Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Tweaks

Today's Ubuntu tweaks were to get my desktop background shuffling script to run at startup.

For example to get firefox to launch at startup use 

  sudo cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart

(thanks http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/09/automatically-startup-applications-for-all-users-in-ubuntu-11-10/)
  
So I created a desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Background Image Shuffler
Comment=Periodically change the desktop background image
#Icon=
Exec=python /home/hobs/bin/looping_shuffle_background_photo.py
  #Terminal=true
#NoDisplay=true
Type=Application
Categories=
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=90
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=looping_shuffle_background_photo

Also I liked this gnome tweaking suggestion
  
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

(thanks http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html)