Questions tagged [gui]
Questions related to Graphical User Interfaces.
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Graphical interface to git with support for signed commits?
Is there any graphical interfaces to Git with support for gpg signed commits?
I've tried the "Tools" -> "Add..." way of the builtin git gui that comes with git but that doesnt work with commit -S.
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How to show "symbols" for bash script in VScode?
In the following screenshot we can see that the outline tab for a bash script is empty, as it does not shows any symbols. Do I need to enable any extension for this? Any suggestions?
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OS X - DEAAD300 File Can't be seen via Terminal or Deleted
OS X - 10.7.5
I have a file DEAAD300 on a users desktop that I can not delete.
EDIT - The file can not be opened either.
The icon that shows up looks like an Excel file (The user has Office 2011 ...
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GUI for tail for Linux
Could someone recommend a graphical tail kind of document viewer? So that I could open a document, scroll up and down, etc. and that the document would refresh itself automatically (without prompting, ...
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How can I get the GTK file chooser dialogue to automatically focus and appear over other windows?
For context, this is using ArchLinux, Gnome 45, Wayland/mutter 45.1, with Linux 6.1.58-1-lts and both gtk 4.12.3 and 3.24.38.
Whenever I use software on my system that opens a file chooser dialogue, I ...
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Install OSSEC on Windows Server without GUI
The installation and configuration of the OSSEC windows agent requires a GUI. However I am running an environment which has cmd and powershell only. Is there a way to install and configure from the ...
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Open a GUI application from WSL of a server on remote PC
I have two PCs (Window 10). I install an SSH server on the first one following the instruction given in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse. ...
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Clipboard Issues with Windows WSL2 GUI Apps (WSLg)
WSL2 now has built-in xserver wslg, but just like reported here,
I'm having difficulties letting apps in wslg to sync their x-clipboard content with normal Windows' clipboard.
I know there might not ...
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How to make VLC actually remember what I tell it?
I keep being forced to select "Always on top" in the "View" menu in VLC. It forgets this setting the moment I close VLC. And then I have to repeat it again and again and again...
I ...
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Keep Remote Desktop Display active when disconnect
Im trying to fix the problem with a missing GUI when i log off rdc. Im running a program that takes a partial screenshot but it is only working if i dont minimize or close the connection. It shows me ...
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Reducing size of taskbar context menu in Win10
The taskbar context menus are huge on my monitors, taking more than half of the display height. Very inconvenient.
Is there any way to reduce context menu in size, especially the spacings between the ...
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Windows 10 - extend "right click menu" in start menu (instead of having the "More" sub-menu)
Right click on an item in the Start menu shows the "More" sub-menu that has some functionalities inside.
How can I move these functionalities to the right click menu itself and remove the "More" sub-...
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blank/flashing Windows user interface
I've got a strange behaviour that happens randomly on my Wind 7 64-bits.
Basically at random moments, some stuff that uses the Windows UI starts to get blank or flashing. Below there's an image ...
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Windows 7: can I renew DHCP lease through GUI?
In Windows XP, there was a GUI option within each network interface to renew the DHCP lease of the interface.
Does Windows 7 Professional no longer offer a GUI to renew DHCP? Else, how and where do ...
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Visio missing tabs
I am working on a Visio 2007 drawing and the page tabs have disappeared. It seems to happen only when the document is emailed. How I can fix this problem?
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Ubuntu Studio 11.04 My user account has dissappeared off of the log in gui
Turned on my linux box this evening- dual boot natty and studio - and discovered my login gui for studio was missing my user account name. As well as the desktop log in options (Ubuntu, ubuntu classic,...
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Unable to Change Font Size of Inkscape Guideline Label
Introduction
I've successfully created labeled guidelines in Inkscape (version 1.1.1) using the following steps:
Guidelines can be created by dragging from either of the rulers.
Upon double-clicking ...
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How to freeze the Firefox (and Thunderbird) menu-bars?
Every once in a while I get a call from a user complaining, he can no longer find a certain menu in the browser -- or in Thunderbird -- and I have to painstakingly guide him on re-enabling the menu-...
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Command or keystroke to redraw an X Window app screen?
I'm using an X Window application running on a remote RHEL9 host, and there is an apparent bug in my X client display software that causes graphical garbage to accumulate in the app window.
I'm ...
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Execute a windows application (with GUI) remotely (no RDP)
I've my thunderbird email client in my personal workstation. What I would like to do is execute this exact client from my laptop. Having access to the same exact GUI but from my laptop. Hence, all the ...
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Debian 11 frozen after login in
I'm not a very experienced Debian or Linux user. I installed Debian 11 on my HP Probook and it worked perfectly for a long time.
All of a sudden, it started to freeze after in logged in. When i say &...
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Why can I execute calc in an SSH session, but not notepad?
I'm logged in into a Win32-OpenSSH instance as an administrator in filtered mode (non-elevated) if that matters.
In that session, I learned that I can't run GUI programs because the SSH-server is run ...
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Possible to change the behavior of double-clicking a minimized taskbar button?
In Windows, double-clicking a minimized taskbar button shows the application window.
Is it possible to change that behavior to instead show, then minimize the application window?
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It's likely the ...
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XMGrace side menus don't work on WSL2 Windows 11
I have installed the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 with Ubuntu 20.0 LTS on a Windows 11 machine (a DELL XPS 13) and I wanted to use it to run XMGrace, the popular 2D plotting tool for the X Window ...
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GUI for WSL2 CentOS through RDP
I've installed an Xfce desktop for WSL2 Ubuntu-18.04-LTS through xrdp with relative ease, but am having difficulty with CentOS 7.
I have used the workaround here for systemctl. Afterwards, I've tried ...
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Avoid mistaken "double-click" non-response when clicking a Windows taskbar tab and immediately clicking it again to send to background?
