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I have an application that I start only from the command line. How can I add the command (and preferably a nice logo) to Gnome's application menu?
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In GNOME and other freedesktop.org-compliant desktop environments, such as KDE and Unity, applications are added to the desktop's menus or desktop shell via desktop entries, defined in text files with the .desktop extension (referred to as desktop files). The desktop environments construct menus for a user from the co... | How can I add an application to the GNOME application menu? |
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I just added and modified a .desktop file in my /home/user/.local/share/applications folder.
Is there any way to refresh the icon and caption in the list of applications without logging out?
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You can restart the gnome-shell by pressing Alt+F2 and then typing in either "restart" or just "r" and pressing Enter.
Otherwise I've noticed that it automatically refreshes .desktop files after waiting a little while.
| How do I refresh Gnome 3 applications |
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I love the window snap feature of the Gnome 3 shell. However, it only allows you to maximize windows or to snap to the left or right half of the screen. Is there a way to snap to quarters of the screen? Maybe some shell extension I'm unaware of?
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There are several extensions on the GNOME extensions site which can give you various modes of "snapping" your windows. One that works particularly well is gTile.
References
Keyboard Shortcuts GNOME 3
| Gnome Shell window snap to quarters of screen |
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There is no "Lock" option showing up in the user menu, and the standard shortcuts (Ctrl+L or Ctrl+Alt+L) don't do anything.
I'm running Fedora 19 with Gnome Shell 3.8.3, and XDM 1.1.11.
I'm using XDM because of broken XDMCP support in GDM - but before I upgraded to Fedora 19, I did have the lock option, even when usin... |
After some research, I think I've got enough information to post an answer to my own question.
In Gnome Shell 3.6 and earlier, the old gnome-screensaver program was present, and if GDM was not running, gnome-screensaver would be invoked - allowing you to lock the screen.
Starting in Gnome Shell 3.8 (included in Fedo... | How can I lock my screen in Gnome 3 without GDM? |
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In Gnome 3, moving windows with the keyboard shortcuts Meta+← and Meta+→ can be convenient.
Now, I have two displays installed and would like to move windows across the displays without touching the mouse. More precisely, I would like to see what is the default behavior in Windows 7, namely four locations, left half o... |
In Fedora 24 (also Ubuntu 20.04, and probably many more distros which use Gnome) the key combination SuperShift← or SuperShift→ moves windows between monitors by default.
If you play with Super + Cursor Keys and then use SuperShift + Cursor Keys you should be able to move/minimise/maximise windows with ease.
| How to move windows across displays in Gnome 3 with keyboard? |
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In Gnome 3.18, it was possible to change the titlebar height of all windows by changing the css in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css as per Reduce title bar height in gnome 3 / gtk+ 3.
.header-bar.default-decoration {
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
}
.header-bar.default-decoration .button.titlebut... |
Note: If you are on PopOS, there is an option to "Remove Window Titles" in the top bar menu that also controls tiling. This is what I use currently myself and it works great for only removing the superfluous non-CSD titlebars.
Headerbar/CSD
Actually, a section of the code that I found via reddit and posted above, name... | How to change the titlebar height in standard GTK apps and those with headerbars/CSDs on Gnome 3.20 |
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I run gnome shell 3.6 and Eclipse 4.2. I installed Eclipse manually, in my /opt directory, because the Ubuntu package for Eclipse is very outdated.
I've created a .desktop file for it, and placed in in ~/.local/share/applications. It looks like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse Inte... |
Found the answer elsewhere. The .desktop file needs to be named EXACTLY the same as the binary that's launching.
Mine was something like eclipse_ide.desktop and the binary that runs is just "eclipse". Gnome shell does not seem to like that.
| How do I add eclipse to my gnome shell favorites? |
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I noticed that some applications use the Adwaita Dark theme, while others use the light one. Is there a way to make all applications use the Dark one?
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Replacing the main theme with the dark one in /usr/share/themes is not an ideal solution as each time gnome-themes is updated your theme will revert to default. It's preferable to properly configure your user account to use the dark theme, that way your settings will be preserved between updates. You can do that:
Man... | How can I use Adwaita Dark for all applications in Gnome 3? |
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GNOME 3 is not compatible with Compiz, so I cannot use the desktop zoom feature from Compiz. I googled for a long time, and it seems GNOME still does not support desktop zoom -- does it? I am using GNOME 3.2.1
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To answer my own question...
The Gnome3 has a zoom feature in the accessibility menu. Thanks to @fheub. If you want to use shortcut key, you can edit the shortcut key in the keyboard system settings.
But my point is:
the zoom feature in accessibility menu is designed for people with vision problem. Has the Gnome dev... | Does GNOME 3 support desktop zoom? |
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On my Debian system I've customized my Gnome (Shell) keyboard shortcuts, via System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
Where do I find the file with these settings so that I can copy the file onto a flash drive for backup and then use it to replace the keyboard shortcuts on other Gnome systems?
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Gnome 3 uses DCONF to store the preferences in a single binary file: ~/.config/dconf/user.
As per the Gnome docs, it is recommended to save only the settings that you need and restore them with either dconf or gsettings. However, gsettings is only able to restore the value(s) for one single key at a time (plus, the va... | Save custom keyboard shortcuts in Gnome |
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GNOME 2 allows one to either save the session automatically or manually (i.e. save the session as it looks right now). This is a nice feature because it restores the various desktop states between logins (and system restarts):
which apps were open
where (physically) on the desktop were they open
what specific window ... |
Normally you would Alt-F2 to run gnome-session-properties, and select "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" under the Options tab.
However, it is broken at the moment. There is a bug filed:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647359
| How to save a GNOME 3 session |
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I am using GNOME 3.18.1 on Arch Linux 4.2.5-1-ARCH x86_64 on a Dell E6530 laptop. Since I installed this OS years ago, the power button on my laptop has always led my OS to completely power down.
However, in the last few weeks this behaviour has changed, so that pressing the power button now puts my laptop into energy... |
That's caused by the latest gnome-settings-daemon updates...
There is no such option in power settings because it was removed by the GNOME devs (the shutdown/power off action is considered "too destructive").
Bottom line: you can no longer power off your laptop by pressing the power off button.
You could however add... | How to set power button to shutdown instead of suspend? |
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There are certain gsettings keys that can have multiple values (e.g. a key like verbosity could be assigned to one error, info, or debug). I want to be able to list them, but my dconf-editor (0.7.3) can't view them. Is there an existing alternative?
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The newer version of dconf-editor now lists the options.
In this example, if you click on debug, you'll see a list of other available values. This screenshot is of version 0.10 of the tool.
A screenshoot from v0.19.3, shows options:
| How do I browse for available gsettings options? |
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After the latest upgrade on Debian stretch, hitting alt+shift on my keyboard make it change layout, which breaks all my alt+shift+<anything> xbindkeys shortcuts.
