a fortunes file and add it to the fortune* command on the shell?
*Fortune - "console command to print a random, hopefully interesting, adage."
There are a couple of applications that I find myself marking as "Always on Top" every time I use them, so I wonder if there is a way to automatically set them as so, whatever way I start them (menu, shell, gnome-do)?
Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu?
If it makes any difference, I want to recover a Keepass 2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/tool that works on any kind of file.
Every time I reboot my machine the brightness goes back to 100% in Gnome. I wish it would keep the last setting. Is there anyway?
What are your tips for improving overall system performance on ubuntu? Inspired by this question I realized that some default settings may be rather conservative on Ubuntu and that it's possible to tweak it with little or no risk if you wish to make it faster.
This is not meant to be application specific (e.g. make firefox load pages faster), but system wide.
Preferably 1 tip per answer, with enough detail for people to implement it.
A couple of mine would be:
- Install Preload (via Software Center or
sudo apt-get install preload); - Change Swappiness value - "which controls the degree to which the kernel prefers to swap when it tries to free memory";
What are yours?
PS: Since this is not intended to have a unique answer but rather, several useful tips, I'm making this community wiki out-of-the-box.
With previous versions of Ubuntu (using Ext3 filesystem) I used to tune it for better performance with noticeable results by setting the noatime parameter in /etc/fstab.
Is it still worth it to do that with the Ext4 filesystem, which is now default in Ubuntu? If so, does the procedure changed in some way?
An example of this tuning can be found here.