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Is it possible to access the aggregate menu, or system menu, located in the top right corner on the activities bar of the GNOME shell interface, with a keyboard shortcut? If not, can such a shortcut be created?
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As far as I know there's no dedicated shortcut for the aggregate menu. You could use the ctrlalttab.js helper (also known as the accessibility switcher). Hit Ctrl+Alt+Tab:
and select Top Bar, this will focus the first element on the top bar (that is, the Activities button). You then navigate with right arrow to the s... | Access the GNOME shell aggregate menu per keyboard |
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I switched to gnome 3 (which I like) and of all the things that have changed the only one that bothers me is the fact that there is not a hibernate option. Now, I know of the pm-hibernate command but it does not lock my x-window on boot up. Just right back into where I left off without requiring a password. Any sugges... |
After trying a few different approaches, I got it to work with the instructions at the webupd8 site; installing all shell extensions.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-alternate-tab gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu gnome-shell-... | gnome 3 hibernate option |
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I found on StackExchange how to change the color of the title bar of an inactive window (in GNOME 3):
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:
headerbar.default-decoration {
background-color: #c00; /* red */
}
(See this question: How to change the titlebar height in standard GTK apps and those with headerbars/CSDs on Gnome 3.2... |
I'd say that's not correct. headerbar:backdrop should be the one for inactive windows, headerbar for the active one. I've used headerbar {...} to set the color, like:
headerbar {
padding: 0 6px;
min-height: 46px;
border-width: 0 0 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: @border_color;
background: @bg_c... | How to change the color of an active window title bar in GNOME? |
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I created the following .desktop file under Fedora 24 using GNOME 3.
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Jabref
Exec=java -jar /home/zoltan/Bureau/Programs/JabRef-3.7-dev--snapshot--2016-11-08--master--fffad83.jar
Icon=/home/zoltan/Bureau/Programs/Icons/Jabref
Type=Application
Categories=Development
When I opened it ... |
Have a look here:
https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en
It could be possible gnome to be quite sensitive in the "Categories" section.
You might need to modify like
Categories=GTK;GNOME;Development;
PS: By the way i just noticed that your "categories" entry is not "closed" with "... | .desktop file does not work from /usr/share/applications |
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I am using firefox to run some web applications as "stand alones": I create a new profile with firefox, specific for that application, set the first page, do the login and customize the UI depending on the specific needs.
Then, I can quickly launch an instance of that web app by doing:
firefox --no-remote -P My_app_pr... |
So, apparently my second edit wasn't correct: the way it GNOME Shell determines application grouping isn't the one I described.
After asking on the IRC gnome-shell channel, user halfline provided me the policy for grouping applications into Dash icons:
_GTK_APPLICATION_ID property of the window matched to the desktop... | Gnome Shell favorites: how running software is determined |
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Background
I run Ubuntu Gnome 15.10. Almost every day there is a crash (due to some segfault) in gom-media-server-miner. So I looked up gom-media-server-miner and found gnome-online-miners which is described as follows:
GNOME Online Miners provides a set of crawlers that go through your
online content and index the... |
I've encountered repeated SEGFAULTs with this package, and used this:
sudo dpkg --force-depends -r gnome-online-miners
This command removes only the package and forces dpkg to treat any dependency errors as warnings.
I'm puzzled that this can't be done with apt/apt-get given that this package is Priority: optional.
g... | Can I disable or remove gnome-online-miners? |
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I'm migrating from Ubuntu to Mint and loving it so far.
One thing has been bugging me. On ubuntu I was able to run:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"
to get system-wide emacs keybindings, but this doesn't seem to work on Cinnamon.
I also tried changing the setting using the gnome3-tweak-... |
So this is only sort-of supported in Mint. I eventually found out that you can use this:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme 'Emacs'
Although Emacs keybindings don't work in a lot of cinnamon apps (like the file browser for example), they do work in Chrome and the text editor.
See the thread on... | Why don't emacs keybindings work on Mint 17.1? |
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The question is about customizing the way icon appears at
desktop shell
notification area
file associations
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Mathematica 9
Comment=Technical Computing System
Exec=/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/Executables/Mathematica %F
Icon=wolfram-mathematica
MimeType=applicati... |
First, desktop files aka "launchers" (should) comply to freedesktop specs. As to the icon, the above specification explains:
Icon to display in file manager, menus, etc. If the name is an
absolute path, the given file will be used. If the name is not an
absolute path, the algorithm described in the Icon Theme Specifi... | Understanding Gnome various Icons |
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In gnome-shell's top bar, calendar items are shown. This is great. However, I miss the possibility to click onto an item and then see more details/or simply to be led to the specific event item in evolution or another preferred calendar application.
The missing functionality is this: click on calendar item@top bar -->... |
At the moment, this does not seem possible, because no API exists, that would allow gnomeshell to interact with events from e.g. evolution or gnome-calendar. see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/262#note_540721
For an issue that discussed this issue specifically, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gno... | How to make gnome-shell calendar open calendar app's event details when clicking onto calendar entry? |
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With Ubuntu pushing Unity, what distribution would you recommend if I just want to run Gnome 3 with the new Gnome shell?
Personally, I'm interested in distributions which have the polish and support of Ubuntu, but feel free to recommend anything that makes it easy to run Gnome shell.
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Fedora is an obvious choice. Frequent (6 month) releases, lots of community support, and on top of that its a pretty good operating system.
Fedora 15 with Gnome 3 releases later this month, but you can download the beta now.
Fedora Project
| Good distribution for Gnome shell |
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I am using RHEL 7 with GNOME 3. As far as I know, I can only configure an ADSL connection (via GUI) with nm-connection-editor.