I have disabled all shortcuts in Settings -> Keyboard -> Input. Still the same.
In Settings -> Languages, it is said that this alt+shift behaviour can be twe... |
Okay, got it: this line in my /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
.. should not contain grp:alt_shift_toggle, which is the relevant xkb option according to this post.
In addition, Gnome overrides xkb options according to this other post. As a consequence, this output:
$ dconf read /... | Gnome 3.22: disable alt+shift keyboard layout switching |
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I used to be able to connect to my Gnome 3 desktop from a Windows machine with a VNC client. But after an upgrade (on the Linux side) a while ago, it quit working. When I attempt to connect, all I can get is a message saying "No matching security types" or "No supported authentication methods!" (depending on which c... |
This is actually a known and currently open bug. However, there is a very easy workaround; just issue the following command:
gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require-encryption false
You will now be able to connect with most vnc viewers.
| How can I connect to Gnome 3 with a Windows VNC client? |
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When I install shutter to take screenshots, imagemagick sets itself as default PDF-reader and I am unable to change it.
I would like to have evince as default PDF-reader.
I have tried right click on a PDF document in file explorer-> Properties -> Set default application-> Evince.
This does not work, imagemagick stay... |
Edit the: ~/.config/mimeapps.list, and add the line:
application/pdf=evince.desktop
to the [Default Applications] section. If a line for application/pdf already exists, change it instead of adding a new one.
Source: This answer on AskUbuntu.
| Set default pdf reader |
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Gnome Shell 3.18.5 notified me some extensions needed updating. I visited https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ from Firefox, updated the Firefox extension, and now I want to uninstall some of the Gnome extensions, for example the following one.
Removable Drive Menu by fmuellner
System extension
A status menu for acc... |
Launch gnome-tweak-tool
Search "Extensions" in right menù
Select the extension and click on "Remove"
| Can't uninstall Gnome Shell Extension |
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Since I installed EasyTag on my Arch Linux several other programs use EasyTag instead of Nautilus as filebrowser.
For example, Firefox starts EasyTag if I click on "open containing folder".
Where can I set Nautilus as my "standard file browser"?
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You can define the default file browser by editing the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. Open this file and change the line inode/directory as follow
inode/directory=nautilus.desktop;
If this doesn't work, you should change the filemanager in the file
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
by adding (... | Set standard file browser for "open containing folder" |
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I'm running Fedora 19 (GNOME Shell 3.8.4). I have a dual monitor setup (two 1440 x 900), and I want to be able to stretch my wallpaper over the two monitors, like I was used to when using Ubuntu 12.04.
I don't want different wallpapers for each workspace, nor different wallpapers for each monitor (that would be pretty... |
Installing gnome-tweak-tool lets you customize not only the wallpaper alignment, but other absent options such as enabling / disabling minimize and maximize buttons, showing icons on the desktop, changing the shell theme and colors, changing fonts and its options (size, hinting, etc).
| Wallpaper stretching over multiple monitors on Fedora 19 (Gnome 3) |
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I'm using Arch Linux + GNOME3 on desktop, and when the system starts or the user logs out, gdm displays the login screen for about 20 seconds and then turns off the display (although the computer is still running). Is it possible to disable this? I want the monitor to keep displaying the login screen "forever". I coul... |
That's because of the idle-delay setting. To change it you'll have to alter the corresponding dconf key (and do that as the gdm user):
switch to a VT (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F3), login as root and run:
su - gdm -s /bin/sh
to switch user to gdm.
then run:
export $(dbus-launch)
and set idle delay to 0 (which translates to nev... | Disable GDM suspend on lock screen |
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I've created my own custom locales and placed them in /etc/locale.conf which successfully takes effect if I log in on a virtual console (Ctrl+Alt+F2). In my Gnome3 session those variables are not set, though. For terminal applications I could just place them in the .bashrc but that won't help me with graphical applica... |
Background Information
I tested the solution on Fedora 21 with GNOME Shell 3.14.4, but I believe it can be applied to other versions as well.
First thing to understand is that GNOME desktop environment overrides the system-wide locale definitions and thus is not affected by /etc/locale.conf. In addition, there are mig... | Set custom locales in Gnome3 (on Fedora 20) |
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I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 with Linux Mint 12 and gnome-shell on it.
Its a Intel HD 3000 Graphics card in there.
When I'm at home, I have another Screen plugged in (19" 4:3) and everything works fine (Extended Desktop), except that I would like to have the Gnome 3 Bars + Shell on the right screen. Can't figure ou... |
Open the System Settings > Displays control applet. It's not evident - at all - but you can drag the miniature of the top black panel onto the display you want to mark as primary. Panels, activity overlay and everything will migrate on that display.
| Linux Mint - Gnome Shell with dual monitor switch main screen |
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I am running Linux Mint 18.3 with Gnome 3.18 as my desktop. I have been building a loading screen for an application I have installed (Mycroft AI). I have the animation, I have it pop up on loading, i have it closing as soon as it finishes loading.
What I DO NOT have is a loading screen with no title bar (what I have... |
Title bars / window decorations are usually specific to the window manager in use. GNOME doesn't support a built-in method to launch a window/program without decorations, unlike window managers such as Openbox.
A solution that works within GTK across any window manager is to use GTK's gtk_window_set_decorated(), with ... | How to hide title bar for a specific window? |
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I am using a freshly installed Ubuntu-Gnome 16.04, and I want to set caps-lock to change keyboard layout (single key, not key combination). I used to have this Linux-mint, and I grew used to it. I looked into the setting manager, but there is doesn't accept caps-lock as a valid input. I also looked int gnome-tweak-too... |
You could set the corresponding xkb option via dconf-editor.
Navigate to org > gnome > desktop > input-sources and add grp:caps_toggle to your xkb-options:
Note each option is enclosed in single quotes, options are separated by comma+space.
On older gnome3 releases you could do that also via System Settings > Keybo... | How to allow for caps-lock keyboard layout change |
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I'm trying to associate a custom application to a file type in GNOME 3 (FC15).
In GNOME 2 one could go in the "Open with" pane of the file properties dialog and add a custom command there. The custom command edit box seems to have disappeared from the "Open with" pane in GNOME 3, so I was wondering if there is some wo... |
There is the answer:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=263501
I have Gnome3 and there is "Open with" pane :) You also go to proporties and there is "Open with" tab.
Edit:
You should look on https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118966. Your applications should show on list, if you add a *.desktop fil... | Default applications (GNOME 3) |
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I'm having trouble understanding the intended way of managing Gnome shell extensions.
I can't find any appropriate programs in the Dash for doing that. The only way I can actually manage extensions is via extensions.gnome.org.
It's impossible that this page is supposed to be the tool for managing extensions - it makes... |
It's impossible that this page is supposed to be the tool for managing
extensions - it makes absolutely zero sense
Whether it makes sense or not is also a matter of opinion. But yes, that page is the main tool, read Owen Taylor's explanation.
