http://thelinuxbox.org/news.php?2010/04/25/a-dozen-gnome-themes.html

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/04/15-stunning-linux-desktop.html

You can add the icons to the main menu as follows:

1) In the terminal, call up gconf-editor
2) Navigate to desktop/gnome/interface
3) Scroll down and check the menus_have_icons box.

Done!!

source

cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs

# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

aptitude install ksshaskpass

cat >~/.kde/Autostart/ssh-add.sh <<_EOT_
#!/bin/sh
export SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/bin/ksshaskpass
ssh-add </dev/null
_EOT_

chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/ssh-add.sh
~/.kde/Autostart/ssh-add.sh

source

# vi /opt/ssh/etc/sshd_config
and make sure "X11Forwarding yes" is uncommented. If you made a change to this file, restart the daemon:
# /sbin/init.d/secsh stop
# /sbin/init.d/secsh start

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1092967

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=597312#p597312

sleep 1; xset dpms force off

http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html

download gnome-panel sources and edit gnome-panel/panel-menu-items.c and replace MAX_ITEMS_OR_SUBMENU = 5 with 25, then compile.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1066964

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