But where can I find a clickable symbol for the nm-connection-editor in the GUI? It should be available, but when digging around in network manager (with the mouse) it doesn't bring up nm-con... |
The documentation of the Network Manger project points out that it's the dekstop environment authors' responsibility to integrate nm-connection-editor with their GUIs:
Most desktops provide a control center or settings utility that integrates with NetworkManager. You can also use 'nm-connection-editor', 'nmcli' or 'n... | How to reach nm-connection-editor from the GUI in GNOME 3? |
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Today I had to use mousekeys feature and tried it but it was very slow and unsusable, can I incerase the speed of my cursor while using mousekeys?
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The xkbset command can adjust the mousekeys speed. I use this setting:
xkbset ma 50 20 20 30 300
which accelerates fast enough to get across the screen in reasonable time, but also starts out slow enough that I can tap a key and get a single pixel movement. Play with the numbers until you find something you like.
To ... | mousekeys is too slow in gnome3 fedora |
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How can I install a package on Debian without internet (without using apt-get)? I want to download it on USB and install from USB using terminal.
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INSTALL A PACKAGE
The path for USB is in /media, so you will have to search there what's the path. Once you have it you can excecute:
sudo dpkg -i /path/to/your/usb/device/DEB_PACKAGE
Or simply this if you are in the same USB folder as the package:
sudo dpkg -i DEB_PACKAGE
For example if the package file is called a... | How to install packages without internet |
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I have a Debian Jessie 64bit 8.7 and
Google Chrome Stable 57.0.2987.110.
When I visited the GNOME Shell extensions site, I saw the following information:
Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector
is not detected. Refer documentation for instructions about installing connector.
O... |
Yes, you should install the GNOME Shell integration for Chrome. The Debian 9 package’s dependencies are satisfiable in Debian 8, so
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/chrome-gnome-shell/chrome-gnome-shell_8-4_all.deb
sudo gdebi chrome-gnome-shell_8-4_all.deb
should work (assuming you have gdebi installed).... | Debian Jessie unable to install GNOME extension, the native host connector is not detected |
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I have recently switched to Gnome 3 from Gnome 2 (and switched to Linux recently before that), and Gnome 3 doesn't give me as many options to change settings via the GUI, and especially not to change default settings.
Specifically, I'm trying to change the lid close action on my laptop, since I don't want it to suspen... |
Eureka!
Thanks to a combination of the answers here, a discussion about setting the login screen's wallpaper, and a general discussion about running an X program from another console, I finally managed to solve this.
I do need to set the setting as the gdm user. But, simply running gsettings set ... as gdm will fail b... | Set Default/Global Gnome Preferences (Gnome 3) |
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When I start Thunderbird or the IDE 'Eclipse', there are no icons in the menu entries. Several solutions found on the Internet suggest things like setting a specific dconf-value, but with my installation (Arch) this is not possible:
% gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface menus-have-icons true
No such key 'menus-h... |
It seems that since GTK 3.10 the value 'menus-have-icons' is deprecated. I found a solution by using this command:
% gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{'Gtk/ButtonImages': <1>, 'Gtk/MenuImages': <1>}"
| Enabling menu icons in Gnome3 |
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I normally enjoy using Gnome 3 and gnome-shell in Fedora 16. However, I would like to temporarily run a non-compositing window manager such as metacity so that some wine games can have full control of the display.
I have metacity installed. When I run metacity --replace, instead of switching window managers I get a gn... |
No. However ambitious and great your idea about halting runlevels, you need not do that.
Once you are logged into your GNOME system, switch to TTY1 using 'ctrl + Alt + F1'.
There enter the following command:
$ xinit metacity -- :1
This will launch metacity on Screen 1.
If you want you can also end your GNOME session ... | How can I switch window managers in Gnome 3? |
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I have created a .menu file in /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/, created .directory file in /usr/share/desktop-directories/ and the various .desktop files i want to be in my custom menu under /usr/share/applications with a custom Categories extension Categories=X-nameofcategory yet still no menu appearing in my app... |
No one seems to know or wasn't able to answer so i'll throw up the solution I found!
There are 3 locations you should be concerned with:
/usr/share/desktop-directories
/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged
/usr/share/applications
Bear in mind the last location is system-wide specific, if you want it just for your user,... | Creating custom menus in Applications-menu tab in CentOS7 GNOME |
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I recently switched from terminal prompt login (getty?) to GNOME Display Manager. It seems that GDM always reads .profile, regardless of user's setting of login shell (Zsh in my case). Why is that? I assume it's hardcoded in their source, but I can't find. Why did they do that? Does the software depends on some functi... |
Your problems with .bashrc are unrelated. .profile needs to be compatible with all sh-compatible shells, whereas of course .bashrc is specific to Bash and should generally not be sourced by other shells.
Generally, put the stuff you want to share between shells in .profile, and make sure you do source it from the star... | Why GNOME Display Manager always read .profile? |
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The brightness keys on my laptop work ok, and gnome shell displays a level bar when changing it.
But the level bar doesn't display any values (absolute nor relative).
How can I retrieve the current brightness value?
Say - e.g. for scripting purposes - to be able to restore it later, in a reliable fashion.
Use case: fo... |
You can do that via GNOME Settings Daemon which is responsible for configuring the screen brightness (and many other session-wide parameters). To access the brightness settings you'll have to use the corresponding gsd helper: gsd-backlight-helper (use --help to see all options).
To get the current brightness level, ... | Get current screen brightness level |
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I was planning on installing a new Linux distribution and I am thinking of trying GNOME 3 interface. Other than Fedora 16 (which has GNOME 3 as default) which other distro supports it? I know it can be installed from the repository, but I tried the GNOME 3 on OpenSuse and had hard time running it; it never really inte... |
http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
Fedora
Just install or try it live to use GNOME 3.
openSUSE
GNOME 3.2 is the default desktop environment of openSUSE 12.1.
Mageia
GNOME 3 will be part of Mageia 2. Install ‘task-gnome’ after installing Mageia.
Arch Linux
Arch Linux has GNOME 3 in the extra repository.