As to managing the extensions already installed on your system, you can ... | How are Gnome shell extensions supposed to be managed? |
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I sometimes run into software that is not offered in .deb or .rpm but only as an executable.
For example Visual Studio Code, WebStorm or Kerbal Space Programm.
For this question, I will take Visual Studio Code as the point of reference.
The software is offered as a zipped package.
When unzipping, I'm left with a fol... |
To call a program by its name, shells search the directories in the $PATH environment variable. In Debian, the default $PATH for your user should include /home/YOUR-USER-NAME/bin (i.e. ~/bin).
First make sure the directory ~/bin exists or create it if it does not:
mkdir -p ~/bin
You can symlink binaries to that direc... | How to install executables |
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In Network Manager, under the Identity tab, I can enter a username and password for my OpenVPN connection. I can also enter a password for the "User private key".
Both password fields have the following options:
Store the password only for this user
Store the password for all users
Ask for this password every time
Th... |
Go to the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ directory, here all the connection details are saved.
And use the cat command or any text editor as root to view the saved passwords. There should be a security related entry, like [vpn-secrets] or [wifi-security].
[wifi-security]
auth-alg=open
group=
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
... | Where does GNOME Network Manager store passwords? |
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Double clicking on a word in gnome terminal selects the whole word. Unfortunately, this selection doesn't include colons such that URLs aren't completely selected, e.g. with
http://foo.example.org/
only
//foo.example.org/
is selected.
How do I configure this selection behavior such that complete URLs are selected?
S... |
How much is selected on double click can be configured via adding additional character classes to the default set. That means that adding a colon and other special characters that may show up in URLs leads to double click also selecting complete URLs.
This can be configured via the gnome config database. For that one ... | Double click selection in Gnome Terminal |
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I can't figure out what the icon between my settings and lock-screen icon in Gnome3 is supposed to do.
It has two states, locked and unlocked, but it's not the lock screen. When I click it, it toggles its status.
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That button locks/unlocks screen orientation on devices that can detect which way they are held - usually touchscreen devices - see Screen orientation section on the gnome wiki touchscreen page: Easy ability to temporarily disable and enable auto-rotation (rotation lock).
It was introduced a couple of years ago: Ad... | What is the icon between settings and lock-screen in Gnome3? |
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I have been banging my head against this for quite a while now. It's related to this question. I would like to find out exactly what happens when I choose to shut down my Linux box from the GUI. This seems to be poorly (if at all) documented.
Ideally, I'm hoping for a DE- and OS-agnostic answer. Barring that, I'm inte... |
It depends on your Display Manager! (i.e. KDM, GDM)
Please bear in mind your DM runs as root! (it needs root privileges in order to run your session process as the user you log in)
When you click shutdown in KDE or GNOME, your DE sends a signal to your DM to power off or restart after the session has terminated. Then,... | What happens when I press "Shut Down" from the GUI? |
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I have a problem with QT applications (i.e. picard or masterpdfeditor) under GNOME: their interface looks tiny.
Instead, GTK application looks good.
I would like a global solution which will work across all applications, not a per-application fix.
I don't know exactly where the issue begin (is it a QT5 issue or a GNOM... |
I had some issues getting Viber to run properly on my HiDPI display. By default Viber would be massive to the point where I had to full-screen it in order to use it.
The solution was to disable automatic scaling (QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0) and set a manual value (QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5).
I modified the Exec= line in ... | Scaling/HiDPI issue for QT5 applications under GNOME |
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I recently upgraded my system to GNOME 3. In previous versions of GNOME, the key combination Ctrl+Alt+D would hide all open windows and show the Desktop. This shortcut was eliminated from GNOME 3 along with the concept of a Desktop. The Desktop metaphor does, however, exist in GNOME 3 "fallback mode" (which I am using... |
System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Navigation > Hide all normal windows
Click the second field which says Disabled and type in a key combination of choice (e.g., Ctrl+Alt+D).
System restart may be required for changes to take effect.
| GNOME 3 Ctrl+Alt+D (show desktop) |
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How can I trigger the screen saver manually from the command line? I'm using GNOME 3.8.4 on Fedora 19, but the solution should not necessarily be specific to this distro.
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The details on how to do this were found here in this blog post titled: Locking the screen from the command line in Gnome 3.8.
Manually triggering
The dbus-send command can be used to send this message, in this case we're sending the "Lock" message to the screensaver.
$ dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.S... | How can I trigger the screensaver's locking feature using D-BUS from the command line? |
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I recently updated this laptop to Fedora 28 Beta and with it Gnome 3.28. Things are mostly good.
But some things are weird. This is not causing problems because this is all virtual memory.
But why are these daemons allocating 100+ GB of virtual memory?
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All of these daemons use WebKit (mostly to show oauth2 login prompts), and WebKit recently introduced gigacages to isolate the heap used by their JS implementation. The allocation for a gigacage is big enough that any access to an arbitrary unsigned 32 bit offset would still land in the gigacage, resulting in these hu... | Many Gnome 3.28 daemons are using over 100 GB of VIRT. Why? |
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How do I change the default session I get when I log in? I'm on Debian jessie. I tried changing settings on gdm3, tried installing lightdm and following this but it's just not working.
For more specificity, I'm trying to default to gnome-classic instead of gnome. I want to turn on the computer, log in as any arbitrary... |
On Debian, you should set the x-session-manager default command to choose your default session manager:
# update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
There, you can select the session manager you want GDM3 to use by default.
If gnome-session-classic does not appear in the listing, try creating the link on your own... | How do I change my default session? |
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I'm guessing I need to edit one of the schemas available in gsettings but I don't know which one. and when I listed all the schemas, there's just too many of them.
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The key you want is favorite-apps, the schema ID is org.gnome.shell. Now to list your favorite apps you can simply run
gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps
or
dconf read /org/gnome/shell/favorite-apps
These will return an array of strings e.g.
['firefox.desktop', 'org.gnome.Terminal.desktop', 'org.gnome.Nauti... | Gnome3+: How do I remove favorites from Dash via terminal? |
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In GNOME 3, there's a facility to assign keyboard shortcuts for applications like your default browser, default email client, default terminal etc. How do I do this for other applications?
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As far as I know, there is no GUI application allowing that for gnome 3. If you have Gnome 2, you can still use the settings application from menu.
The easiest ways for me is to edit settings through gconf-editor:
specify your command in
/apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_X
specify your keyboard shortcut in
... | In GNOME 3, how does one assign keyboard shortcuts for applications besides the default applications? |
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Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.4.5-1-ARCH
GNOME: 3.20.0
I am unable to make use of the shortcut SUPER+M. What I've tried so far:
assigning the shortcut to the system's email program
assigning the shortcut to start a process thunderbird
However, pressing it only opens the notification bar/calendar instead.
