Gnome is a graphical desktop environment for 'nix operating systems, most notably Linux and the Java Desktop System which is part of Solaris. Gnome is developed with a focus on usability, accessibility, and developer-friendliness. Gnome was originally developed by Miguel de Icaza and Federico ...
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Linux, make shorcut keys and FN key always active
If I play fullscreen game under linux(ubuntu 12.04 using gnome shell 3.4) I can not use some of my fn keys, nor the gnome shell shortcuts.
For example the Fn+volume, or brightness doesn't work, but ...
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VNC Black Screen
Two weeks ago I installed centos,gnome,xserver and vnc on my vps.
At first time I could start gnome with "VNC Viewer" but now whene I want start "VNC Viewer" vnc connect to vps fine but I have black ...
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Windows in GNOME stuck at top left corner of desktop
I'm using GNOME 2.16 on Red Hat. I was doing some work in the Terminal and, by accident I entered a command that made the windows for all programs to be stuck to the top-left corner of the desktop ...
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Where are the gnome panel launcher logs?
I started adding shell-scripts as launcher to the Gnome panel, and it works like a charm.
However, occasionally stuff in the scripts fail. When the script is launched from a terminal there is a ...
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How can I fix my broken system clock (battery dead)?
I have a very old laptop with a dead battery. So every time I unplug the laptop the system time is reset to 2008.
I installed both Windows 7 and Fedora 16, but every time I boot directly into Fedora ...
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Surrounding window frame disappeared after Ubuntu release upgrade
Surrounding window frame disappeared after Ubuntu release upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS so window maximize, minimize and close icons are not present anymore:
Note: Few months ago I switched from ...
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Issues with Menu Editor in GNOME 3
I'm currently using Fedora 16 w/ GNOME 3. I've created a new application entry for Xilinx ISE using Alacarte.
Here it is below:
The application itself runs perfectly, however there is an issue with ...
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Make nautilus not show desktop via SSH
Most of the days I am connected to my home server (running Debian) via a ssh shell from my laptop. Most of the tasks are done in the prompt, but sometimes I like to have drag-and-drop-file managers, ...
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Disable Linux Mint system start sound?
How do I disable the system start sound in Linux Mint. I am talking about when you are presented with the login screen. There is a sound that accompanies the login screen. I tried to access a program ...
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Recording only one window in Gnomes 3 default desktop recorder
Gnome 3 has great feature under Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R shortcut1. I guess this is Istanbul. It appears that it's not istanbul... Yet I can't find any info about this program.
Where can I find man page? ...
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How can I complete remove gnome and all of its subprograms?
I have Kubuntu 12.04.
And I had installed gnome with sudo apt-get install gnome.
How can I complete remove this?
Looks like just put a sudo apt-get purge gnome will not solve the case. Because will ...
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x11 GNOME theme - look and feel of Apple OS X [closed]
I'm using GNOME that came w/:
[alexus@wcmisdlin02 Desktop]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux release 6.1 (Carbon)
[alexus@wcmisdlin02 Desktop]$
and I was wondering if I can make Apple OS ...
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If I am in gnome and I click logout from the menu during a VNC session, how do I get back in?
I am running a CentOS server. I made an SSH tunnel and used VNC to connect to my server. Then after I was done doing some 'things' I clicked logout from the gnome menu. Well I didn't actually leave, ...
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How to make gnome3 use suspend-hybrid?
How can I make gnome3 use pm-suspend-hybrid instead of pm-suspend when closing the lid or using suspend from the menu?
Thanks in advance for any advise!
EDIT: Please let me know if this question ...
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Gnome file manager Nautilus: How to disable front end search window feature
I am using Nautilus 3.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.
What I normally like to do, if I am searching for all items in a
directory that have names that start with say the letter 'A' is the
following:
Suppose I ...
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Gnome 3 global keybinds gone after update
Yesterday I did a full system update (the old one dates back less than a month) and now all my global keybindings don't work anymore. They are created via "gconf-editor" and are located in ...
