No $HOME Encryption For You! (Ubuntu 18.04)

So, the new Ubuntu LTS release doesn't provide with the ability to encrypt your $HOME during the installation:

The installer no longer offers the encrypted home option using ecryptfs-utils. It is recommended to use full-disk encryption instead for this release. 

Link

What a bummer, man! I was using that option since I don't remember when... And, on top of that, I was using an encrypted LVM too.
The beauty of the thing was ho easy was to do the whole thing, right from the installer, without much fuss you ended up with a fairly secure setup right from the get to...

More Post-install stuff

Set the Emacs key bindings globally on Gnome... A real must.

/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs --type string

Enable the composite manager on Metacity, another must, this one has to be executed each time the box is rebooted, because, even tho the compositing is there, it looses the drop shadow effect for the Panels (the same thing happened on Jaunty as well).

/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager --type bool true

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After the basic install goodies I add:

sudo aptitude install ttf-droid
sudo aptitude install computertemp
sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo aptitude install libdvdreasudo  (after that: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.shd4)
sudo aptitude install vlc
sudo aptitude install emacs22-nox
sudo aptitude install openssh-server

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And now, the icon set!

My favorite Gnome icons are the one from GNOME Colors, but, the latest releases don't really cut it for me... They have a few icons that are not totally kosher with the whole Ubuntu Browns, IMHO.

So I keep using an older release I kept around, so here it goes, the customized package with just the icon set color I like and the version I like.

GNOME Colors customized package (5 MB)

Using this release requires that you issue this after the install, even tho Iḿ using Jaunty:

sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/inode-directory.svg
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/places/inode-directory.png
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/inode-directory.png
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/22x22/places/inode-directory.png
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/places/inode-directory.png
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -qf /usr/share/icons/gnome

And logout or reboot.

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My beloved-always-installed Firefox extensions.

They go along with my two other Firefox "tweaks" right from the get go on any install:
Favorite Firefox tweaks & add ons and the other one, to get the caret the way it should be: Put a little fat onto the caret

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On this one I'm gonna leave aside Emerald, and most importantly, my beloved Human Tiger, for no particular reason, except for trying new things :)

Right now, I'm trying to run my Jaunty as stock as possible can, and using the Human theme, but I've modified the window borders in order to:

- Have square bottom corners.
- Reduce as much possible the border of the screen.

This is the modification I did on the file:

/usr/share/themes/Human/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml

The first line is the original entry, now commented out:

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Re-installed on Monday night...

What can I say? Nothing!!!

I was having a bit of a problems with the system, I suspect it was the EXT 4 file system.
This time, switched back to EXT 3, let's see what the wind brings...