Is this a bug or... |
It doesn't work as that's one of the default gnome-shell shortcuts. So gnome-shell actually grabs it even if you set it to execute some custom action. You'll have to remove it first from the default shortcuts list - easiest way is via terminal with gsettings:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keybindings toggle-message-tr... | Cannot reassign shortcut SUPER+M under GNOME |
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I updated to the newest, 3.26.1, version of GNOME several hours ago, and I don't see the list of background applications that used to be located in the bottom-left corner of the screen, on a hidden sliding panel. The icons belonging to Audacious, VLC, Dropbox, Redshift and other applications I run in the background do... |
The legacy tray was removed in 3.26 (it was a stop-gap measure, destined to be removed at some point, as explained in the corresponding bug). This is also mentioned in the release notes.
To see your indicator icons, you can use an extension such as TopIcons Plus.
| Where did the status icons go in GNOME 3.26.x and what can I do to bring them back? |
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I would like to bind both Super+1 and Super+Home as shortcuts to the "Switch to workspace 1" action in GNOME 3. Is there a way to do this?
I think that to achieve this there would either have to be a way to assign multiple keyboard shortcuts to the same action or there would have to be a way to switch workspaces via a... |
Yes, this is a dconf setting and the value is an array of strings which means it accepts multiple shortcuts. You can do that via dconf-editor if you navigate to
/org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-1
and turn Use default value OFF then insert Custom value: ['<Super>Home', '<Super>1']
Or if you pr... | How can I assign redundant shortcuts for switching workspaces in GNOME 3? |
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Recently Gnome came up with a new feature of Night Light. It is really helpful.
It feels too time-consuming that I need to go to settings (and then display) and activate it each time. Is there any terminal command that can simply turn on the night light feature?
Manual and/or sunrise to sunset option aren't really hel... |
Yes, you can turn it on with
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-enabled true
or
dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/color/night-light-enabled true
Same commands with false instead of true will turn it off.
If you list the keys under the org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.co... | Activate Night Light option from terminal |
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I'm a long time KDE user, never seen GNOME since may be Mandrake Linux 10 something. Yesterday I took a look at GNOME Shell on Youtube and thought it may worth a look.
It actually is worth, but I can't figure out one moment.
I've got a shell script that used to run on my KDE Laptop installations for ages:
synclient |... |
You can use the program gnome-session-properties. Just execute it from your shell prompt (gnome-terminal):
$ gnome-session-properties
This will open a GUI where you can configure (i.e., add, edit, remove, enable and disable) startup programs.
Nice and easy. Enjoy.
Update: As noted by don_crissti (thanks) in the comm... | Gnome Shell: Running shell script after session starts? |
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Today gvfsd-metadata process was running for a whole day hogging 100% of a single core of my CPU. Is there any reason for it to do it?
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AFAIK gvfsd-metadata is a process that collects file metadata when you use Nautilus. If your metadata store got corrupted somehow, it might get stuck on an infinite loop. So you'll have to kill that process, and remove the metadata store.
pkill gvfsd-metadata
rm -rf .local/share/gvfs-metadata
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I would like to be able to click on SSH links that look like ssh://user@servername and have a gnome-terminal open that runs SSH inside of it.
After reading up on the XDG stuff I did the following:
I created a shell script in $HOME/bin/ssh-terminal with the following:
#!/bin/sh
dest=${1#ssh://}
gnome-terminal -e "ssh $... |
Writing a .desktop file is not enough. You also need to change the default setting for the mime type.
You can get the current default value with
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/ssh
and can change it with
xdg-mime default ssh-terminal.desktop x-scheme-handler/ssh
The corresponding configuration file could b... | How to override the Gnome 3 SSH handler? |
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I am on Antergos with GNOME 3.24.3.
Pressing the Super key (Windows key) opens this Activities menu/view that I don't want to use:
Pressing the Super + A keys opens the menu that I want to open with just the Super key:
I have attempted to set this myself by using dconf-editor to set the Activities menu to the Alt_R ... |
I configured those keys directly through Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard on Ubuntu 17.10. Under "System" section you have "Show the overview" which you can disable (by pressing backspace). And for "Show all applications" you can configure then Super.
| How to set Super/Windows key to Show All Applications menu in GNOME DE? |
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I wanted to have some of the sub-folders of my home directory (like Music, Downloads,Videos) on my hard-disk-raid instead of my SSD. Therefore I deleted those folders in my home directory, recreated them on the RAID and made symlinks pointing from my home-folder to the RAID (e.g. /home/user/Music > /mnt/home-big-data/... |
Most likely, your user-dirs are reset to $HOME/ each time you reboot because those locations are not available on session startup when xdg-user-dirs-update is automatically run.
After editing ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs a possible solution is to prevent xdg-user-dirs-update from running (and resetting your configuration ... | user-dirs.dirs reset at start-up |
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I can't disable natural scrolling. That is, no matter whether I turn "Natural Scrolling" on or off, dragging the mouse wheel towards me scrolls up.
$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.20.4
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four)
No matter what I set it to, if I go back to all settings and then o... |
This worked for me:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse natural-scroll false
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad natural-scroll false
| How to *disable* natural scrolling? |
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I use awesome in a tiling mode for almost all my desktops. Since the advent of client side decorations in GTK3 some common Gnome project apps have taken to giving themselves a generous amount of padding outside of their main window border. I suspect this is for shadow effects, but it wreaks havok with the tiling syste... |
Add to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:
.window-frame {
box-shadow: none;
margin: 0;
}
(via https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1416334#p1416334)
I had to restart X for it to take effect - SIGHUP awesome was not sufficient.
| How can I remove the window padding on GTK3 apps in Awesome-WM? |
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I'm on Manjaro Gnome 3.28.3.
For my situation, they do same thing, list thumbnails of all opened applications and if you press Super or Alt, Tab could help you to switch the applications.
So, I want SuperTab and AltTab to do different things. Like SuperTab switch applications only on this workspace?
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By default, they appear to both be assigned to “Switch applications”. They can be re-assigned using the keyboard preferences:
Open the menu in the top-right-hand corner of your main screen.
Click on the “Settings button”, i.e. the left-most button here:
Choose “Devices” in the left-hand column:
Choose “Keyboard”.
... | What's the difference between Super+Tab and Alt+Tab on Gnome? |
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I run Debian testing with Gnome 3.12. After installing "Workspace Grid" extension the workspace switch animation became increasingly annoying. I'm talking about that thing in the middle of the screen that appears when you use Ctrl+Alt+Arrow shortcut. It became bugged to the degree where it provides zero information, m... |
There's an extension called Disable Workspace Switcher Popup that does exactly what you want.
Install as per the instructions on the extension homepage.
| Disable workspace switch overlay effect |
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I'm running GNOME 3 on Fedora 25, which uses Wayland as opposed to Xorg. I'm having trouble finding a way to modify my mouse wheel scroll speed and touchpad scroll speed without affecting mouse/touchpad sensitivity and acceleration. My mouse wheel scrolls only one or two lines at a time, which is maddening and way too... |
I've tried Wayland also, and switched back to xorg finally, just because of the touchpad/mouse problem. I'm afraid that xorg may still be the best solution. Libinput just doesn't provide much for touchpad/mouse calibration. This is too bad for laptops on Wayland...
Though may not be of some help, here's some info on l... | Modify mouse wheel and touchpad two-finger scrolling speed |
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I installed telegram-desktop via Flatpak and would like to auto start the messenger when logging into Gnome 3 (or Unity as a fact). Is there a way to robustly do so?
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Starting from the answer given by @intika I found a solution I like more.
Instead of replicating the content of the existing desktop-file in /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.telegram.desktop.desktop I linked it inside my personal ~/.config/autostart/. Works like a charm :-)
| How to add a Flatpak's app to Gnome 3 auto-starts? |
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I upgraded to Fedora 21, which spotlights GNOME 3.14 (plus the relevant GTK+ material). Unfortunately it seems that this particular update mangles a lot of my older themes, written for now-aging versions of GNOME 3. Where previously they may have squeaked by, they now look a little out-of-place.
I don't presume to re... |
There's only a single line in that .css file because the default theme Adwaita comes as a binary:
Adwaita is a complex theme, so to keep it maintainable it's written
and processed in SASS, the generated CSS is then transformed into a
gresource file during gtk build and used at runtime in a non-legible
or editable for... | Where may I find a reference scheme for GNOME 3 theming (e.g. Adwaita)? |
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I'm running Fedora 27, and my university uses a network authenication portal so GNOME pops up a hotspot login screen. I would like to disable this screen, and just have it open it in firefox, because my login data is already there. How do I change this setting? I've checked the settings app and there are no settings t... |
From the man page:
CONNECTIVITY SECTION
This section controls NetworkManager's optional connectivity checking
functionality. This allows NetworkManager to detect whether or not the
system can actually access the internet or whether it is behind a
captive portal.
uri
The U... | WIFI - Disable Hotspot Login Screen |
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I am using NixOS with Gnome, and would like to set Chromium as the default browser.
The 'Details' section of my settings, under 'default applications' shows the following:
Both Chromium and Firefox have been installed on my system (Chromium via $ nix-env -i chromium), and yet they do not show up under the drop-down f... |
NixOS does not manage user-specific configuration. Full-stop.
As for the browsers not being found by the configuration dialog, try installing them via /etc/nixos/configuration.nix instead of with nix-env.
Tip
If you install packages declaratively and imperatively you'll end up having to manage two dependency trees. On... | How to set the default browser in NixOS? |
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What is the difference between gnome3 and gnome-shell, if any?
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GNOME Shell is just one part of GNOME 3. Together with Mutter (the window manager), it is its primary user interface. The secondary interface (for hardware that can't handle the 3D workload, or for people who don't care about glitz), is Gnome Panel + Metacity (old window manager), which will basically give you the loo... | Difference between Gnome3 and Gnome-shell |
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What's the correct way to restart Gnome 3 (and Xorg) under Debian 7.0 Wheezy?
I've seen older documentation on how to this, but it is outdated.
The ctrl+alt+backspace shortcut no longer works by default.
Running sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart from Gnome terminal just gives me a blank screen with blinking underscore and... |
You need to issue the command for restarting the X server from outside the X session:
Switch to a virtual terminal using CTRL+ALT+Fi with i falling between 1 to 6 inclusive (2 to 7 inclusive if you're on Fedora or RHEL).
Log in at the prompt
Run sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart or sudo service gdm3 restart
Reattach to ... | Restarting Gnome 3 in Debian Wheezy? |
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I just switched to Fedora 22 and decided to go for Gnome3 this time instead of XFCE. I like the Thunar file manager so I downloaded it. I've had trouble setting it as the default file manager though.
What I tried:
I ran exo-preferred-applications. Under Utilities -> File Manager I selected Thunar.
The problem:
It's no... |
You could try editing /usr/share/applications/defaults.list and changing the line
inode/directory=nemo.desktop;caja.desktop;nautilus.desktop;Thunar.desktop;kde4-dolphin.desktop
to
inode/directory=Thunar.desktop;
or some order that suits your needs.
| Changing default file manager in Gnome3 (Fedora 22) |
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I am not able to login into GNOME desktop, it happened yesterday after upgrade.
In login screen, if I enter my password and press ENTER I am getting login screen again.
System details:
linux 4.4.5-1
gnome-shell 3.20.0-3
gnome-desktop 1:3.20.1-1
gnome-session 3.20.1-1
gdm 3.20.0-1
Logs:
Xorg log: http://sprunge.us/S... |
I guess the reason is
/etc/profile.d/bundler-exec.sh: line 12: `bundler-installed': not a valid identifier
in journalctl.log
Can you provide this file?
| Cannot login into GNOME, kicking me back to login screen |
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I would like to manage my ssh passwork with gnome-keyring. I am on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, gnome3. I don't have root access to the system.
The question is in the title indeed:
gnome-keyring-daemon: insufficient process capabilities, unsecure memory might get used
This worries me. What does it mean?
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Since you are not root on system, the process calling gnome-keyring-daemon does not have the privileges to prevent a possible write of the sensitive cryptographic key data to the system's hard disk.
What happens is that the gkd process does not have the ability to perform a CAP_IPC_LOCK to lock memory. If your filesy... | gnome-keyring-daemon: insufficient process capabilities, unsecure memory might get used |
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I changed the keybinding to Show the activities overview in the panel System Settings / Keyboard / Shortcuts to Shift-ESC, but the left-meta or left-windows key is still bringing it up.
How do I disable that binding?
|
gconftool -s /apps/mutter/general/overlay_key -t string "Super_R"
worked (after shell restart) for me. Instead of Super_R feel free to put name of any key which doesn't exist on your keyboard.
| How do I disable the left-(meta|windows) key binding in gnome-shell |
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I'd like to make my IDE window partially transparent. I achieved this in Unity using compiz as described in the accepted answer to: How to make a window transparent in gnome. However I don't believe compiz will work for this with gnome unless I'm mistaken. There WAS a gnome extension for this but it has been abandoned... |
There's another extension called Glassy Gnome that works with newer versions of gnome-shell.
For more details consult the included README.
| Set window transparency in Gnome |
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First of all, I saw this question and all the others with similar answer and it does not seem to work for me. I use Ubuntu 19.04 and GNOME 3.32.1
I downloaded Postman (a code testing tool) and I want to be able to launch it from the dock. When I launch it from the shortcut, it appears in the dock:
But when I right-cl... |
Ok so I was able to add it to the dock following these steps. Add this desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications as postman.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Postman
Icon=/home/[my user name]/Utilities/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Exec=/home/[my user name]/Utilities/Postman/app/Postman
Term... | Gnome 3 : How do I create a launcher in the dock? |
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I'm using Linux Mint Debian edition and I have set Firefox as my default browser in my settings.