Ubuntu
From O... | Which Linux distro supports GNOME 3 by default? |
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I use the following script (it is bound to a keyboard shortcut) to open selected file (clicking on a window after using the shortcut) in nemo. What is does is from window id (after clicking on the window), it get the process id, then using that get the file path that belong to the pid. After acquiring the file path, i... |
What you might do to identify what file is shown in a window when using
Foliate, is to look at the window name propery, which seems to hold the
document title. You can get this interactively from xdotool selectwindow getwindowname or xprop WM_NAME.
You can then wrap Foliate inside a shell script so
that when you run, ... | Open File Explorer on a File that is open by another Application |
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I am using GNOME 3 on NixOS 16.09, and I cannot figure out how to make the "Login" keyring unlock automatically on login.
I suspect this could be fixed with the security.pam.services option, but I am not an expert, and the documentation is not very verbose or clear:
This option defines the PAM services. A service typ... |
This issue is fixed in 19.03. If the login manager is GDM, then set the configuration option
{ # ...
security.pam.services.gdm.enableGnomeKeyring = true;
}
It has been suggested that if no login manager is used, then the following option needs to be set:
{ # ...
services.gnome3.gnome-keyring.enable = true;
}
| How to unlock GNOME keyring automatically in NixOS? |
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I have a program that I have written in Python and added to Gnome with a desktop file. When I click the stickied icon in Gnome to launch it, it duplicates the icon on my task bar and opens a new instance. Other stickied applications just get a line under them. When you click these other applications (like Chrome or... |
I got this to work.
You need to add the key 'StartupWMClass' to your desktop entry.
StartupWMClass: If specified, it is known that the application will map at least one window with the given string as its WM class or WM name hint.
Protocol information here with more details here.
You can install xprop, run it and cl... | How to stop a stickied application from launching new instance if already running? |
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I bought new laptop Dell Inspiron and first thing I installed Linux Mint and Eclipse for Java development. But I didn't like the look of Eclipse, everything just looks too big on the screen. Half of the space is taken by the tabs and menus, no room for editor, also the font is too big.
I would like to shrink the whol... |
I found the solution here. It recommends creating a new compact GTK style by pasting this into ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
style "gtkcompact" {
GtkButton::default_border={0,0,0,0}
GtkButton::default_outside_border={0,0,0,0}
GtkButtonBox::child_min_width=0
GtkButtonBox::child_min_heigth=0
GtkButtonBox::child_internal_pad_x=0
GtkButt... | How to "zoom out" screen windows, everything looks too big? |
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If i wish to use old-style interface (like Gnome 2 with global-menu and awn) in Gnome 3, will it be much of customizing and pain, or is just possible with a few clicks?
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From the Arch Wiki on Gnome (where Gnome 3 is now in the main repos):
GNOME3 comes with two interfaces, gnome-shell (the new, standard layout) and fallback mode. gnome-session will automatically detect if your computer is capable of running gnome-shell and will start fallback mode if not.
Fallback mode is very similar... | Will I be able to use old fashion interface in Gnome 3? |
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So far I was used to be able to run tmux via SSH and if I disconnected, the tmux session would still be running when I connected back.
So I assumed that the same could be done by starting a tmux session as one user (using GNOME's Terminal application) and then log out of GNOME and reconnect to it, e.g. via SSH. Turns ... |
Meanwhile I have researched this further. The pointer with systemd by Nicholas was spot on. Several ways seem to exist to mitigate the issue:
1. logind.conf
/etc/systemd/logind.conf and friends contain three relevant settings:
KillUserProcesses= (if yes a logoff will cause processes within the scope of the systemd-lo... | How to prevent processes from being killed when I log out of GNOME? |
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When I plug/unplug (mount/umount) any usb flash drive, every GUI application is killed and I get back to gnome login page. On the other hand the non-gui applications keep working (e.g those that had been executed through ctrl-alt-f2)
I ran rkhunter, and it didn't report anything suspicious.
I am running (debian sid):
... |
It might be the places-status-indicator extension.
My gnome-shell 3.26.2 session crashes (under Wayland) when mounting/unmounting an external USB disk or when unmounting a disk from an external USB DVD drive.
Bugs I found:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/issues/48
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/... | gnome-shell crashes when mounting, umounting usb drives |
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I am trying to make a mimetype icon theme for gnome.
I have created text-x-generic.svg for all unthemed filetype.
But what I am looking for is different icons for unthemed source code (say, R, vala,awk etc) and plain-generic text file.
Is this possible?
N.B. I have tried text-x-generic.svg and text-generic.svg to diff... |
Thanks to @don_crissti for the details of how it works.
I have gone an alternate way for solving the problem partially.
I have put different icons for text-plain and text-x-generic and text-x-script.
The text-plain incorporates all the files without extensions and like of .dat, .txt etc; where text-x-[generic,script]... | different icons for generic source-code and other files |
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I'm trying out the GNOME 3.14 live ISO and I would like to test multi touch gestures as well as Wayland session.
The promotional video shows multitouch gestures to zoom in and out, show the overwiev, switch workspaces etc. I've tried them but nothing seems to work on my trackpad (CyPS/2 Cypress Trackpad).
Also I canno... |
As far as i can tell, the gestures support in Gnome 3.14 are limited to touch-screen devices such as tablets, touch-enabled laptops, etc. According to the developers, gesture support for touchpads and trackers will be added in the next version (Gnome 3.16). Relevant links:
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.1... | Multi-touch gestures in GNOME 3.14 |
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I just installed conky and recognized that my CPU-Frequency changes every second in steps of 10 to 100MHz and between 1000MHz - 2000MHz.
Just wondered if this is normal behavior?
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This is normal behavior. This behavior is part of the system attempting to conserve power by constantly adjusting the system's CPU speed.
Take a look at my answer on this other U&L Q&A titled: How does CPU frequency work in conky?.
Conky CPU info
... | CPU Frequency changing every second |
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As far as my memory goes, the map 'Desktop' contains the files which are shown on your desktop. However, my desktop is empty, while having files present in the map.
