Free as in Time

Here’s useful little utility program for making those little changes to your Ubuntu system that really make it your own, like changing your splash screen. It’s called Ubuntu Tweak, and it exposes hidden or hard to find settings in the Ubuntu desktop.

Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security settings, etc.

Being able to make little changes like these to your own system, and thereby creating the right user experience for you, is, for me, one of the greatest benefits of using Linux. You just can’t customize Windows to the same degree.

Note: It only supports the GNOME desktop. (That’s the default desktop ’system’ for Ubuntu, but not Kubuntu or Xubuntu.)

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