Questions tagged [gnome3]
GNOME is a desktop environment / graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME 3 is the latest major release of GNOME Desktop Environment
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Re-enable screen blanking on gnome 3
Running Gnome 3.28. I am having problems with screen blanking. More specifically, the screen is not blanking, and I cannot figure out how to get it to blank consistently anymore. (Sometime, years ...
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Where does Thunderbird store the expand/collapse icons for threaded messages?
I recently resolved this issue but that left me with missing icons in threaded view in thunderbird.
My broken machine has a threaded view that looks like this:
But it should look like this:
So the ...
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Disable quick-search animation in GTK3 File Chooser
Every time I do a quick-search by typing letters into the default file browser dialog of GTK3 applications, it will animate to a search hit if there's any. This wasn't in GTK2 File Chooser and is ...
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Prevent gnome from changing the workspace on focus when using multiple monitors
Currently I'm using two monitors, one for exclusively viewing and editing code, another for doing everything else. I have hotkeys set up to focus on either sublime, or firefox or the terminal like ...
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gnome-shell using 100% CPU
I am running Fedora 21 on my Lenovo X1 3rd gen and I noticed that the process gnome-shell uses 100% CPU almost all the time.
I found that this could be due to a missing graphics driver but this does ...
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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 do you set keyboard shortcuts in GNOME 3 using gsettings or libgnomekbd?
I want to write a GNOME Shell extension that sets some useful keyboard shortcuts when it loads, in particular those related to switching workspaces. I know how to set these easily from system settings,...
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Linux: spurious "New Sink" notification with new HDMI graphics card
My machine runs Linux (Debian unstable) at home. I recently replaced my old NVidia graphics card with a newer beast, a Radeon 5600 XT. Part of this device is an HDMI audio controller, as evidenced ...
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"Pin" a workspace on external monitor (projector)
I would like to have a setup with two workspaces and two monitors (built-in screen and a projector).
I wish to have the second workspace always visible on the projector while being able to switch ...
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Can't enter the password
I have a password in English in Fedora GNOME. There is no correct keyboard input method on the login screen. I tried booting with runlevel 3 to hop onto runlevel 5, but the session finishes in order. ...
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Intel HD graphics 4400 not working properly on Wheezy
Upon login, I get the following message:
GNOME 3 Failed to Load
Unfortunately GNOME 3 failed to start properly and started in the fallback mode.
This most likely means your system (...
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Debian Wheezy - VMWare Player and Gnome3
I have installed Debian Wheezy in VMWare Player 5.0.2 build-1031769 and all is fine. Except the "Failed to load Gome3" messages keep on coming. This is what I did so far:
Installed VMWare Tools (some ...
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Set system time after Suspend
After waking up (after Power Off/Log Out > Suspend) the system time is wrong (either in the future or past).
$ systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd.service
makes it right again. Is there a way to ...
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gnome-shell keyboard shortcuts (or extensions) for switching workspaces by most recently used (MRU) order?
Having recently switched to gnome, I see there's no shortcut for switch to the previously used workspace - only absolute, next/prev (+/- 1), and first/last:
❯ gsettings list-recursively | grep 'org\....
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Gnome 3 notiofication about suspend when suspend is disabled (Debian)
I've disabled all kinds of suspension with sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target. After a while I'm getting Gnome 3 notification:
Automatic suspend
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What is the process responsible for panels in RHEL7?
I have RHEL7 with Gnome 3 and I need a process that is responsible for the top panel with "Applications", "Places", etc. menus on it. There is no such process as gnome-panel or anything similar to ...
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How/where to create GNOME custom keybinding override file?
I've been trying to use puppet-gnome to create custom keyboard shortcuts, with no luck. I've got the following schema:
class keyboard_shortcuts {
$schema_root = 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins....
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Slow Linux Desktop performance in a Virtualbox guest installation
I have a CentOS guest running on VirtualBox with GNOME 3, which is using Windows 7 as a host. This guest is configured to use all 4 of my CPUs, 2GB of RAM (which is plenty), and 128MB of VRAM. The ...
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gnome 3: how to remove delay on window events
Some window events in gnome 3 seem to have an associated delay. I have a fast PC so it's probably a feature of gnome 3:
after clicking the X in the top-right of a window, there is a delay of about 0....
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How to disable the darkening of unfocused windows in Fedora 20? (Gnome3)
When I'm using a window, the other ones become darker.
The problem is I find it annoying because sometimes I need to keep open a manual in Gedit while I type commands in the terminal. The darkening ...
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How to install Dvorak Type 2 (ii) German on Ubuntu using Gnome
Currently I am using standard Dvorak on Ubuntu 13.10 and Gnome 3.10. Unfortunately, writing Umlauts (ä,ö,ü) in German requires me to switch to QWERTY/QWERTZ frequently or forces me to not write those ...
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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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How to set the language in Gnome3?
I have set up Gnome3 on my FreeBSD 8.2 box. Everything is fine, but one small problem: I can't find a way to set a locale. In (System settings - Region and Language - Language) shown only "Unspecified ...
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Create windows which I can cycle with Alt-~?
I can make several Firefox windows (Ctrl-N) and cycle them using Alt-~ (Alt-). Emacs frames behave the same way. I'd like to know how to create windows (system, library, or other calls) which do the ...
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What to do when an Ubuntu auto-update breaks my system?
Yesterday I auto-updated software pushed via Ubuntu Software & Updates. Now my sound is broken and the application launcher thing freezes. I'm on Focal Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. GNOME 3.36.3.
How do I ...
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Cant login to Ubuntu 20.04 with Nvidia drivers installed and Gnome3
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 fresh on my Hard Drive. It would always get stuck before Login Screen (only a purple screen). With the boot option nouveau.modeset=0 in GRUB i could boot Ubuntu normally and ...