Yes, I mostly prefer an empty desktop, but it seems strange to me to be unable having anything on the desktop. And sometimes it just comes in handy to hav... |
Ok, it seems I just didn't search at all places.
In Advanced Settings, under the tab Desktop, there is the option 'Have file manager handle the desktop'.
In case this is on, the file manager handles the desktop, and with that, the files on the desktop, enabling one to put files onto it.
When this is off, as I had i... | Why are files in the map 'Desktop' not shown on the desktop? |
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I wanted to know whether the gnome keyring gets locked automatically when the screen gets locked, so I checked it with this command:
dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.gnome.ScreenSaver'" |
while read x; do
case "$x" in
*"boolean true"*) sleep 1s;./gkey-check;;
*"boolean false"*) s... |
According to the gnome-keyring security philosophy, it aims to protect the user from "passive attacks", meaning attacks by the attacker who would not have access to user session. It is integrated with PAM so that, by default, the keyring is unlocked upon login and is locked on logout or when the computer hibernates or... | Why is the gnome keyring not locked when the screen is locked? |
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I'm using Debian Jessie 64-bit with Gnome 3.14.1.
My TIF image files are opening by default in the PDF Viewer, don't ask why. In Nautilus, I right-click on the file, click Open With|Other Application...
If I right-click "Image Viewer", there is only "Forget association".
Where is the "create default association" butt... |
[Debian 10.0.0 Buster + GNOME]
I see the same deficient behaviour using 'open with' as you describe.
Select any file having the MIMETYPE of interest then right-click -> Properties.
Select the 'Open With' tab.
And there you should see the Set as default button.
| How do I create a default file association in Debian with Gnome? |
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In GNOME 3.18 Settings > Privacy > Purge Trash & Temporary Files, one can configure the desktop environment to automatically empty Trash "after 30 days".
The description here isn't very clear. Is "30 days" supposed to be 30 days being in the Trash, 30 days after last opening/changing the file, or would all files be d... |
According to my tests it should be equivalent to
empty trash contents every 30 days
This is what I did:
At 1:45 PM I cleared the trash and set the privacy options to purge after 1 hour and rebooted the machine, just to be sure. I then deleted two (several months old) files and executed a script that creates a file an... | According to what does GNOME purge the trash "30 days later"? |
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I would like to use the gnome-tweak tool to remap some of my modifier keys (alt/win/meta/super or how they're all called..)
My problem is that I can't really read what the options in the drop down menu are doing (see picture, there is no tooltip which would tell me what is behind those dots). It would be /very/ helpfu... |
This is a known bug and it's already fixed in git.
If you don't want to wait until 3.18 will be available in debian repos you have two options:
the quick and dirty hack:
close tweak-tool and as root, open /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_group_xkb.py
look for a line like
renderer.props.max_widt... | Gnome-tweak-tool -- cannot read Typing Options due to ellipsized text |
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I want to remap some keys on my keyboard, specifically: page up key to home and page down to end.
On previous versions of GNOME 3 I just created a .xinitrc file that contained:
cat .xinitrc
xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = End"
xmodmap -e "keycode 112 = Home"
and that was all.
On GNOME 3.8.4 this file takes no effect... |
Sourcing commands during login
I've not tried either .xinitrc or .xsession files to do this, but I have done it using a custom launcher that gets run when I login. You can access the dialog that allows you to do this a couple of ways, I usually just launch it from the command line like so.
$ gnome-session-properties
... | Remap keys on GNOME3.8 using xmodmap? |
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I'm new to Arch Linux and I've installed Gnome3. When I start it, it just offered me a fallback mode, that's not bad, I mean I've been using it for several days. But I'd like to try the standard mode now.
My graphics card is ATI(HD 6470M & 6520G) and I've installed xf86-video-ati
but Gnome3 just failed to fallback mod... |
KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) is enabled by default in kernels after 2.6.33 (you should be on Kernel 3.0 if you are running an up-to-date Arch). So you should remove nomodeset from your kernel line (the option in grub.cfg). This will prevent the Clutter error.
In order to start X successfully, make sure you have added rad... | Gnome3 defaults to fallback |
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I'm running Fedora 15 Gnome on a laptop. I can't seem to find an option to toggle if the laptop goes to sleep when the lid closes. There are certain times where I want to put the laptop away or close it but still have it do some crunching on some long running task
Is there a place to toggle this option?
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Gnome Tweak Tool allows you to change that.
| Toggle going to sleep when laptop lid closes? |
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Is there a way to add a dot to notifications from specific applications, similar to an update notification? I've switched today to Geary e-mail, and am missing a claws-mail feature that made notifications similar to these system notifications, dot wise speaking, whenever I got new mail.
I'm using Gnome 3, Debian.
To ... |
Unfortunately this seems to be a "hard" problem. In any case, I found a workaround using the Notifications Alert extension by hackedbellini.
You can color (and blink if you want) the date if there is an unread notification. It offers blacklisting or whitelisting if you want to filter which applications this works for.... | Adding notification "Dot" in gnome |
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I want to disable 'app folders' in the GNOME menu, because I want to have all applications sorted alphabetically. gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.app-folders folder-children [] lets the folders disappear, but after a reboot the app folders were set back to default. How can I make the settings persistent ? What do I ha... |
It has to be [''] instead of [] - Thanks and reference to the user zdenek from the ask fedora platform who helped me to figure it out and find the solution : How to make app folders settings permanent?
The command is : gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.app-folders folder-children ['']
| How can I disable app folders in the GNOME menu permanently? |
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I just installed Debian 7.4 in a VMware machine. On first boot, it gave me the following error:
GNOME 3 Failed to Load
Unfortunately GNOME 3 failed to start properly and started in the
fallback mode.
This most likely means your systeam (graphics hardware or driver) is not
capable of delivering the full GNOME 3 expe... |
The problem is that the graphics driver xserver-xorg-video-vmware was compiled without 3D acceleration support. This has already been fixed for newer releases, and is in debian jessie.
The Solution
Recompile the package with 3D acceleration support
install dependencies for VMware Tools
sudo apt-get install linux-h... | How do I get GNOME 3 to work in Debian Wheezy under VMware? |
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From time to time my Gnome 3 shell or some parts of it are crashing. Gnome sees a time out and is forcing the user to logout without other possibilities.
"Oh no! Something has gone wrong." See superuser for a screenshot. (Fail whale is providing this dialog.)
Is there a way to stop gnome from doing that? Since the oth... |
Thanks to Ruslan's comment (upvote!) and some testing I probably found a solution for the next real case:
Try ALT+F4, or clicking somewhere on the "fail whale" message (to get the focus) and then ALT+F4
If 1 doesnt work: go to a tty and type DISPLAY=:0 gnome-shell --replace and then go back to Gnome and try ALT+F4 ag... | How to stop gnome from forcing me to logoff / logout? |
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I use Debian 8 with Gnome. When I switch workspaces the current active windows looses it's focus (I think this is a default behaviour, rather than a bug). Is there a way to make gnome remember active window on workspace you are leaving and activate it when you switch back. Thanks in advance!
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I've just realized that it happens only if I have Google Hangouts conversations opened. They are on every screen and after workspace switch they are focused instead of last window, even if minimized.
The solution is to go to Google Hangouts' Chrome extension settings and uncheck the "Keep Hangouts on top of other wind... | Activate window that was active before workspace switch when switching back |
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The current setup of my displays is as follows:
I would like the 2nd Sony display to be a mirror of 3rd Dell display, while the 1st Samsung display should remain as separate secondary display.
When I try to change 2nd Sony display into Mirror mode, the button Apply is grayed out:
Is there a way to make it the way I... |
Using xrandr
Overlapping screens can be achieved by changing their position using the following command:
xrandr --output (screen indicator) --pos (x coord)x(y coord)
Example:
xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --pos 0x0
xrandr --output HDMI-0 --pos 0x768
xrandr --output DVI-I-0 --pos 0x768
This results in DVI-D-0 screen being ... | How to set 3 displays as follows: primary, mirror of primary and secondary? |
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I'm unable to create a hotspot using network-manager of Gnome.
By click on use as hotspot-> Turn on, nothing is happening; I don't get any pop up telling created, failed, etc. No config files regarding hotspot are being created in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connection either. I have installed almost all optional depen... |
I used create_ap:
pacman -S create_ap
sudo create_ap -m bridge wifi_interface ethernet_interface test_arch vinod123
Note: You won't be able to browse internet on the host. Maybe we should use NAT rather than bridge. I haven't tried it yet to confirm anything regarading NAT.
UPDATE
Used NAT and I'm able to browse on ... | Unable to create hotspot using network-manager of Gnome /Arch Linux |
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I'm trying to have transparency working for Gnome Terminal.
However this is what I get when I try to edit the profile of gnome-temrinal: there's no background tab where I can set the opacity !?
I am using NixOs, this is what I have in my pkgs.nix file:
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
# ...
gnome3.gn... |
The GNOME terminal FAQ states:
How can I make the terminal transparent?
Since version 3.7 (NixOS master currently contains version 3.26) this option has been removed from the Preferences
dialogue. You can however still get the same effect by setting the
_NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY X property, for example with the Devil's ... | Background transparency for Gnome Terminal |
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I tried googling around for a while and all the info I could find is old.
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Two ways of doing it are (1) use gsettings at the command line prompt or use gnome-tweak-tool, a graphical tool that may not be installed by default.
Using gsettings:
To find the current setting, open a terminal window and type this command at the prompt:
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse accel-p... | How to disable mouse acceleration on Wayland? (Fedora 28) |
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The Gnome screencast utility may be invoked by the keystroke ctrl + shift + alt + R.
I'm delivering RHEL to an environment which frowns upon screen recording, so I need this to be disabled.
Googling the topic only turns up excited descriptions of how to grab video, or change the max length parameter. A trawl through d... |
No
Gnome ScreenCast functionality cannot be disabled.
@BlueManCZ provided a decent answer about masking the keyboard shortcut.
However, masking the keyboard shortcut with a blank that doesn't properly disable the screencast function.
It's provided by the gnome-shell package as a dbus interface, and its descriptor file... | How to disable Gnome screencast? |
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Is it possible to cycle through open windows on a specific gnome3 workspace while showing the windows in their original size, similar to Alt-Esc in MS Windows?
I'm aware of the window picker (Alt-Tab) and the desktop view (Super), but that's not what I'm after.
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Alt+Escape works in GNOME 3 too. It cycles windows on the current workspace.
If it's disabled by any chance you should be able to enable it from the "Switch windows directly" option in Settings > Keyboard shortcuts > Navigation.
Unfortunately, this may not work properly with older GNOME versions. It cycles through all... | Cycle through open windows in gnome3 workspace without minimizing |
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gnome-control-center wont start, when I try to start from the terminal I am presented with:
Failed to register: Timeout was reached
I have tried reinstalling gnome-control-center via pacman. This has made no changes.
I enabled the scale-monitor-framebuffer experimental-feature from dconf, dissabling this has made no... |
running killall gnome-control-center and after start the gnome-control-center again works to me
I found the solution here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/879jyl/unable_to_start_gnomecontrolcenter/
| gnome-control-center fails to start, timeout |
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Since Sles 12 SP2 I'm not able to activate VNC remote access:
dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.Vino prompt-enabled false
dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.Vino authentication-methods "['vnc']"
dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require-encryption false
dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.Vino vnc-password $... |
Thank you for your suggestion.
