GNOME is a desktop environment/graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system, most notably Linux and the Java Desktop System which is part of Solaris.
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Gnome-Shell, use the hot corner to display Application
I'm currently tweaking my new Gnome-Shell inside a VM before doing it on my current laptop and I would like to know how to display the application drawer when the mouse go on the hot corner instead of ...
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Prevent GNOME from expanding windows
When I click on a GNOME window's title bar and drag it to the top of the screen and let go, GNOME expands the window to be full-screen. I don't like this---I just want the window at the top of my ...
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Enabling mouse in tmux conflicts with paste in X
This question is similar but not identical to tmux -- any way to enable scrolling, but not selection?
I'm using tmux within gnome-terminal. When I use setw -g mode-mouse on in tmux to enable ...
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Linux: automatically unlock SSH keys at login
Under Gnome2/Gnome3/MATE all my SSH keys/identities were automatically unlocked. Thanks to the keychain, I suppose.
Now I switched to Window Maker, a plain simple window manager. I already configured ...
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Gnome 3.4.2: How to display notifications a bit longer
I receive mails via Thunderbird (with extensions FireTray and GNOME Integration) and want to display the "New mail notification" a bit longer.
How can I increase the length of time notifications ...
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Latin characters in a gnome terminal
In vi I type latin-1 characters like ö by doing ctlr-k o:
Can one do something like this in a gnome terminal?
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Red Hat Gnome menubar disappeared
I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, and the menubar has disappeared, as you can see from this screenshot. I'm not sure which setting I modified.
I've removed .gnome config from my home ...
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Gnome/Unity not working
I wanted to try the gnome 3.9 UI on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. So I installed the following ppa
add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I added the following ...
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How to enable mobile broadband in networkmanager applet
I am using Gnome 3.8 desktop. as a previous Gnome 2 user i know that to enable mobile broadband by entering the context menu with Alt + right click.
However with Gnome 3 i am unable to do so .
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How do I get X11 Forwarding to work on Windows with PuTTY and Xming?
I've always wanted to get X11 Forwarding to work with PuTTY, and the X Window System I'm using is Xming. When I have Xming running and I establish a new connection to my server, I receive the ...
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Misplaced letter in terminal [closed]
I have installed centos and GNOME inside a Virtual Box but the letter position is misplaced which look like following picture.
How could it resolved?
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Cinnamon vs. “System Settings” duplicate shorcut setting modules?
I'm running Linux Mint 14 with Cinnamon. I want to change some keyboard shortcuts, so I type "keyboard" in the search bar, and the "System Settings" -> All -> Keyboard menu shows up.
However, if I ...
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focus changes when changing workspaces in gnome 3
When I change between workspaces in GNOME 3 (I use fallback mode) either by using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+arrow_key) or by clicking on the workspace icon in the taskbar, the window with focus is ...
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Gnome sending keyboard shortcuts to an application
I would like to send key board shortcuts from my wm (gnome) to an application (specifically Emacs).
for example If I press Some-prefix-key C-x C-s then I would like C-x C-s to be passed to Emacs ...
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Exclude specific applications from gnome shell theme [duplicate]
Is there a way to exclude specific applications from gnome shell theme? I installed a dark theme that I very much like, but on some applications it looks very wierd and some get even alot harder to ...
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Fedora 18 cannot boot no default ui config
When I try to boot up and install fedora 18 i get the following message...
ISOLINUX 4.05 2011-12-09 EHDD Copyright (c) 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
No DEFAULT or UI Configuration directive found!
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compatible AltTab between Windows 7 and Virtualbox with Ubuntu Linux?
I am running a Virtualbox Ubuntu Linux on a Windows 7 system and use Alt+Tab all the time to switch between windows within the Linux system. I would also like to be able to use an alternative keyboard ...
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Keyboard shortcut to launch applications from the GNOME3 Favourites
I have just switched from Unity to GNOME 3. The main feature I'm missing is being able to launch the xth application on my Unity Panel with Super+X.
Is there a similar set of shortcuts, or a way to ...
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virtualbox refuse to run gnome on i7 computer
Why does my virtualbox on i7 computer, refuse to run gnome? On my other notebook there is no problem, but with i7 I cannot run gnome. I get this error:
opps, something went wrong
I already ...
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install gnome desktop in kubuntu
I am trying to install gnome desktop from kubuntu. So I did this : sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop It ran well but now I am getting this error:
sudeep@sudeep:~$ sudo apt-get install ...
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How to install GNOME 3.8 on my ubuntu 12.04?
I just saw UI of GNome 3.8 and it is awesome. I want to have it, but I don't want to disturb my current setup of ubuntu 12.04. Please tell me if I can install GNOME 3.8 UI on my ubuntu 12.04 without ...
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How to use Gnome Shell with multiple monitors?
I'm desperately trying to make Gnome Shell work with multiple monitors. I'm on Gentoo. I'm using the proprietary ATI drivers.
I did the configuration with the aticonfig tool.
I tried using ...
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nautilus, totem, gcalctool, ccsm icons missing after pacman -Syu in Arch Linux
After running pacman -Syu today on my Arch Linux x64 system, I discovered that the icons in many of the applications were showing the image not found icon. This only seems to be in toolbars and in ...
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Can gnome terminal be set up, to copy selection without prompt?
I often times want to copy a set of commands from terminal, that do not have an output; say a block like this:
prompt$ less file1.txt
prompt$ less file2.txt
prompt$ dhex file2.txt
prompt$ less ...
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How can I show the date in the gnome 3 menubar?
