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optimizes the viewing area in the NetBook

Increasingly, users of these small but powerful devices and more and more people use them with Ubuntu . One of its strengths is its small size, but this in turn is its greatest disadvantage, with screens of between 9 and 11 "and resolutions from 800x600 to 1024x600, every inch of screen that can win will be welcome.

In this article we will see a series tricks and options designed to take full advantage of these small screens and minimize the area occupied by the system. Some of these tips apply to your NetBook, some not, that everyone wants and can decide which to use and which no. I hope that you may find helpful.

Reduce the size of system fonts of 10 points by default to 8 points:

gconftool-2 - set / apps / nautilus / preferences / desktop_font - type string "Sans 8"
gconftool-2 - set / desktop / gnome / interface / document_font_name - type string "Sans 8 "

gconftool-2 - set / desktop / gnome / interface / font_name - type string" Sans 8 "

gconftool-2 - set / apps / metacity / general / titlebar_font - type string" Sans Bold 8 " gconftool-2 - set / desktop / gnome / interface / monospace_font_name - type string" Monospace 8 "

Reduce the size of the panels to 18 points:

gconftool-2 - set / apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/size - Type integer 18

gconftool-2 - set / apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen0/size - type integer 18

Applets that increase the viewing area
Numerous panel applet Gnome designed to maximize the screen of any device, let's see how to take advantage of some of them.

Gnome main menu much space on the panel but can switch to another applet much more compact and offers the same functionality. Eliminates

Menu Bar applet and add the applet

Main Menu

applets space occupied by the Menu Bar and Main Menu respectively The Global applet
menu displays the menu bar of each application in the Gnome panel, saving the space occupied by the bar for each application. Furthermore, this applet serves as a window and changing list of applications, saving even more space on the panel. To install this applet uses the command: sudo aptitude install

gnome-applet-globalmenu

Global

menu applet Applets

Window displays the title bar and control buttons the window into the Gnome panel, saving the space occupied by the bar for each application. You have the packages for Ubuntu and instructions for use in Applets Window GNOME-Look.org

Applets Window

Running full-screen programs

Some programs have on their menus the option of running full screen saving the space for the panel, the title bar of the window and the docks. To enable this feature in all applications and assign the key combination Alt + F11:

If your window manager is Metacity with Order:

gconftool-2 - set / apps / metacity / window_keybindings / toggle_fullscreen - type string "Alt F11"

If your window manager is Compiz from menu:

System - Preferences - CompizConfig Options Manager - Shares of extra window manager - Enable or disable Full Screen - Alt-F11

Options Manager If your window manager is KDE (kwin) right-click on the title bar - Advanced - Full Screen

Kwin
fullscreen

connect a larger monitor
A good way to save some vision is to connect an external monitor, any old 14 "tengais out there will do, but obviously as more is better. In my case I have connected a 19 "monitor that allows a resolution of 1440x900 pixels. From the menu System - Preferences - Screen

can choose the resolution of each monitor separately, the relative position of the 2 monitors if we use them both and which is turned on and off at all times.

In this way we can get differnt provisions: that the image displayed by a single monitor, which displays the same in the two monitors or merge the two screens on a single desktop .

  
   
  Desktop compound: up netbook screen, below the external display

Docks
Although the use of docks is not recommended for small screens there are some users who do not want waive these useful gadgets. If you are going to use a dock trying to follow these recommendations: