Questions tagged [gnome]
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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Super key not toggling activities
I installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 on my new laptop but the Super key is not toggling activities. I tried to change the keybindings from settings> keyboard> System > Show the overview where it is set to ...
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trying to install gnome "Unable to locate package tigervnc-standalone-server"
I'm trying to remote my debian VPS (so I could connect to it via remote desktop).
I'm new to this so I'm following a tutorial and after apt-get update I did apt-get install -y task-gnome-desktop (it ...
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Gnome (Ubuntu): how to programmatically bring a program window to the background? (behind anothers windows)
From a custom bash script, I open several terminal (via the command gnome-terminal). Then, at the end, I open a specific terminal (it executes a specific command) and I am looking for a way to ...
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Show keyboard geometry/model in gnome
This question is mostly for curiosity about keyboard stuff in Gnome and/or XKB. The below was done on Ubuntu Gnome 16.04, but I believe things are they same in later Ubuntu and Gnome versions as well.
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Increasing Gnome Shell FPS (dragging windows and terminals is not smooth)
Is there a way to increase the FPS of the animations in the Gnome shell? I'm using debian with the gnome shell, and after recently installing windows 10, I just now release how low the fps for gnome ...
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Remove weekday from Gnome title bar
I'm using GNOME Shell 3.26.2 on Fedora 26.
The date and time area on the title bar shows the week day:
I want to get rid of the weekday. How do I proceed?
Settings > Details > Date & time lets ...
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extend gnome-shell PATH for access to ruby binary with RVM
I have a terminal written in ruby that I install with a gem. I want to be able to launch this terminal when I hit Alt+F2 in gnome-shell. When I used the ruby version of my system, I just have to ...
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kali linux settings interface fails to load
i have a Kali Linux 2.0 2017 64 bit ; what i discovered is that settings does not load anytime i press the setting option whenever i want to modify settings , all i get is just nothing. not even an ...
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How to force GNOME to use Wayland?
TL;DR
gnome-shell does not want to be a Wayland compositor.
Edit: Sometimes it does want to be, sometimes it doesn't.
Log
Dec 31 06:55:26 speedy-desktop gnome-shell[393]: Can't initialize KMS ...
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Gnome Tweak Tool double alt/win behaviors
Gnome Tweak Tool provide two features that I need but I can only activate one of them. How do I swap Alt and Win keys and map Meta to Alt keys at the same time?
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How can I switch from GNOME Classic to GNOME Shell on CentOS 7 over RDP?
My situation is that I'm connecting to a CentOS 7 VM from a Windows machine using Remote Desktop Connection. I've followed the standard advice and installed xrdp and tigervnc, as well as the "GNOME ...
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Removed python3, cannot bring back Gnome desktop
I accidentally did apt-get remove python3 and didn't look at packages APT was about to remove.
Then Gnome Desktop Environment started to misbehave, I rebooted and it ended up in tty1 with no GUI.
I ...
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Selecting files in Nautilus 3.26.2
Since 3.26 I cannot drag-select files in Nautilus in folders. The rectangle just does not appear. Currently I can select only successive filen in rows.
However, drag-selection works on desktop.
How ...
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GNOME settings without GUI
I am trying to run a VNC server on a Raspberry Pi which I don't have physical access to.
I've installed realvnc-vnc-server and enabled VNC in raspi-config
I'm running into an issue with encryption ...
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Linux+Gnome: can't bind shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+Esc
I am using arch Linux with gnome 3.26.2 and x11.
In previous versions of gnome I could use gnome's settings to assign a shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+Esc, but not anymore.
xev prints the lines below when ...
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Why does copy/paste is lost as soon as the origin app is closed?
I mean, who thoughts this would be a great idea?
If you open a file in, say Gedit, copy some text, close Gedit THEN paste somewhere, it doesn't work. This is the stupidest user experience never ...
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mouse down stuck on some programs in linux gnome
I use arch linux with Gnome.
It looks like some programs think the left mouse button is kept down even though it isn't.
Now this affects a handful of programs (other ones run fine, so mouse is not ...
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How to expand application tabs
I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8. GNOME desktop
How to expand bottom application tabs to present full name
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gnome doesnt ask my password at login (DEBIAN 9)
I tried to use my fingerprint reader on my laptop yesterday, installing fprintd ; it didnt work... ( I removed all those packets )
I then realized Gnome doesnt ask my password anymore at login ...
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Can I get similar behavior in Windows 10 when I press the "Super" key as I do in GNOME?
I spend more time on my Debian workstation at work than I do on my Windows personal laptop. As a result, my muscle memory is more geared toward Debian, and specifically GNOME 3, when it comes to ...
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change gnome evolution keyboard accels
I tried to change some gnome evolution keyboard accelerators.
I tried to edit ~/.config/evolution/accels which seems to hold all the defined keyboard accelerators. Unfortunately my modifications of ...
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Disable apple Cmd key on Centos/Gnome in VM
I've installed Centos 7 in a VMware VM under MacOs. When I press the Command/Apple key, Centos arranges all of the windows and displays a search box.
This is annoying because I often use CMD-Tab to ...
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Gnome Activities search does not show most files
I need some help for a problem regarding Gnome file search:
I can't find most files in Gnome Activities search even if those files are correctly indexed and found by tracker. As you can see from the ...
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Gnome 3.26 won't respect monitors.xml
I'm using Gnome-Shell 3.26 on Arch with 3 monitors (connected through a mini displayport to 3 HDMI hub). This hardware setup has worked fine with earlier versions of the software.
The problem I'm ...
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Holding keys doesn't work - Fedora 26 Gnome
Since two system updates before i started to notice that when i hold a key it repeats just a few times and randomly stops.
Example (I'm holding a key and when it stops I move to the next one).
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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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Why is my SSD slowing down halfway through the gnome-disk benchmark?
Can someone please explain a few bits about the results of this benchmark.
This was tested on an SSD:
First thing I'd like to know is why it slowed WAY down in the end.. I'm wondering if it's ...
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Get the Firefox "save as" dialog to stop guessing where I want to save my file
I download a lot of files into different folders. But the Firefox "save as" dialog is too smart for its own good. It tries to guess which folder I want to save files in (I assume by what website it's ...
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Gnome / Fedora26 Switching Windows is very slow
I'm using Gnome / Fedora 26. When I click "master" key (i.e. Windows button on the keyboard) - I get a preview of all open apps on the screen, and this operation is fast. However switching to another ...
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Toggle CAPS LOCK when you press the key
HOw do I turn off the CAPS LOCK when the key is pressed?
it's currently set to turn off on release
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How to set "File Roller" (aka File Manager) as default for ALL supported types in Gnome and Cinnamon?
Ever since I installed p7zip-gui, it hijacked my system by setting itself as default application for all mime types it can open (31 types in total).
Cinnamon provides a tool called Preferred ...
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GNOME 3.24 background/wallpaper noise
If I set GNOME 3.24 to use a solid color for its background, it still has something which I can only describe as noise. How to get rid of it? It seems to be a kind of filter on top of the solid color.
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Error displayed at end of of "apt-get upgrade" command
i have following error while upgrade packages on terminal..
that have no any problem to updating packages but end of it display following error
Errors were encountered while processing:
desktop-base
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GNOME maximize window hidden shortcut
Upon configuring my keyboard shortcuts for my gnome desktop, I discovered, that I cannot get rid of a hidden shortcut for maximizing the focused window with Super+Up. I am using on GNOME Shell 3.24.2 ...
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gdm - Use a script to set the automaticlogin user
I use Debian 8 which runs Gnome 3.14.1.
I want to setup an autologin, but the name of the user to autolog is not fixed so I want to use a script to set it. According to GDM documentation (at https://...
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CentOS linux minimal upgrading to GUI interface getting server error
After install GNOME Desktop, X Windows System in CentOS linux and startx command getting Server Error as follows.
xauth: file /root/.serverauth.25996 does not exist
X.Org X Server 1.17.4
Release ...
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How can I resize the Applications menu item in Gnome?
I'm using Kali Linux, and in the top left corner of my screen there's an Applications menu, with items like this:
01 - Info...
02 - Vul...
03 - We...
How can I enlarge the menu, so that the entire ...
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GNOME 3.20 on Ubuntu 16.04 through VNC on AWS
I want to access my AWS EC2 instance (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) through VNC using a GNOME3 GUI, but the GUI I get looks very old. What am I doing wrong?
I started with a fresh EC2 instance and installed ...
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Preinstalled Ubuntu os on virtualbox with Win7 host can't start X server
I just installed virtualbox on my Win7 machine and created a guest virtualbox system image from a existing Ubuntu partition (according to this guide). Unfortunetaly the Xserver doesn't start properly ...
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Fedora switch GUI/text mode without having to log in
So I do have Fedora 26 with GNOME installed. Now I mostly use text-mode, so I did systemctl to make Fedora boot to text mode. Now, sometimes I want to lookup something on the internet, read the emails,...
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Key remapping using xmodmap does not work for some gtk applications
I tried to remap some keys using xmodmap. For example,
xmodmap -e "keycode 118 = Next"
maps Insert key of my laptop (XPS 13 9360) to PgDn. It works for some applications such as firefox and visual ...
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Command-line equivalent of "Open With gedit"?
I'm a Mac user trying to make the switch to Ubuntu Linux (with the Gnome DE). But as I've always relied heavily on the "open" and "edit" commands in Terminal on the Mac, I'm trying to find (or create)...
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How does Linux (Specifically, GNOME Fedora) calculate my position?
I am using Fedora in GNOME with the positioning service, so the system can get the local time automatically.
However, when I connect to a VPN for a long time, it seems that the system think that my ...
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Divide desktop into areas and windows resize and snap to them
I would really like to have my desktop divided into the following
+-------+-------+-------+-------+
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| | | |-------...
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Choosing Desktop Environments in linux and Linux Distros
I am a newbie to the linux world and while researching on best distro for linux to use, I came to know that we can install and switch DEs. For eg: If I use Ubuntu (unity) and say if I install lubuntu ...
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Escape the input box while pressing Shift in Ubuntu
This disturbs me for a long time. Pressing shift may cause the caret to escape the input box. For instance, if I would like to rename the newly-created folder to underscore _, it frustrates me. ...
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Where is Gtk+ default theme saved
I've created several customized Gtk+ themes, more or less following this. They are all created under ~/.themes/ folder, and they are all working fine.
However, my question is, how come the system ...
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Gnome Music Player not showing songs in music folder?
My Gnome Music Player isn't showing the mp3 files that I have in my ~/Music folder. I have tried changing the search and indexing with tracker-preferences to make sure it searches the Music folder but ...
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Firefox weird behaviours - copying does not work with Gnome
When using Firefox, sometimes my C-c is automatically disabled and does nothing after that (copying with right click -> copy still works, so does clicking with the middle mouse button). Restarting ...
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How to switch yes and no buttons in dialog box, either in Windows or Linux?
I'm using the Cinnamon DE (based on Gnome 3, uses the GTK3 toolkit) for GNU/Linux.
I also use Windows 10 for approximately the same amount of time each week.
Now, the default button positions for ...