I managed it by installing x11vnc. To start it i created a systemd unit file "/etc/systemd/system/x11vnc.service":
[Unit]
Description=x11vnc-Server
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -display :0 -auth guess -forever -loop -noxdamage -o /var/log/x11vnc.log -rfbauth /root/.vnc/passwd -rf... | SLES 12.2 can't enable org.gnome.Vino - No such key 'enabled' |
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I connect my laptop to my PC monitor and I use multiple screens with the laptop screen as the primary one.
When I move the mouse to the right of my laptop screen, it goes to my PC monitor and when I move it to the left from my PC monitor, it goes to my laptop screen.
How can I change this to be so that when I move th... |
In the search bar type displays.
Depending on your version of gnome 3, it will either show two displays that you can drag around to your liking, or it may have a button with "arrange combined displays".
Sometimes on nvidia cards the display menu won't do anything. I have had that in the past, what you do is search f... | Change multiple monitors location gnome shell |
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Since upgrading to 12.04, I've randomly experienced this strange phenomenon where my mouse mostly doesn't work and keyboard mostly does. I have not been able to identify a cause for this. Sometimes it will happen minutes after I start-up, other times after the computer has been idle for a while, and other times in the... |
I have seen such behaviour with wireless mice with low battery... try another mouse?
Failing USB mice can also behave erratically, in my experience.
| Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome 3 "freezes" randomly - not a normal freeze though |
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Funnily, my newly vfat-formatted USB stick is automatically mounted when I plug it in, nautilus sees it, I can access it, I can see the permissions in the nautilus right click dialog (755), I can create and delete files from command line:
$ touch/run/mount/christian/XXXX-XXXX/anyfile.txt
I can even move files (with D... |
Maybe it is related with this nautilus bug Nautilus says the USB stick is read only when it is not. Restarting nautilus clears the issue (at least temporally):
$ killall nautilus
| USB stick read-only in GNOME/nautilus? |
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I am on arch-linux and just upgraded to the latest version of gnome-terminal. I used to have both the terminal colour and theme set by gnome-tweak-tool having Global Dark Theme turned on. Does anyone know how to change this back without downgrading my terminal. You can see here what the terminal now looks like, and a ... |
Have you set gnome-terminal to use dark theme in the preferences of it?
| Why did an update to gnome-terminal break my system-colours and how do I fix it? |
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After freshly installing Debian with Gnome 3, I cannot enable desktop icons.
I tried to use dconf-editor, but all values were locked. I tried sudo dconf-editor: The option was changeable but had no effect... I also tried gnome-tweak-tool and to no avail.
What am I doing wrong?
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You need to have at least one of these packages: tango-icon-theme, hicolor-icon-theme or gnome-icon-theme.
| Why is Debian Wheezy not displaying desktop icons? |
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My question is simple: How do I access the contextual menu from my keyboard inside gnome 3? I've seen other answers reffering to a menu key or button but not all laptops come with that button, mine doesn't. The situation is this: I press home button, dash expands, i press ctrl + alt + tab, I can now browse the left ba... |
If your keyboard lacks the Menu key, the equivalent key combination is Shift+F10.
| How to access contextual menu in gnome 3 dash from keyboard? |
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On OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64, Gnome 3.2 . I want to remove the suspend and hibernate options from the Gnome (Shell) menu as
suspend makes no sense IMO for a desktop
hibernate has a slight tendency to lock up
I've found that I should configure these privileges using polkit. I've dropped a file named 90-disable-suspend.con... |
The directory /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d is reserved for configuration files.
You should put your file in a subdirectory of /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority and with extension .pkla. The directory /etc/polkit-1/localauthority should be ok too, but can be modified by updagraded/installed packages, so better t... | Removing supend and hibernate privileges |
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I use Fedora 26 x64 (Gnome 3.24.2) and faced with some kind of ... a bug, as i think (i am not sure).
My mouse cursor suddenly moves to the corner of the screen (usually to the top left corner) when i work on my desktop (pc, monitor, mouse, keyboard). This happens few times per hour and makes me really mad. Cursor doe... |
I also faced this issue few years back in Kali Gnome.
It was driver compatibility issue with Gnome.
Try switching to another Desktop Environment. I personally don't like Gnome and KDE because they comes with a bunch of dependencies.
I personally use Xfce because it is lightweight.
| Fix random mouse cursor movement in Fedora Gnome |
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I am running Eclipse Mars on Fedora 24 (Gnome 3.20). What I want to do is to reduce the size of toolbar.
What I felt is the size of toolbar is big because of "Quick Access" text box but I tired to hide it also and it didn't work even after I hide that.
Any help appreciated.
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Reducing size of toolbar is possible. I wrote following CSS file (taking help from google) to modify Toolbar size:
style "gtkcompact" {
GtkButton::default_border={0,0,0,0}
GtkButton::default_outside_border={0,0,0,0}
GtkButtonBox::child_min_width=0
GtkButtonBox::child_min_heigth=0
GtkButtonBox::chil... | Is it possible to reduce size of eclipse toolbar? |
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I am using Kali Linux, which uses GNOME 3. I have installed Konsole and added Konsole to Favorites (the second icon from top). However, whenever I launch new window of Konsole, I get separate new icons in the launcher (2 Konsole windows - 2 icons in the bottom). I also cannot move these 2 icons around.
I want to make ... |
I figured it out. I don't know why but renaming the org.kde.konsole.desktop file in /usr/share/applications into konsole.desktop does the trick
cd /usr/share/applications/
sudo mv org.kde.konsole.desktop konsole.desktop
| Windows in the same application won't group together in Gnome launcher |
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I just moved from Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy and I thought I'd be finally free of all the unnecessary clutter. I guess I was wrong. Here is the situation:
In the Downloads folder, Nautilus displays the following message:
Personal File Sharing
You can receive files over Bluetooth into this folder
I'd really like that t... |
The package is either nautilus-share or gnome-user-share.
| How to get rid of the *Personal File Sharing* bar in Nautilus? |
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I have a Dell Latitude E6510 with Slackware 14x86_64, gnome 3.6 (dropline), alps dualpoint touchpad and the latest 3.11.4 kernel.