But HTTP links in other apps like hotot and pidgin open with Chromium!
Why is this happening is there any way to track the problem?
|
I'm going to guess the following
all of those tools use XdgUtils
if you type xdg-open http://google.com it'll open with Chromium
and that you have the problem described in this Ubuntu forumspost
So my suggested answer is:
$ xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
(and ditto for https)
| My default browser is set to Firefox but links open with Chromium |
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I'm trying to use cryptdisks_start to open a LUKS device that is defined in my /etc/crypttab. Unfortunately, the command fails with the following error message:
martin ~ # cryptdisks_start luks-01a2e5d8-9211-40ce-b160-d3f973d1a155
* Starting crypto disk...
* luks-01a2e5d8-9211-40ce-b160-d3f973d1a155 (starting)..
* ... |
It doesn't work because the /etc/crypttab line is missing the option keyword luks. Changing the line to this resolved the issue:
luks-01a2e5d8-9211-40ce-b160-d3f973d1a155 UUID=01a2e5d8-9211-40ce-b160-d3f973d1a155 /etc/luks-keys/luks-01a2e5d8-9211-40ce-b160-d3f973d1a155 luks,nofail
This is due to the fact that cryptdi... | cryptdisks_start: precheck failed: the device contains a filesystem type crypto_LUKS |
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I have been using Arch Linux + GNOME 3 on both my computers (notebook and desktop) for over a year now. And all the time, computers were shutting down quickly (in 3 seconds). After a recent update of all packages on both computers via Pamac, the computers now take a long time to shut down (it takes about 2 minutes to ... |
How I solved my question:
Found the time gap in the log by the command: sudo journalctl -b -1 -e --no-pager (the time gap in my case is 2 minutes)
I typed the information obtained from the logs into a search engine and found a solution: bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=261530
Executed the command: systemctl edit --... | Why do my computers take a long time to shut down? |
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I recently had to change the keyboard-shortcuts after updating my system. I had to use dconf-editor to manually set the shortcut from <Super>+R to <Mod4>+R in order to get them to work (see here).
This does work when I press the right super-key together with the specified alphabetic key, but it does not work when usin... |
Use xmodmap -pm to verify that both keys have the mod4 modifier associated with them.
vikktakkht:686 Z$ xmodmap -pm
xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69)
mod1 Alt_L... | keyboard shortcuts only work with left super-key |
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I am running Debian GNOME 8.0.
I would like to have Numlock ON as default.
So I followed the instructions on this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Activating_Numlock_on_Bootup#GDM
replacing gdm by gdm3 for my case.
This turns Numlock ON at login.
But then, after login, Numlock is automatically switch... |
The solution was actually very simple (see @don_crissti 's comment): set the dconf key remember-numlock-state (under org > gnome > settings-daemon > peripherals > keyboard) value to true via dconf-editor or in terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.keyboard remember-numlock-state true
| Remember Numlock state after login in GNOME |
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For a project I need to write and execute Ansible scripts in a Linux environment (CentOS).
Though using the command line and vi is interesting, I need to use graphical file explorer and Visual Studio Code to edit files.
Because the Linux VMs available to me have low memory (3GB) and run on slower CPUs, GNOME 3 for D... |
Given your use case, and if you are this low on memory, the best choice would be to switch to a lightweight Desktop Environnement (DE), such as:
XFCE
Mate
LXDE
LXQt
etc.
If you are (even sort of) new to Linux, I would suggest you to stay away from Tilling Window Managers (TWM); although being extremely lightweight a... | Lightweight desktop environments to replace GNOME for CentOS? |
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Can it be done? I don't want to use Evolution's calendar... I want to keep using Thunderbird... I have to add some addons (like lightning) first right?
My goal is to have some calendar-like on thunderbird and replace the one of Evolution.
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OK, I found how to do this at How to change gnome-shell calendar default application
Just execute this in a terminal!!
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.office.calendar exec thunderbird
I have tested it and it works!! (it's not exaclty what I wanted but it's a start)
| How can I make the Gnome3 calendar use Thunderbird instead of Evolution? |
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I'm running a GNOME/Wayland desktop environment, with GDM, on a Debian-based distro. I normally lock the screen with Super + L .
Is there a command to invoke the screen-lock from the terminal?
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Yes you can do this.
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver \
/org/gnome/ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock
From http://choffee.co.uk/thoughtsplurge/posts/2013/07/11/lock_gnome_screensaver/ via "How can I lock my screen in Gnome 3.8 without GDM?"
| Can I invoke a GNOME screen-lock from the terminal? [duplicate] |
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I've created a custom script to launch VirtualBox that replaced the original script in ¸/usr/bin/¸. So running VirtualBox in a terminal launches my script. However, pressing super key and type "virtualbox" in Gnome Shell launcher brings the old original script.
How can I change that behavior so that when I type virtua... |
Look for the file /usr/share/applications/virtualbox.desktop. On my system, it has the following contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Name=Oracle VM VirtualBox
GenericName=Virtual Machine
Type=Application
Exec=VirtualBox %U
...
Simply change the Exec part to point to your custom executable/script.
See... | Change executable reference for app icon in in GNOME 3 launcher |
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Environment:
Distribution: Arch Linux
Display Manager: GDM 3.16.x
Dekstop Environment: Gnome 3.16
Question:
How to disable the user list displayed on the login screen?
Clarification:
Wanted result:
In effect, from the users perspective, the result: Being presented with a box that requests a username upon reaching th... |
This should work with gdm ≥ 3.12 (tested on archlinux w. gdm 3.16.1):
switch to a VT (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F3), login as root and run:
su - gdm -s /bin/sh
to switch user to gdm.
then run:
export $(dbus-launch)
and:
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.login-screen disable-user-list true
run exit or hit Ctrl+D ... | How to disable the user list on GDM3 login screen? |
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I'm a long-time Windows user who uses the numeric keypad with the numlock off for navigating text, highlighting it, etc. Shift + Home (7 on the numpad) selects all text till the beginning of the line. In GNOME, pressing Shift + Home on the numpad inputs 7 instead of selecting all text till the beginning of the line.
I... |
There's an option for it in the typing settings: open gnome-tweak-tool and in the Typing section expand Miscellaneous compatibility options and check the option "NumLock on: digits, Shift switches to arrow keys, NumLock off: always arrow keys (as in MS Windows)"
Or you could use dconf-editor, navigate to org>gnome>des... | Change behaviour of numpad to dpad in GNOME 3 |
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I get this
gpg: WARNING: The GNOME keyring manager hijacked the GnuPG agent.
gpg: WARNING: GnuPG will not work proberly - please configure that tool to not interfere with the GnuPG system!
when I use gnupg-agent with mutt. But the warning doesn't give me clue how to resolve the issue, nor could I find the info from G... |
It is a clash between gpg2 and gnome-keyring and the message is misleading and harmless. If you like to remove the message, execute the following command on a terminal.
sed -i s/AGENT_ID/AGENX_ID/ `which gpg2`
More Details can be found here
| GNOME keyring manager and gnupg |
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I am running a GNOME 3 fallback desktop in Debian testing, and I removed some pulseaudio packages, for I don't need the advanced functionality. That resulted in my multimedia keys that control speaker volume to work no more. This forces me to use a mouse on the classic volume control applet to control the volume, whic... |
ArchWiki page provided explanations, and creating the following files worked for me:
/etc/acpi/actions/volume
#! /bin/sh
step=5
case $1 in
-) amixer set Master $step-;;
+) amixer set Master $step+;;
esac
/etc/acpi/events/volume_down
event=button/volumedown
action=/etc/acpi/actions/volume -
/etc/acpi/events/volum... | Regaining usage of volume control media keys after removing pulseaudio |
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Is there a gnome 3 extension or a fedora 25 shortcut to close all opened applications in a workspace? (Closing the workspace itself by pressing an X for example).
I've seen that functionality somewhere long time ago, forgot where, but it's not available in fedora by default.
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The answer below was written and tested on Gnome3 / Ubuntu. Please mention if you run into issues when running it on Fedora / Gnome.
Script to close all application windows on a specific workspace in Gnome
The script below will close all windows on a specific workspace, with two options:
When run without arguments, ... | How to close all applications in a workspace? |
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The workspace switcher popup doesn't provide previews by default. Is there any way to enable them? The Workspace List that shows up on the right when super key is pressed does have preview.
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You could do that via a gnome-shell extension:
workspace-switcher-popup-thumbnails
Download the zip file and either use gnome-tweak-tool to install it or extract the archive and move the resulting directory to
~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/gnome-shell-extension-workspace-switcher-popup-thumbnails@sustmidown.... | Showing thumbnails or some kind of preview in the Gnome workspace switcher popup? |
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Currently I'm using i3 window manager (but I guess that this applies to other non-standard window managers as well). Whenever I run nautilus it also starts a full screen desktop, which I have to close.
Possible solution is to start nautilus with: nautilus --browser --no-desktop, which solves this problem only partial... |
Yes, there is a dconf value that controls this. Run the following command to disable drawing of the desktop by Nautilus:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/237984/81372
| Launching nautilus file browser launches gnome desktop, how to suppress it |
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In my ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile I have some variables set to some filepaths:
export MY_VAR1="/path/to/somewhere"
In my ~/bin/ (which is added to my PATH) I have a few scripts that rely on those variables being set.
If I run those commands from the terminal, they work as expected.
However, if I try to double click on a... |
That is because a starting X session never reads your ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile. Usually, the desktop manager is started as root or its own user from an init script. The resulting process usually has the environment of the init process when it hits the desktop manager starting script. (I will not talk about less establ... | Bash scripts ran from from gnome/nautilus don't have environment variables |
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Is there any tool to set appearance for GNOME Debian 7.2.0? I feel title bar is too thick and font is too big. I'm just leaving Ubuntu for Debian, so I'm not so familiar with it.
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There are several things you can do to improve the title bars in GNOME 3.
1. padding
The setting for the padding is controlled in this metacity XML file, /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml.
Open a terminal window
$ sudo sed -i "/title_vertical_pad/s/value=\"[0-9]\{1,2\}\"/value=\"0\"/g" \
/... | Can I set appearance for GNOME Debian? |
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I am seeing a horrible battery life with Fedora 15 (lovelock) with Gnome Shell 3 on my laptop. I keep the screen brightness, back light pretty low. I still get about 1 hr 50 minutes battery life out of it after a full charge while just browsing. I also got a brand new battery from lenovo but no luck.
I tried the worka... |
The program powertop should help you identify the problem.
$ sudo yum -y install powertop
$ sudo powertop
Look at the various output, and then arrow-key over to the rightmost "tab", Tunables. Look at the things which are "bad", and press enter to fix them.
Also, on the first Overview screen, look for any egregi... | How can I improve battery life in Fedora 15? |
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I'm using Arch Linux with Gnome 3.6 installed. There are several users on this PC with their own accounts. We used to use just switch user button instead of logging out. So almost always several users are logged in in our PC with their own set of running apps and etc.
I want to switch to Awesome and I want to save thi... |
I am using Fedora linux. Most people in our household use Gnome3 but I use Xmonad (which is similar to awesome, but better). This is no problem, as I have Xscreensaver running.
When Xscreensaver is started and saving the screen and you move the mouse, there are two options below the password entry field: New Login and... | One PC, several users, Gnome 3 and Awesome. How to easy switch users via GDM |
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In Wikipedia is written that Gnome Shell in Gnome 3 uses Mutter window manager.
But ps x | grep mutter shows that Mutter is not running. Moreover I had experience with working Gnome Shell before I installed Mutter.
Does Gnome Shell really use Mutter? Which WM are used and which can be used with Gnome Shell?
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Yes, mutter is used by gnome-shell but it's used as a library. The mutter binary is just a tiny program that links against libmutter.
You could try like this:
lsof | grep mutter
| Does Gnome Shell use Mutter? |
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The website https://extensions.gnome.org is supposed to be the main tool for installing and managing GNOME shell extensions. How do I enable it on NixOS 18.03?
When I accessed that website with Firefox on GNOME 3, I got the following information:
To control GNOME Shell extensions using this site you must install GNOM... |
As the longDescription for chrome-gnome-shell says, you'll have to set a specific gnome3 and a specific firefox option. To do so, include the following in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and rebuild:
nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableGnomeExtensions = true;
services.gnome3.chrome-gnome-shell.enable = true;
(Unfortunately... | How can I install GNOME shell extensions from extensions.gnome.org through Firefox on NixOS? |
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When searching for files, I often prefer using locate (because of the speed).
However, I end up opening a terminal just for that purpose and then closing it again. Not a big problem for me, but my girlfriend often forgets command names.
Is there a way to have Nautilus to use mlocate for searching?
Ideally, I'd love to... |
I've not seen a way to incorporate these results into Nautilus, but there are GUIs for search in mlocate's database. The one that I'm most familiar with is called catfish. It's generally in most of the standard distros' repos. The main website is here, titled: Catfish is a versatile file searching tool.. The project's... | Is there a way to have Nautilus include mlocate in the results? |
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Minimize, Maximize, Close icons are missing in my GNOME desktop of Kali Linux. However, when I click in the place they are supposed to be, they do what they are supposed to do.
Weirdly, Firefox is only missing the maximize icon!
This may have been caused when I tried to install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. This appa... |
Had same problem on arch. Simply reinstalled gnome-shell and updated.
| Minimize, Maximize, Close icons not showing in GNOME |
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I'm used to Gnome 2 in Debian and Fedora. But recently I've been using Gnome 3 and Gnome-shell (3.0.2). Today I noticed I wasn't able to find the About Gnome dialog. It's been helpful in the past to pull it up to see what version of Gnome I'm running, and see some attribution information.
