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Hi,
There's a very useful tweak tool called "Ubuntu tweak" for Ubuntu O.S.
Is there something similar for Mageia?

Thanx!!

If you tell us what you want to tweak, we can give you the instructions.

AFAIK such a generic tweak tool is not availablefor Mageia.
But it shouldn't be necessary, if there are good default settings

Hi,
Thanx for replaiyng so fast.
There's nothing in particular I want to tweak.I Used to have a tweak tool when I had Mandriva I want to reinstall it but I don't remember it's name...

Bye!

Reminds me of the notorious "Tweak your Windows" tools for people who could not edit the registry by themselves. Then they used those tools, never knowing what they were doing.... (some of the bad reputation of older Windows versions actually originated from crashes caused by such people).

"Tweak your Mageia" would be a nice title, though, for a wiki page with useful hints and tipps&tricks!

When you don't know what to tweak then you don't need no tweak tool, that's a clear case

Having Googled for Ubuntu-tweak it seems to be a centralised configuration tool.
Kinda like Mageia Control Centre plus KDE Control Centre, but only for Gnome.
http://ubuntu-tweak.com/about/

Pclinux os has adapted ubuntu tweak to work on pclos. It will install on mageia. its called pclinux tweak. Actually ubuntu tweak really does not tweak the system its ahandy tool to change a few settings.Mostly gnome and nautilus. In ubuntu it will also help you install some prorams with correct dependencies . With updated versions. The pclos version is cut down alot.

So, what does it do that MCC and the settings in KDE / Gnome do not?

bigdavesr wrote:Pclinux os has adapted ubuntu tweak to work on pclos. It will install on mageia. its called pclinux tweak. Actually ubuntu tweak really does not tweak the system its ahandy tool to change a few settings.Mostly gnome and nautilus. In ubuntu it will also help you install some prorams with correct dependencies . With updated versions. The pclos version is cut down alot.

Hi,
Pclinux tweak works fine.
Thanx very much indeed!!

Bye!!

wobo wrote:So, what does it do that MCC and the settings in KDE / Gnome do not?

I would also be interested in that.

Hello,
Sorry for picking up this old thread but as a newcomer to Mageia 2 i586 KDE desktop, I too was wondering whether there's anything like "Ubuntu Tweaks". In particular, the "Janitor" function that used to wipe clean lots of unused packages, Google Chrome's cache, old-kernel header packages. After running it, I would benefit with a 2 or 3% decrease in occupied HD space. In Ubuntu I once used a software called BleachBit but don't know if it is available for Mageia2. Is there anything similar already installed in Mageia that I don't know of? Or otherwise, can anyone suggest a similar tool that can be installed via "Install & Remove Software"?

I believe Bleachbit is more of a GNOME tool. For KDE try sweeper which is also available from Mageia media sources.

I try very hard not to use command lines in Mageia and MCC has proven the best interface I've come across. I am sure that anyone (not using beta (cauldron) releases) will find MCC more than sufficient.
Anyway, there will be commands like "urpmi --clean" and others that will help what you wanted.

And as a long time user of Ubuntu, I find other "extraneous" programs like grub-customizer, ubuntu tweaks, super grub, burg-grub, etc not only unecessary, but can (and do) cause problems later on as upgrades cause dependency/conflicts, etc. Just use "apt-get autoremove, apt-get autoclean, ..." for your needs.

This is where Mageia stands out (and the easy installation of proprietary drivers and ....)

Cheers.

So, what does it do that MCC and the settings in KDE / Gnome do not?
I would also be interested in that.

me too, in addition.........."what does ubuntu tweak that the ubuntu OS cannot?"

Best don't rely on such external tools, mostly you're only treating symptons instead of the cause.

Remove many unused packages - why they are still installed if you don't use them, or why did you install them in the first place?
Better sort packages by used space and sort descending, and go through the list from the top, much more effective.
And start from a minimal install (from Dualarch CD or Netinstall) and only add the packages you really want/need, then there's
no need to remove some superfluous packages.

If you often want to clear your browser cache - why have a browser cache in th first place, you let it write to RAM or disable the cache.

The only valid point is removing old kernel packages which are not in use - that is partly handled
via a pending feature for Mageia 3: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:Limi ... ed_kernels

digigold wrote: [...] For KDE try sweeper which is also available from Mageia media sources.

I think I'll go with this one. Many thanks, digigold!

Bleachbit is DE agnostic and does quite a bit more than Sweeper.
You can find bleachbit in the mageia repos (use "Install and Remove Software").
Read more about bleachbit at: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/