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Pidgin frequently disconnects with the message "write error"
Pidgin 2.10.11-7.el7 (libpurple 2.10.11)
Office Communicator protocol
GNOME 3
CentOS 7
Pidgin frequently disconnects.
On the login screen it will print out "write error"
I looked in my home ...
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Gnome3 File Manager Not Working (Debian / Kali)
2 days ago after updating linux, gnome file manager does not open. When I want to open anything under the "places" option at the top (home-documents-download-desktop ...), it tries to open it with "...
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gdm3: hide last user
This is supposed to disable the user list:
gsettings set org.gnome.login-screen disable-user-list true
However, gdm3 still shows a list of the users who were logged in before. How can I disable this?...
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How to configure Gnome 3 on Ubuntu-19.04 Virtual Machine running on my Google Cloud Platform?
I am able to follow these links to configure Gnome 2 onto my VM in GCP successfully.
Installing and configuring Ubuntu Desktop for Google Cloud Platform
Graphical user interface (GUI) for Google ...
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CentOS 7.6 Computer Freezes When Changing Display Settings
I am using three monitors and am having an issue where the primary monitor is off to the far left. When I go into the Gnome settings and try and move the monitors around, it freezes. If I unhook and ...
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Gnome Activities Search does not search in files contents
I added several other folders using the gnome-control-center (and since I am using Ubuntu 18.04, I did sudo apt install tracker before to enable this option). I can search for the files, but only ...
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Gnome3 : remove Alt key behaviour
I am using GNOME 3.22.2 and every time I hit Alt key, I am escaping from the window. It is really frustrating because I cannot hit shortcuts like Alt-f or this kind of things.
How to remove this Alt ...
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Some Readline keyboard shortcuts broken in gnome-terminal?
I'm trying out Fedora 27, and I've noticed they messed around (in an unwelcome way) with the keyboard shortcut in gnome-terminal. Specifically, M-f and M-b don't work. I've tried googling but all I've ...
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"Sub-windows" in CentOS 7.4 GNOME flashes then disappears
After updating to CentOS 7.4, I have been experiencing some issues with sub-windows (not sure if that is the correct term). Let me explain.
Take for instance the Wacom Control Panel. Everything there ...
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How to safely downgrade apache version to one not suitable for current gnome state?
I want to downgrade apache2-bin package from 2.4 version to 2.2.22-1 from some snapshot repository. But there is gnome-user-share pack that depends on apache2-bin 2.4 and, as I understood, the part of ...
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Gnome 3 extensions don't work reliably
I'm using opensuse with GNOME 3. Every time I log in, some of the extensions don't work anymore. Switching the extension ON/OFF doesn't have any effect. I have to log out and log on again several ...
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Remember app selection in gnome3 search
Is there a way to tell gnome to remember app selection in the search?
Let's say I write ter and go and open "simple terminal".
When I search again for ter, simple terminal should be the first option.
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Arch Linux. Gnome 3.22.2. Two-finger scroll doesn't work
After installing Arch Linux on my ASUS Transformer Book T300 Chi I noticed that two-finger scroll doesn't work. Touchpad works fine, but any multitouch gestures don't work, e.g. double-tap for the ...
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Where does GNOME 3 store schema/setting overrides?
Related to another question, which directory (if any) does GNOME 3.20 on Fedora 24 monitor for schema/setting overrides? According to many sources I should be able to put overrides in /usr/share/glib-...
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Gnome 3 detects my screen differently VGA/HDMI
I have a screen that is correctly detected by gnome in VGA, he said the screen made 40 ", but when I connect HDMI, he said the screen made 7".
Can I configure this option?
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Gnome 3.14: disable background painting
The question has been asked for older versions but it looks like none of the solutions work anymore:
In the GNOME desktop environment, how do I prevent it from drawing a desktop?
Background: I have ...
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show minimized window titles in GNOME Panel
I'd like the titles of all the windows that are not focused to show up in the Panel (to the right of "Activities" and current window). Is that possible?
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How to turn off PCI Wifi without turns off USB Wifi in Gnome 3
I use Fedora with Gnome 3 desktop on acer laptop. I usually use usb wifi for connectivity than the pci wifi inside my laptop. Before yesterday, I use usb wifi and turn off pci wifi by set the pci wifi ...
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gnome3 add new file types for nautilus (instead of text file)
on my Fedora 20 system many file types are grouped under the type "text", for example *.ini, *.txt and so on.
So if I sort the contents of a folder by type, it groups them all together, which is not ...
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Linux's poweroff resets the machine instead of powering it off
I'm using Fedora 20 with Gnome3, and sometimes when I click on Power Off, the machine resets instead of powering off. Actually I don't know if it's being reset or if it's being powered off and then it ...
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Is there a way to search a menu bar in Debian?
I want to search my menu bar, to easily find obscure menu items.
I know that the HUD (Heads Up Display) in Unity has this feature, however I am running Gnome 3 on Debian 7.
Is there a way to do this ...
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Gnome 3.8 icons on the desktop (Nautilus managed) are on the wrong monitor
I'm running GNOME 3.8 with a multi-monitor setup. In Gnome 3, it's possible to get the icons in ~/Desktop back on one's desktop by changing a setting in gnome-tweak-tool:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/...
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How do I force gdm 3.6 stay on DISPLAY :0?
Every time I log out of my session, gdm moves to a different DISPLAY variable. Judging from /var/log/gdm, it rotates between :0 and :5.
I'm finding no documentation on this logic. How do I keep gdm ...
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Fullscreen application over two monitors
I have a dual-head setup running Ubuntu 13.04 with Gnome/Unity (the default desktop). What I'm trying to achieve is to display Firefox in "fullscreen" mode (e.g. hit F11 after it is launched), and ...
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