My touchpad is being detected correctly and I have the touchpad settings in the gnome settings but unfortunately the scrolling works only with two fingers. I am quite used to doing that wit... |
You should be able to change that in Gnome's Control Center. Run gnome-control-center or choose settings from the menu. Then, go into the 'Mouse & Touchpad' section and switch to edge scrolling in the 'Touchpad' tab:
If that doesn't work, you can try and set it manually. Edit or create the file
/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf... | Slackware 14x86_64, gnome 3.6 and alps touchpad scrolling settings |
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I'm running Fedora 18 with Gnome 3.6.
I've installed Eclipse manually, and added the menu entry with alacarte. My problem is that even though I have "Favorite"'d the menu entry, it keeps duplicating the entry every time a new instance is launched. See screenshot for example:
Normally, it would group the new instance... |
As don_crissti suggested, I was missing the WMCLASS key within my .desktop entry. Without this, the DM(here beign Gnome3.6) failed to match the windows together with the specified menu entry.
The launcher now groups all subsequent instances of Eclipse together now.
From what I've read about the .desktop file specifica... | Duplicate instances within Gnome menu |
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$ gnome-session --version
gnome-session 3.6.2
$ cat /etc/*-release
Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
I want to customize my gnome-pannel - the bar at the top of the screen. However, right-clicking on an empty area of the bar produces no result (my mouse works fine, mkay). How should I proceed?
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You need to install some obscure extensions to modify this panel. Look at https://extensions.gnome.org/ to get whatever suits your needs.
Expect all extensions to break after the next Gnome upgrade though.
J.
| How do I configure my gnome pannel if it does not respond to right-click? |
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Rather odd behaviour I've picked up on; after scrolling (a noticeably large amount) in one window, alt-tabbing to another window and then attempting to scroll even just a single line, this new window scrolls by both that single line and the previous window's scrolling action.
If done with a large initial scroll, this ... |
Late reply but this seems to be a bug in WebKit:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=807187
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608246
| Scrolling is inherited between windows in GNOME 3 |
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When doing scientific computation, I need many figures, often >50.
When I press super, I get Gnome overview where the titles are often not useful etc in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1 a small sample of my Gnome overview with many windows where you see that Figure 34: P... is not useful
It would be really nice if the complete figur... |
No supported solution exists in Gnome 3.14.
Let's home the coming release of Gnome at Q1 2017 helps the situation.
| How to show complete window titles in Gnome overview? |
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In Fedora 21 the gnome-tracker stops indexing music files after couple of minutes.
My music-library is about 60GB, but mostly due to a lot of flac-files converted from my CDs.
I tried
tracker-control --reset-hard
tracker-control --start
and monitored the system-performance. After about 5 minutes the cpu-usage consum... |
Thanks to the link provided by don_crissti, I found out that I was actually wrong about the commands.
the correct-commands for tracker-controll are the following
# reset
tracker-control -r
#restart
tracker-control -s
But what was more interesting is tracker-stats
[xxx@yyy ~]$ tracker-stats
Statistiken:
nao:Ta... | Gnome tracker not indexing all music |
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I would really prefer both my computers (with the same mouse, Razer DeathAdder) to have the same exact mouse sensitivity, unfortunately I tweaked one via the control panel and I can not get it to default back. I am always working in a Debian, Gnome3-based, desktop environment. (Currently LinuxMint 17.1).
Where are mo... |
Save custom mouse setup
You can save/backup/export custom shortcuts/keybindings using just dconf and sed
Export
dconf dump / | sed -n '/\[org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouses/,/^$/p' > custom-mouse-setup.conf # Export
The difference with the usual answer is that this will hold on the file the path to the dconf settin... | How can I copy mouse sensitivity between computers? |
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I've got an alias set up to launch my text editor in a way that keeps it local to the specific desktop I'm working on in Gnome Shell:
alias geany="geany --socket-file=/tmp/geany-sock-$(xprop -root _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP | awk '{print $3}') ${1+"$@"}"
I'd like to emulate this with the actual Gnome Shell launcher. As it... |
Shell parameter and variable expansion in .desktop files is neither supported nor documented. The usual workaround is (like Avlmd said) to create a shell script and point the .desktop file to that executable.
When it comes to launching applications from dash, gnome-shell defaults to activating the application instead ... | Is it possible to execute a sub-command from a Gnome Shell launcher? |
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How does searching work in Gnome 3.8.2? Why when I search 'power' (Press Super key and type 'power' one-by-one) I get LibreOffice Impress? And 'po' returns Document Viewer, Rhythmbox, SElinux Troubleshooter, OpenJDK Policy Tool, Software, Automatic Bug Reporting Tool, even Mouse & Touchpad and Notifications comes befo... |
I think the new Gnome search functionality still can use some work. It seems to do well suggesting frequently used programs, and separates the actual programs from settings.
That said, some guesses for why those results come up for 'po'... took some thinking and Googling. Most were not obvious to me, either.
Document... | How searching works in GNOME 3.8? |
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I want to install a GNOME extension into Fedora 19. I've been using this command:
$ yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status
But it wasn't able to find the package. I tried adding this to the repository file, but it doesn't seem to work.