Gnome 3 has a menu bar that includes the day of the week and the time. The date and time settings allow the time to be shown in 24 hour or AM/PM style.
There do not appear, however, to be any options ...
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Reset and clear Gnome Terminal not working
I'm using GNOME Terminal 2.31.3.
I was at work, ssh'ed into a machine at work. I came home and obviously broke the connection, so I want to reset that terminal tab.
There is a menu option Terminal ...
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How do I set up preferred applications in Nautilus by file extension, rather than by mime type?
I regularly work with a few sorts of plain text files, some of these are code files that I want to open in a programmer's text editor, others are large (gigabyte or more) data files that I only want ...
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Removing iceweasel from Debian
On Debian Wheezy, when trying to remove Iceweasel, aptitude suggests, both when I try it via GUI and via aptitude remove iceweasel to also remove the following:
1) gnome ...
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Gnome-Disk-Utility : How to Launch It?
I had gnome-disks installed already.
i needed to install the one from source code however.
i downloaded and configured it and installed it.
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
when i run ...
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Gnome 3 old interface
I'm going nuts! I installed the a newer version of Gnome (it's now 3.5.1), but I'm still seeing the old interface. I want the interface with the "activities" button in the left top corner. Now I see ...
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GNOME-like workspaces for Windows
I worked a lot in the GNOME environment in Ubuntu and really liked it.
But, I had to move to Windows due to some reasons.
Is there any program that can allow to me to switch between workspaces like I ...
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Mate panel opens application instead of caja
I run Mate 1.4.2
When I click 'Home Folder' from 'Places' menu on top it launches easytag application instead of caja. I.e. completely unrelated application.
I have no idea how it happened and have ...
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Move Gnome 3 hot corner
I just added a 2nd monitor to the LEFT of my laptop, keeping my laptop screen as primary. The problem is that the hot corner in Gnome that switches to activities is now in the middle, making it hard ...
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How to remember last window position in GNOME 3?
Whenever I start a GUI application, the application window starts at the upper left of the screen. This is annoying, because I want them to appear at center. I pull them to the center but after ...
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How can I change my gnome-terminal title?
Previously I changed my gnome-terminal title to display which server I was logged into. I don't remember how I did this and I can't change it now.
I ran through my .bashrc and found nothing that ...
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Shift key stays “pressed” in Gnome
I have a Linux with Gnome 2.6.1 which runs a VNC server. I access it only through the VNC and the problem is that when I press the Shift key, it stays pressed (so a cursor movement causes a text ...
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Map ctrl to super in GNOME
i'm running Ubuntu Precise, and I want to perform the following remapping, preferably through Gnome's "System Settings > Keyboard > Layout > Options" menu (though if that's not possible I could fall ...
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Is it possible to customize Evolution (MUA) quotation format?
I'm using Evolution mail client and I'm wondering if it is possible to customize how it formats quotation main on replies, specially the date/sender part.
I do not mind to patch it if necessary but I ...
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How to teach Gnome clse applications gently when shutting down?
Im using Ubuntu Gnome Remix, and I've noticed, that when restarting, the system just kills applications after short delay. So, for example, my recent bookamarks from Firefox get lost, etc.
Does ...
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How can I set emacs keybinding to higher priority than the system?
I'm running Emacs 24 on Arch Linux machine. I want to set the system keyboard layout key binding to be the same as Emacs's (ctrl+\). While there is no problem to do so. When the layout is switched to ...
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linux-mint Font size increased to a large size, now every window garbels display
Hey guys I have made a blunder. While i was playing with cinnamon settings I set the font size to 990 from the font icon available in cinnamon settings. Now I cant use any applications because of the ...
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Inconsistency in keymaps between Skype and the rest of Ubuntu (or, maybe, Gnome)
When I use the US International with dead keys layout on Ubuntu, I type 'c in order to get a "ç". In Skype, however, the same key combination gives me a "ć". I understand Skype relies on Qt (maybe on ...
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Diff-Tool meld can only be started as root
it's confusing. I installed meld as root. I check the permissions:
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin | grep meld
$ -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 4142 22. Feb 14:03 meld
But when I change my user and try to ...
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fix terminal vim colours (on focus lost)
When setting up Ubuntu 12.10 64bit (with gnome-terminal 3.6.0) I noticed that my vim colours mess up in the terminal as soon as the terminal loses focus. Everything is fine when using < C-z> and ...
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Using different .cshrc.user files
I have two .cshrc.user files for two different projects. For example, they set the same environment variables but with different values.
When I'm currently switching between projects, I run a python ...
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Switch between GNOME2 workplases using “office” mouse button
I have A4Tech mouse with "office" button. This button has no any action by default. I would like to switch between several workplaces with it in GNOME2.
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How to fix missing network manager icon in Ubuntu 10.04?
In Ubuntu 10.04, my network-manager icon is gone missing by itself. I use the GNOME desktop.
How can I restore it?
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Ubuntu: automatically shown popup dialog is annoying. Can I disable it?
When I choose 'copy link address' from context menu or just select URL text, following popup dialog is automatically shown.
It is annoying for me because this popup dialog grabs keyboard focus ...
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Why scrolling in Unity is faster than in Xmonad?
I noticed that when I use default Ubuntu's Unity, everything scrolls fast and smooth. By "everything" I mean web-browsers and vim in terminal when I browse source code.
When I use xmonad it seems to ...
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How to automatically mount a file containing an encrypted file system, when a user login?
The file can be mounted manually via 'cryptsetup luksOpen' and 'mount /dev/mapper' but I would like it to be mounted automatically while logging in and by showing a GUI dialog for the passphrase just ...