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Gnome Shell doesn't display applications
Applications will not show up in Gnome Shell, however they show up on the "Favourites" bar, and can be searched for.
For example, if I search for something spelled incorrectly ("chrmium"), it shows ...
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How to get Gnome to open CD automatically
Having switched from Ubuntu back to Debian (a), the one thing I miss is the auto-opening on CDs when inserted into the CD drive.
There's nothing immediately obvious under System | Preferences to do ...
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Unity on Arch & Gnome Theming
I've recently install Arch for the first time. Woot! I have been a long time Ubuntu user, but I think I'll be able to learn more about linux via Arch. I am comfortable with bash, but specific ...
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Webcam microphone input in Gnome/pulseaudio
Just got a "Trust" webcam, which gets recognized on my Ubuntu Lucid. It has a built in microphone - which also gets recognized - however, I cannot really get it to act as the system microphone input?
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After installing Ubuntu how do I get rid of unity and go back to gnome?
After I have installed the newest Ubuntu LTS release (12.04, still in beta though) I am greeted with an unfamiliar and difficult to use desktop environment. I believe it is called unity. However I ...
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Compiz command plugin won't register keyboard shortcuts
Per this discussion I've enabled the Compiz commands plugin in order to try to bind some keyboard shortcuts to wmctrl actions. CCSM captures my keystrokes just fine, but no matter what keystroke I try ...
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Import (ImageMagick) does not capture overlays
I've been using import from Imagemagick to take screenshot of my second monitor every 15 seconds, and then later assembled the images using mencoder - thus creating a timelapse of what has been going ...
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Add more than one keyboard shortcut for an action in GNOME
How can I map additional shortcuts to an action, without losing the existing shortcuts for that action?
I have some computers running GNOME (some version 2, some version 3) with multiple keyboards ...
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How do I edit previous lines in a multiple line command in GNOME Terminal?
When entering a command which spans multiple lines in Bash, how do I edit previous lines? I'm a Linux Mint (Lisa) user using GNOME Terminal.
For example, let's say I type:
$ echo "foo bar
> baz
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Does Anjuta (for Gnome) show where a variable or function is defined?
For example, if I see a call to a function, how can I see in which file and what line it is defined using Anjuta DevStudio for Gnome?
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Make windows stick to a certain monitor in Gnome 3.2
I'm using Fedora 16 with Gnome 3.2.1 on a laptop with a large external monitor attached most of the time. Obviously I'd like most of the applications to appear on the external monitor while it is ...
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How to remotely open gedit with SFTP URL in Gnome through SSH?
My setup is weird and I can't change it now. I have two machines:
local-machine: it's my desktop running Ubuntu with Gnome
remote-machine: it's one virtual machine, also running Ubuntu but without X
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Unable to boot USB drive created from Live GNOME 3.4 ISO
I have downloaded GNOME 3.4 Live cd (promo cd) from gnome.org, how do I create bootable USB drive from it? I'm using Universal USB installer but don't know which distro to select from the list to ...
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Enabling Compiz Viewport Switcher key bindings
I'm running compiz 0.8.2 with compizconfig on Scientific Linux 6.2 with Gnome 2.28.2. In the compizconfig "General Options" I have "Desktop Size" set as follows:
Horizontal Virtual Size: 6
Vertical ...
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how to disable ctrl + shft + u shortcut for unicode typing on ubuntu (gnome)
The solution seems doesn't work
Also i have switched off any input methods (ibus, xim, etc)
and using gconf-editor disabled unicode-menu.
Still in no way. Any help will be much appreciated.
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How to change the profile of current tab in gnome from command line
If I do this
gnome-terminal --profile=NEW_PROFILE
it indeed changes to the new profile but opens a new window. But I want it to change the profile of the current tab and not pop up a new window.
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There is some error using gvim in Fedora15
The os is Federa 15. gnome3.
