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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Is it possible to change GNOME 3's window resizing mode from stretch to rectangle?
I want mutter's resizing to act the same way as in compiz, yet it seems that there's no such option available in gnome-tweak-tool.
Is there any way to change that? Stretching windows (default) is ...
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Dragging a window in GNOME 3 is very slow in my machine. Is there a way to make it faster?
I have recently installed GNOME 3 on my Ubuntu 12.04 and it seems that most of its fancy effects work pretty smoothly. Strangely though, dragging a window is slow and glitchy. Is it caused by some ...
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gnome password prompt takes ages to appear after screen has been locked
Using ubuntu 12.04 with gnome. After the screen has been locked (manually, or after resuming from suspend), it takes more then 60 seconds for the password prompt to appear. This happens with gnome and ...
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Triple-head works in GDM, but not in Gnome
I've got three displays connected via DVI on two different ATI cards on Arch Linux using the xf86-video-ati driver.
All three are currently serving output, but one of my displays (the one on the ...
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NX keymaps all messed up in Gnome 3
Back in the days of Gnome 2, I was happily using NX (NoMachine, FreeNX, neatx) for an extremely low-latency and usable connection to several Linux boxes. Everything worked like a dream.
Then, Gnome 3 ...
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How can I add panels to secondary monitor in Gnome 2.30.2 / Debian 6
I connected to my PC second monitor, how can I add Gnome panels to it.
Method, described here ( Add panel to secondary monitor on Ubuntu 10.04 ) not works!
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How do I change Login Screen Background in Centos 6.3
I want to change the default Login Screen background/theme in Centos 6.3. The INSTALL folder in the theme I downloaded says:
Use 'gdmsetup' to install.
But gdmsetup isn't a recognized command. I ...
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Freebsd - only install gnome desktop (only minimal ports needed)
Is there a way to only install the gnome desktop? I don't want all these extra things... I'll install it manually if I need it. Also, why do we need xorg? My VM has been running for a while ...
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Samba mount-point with Nautilus
I'm trying to access by command line to the shares automatically mounted by Nautilus (I'm on a RHEL6), but I'm unable to find the mount point. Googling around I found that I should look in ~/.gvfs, ...
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is there a way to change the background image of individual workspaces on Gnome Desktop?
On Gnome changing the background image changes it for all workspaces. I want to have different images for each workspace.
Is there a way to achieve this?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity.
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Mint 11 - no screensaver with lid closed and external monitor
I have gnome-power-manager / buttons / lid_ac configured to do nothing when the lid is closed. When I lock the screen, the screensaver does not come on any more.
If I set lid_ac to blank and leave ...
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Gnome and Cinnamon loads in fallback mode only
So I have been using linux mint for a while now. A few months ago my Gnome shell crashed and I was unable to use the full 3d features and loaded into fallback mode only. From that day (around 2 months ...
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Centos 6 minimal to Gnome - Errors
I tried to install GNOME to minimal version of centos 6.3
In the beginning i used kde. Then i uninstalled them.
I installed all the required group for gnome.
The problem is
When i type startx the ...
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Where to put command to disable touchpad to have it executed whenever I start PC
I finally figured out the command to disable touchpad in my Fedora 17 using Gnome desktop 3.4.2.: xinput set-prop 13 132 0 (specific to my Thinkpad)
Now where do I put this command, so that it is in ...
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How to make GNOME 3 hibernate from timeout using pm-hibernate
I am running Fedora 17 with GNOME 3 as my desktop, and have set up the machine to hibernate after idle for 1 hour. However, instead of switching off the machine appears to be on with the fan running. ...
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How to identify current gnome-terminal profile?
I want to do some changes to gnome-terminal profile using bash.
For this purpose I use e.g.:
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Profile0/cursor_shape "$foo"
Problem ...
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Custom keyboard map in Gnome (on ArchLinux)
I've just switched from LXDE to Gnome and I'm struggling with configuring the keyboard the way I want it. The Swedish keyboard layout is painful when programming (e.g. {[]} require right-hand finger ...
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apt-get only downloading gnome classic
For the past few weeks, I've been having a problem with my two laptops. Somehow (both on linux mint 13 and ubuntu 12.04) I have been trying to download gnome 3.4 shell. Unfortunately it would only ...
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How do I launch (pdf) documents with Evince from the Activities Overview in Gnome 3?
Evince is already set as the default document viewer. Clicking on a document while in Nautilus will open Evince to view them. However, this is not the case when clicking on a document that appears ...
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Gnome: How to open a very very large log file?
I've got a log file about 157Gb (Gnome). It's a very large file and nor gedit nor vim can open it.
Alternatively I want only to see the last 20 lines and I can't back it up because of space storage ...
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How to change default pdf viewer for all users in command line
I'm using Debian squeeze with Gnome Desktop for all my users. I have a group of machines to set up so that all users should use xpdf as a default viewer (rather than evince).
I want this set up to be ...
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Volume control bar available, not functional - Ubuntu 12.04
I am installed mumble because of which I got the package pulseaudio.
The alsamixer was not found anylonger.
I restored back alsamixer using this link. However, I could not restore back the controls ...
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startx failed to start gnome under Suse11
Before using startx, I've set the default value of displaymanager to gdm, which is defined in the file /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and default value of window manager to gnome, which is defined in ...
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Finding text in Ubuntu (gnome) terminal output [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Search Terminal Output
Imagine this scenario:
You run a command at gnome terminal. This command has made a bunch of outputs to the terminal. After some time, you ...
