Author: Maurice Ruckman

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Tweaking Linux Lite

It takes quite a while to update, for a NetBook the default font was set to 14 points by using: "Appearance"

For Live CD, the username is the upper left hand corner, for example "ubuntu" with a blank password.

 

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Unity Missing After Logon

Refer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/453482/update-to-14-04-unity-is-not-loading-after-i-login-to-the-admin-profile-after

Switch to terminal (CTRL+ALT+F1) then removing the configuration file ~/.config/dconf/user like this :

Note: You may want to back them up before deleting them; however, this is a binary file, so you cannot edit it manually.

$ sudo service lightdm stop
$ rm ~/.config/dconf/user
$ sudo service lightdm start

You can use the following to backup and restore the configurations in the future, and even put them into a repository such as git.

$ mkdir -p ~/Documents/Backups/config/dconf/user.d
$ dconf dump / > ~/Documents/Backups/config/dconf/user.d/complete.conf
$ cat ~/Documents/Backups/config/dconf/user.d/* | dconf load /

Refer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/72070/how-do-i-change-dconf-keys-without-a-gui-for-a-post-install-script

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.session show-real-name-on-panel false

No, it will not be deprecated. dconf replaced gconf which will be deprecated. gconf can be changed with gconf-editor or gconftool-2. dconf can be changed with dconf-editor or gsettings.

Quick Tutorial to backup and restore the settings:
http://catern.com/2014/12/21/plain-text-configuration-gnome.html

dconf dump / > ~/.config/dconf/user.d/everything.conf
cat ~/.config/dconf/user.d/* | dconf load /

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Ubuntu Add Spell Check to Nano

Refer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/48920/getting-error-with-spell-check-in-nano

Adding spell-check to nano, you can invoke by Ctrl+T

$ sudo nano /etc/nanorc

And uncomment the following line:
set speller "aspell -x -c"