When I click a taskbar tab to highlight that program's window, sometimes I only want a quick peek, and so I quickly click it again to send it to the background.
Unfortunately, Windows treats this as a ...
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How to completely disable mouse grab in qemu
I want to test bootable iso files with qemu. I feel very discomfort that when I click inside qemu window, the mouse gets grabbed and you need to press Ctrl + Alt + G to release it.
In VirtualBox there ...
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How to disable blinking of the red microphone icon in Firefox?
I have 64-bit Firefox 80.0.1 for Linux. It features a red blinking microphone icon in the tray on the left of the address bar in certain circumstances. How to disable the blinking and make it a static ...
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How do I copy a file to the clipboard in the terminal and paste it with the gui (linux)
I would like to copy a file to the clipboard with the terminal, like when right clicking a file and selecting "copy" in the gui. Someting like "cp test.txt" (without a destination) ...
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Run a VirtualBox Virtual Machine from an Ubuntu Server shell?
I have a server running Ubuntu Server 19.10 with no GUI and no screen attached. I only connect to it through SSH.
Is it possible to install VirtualBox on there and run a Virtual Machine that does ...
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Is Windows GUI FPS lower than refresh rate?
I'm just wondering why in a lot of videos on youtube with 60fps Windows interface looks much smoother than my real interface? If I can see smooth interface on video why I can't see it on my actual ...
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Modify Outlook "now alignment"
is there a way to change MS Outlook's "planning view" to not put the blue now marker on the center of the screen when I navigate from another date to today?
[… I am unable to upload fotos …]
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Installation of wxWidgets
I'm currently trying to install 3.0.4 version of wxWidgets on a Raspbian Jessie. wxWidgets was successfully installed. However, when I try to run an application, the following relocation runtime error ...
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Tkinter module crashing computer
I have a python program which has been running well for the past several weeks with spyder, but today after making no changes to the code, running the program immediately causes the computer to ...
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how to install Tkinter to Pycharm(community edition)?
It gives me error when i run my "Tkinter" code.It says "Tk() was not defined". I tried to download Tkinter on PyCharm but there are a lot of them. Well, I don't know what to do. Help please.
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Content LiveKernel Minidump / GUI
I ve just noticed that WER (Windows Error Reporting) creates a lot of small mindiumps (about 300kb) even without getting a BSOD. Recent crashes were only caused by my graphics driver. As the mindumps ...
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Umlauts in terminal-notifier MacOS
OSX-Mojave. I have a simple script:
#!/bin/bash
key="..."
text="$(echo $(pbpaste) | sed "s/[\"\'<>]//g")"
translate="$(/usr/local/bin/wget -qO - "https://translate.yandex.net/api/v1.5/tr.json/...
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Oracle Linux Gnome Installation Black Screen
I want to install a GUI environment (GNOME) to OEL 7 Server. I ran command below to do this:
yum group install Server\ with\ GUI
But after than starting the installation I got a transaction error ...
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Linux Mint 18 Sarah boots straight into tty1 console and gui will not load
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So the Linux Mint login screen suddenly became frozen and the box to type the credentials into is missing and just isn't there any longer.
I tried
I restarted the computer it then booted ...
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How to modify/re-position GUI element in taskmgr Windows 7?
For instance, Windows 7 x64 SP1. Is there any workaround or trick/tip (with resource editing tool, ect...) doing the reposition the number of graph in CPU usage history panel in Performance tab of ...
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Gmail text highlighting bug in Safari
I have a simple problem. As a Gmail user, I often like to drag tags from the left sidebar and drop them on individual conversations in my inbox.
Quite recently, I started encountering something that ...
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Windows 10 is lagging
My Windows 10 sometimes gets lags. It's most annoying when I'm watching videos (YT/flash/disk - doesn't matter). It's look like a 0,5s screen pause and superfast foward to actual play state. I can ...
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Can you run a GUI on a google app engine Debian 7 server?
I've set up a vm server with google app engine. The machine type is n1-standard-1(more info) and the OS is Debian 7. What I want to do is have some kind of GUI. Is it possible? How can you do it?
I ...
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Microsoft Edge drop-down menu does not stay
In Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, when I tap on drop down menus, they won't remain for long. For example, in eBay when, I tap on my eBay drop down, it is shown only for few seconds and goes away very ...
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How to start LXDE on Fedora Server?
I have Fedora Server 22 installed on my server.
I installed LXDE with:
sudo dnf groupinstall "LXDE Desktop"
And rebooted. But it started in text mode.
How do I start LXDE?
Update
startx gives me ...
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How can I list positive and negative values separately in listview box in autohotkey?
Here's my AHK script:
Gui, Add, Edit, x77 y15 w100 h30 vMyvar gEdit1 ;first edit box, there can be entered any value.
Gui, Add, Edit, x237 y15 w100 h30 vNewvar Disabled, %Newvar% ;second edit box it ...
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Win 8: window/process moved to 'background process' and I cant move them back to 'apps'
I'm having a problem with windows 8. Some windows randomly disappear and I can't access them. They don't show up in the task bar or under alt-tab, but I know the window is still open because I can ...
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how to detect availability of GUI
For Linux: I have a text mode installation (bash) script and a graphical mode setup program (a Free Pascal binary). I'd like to run the graphical setup when a GUI is available.
How do I detect which ...
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How to perform this Windows 7 permissions change on many files via GUI or command line
After using my external hard drive on another Windows 7 computer to tweak photos with Windows Live Photo Gallery then upload them to Facebook I found the modified images were now not visible on the ...
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fail to start graphical interface
I'm using Linux Mint 14 and have faced the following problem recently:
after removing and installing some of the software (torchat and LibreOffice to be exact) and rebooting I found myself not being ...