Tweak your Ubuntu easily with Ubuntu Tweak

By Santhosh on May 11, 2010

Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide. At present, it’s only designed for the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and always follows the newest Ubuntu distribution. It is really an easy to use utility with easy access to all the required settings needed to tweak your Ubuntu desktop. In other words, this will bring in all the settings and options required to tweak your Ubuntu under one single program.

Here are the features Ubuntu-Tweak:

View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)
GNOME Session Control
Auto Start Program Control
Quick install popular applications
A lot of third-party sources to keep applications up-to-date
Clean unneeded packages or cache to free disk space
Show/Hide and Change Splash screen
Show/Hide desktop icons or Mounted Volumes
Show/Hide/Rename Computer, Home, Trash or Network icon
Tweak Metacity Window Manager’s style and behaviour
Compiz Fusion settings, Screen Edge Settings, Window Effect Settings, Menu Effect Setting
Set the Shortcuts to archive quicker access your favourite applications
GNOME Panel Settings
Nautilus Settings
Advanced Power Management Settings
System Security Settings
And many other in process…

How to installing Ubuntu Tweak:

Installing Ubuntu Tweak is really an easy process since it provides debian package for installation and it weighs just under 1 MB. Just download the file, open it and install it.