Ubuntu Tweak
Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.
As a Ubuntu user, you always get excited when you see something new in Ubuntu world. You play with new applications, new themes, new applets… After playing with them, you may find something break the desktop, and you don’t know how to recover to the original style.
That’s what the Desktop Recovery will help you.
Desktop Recovery is the tool integrated into Ubuntu Tweak to help people safely tweak with desktop settings, and never worry about how to go back.
It has three basic actions:
- Backup: backup the current settings, keep as many as backups you want;
- Recover: recover to the backup;
- Reset: even you don’t have any backup, you can also reset to the default settings;
And what items does Desktop Recovery can backup? Here’s it is:
- GNOME Desktop settings: Panel, Themes, Background;
- Application settings which use GConf: gedit, Compiz, Empathy, Nautilus… You know, almost every desktop applications;
- System components: Input method (ibus), network-manager, proxy…
You can see, Desktop Recovery covers almost everything of desktop/applications.
One thing You MUST know: it will only operate with the setting, not the files related with the setting. E.G. It will backup the setting about the background name, but not the real background file.
Install Ubuntu Tweak in ubuntu
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
How to remove the old kernel versions from ubuntu using ubuntu tweak
- Select “Package Cleaner” on the left and “Clean Kernel” from the right panel.
- Press the “Unlock” button at the lower right, enter your password.
- Select from the displayed list the kernel images and headers you wish to remove. The kernel in use is not listed.
- Press the “Cleanup” button at the lower right to remove the selected kernel images and headers.
