Grub Customizer Lets You Reorder, Add Or Remove GRUB 2 (Or BURG) Menu Entries

Grub Customizer is a new graphical GRUB2 settings manager. For now, it only allows you to edit the GRUB2 menu entries: reorder, rename or add/remove entries. Since these are actually scripts which generate the boot.cfg file, Grub Customizer changes the actual script order and then generates a new boot.cfg so if you then run "sudo update-grub", your customization won't be overwritten.

Even though these are very basic operations, such a tool is very welcome since most GRUB 2 options lack a GUI for easy tweaking.

Further more, Daniel Richter, the Grub Customizer developer plans to add more features in the future, like GRUB 2 recovery functionality for Live CDs or configuring the /etc/default/grub preferences.

Grub Customizer comes with an Ubuntu PPA (the first packages have been uploaded only a few minutes ago) so to install it in Ubuntu (Lucid and Maverick), use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Once installed, you can find it under Applications > System Tools > Grub Customizer.

To download the source code or report a bug, see the Grub Customizer project page @ Launchpad.

Update: Grub Customizer (stating with version 1.1) now supports BURG too!

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How to customize the clock applet in Ubuntu 10.10

If you’re bored with the look of the default date and time applet in Ubuntu why not jazz it up with one of the following themes?

Instructions on how to do are at the bottom but first the eye-candy!

Stacked

http://pastebin.com/eZx6L1QX

Just time

http://pastebin.com/PeMrrnWW

OS X Style

http://pastebin.com/R0cEP5HK

How to change GNOME clock applet theme

• Press ALt+F2
• Type: gconf-editor
• Hit return
• Navigate to “Apps > Panel > Applets > Clock_Screen* > Prefs”
• (* this may be under a different name, just look for the applet that has the correct ‘prefs’ folder)
• Double-click on the ‘Format’ value. Change it to ‘custom’.
• Double click on the ‘Custom Format’ field and paste in the code from one of the styles below.
• Hit return once again and enjoy!

Use any font installed on your system by changing the font on the codes from ‘ubuntu’ to that of your choice (Sans, DroidSans, etc).

If you’ve created your own awesome clock style feel free to share it in the comments below.

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