Remove welcome screen:
configure system tray:
change the settings to show all entries, and fine tune the ones that are displayed:
configure the digital clock to customize date and time display:
customize calendar:
customize Holidays:
Disable desktop toolbox, right click on the desktop:
in the tweaks section, disable toolbox:
switch to Task Manager, right click on the bottom Panel:
select Task Manager, then configure it:
choose :
switch the application launcher, right click on it:
select Application Menu:
configure the Application Menu not to show recent and:
to configure System Settings:
choose the way the icons are displayed:
Increase Font size (helps with high resolution small displays):
Enable the classic double click to perform actions:
Set the task switcher (Alt+TAB) to use large icons:
set the window placement to centered:
very specific to my system is with compositor enabled, the Kwin_x11 using more cpu then graphical application (videos, image manipulation, internet browsing), there are alternative tweaks like:
Tearing prevention: Never is faster
Scale method: Crisp is faster then Accurate
set the default display brightness:
Additional steps:
remove unwanted applications
clean the system journal, locale, etc
configure the update system(number of previous version packages to keep)
reduce the wireless speed to reduce power use(significant impact on laptop battery)
configure Konsole (increase default font size on high resolution displays)
install applications (list in this blog) and check for updates
configure swapiness in systems that have more then 4Gb of RAM, check the current value(default is 60):
to set the value permanently, create and edit the file:
add the line:
display boot text, disable grub quiet mode:
edit grub configuration file:
remove quiet from the line:
to update the grub configuration run:
if the above command isn't available, run:
configure system tray:
change the settings to show all entries, and fine tune the ones that are displayed:
configure the digital clock to customize date and time display:
customize calendar:
customize Holidays:
Disable desktop toolbox, right click on the desktop:
in the tweaks section, disable toolbox:
switch to Task Manager, right click on the bottom Panel:
select Task Manager, then configure it:
switch the application launcher, right click on it:
select Application Menu:
configure the Application Menu not to show recent and:
to configure System Settings:
choose the way the icons are displayed:
Increase Font size (helps with high resolution small displays):
Enable the classic double click to perform actions:
Set the task switcher (Alt+TAB) to use large icons:
set the window placement to centered:
very specific to my system is with compositor enabled, the Kwin_x11 using more cpu then graphical application (videos, image manipulation, internet browsing), there are alternative tweaks like:
Tearing prevention: Never is faster
Scale method: Crisp is faster then Accurate
set the default display brightness:
Additional steps:
remove unwanted applications
clean the system journal, locale, etc
configure the update system(number of previous version packages to keep)
reduce the wireless speed to reduce power use(significant impact on laptop battery)
configure Konsole (increase default font size on high resolution displays)
install applications (list in this blog) and check for updates
configure swapiness in systems that have more then 4Gb of RAM, check the current value(default is 60):
cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
to set the value permanently, create and edit the file:
sudo nano /etc/sysctl.d/99-swappiness.conf
add the line:
vm.swappiness=10
display boot text, disable grub quiet mode:
edit grub configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
remove quiet from the line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3"
to update the grub configuration run:
sudo update-grub
if the above command isn't available, run:
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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