9. gdesklets - is a system for bringing mini programs (desklets), such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness
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20. Email System Updates with Apticron Instead of never knowing when your system needs updating or waiting to boot on your system, you can set up for your system to email you when an update is needed. 1 sudo apt-get -y install apticron in Terminal 2 Edit /etc/apticron/apticron.conf 3 Maintain the "EMAIL" setting placing your email in the quotes EMAIL="john@example.com" 4 Each day apticron will run and you'll get an email when there is an update. Example: apticron has detected that some packages need upgrading on: revo1 [ 127.0.0.1 127.0.1.1 10.10.10.124 ] The following packages are currently pending an upgrade: gnome-screensaver 2.28.0-0ubuntu3.5 micromiser-beta 2.1.2-0karmic1
32. Ubuntu enables "Desktop Wall" by default. By holding Ctrl-Alt keys and pressing the left-arrow or right-arrow key each time, it slides through desktop workspaces horizontally for you to choose one to work on. Alternatively, you can change this to a "rotate cube" effect.
33. Go To System > Preferences > CompizConfig Settings Manager
38. Immediately you can rotate your desktop workspaces in this way— holding down Ctrl-Alt keys, EITHER press the left-arrow or right-arrow key OR left-click the mouse and drag it to left or right.