Change 'Ubuntu Desktop' String

Sabniveesu Shashank shashank at linux.com
Wed May 7 15:19:35 UTC 2014


Lol!
It worked.

I see we're just cheating the system that our required string is a
translation of "Ubuntu Desktop". Yet it serves the purpose.

Is there a way to change it as in "change it" than just 'translate it'?

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On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Jkhatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Tuesday 06 May 2014 08:57 AM, Sajan Parikh wrote:
>
> Anyone know if there's a way to change the string in the title area of the
> panel when all windows are minimized?
>
> http://i.sajan.io/1399346631.png
>
> 'Ubuntu Desktop'
>
> Don't care if an update might overwrite it, just wondering where that
> string is located.
>
>
>
>  Great, :-)
>
> [1] open gedit ( or any other text editors of your choice ) and insert the
> following
>
> msgid "Ubuntu Desktop"
> msgsrt "Mac OS X"
>
> [2] Save that file wherever you like with the ".po" extension ( most
> probably ~/desk.po )
>
> [3] Open up terminal and execute following commands turn by turn
>
>     cd /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES
>     sudo msgfmt -o unity.mo ~/desk.po
>
> [4] Log out and log back in and that string should have changed
>
>
> Thats it ........
>
>
>
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