Wednesday, April 20, 2011

My GNOME customization script

I find myself reformatting my computers dozens of times a year. Don't ask why. So after many lost hours I created a script that completely sets up a new Debian or Ubuntu computer. It sets every bit just the way I like it. Unfortunately I can't post that entire script because it's deeply entangled with various passwords, system-specific info, etc. So as a compromise I teased out my GNOME customization stuff and am posting it as a standalone script.

There are two things you might find useful about the script:

  1. It makes gconf changes as root, something that's tricky to do. While that isn't really necessary for GNOME customization, my full setup script needs to run as root.
  2. It incorporates a bunch of customizations, some of which you may wish to automate too.


Can’t see the code?

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