I install vim-X11 and input "gvim" in terminal.
the gvim can be used. But the terminal also output some error:
(gvim:4431): Gdk-WARNING **: Using Cairo rendering ...
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Is it possible to change the mount point used for external USB devices from /media to something else under GNOME?
I'm using CentOS 5.x and am trying to change the mount point that get's used when I insert a USB thumb drive or external USB drive. They're showing up under /media/KINGSTON for example. I'd like to ...
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Where to find a plain vanilla GNOME 2.x
I've Googled this extensively and can't seem to find an answer. Where can I find a plain vanilla version of Ubuntu (or anything related) that uses GNOME 2.x? It seems to me like the developers of ...
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How can I get OS/X-like switch windows of same program bound to hotkey with linux GUIs?
On OS/X, Command-~ switches between windows associated with the program with current focus. This is very handy when toggling through a set of browser windows or editor windows, for example. A couple ...
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Linux Mint 12 - How to disable the bottom toolbar (without gnome-tweak-tool!)
If I disable the bottom toolbar from gnome-tweak-tool =>shell extensions => bottom panel extension (=>off), the next time I restart gnome it will somehow merge the bottom panel to the upper panel and ...
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Gnome: Change title of current terminal from bash command line
I know there are options to start a new terminal with a specified title, and that is is possible to change the title from a terminal using the menu: 'Terminal' -> Set Title.
However, I want to change ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 Startup Application Consuming All Resources
I just rebooted after several (about 14 days) of uptime. Now whenever I start, some startup application is consuming all of my memory (8gb) and maxing out all 4 cores of my processor.
I've tried ...
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Gnome3 classic default theme failing in debian sid unstable
The theme components fail once in a while like in the image. I have not modified the theme at all. How can i reset all gnome looks to default case? gnome-tweak-tool dont have an option to change ...
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Can only see part of the screen when connecting via NX, how can I control NX size?
I'm using NoMachine's NX client on OSX 10.7.2 to connect to an NX server running on Ubuntu 10.04.3. I've chosen the Gnome desktop during the connection creation.
The NX screen that opens is smaller ...
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create a slideshow of webpages using gconf [closed]
is it possible to create a slideshow from a number of webpage (content) and perhaps display it in sceenlets. I have a startnig point which is a python script to create a slideshow of gnome ...
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Get tiling windows in Gnome without superuser rights?
Is this possible at all, or do you actually need admin rights to achieve this?
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What is a a good project and to-do manager for GTK Linux?
Can someone tell me the name of a good task managing program?
I tried Tasque, "tasks", "planner", all of these are not sufficient. I need to at least be able to have recurring tasks, which none of ...
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Show window titles in window switcher in Ubuntu
I'm relatively new to Ubuntu/Gnome.
When I used KDE in BSD, I liked how Alt+Tab shows all window titles in a vertical list. I often have 20 windows open, so this is really helpful. I even tried ...
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Some Compiz keybindings not effective
Many of the enabled effects in CCSM have default keybindings, yet when I use them they don't work. For example, Ring Switcher is enabled and the "Next Window" keybinding is <Super>Tab. I hit ...
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Gnome file renaming slection behaviour
to Hi I am using Gnome on FreeBSD. When I go rename a file in Nautilus, I hit F2 and the whole filename and extension is selected (such that typing replaces the whole thing). How can I change this to ...
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Can KDE be made less resource demanding?
I've found the following requirements for running KDE:
Required RAM: 615 MB
Required CPU: 1 GHz
where for Gnome 3.x shell (default mode), it is:
Required RAM: 768 MB
Required CPU: 400 MHz
and ...
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How do I get dwm to use the gnome settings?
I'm using dwm on Gentoo GNU/Linux, but GTK+ applications launched from it don't load the correct GNOME settings (fonts / styles). I've tried setting .gtkrc-2.0 and gnome-session. I can't find ...
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Run script only during gnome session
I have a small python script which runs tests against my server and alerts me using libnotify if there is a problem. It also generates some output for debugging, which I pipe to cronolog. I want ...