So, questions:
Where does... |
System settings > System > System info (or Details on some distros). On all distros, in terminal:
gnome-control-center info
As far as I understand from Gnome's IRC channel, it is an upstream decision.
| Where is the "About Gnome" dialog in gnome-shell? |
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Every time I boot my PC Ubuntu keeps dropping me to TTY 1 where I have to log in and then do
sudo lightdm start
just to log in again, which is very annoying
I have already tried removing and re-adding it to update-rc.d
update-rc.d lightdm defaults
but it just does not work.
Anyone got an idea which logfiles to chec... |
This is how I fixed this problem:
first you need to stop lightdm if it's running
sudo service lightdm stop
then you need to x server to create a fresh xorg.conf, I did this by renaming my old one
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.old
then I deleted my current drivers
sudo aptitude remove --purge nvidia-cu... | Lightdm won't start automatically on boot |
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I have a script that starts my vagrant machine, opens up multiple terminals and connects to the vagrant machine via ssh in every newly opened terminal. My problem is that I need about five terminals, and I don't want to type in the password for each terminal manually. Is there a way to get prompted for the password on... |
In general (ignoring vagrant or other system-specific details) your best bet is to set up authentication with SSH keys, and run ssh-agent. Then open the ssh sessions with something like:
# load the key to the agent with a 10 s timeout
# this asks for the key passphrase
ssh-add -t10 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
for x in 1 2 3 ; do... | How to type in password for multiple windows? |
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I cannot find where I can set keyboard shortcut for switching languages.
Update:
New problem: I cannot set Alt+Shift combination for that.
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I don't use Cinnamon so this might not work for you, but in vanilla Gnome 3.6 you could do this either via terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.keyboard input-sources-switcher alt-shift-l
or via dconf-editor, navigating to org > gnome > settings-daemon > peripherals > keyboard and entering al... | Gnome3/cinnamon set keyboard shortcut |
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In Xfce, we can hold the Alt key, and use the left mouse button to move the window, or use the right mouse button to resize the window. Similarly, in elementary OS there is the Super key, but in GNOME, how do you set the Super key to drag or resize window?
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Run GNOME Tweaks, go to the “Windows” section, and choose your favourite action key next to the “Window Action Key” entry:
Pressing the action key will allow you to move windows (using the main mouse button) and resize them (using the middle mouse button).
| In GNOME, how to move and resize window using one hotkey like Xfce (Alt) or elementary OS (Super)? |
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I've built the entire Xserver from git for testing proposes using the build.sh provided by freedesktop.org as the easier method to compile all modules against the git tree, and installed under the /opt/xorg path. The problem is that I can't find how gdm decides from where to load the Xserver and related binaries.
I've... |
Answer in 2 words:
The location of Xserver for GDM is hard-coded at compile time in configure.ac, line 1199 in X_SERVER variable and can't be configured. So, may be you could play with symlinks, linking /usr/bin/Xorg (or, less probably /usr/bin/X, see this) to your build of Xserver.
Details:
I have a Debian 7, too and... | How to make gdm3 start X installed in a different path (or running X from a personalized path)? |
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I have read all over the Internet about changing text files or running commands to change my wm but none of them work. I have looked all around the gnome lock screen for a button allowing me to change my wm but I could find none. I have installed and uninstalled i3 multiple times but I cannot get it to run. Is anyone ... |
The best way to get i3 installed and running from a Gnome3 Desktop is, first to install i3:
apt-get install i3
Other packages may also be useful:
apt-get install feh xautolock xbacklight
Then, in the gdm3 after selecting a user, just choose the i3 desktop.
My advice is to keep as much from your GNOME desktop. For th... | How do I change from gnome to i3 Debian 8 |
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I'm trying out the secondary monitor with portrait layout, and I want to disable subpixel font antialiasing.
I have both turned it off to "Grayscale" in gnome-tweak-tool and created a symlink to 10-no-sub-pixel.conf:
/etc/fonts/conf.d $ ll
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Apr 9 10:37 10-no-sub-pixel.conf -> ../con... |
This should work without the need to symlink 10-no-sub-pixel.conf. If xrdb -query confirms that your settings are OK:
Xft.rgba: none
then most likely a hidden config file (like fonts.conf) overrides your settings. Possible locations:
~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
~/.config/fonts.conf
~/.fonts.conf
| Turning off subpixel antialiasing in Gnome 3 on Debian |
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I have a problem adjusting my laptop's brightness. This is a hardware problem but I can solve it with ccsm, but other programs do not work for me, e.g., xgamma, etc.
Now I am running Fedora 15 and Gnome3 I cannot use compiz: is there another solution?
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OK, I found a way to solve this problem on Acer with Fedora 15 (thanks to Fedora forums and answers here):
Update the BIOS to the lastest version.
Edit /etc/Xorg/xorg.conf to add the following line under Section "Device":
Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"
Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to add the parame... | My laptop cannot adjust brightness |
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What are the benefits to running awesome as my window manager in Gnome 3? I am interested in identifying what features/functionality gnome3+awesome provides that can not be easily (if not identical) replicated running awesome all by itself.
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Gnome provides services (such as Gnome keyring, GConf, PolicyKit integration, etc.) that some programs use as well as additional features like theme application and application autostarting. If you use programs that make use of those services and you don't have Gnome, you may miss out on some functionality. Depending ... | What are the benefits of running Gnome 3 + awesome compared with awesome alone? |
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I am running Debian Stretch 9.1 with GNOME 3 as the desktop environment and GDM for session management. I tried GNOME on Wayland from GDM (gear icon) and it works very well. I would now like to configure an autologin to GNOME on Wayland.
I am able to log into GNOME on Wayland by default without autologin. I am able to... |
The configuration is correct. Autologin should log a user into their previous session, it is not a parameter. However there is a bug in gdm3 which prevents it from working as expected.
Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851754
GNOME (upstream): https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781825
... | Debian Stretch: How do I make Wayland the default? |
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OS: GNOME 3.30.2 on Debian GNU/Linux 10 (64-bit)
My laptop has no output from the HDMI port. The monitor shows "NO INPUT DETECTED". Previously I had Kubuntu installed and before that I had windows 10, Both worked fine, which means this is not a hardware issue.
I have tried:
Using the package "ARandR" to scan for new ... |
You have a laptop with two GPUs, using Nvidia's "Optimus" technology.
The low-power CPU-integrated Intel iGPU is physically wired to output to the laptop's internal display, while the HDMI output is wired to the more powerful Nvidia discrete GPU. The device ID 10de:1f91 indicates the Nvidia GPU is GeForce GTX 1650 Mob... | Debian 10 [Buster]: HDMI Input Not detected |
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