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Which is better when it comes to Backtrack Linux? [closed]
I was interested in getting Backtrack LInux but wanted to make sure I get the right one. Whitch one is better Gnome or KDE and what's the difference?
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NFS: Network disconnect causes Gnome Nautilus to hang / Jumping progress bars
I mount NFSv4 export via /etc/fstab and mount and use the shared folder in nautilus.
There are two issues:
When I copy a large file (around 4 GB) to the NFS server, the progress bar rapidly goes to ...
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Terminal window broken, but everything else works fine in Ubuntu
Currently running GNOME Classic on Ubuntu 12.10 and I've encountered a really strange error, which is that I started up a terminal, ran firefox &, Firefox came up just fine and continues to, but ...
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How can Google Calendar notifications pop up in my current virtual desktop in RHEL6 (Gnome)?
I use 4 virtual desktops to organize my work (the standard workspaces that you can use with GNome). Email/Calendar stay in desktop 1. When a meeting is near to start, the notification notice pops up ...
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“Gnome 2.28.2: LCtrl+LShift as a combination to change layout” Issue
I am used to change the layout using keys combination CTRL + SHIFT. Not to mention that lots of applications use that combination as a part of another complex combination. Say - CTRL + SHIFT + TAB in ...
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How to make NetworkManager work without ConsoleKit
I reinstalled Arch half a month ago. I found that the Consolekit is no longer available in newer versions.
Previously I use consolekit to configure my Networkmanger, but I didn't know how to solve ...
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Gnome clock applet, where's the data stored?
I mean, when I type location it gets GMT +/- fixes, were does that information come from?
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Website as background on linux
Is there some way to set a website as a background? I would like it to behave just like a wallpaper (links should not be "clickable"), but it should refresh every x minutes automatically.
My DE is ...
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Gnome 2.3: change background color for buttons / active window in tray bar separately?
I recently tuned Debian to look more like Ubuntu by switching to Ubuntu fonts and installing the dark Ambiance theme. However, the color for the active window is way to light and makes the title ...
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How to resize font size on window title bar on gnome?
By default window title bar on Gnome has bigger font size. How can I resize that font size on window title bar? I want it to be smaller like on KDE or MS Windows.
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touchpad configuration is auto reset to default on ICEWM
I am using openSUSE with different desktop enviroment Gnome, KDE, iceWM and etc. iceWM is very efficient so I'm using that. When I configured touchpad using KDE setting (available on iceWM) it works ...
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How to notify Gnome users of system reboot/shutdown?
I am looking for Gnome alternative to KDE write daemon. My goal is to notify Gnome users of coming system reboot or shutdown on the localhost. If the user is logged in KDE and I issue shutdown -r +5 ...
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Having trouble connecting to wifi on Fedora 14
I'm relatively new to Linux and I've recently downloaded Fedora 14 to run as a dual boot with Windows 7. I've tried using a wired connection and it works fine, but when it comes to wifi, I'm getting ...
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Fedora 17 application dowload
I'm normally a mac user when it comes to desktop and have some experience with Ubuntu desktop as well.
For my spare pc I decided to try out beautiful Fedora and I'm done with install and updates.
I ...
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Gnome 3 fallback (gnome-panel): multiple copies of all UI elements
I just switched from an NVIDIA to an ATI graphics card and changed the graphics
drivers on my Gentoo distro accordingly. Surprisingly, gnome-shell worked
without any noticeable problems (I know there ...
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Kill Gnome in Debian
I'm using my backup computer as a server. It's running Debian and I want to kill everything gnome related to save memory. I'm accessing remotely through ssh.
Any ideas?
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gnome-screensaver disable blank screen
I am using SUSE Linux with gnome-2
My screensaver runs for 5 minutes and the screen goes blank after that. I want to disable the blank screen.
I tried the following commands:
$ setterm -blank 0
$ ...
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Is it possible to configure a blank line at the bottom of a gnome terminal?
When the terminal text reaches the bottom of the window, it's hard to see underscores and font descenders since they're so close to the window border.
Can I configure a blank line (or 2)?
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What it mean “User defined session” in window manager
I had this problem:
Unable to log into Ubuntu
So I reinstalled gnome, unity, lighdm and gdm. Unfortunately I don't understand much in this field (Xorg, I mean).
Now I have login screen, probably of ...
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Update screensaver theme using gconftool-2
How can i update the screensaver theme?
I am using:
$sudo gconftool-2 -t --list-type string --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/themes [screensavers-xyz]
But it doesn't seem to work. I get an error ...
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How can I change the Desktop background or the screensaver in Terminal only?
I have a few images in a directory and I can only use the Terminal
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Config file for gedit to disable line wrap?
Is there a non-interactive way to disable line wrapping in gedit? i.e., a config file? I am teaching a class and would like to change the settings for the whole class globally.
(follow-up to how ...
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X Root window position changed without reason
I am on Archlinux with a nvidia optimus and bumblebee. Sometimes when I resume from the suspension I get an error and I have to power off my laptop because the screen freezes. This is a big problem ...
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Is it possible to control the whole Gnome desktop with vi-like commands?
I know with readline you can use emacs or vi commands to edit the input of several
interactive text programs. I wonder if there exists such a similar facility to control
the whole desktop in Gnome or ...
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change width of indicators panel in gnome 3
How change the width of indicators panel in gnome 3? If there are a lot of them - they start shorting:/
There are some empty space on the left side of top panel - how to make them use it?
I could ...
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Gnome Terminal Transparency at 100% when opened with a keyboard shorcut
Does anyone know the answer to how to make the Terminal not open totally transparent when opened with a keyboard shortcut?
I have transparency configured around 70%-80% so that everything underneath ...