[fedora-gnome-shell-extensions]
name=Modify and extend GNOME Shell ... |
I wouldn't be using that repository with Fedora 19. Those packages were built for Fedora 15.
excerpt from the repos page
gnome-shell-extensions Modify and extend GNOME Shell functionality and behavior hien fedora-15
I found the RPM you're looking for here in the Development repository, specifically here fo... | How to install gnome-shell-extensions in Fedora 19? |
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I am working with gnome 3.28.2 on CentOS 7.6 and have been trying to set global values for certain parameters in the dconf key files as explained here and using the screensaver example here along with locking the settings explained here
I have created a file /etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-configuration_gnome with the follow... |
If you look at the schema definition (found in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.SessionManager.gschema.xml):
<schemalist gettext-domain="gnome-session-3.0">
<schema id="org.gnome.SessionManager" path="/org/gnome/gnome-session/">
<key name="auto-save-session" type="b">
<default>false</default>
..... | Certain parameters in dconf keyfiles not being taken into account/used |
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The gio shell command replaces the gvfs- suite for working with local and remote files on Gnome systems, using Gio over the Gvfs backend. For the most part it's quite effective, but I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding its tools for examining the boolean attributes in the thumbnail namespace.
gio info $URI wil... |
This is not really an issue with the gio command, but rather how this attribute is generated. The code where the attribute is generated is found in glib/gio/glocalfileinfo.c. This line is responsible for behavior you are seeing. It causes the is-valid attribute to only be generated if the query includes the path as we... | How do I query individual thumbnail-namespace attributes with the gio command? |
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You may tell me I'm a perfectionist, but I am struggling with the following:
I have two applications that do not come from the repository for which I have problems with the application icon.
I am currently using the Debian 9 with Gnome 3.22.2 with the Moka icon theme (sorry for the missing link, I may only use two of... |
The problem is that gnome-shell needs to be able to associate the window with the .desktop file. In applications that don't use the GtkApplication API (i.e. most non-GNOME applications) this is done by matching the WM_CLASS of the window with the corresponding .desktop file. So you either have to change the name of yo... | Modify desktop application icon after progam opens e.g. in alt-tab |
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I want to lower mouse sensitivity in gnome3 desktop, but when I open appropriate settings panel I see that settings are at already lowest setting:
Is there any way to fix it?
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Basing on responses from: http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=288 and https://superuser.com/questions/259216/disabling-mouse-acceleration-in-x-org-linux you can use xinput command.
Find your device
xinput
Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer ... | How to lower mouse acceleration if it is allready at lowest setting in gnome3 config |
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I'm running debian wheezy ( testing ) and after some upgrades my gnome 3 is broken. It's not exactly broken, but it's completey different. Almost like it's no longer actually gnome 3; most of the UI bells and whistles are gone and it mostly look like gnome 2.
Anyway, how does one start troubleshooting such a thing?... |
For me this sounds most likely that your graphics card drivers are not installed correctly. Could this be a possibility ?
Because then GNOME would start in "Fallback mode" which looks most likely like Gnome2.
Check /var/log/gdm3/:0.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors, particularly stemming from the graphics card d... | Gnome 3 "broken" after upgrades, kind of looks like gnome 2 . . .? |
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Upgrading from a OpenSUSE 12.1 installation with a working FreeNX server, I hit an issue with the FreeNX server on OpenSUSE 12.2, running Gnome 3.
Whenever I connect, I pass the dreaded connection phase (where I've hit most of my issues with FreeNX), and see the client prepare the display, and even see a bit of the di... |
From the OpenSUSE forums, I found that the new openSUSE 12.2 Gnome 3 GUI uses fancier features, which cause the GUI to crash over the network.
To fix this, I have to insert an option into the AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_X option in my /etc/nxserver/node.conf file. My original node.conf file actually had nothing in it (no un-c... | FreeNX closes display immediately after successful connect in OpenSUSE 12.2 |
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I have made it to get a nice gnome shell environment running under my new gentoo. It's all fine, except there are a whole bunch of programs built against gtk2 (Chromium, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Firefox), and they look strangely out of place. The ui of the gtk2 parts looks rather like windows 95 than gnome 3.
I have not y... |
After the hint from sr, it was quite easy to solve this. I just chose my current gtk3 theme and linked it:
$ ln -s /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc .gtkrc-2.0
And then my gtk2 ui's looked nice again.
| Gtk2 Themes under Gentoo's Gnome 3 |
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I've started using the Gnome 3 packages that just came through the Debian testing repositories, and encountered a problem.
Hitting the Super/Meta/Windows key would not open "Activities" menu. Other shortcuts (like Alt+Tab, etc.) work as expected.
Can you help me find the reason (and a solution)?
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Finally I found the reason and a solution:
In Settings > Region and Language > Layouts > Options there is an option "Behaviour of Alt/Windows-Key". For some reason this was not on "Default" per default (hope you get me).
After I put this option to "Default", everything works as expected.
Thank you!
| Meta key does not open "Activities" menu in Gnome 3 |
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With Xming I can run an X11 server inside a window and then run mate-session to get a very fast remote desktop inside a window. On Linux, I'm not entirely sure how to X11 forward mate-session to just one window.
I know how to replace my entire desktop with the tunneled desktop. I know how to do it to a TTY, I know how... |
One of the questions you ask is: "Is there a program that provides an x11 xserver inside a window?"
It sounds like Xnest might answer that question. Xnest is "A nested X server that runs as an X application". I know that I've used it in the past to show me unusual window managers that I had compiled from source, and... | Xming for Linux? (Aka run a display/x11 server inside a window) |
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What I'm trying to do
I'm using a Logitech MX Revolution mouse, which has a button below the scroll wheel mapped to search, which I remapped to middle click. For doing so, I had to remap XF86Search to middle click using xbindkeys, which works fine – when I change the "Search" hotkey to something else, for example Ctrl... |
I found this AskUbuntu Q&A titled: Bind a mouse button to show the Gnome Shell Activities overview. The OP from that Q&A posted that this solution worked for him/her using xbindkeys:
"xte 'keydown Alt_L' 'key F1' 'keyup Alt_L'"
release + b:10
There were other suggestions in that Q&A as well, so if the accepted an... | How to invoke Gnome 3 activity screen via mouse button? |
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Is there a trick to launching these applets via the command line directly vs. having to launch the GNOME Control Center (aka. Settings) and then navigating to them through the UI?
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You can access the applets under GNOME Control Center by appending their names to the command:
$ gnome-control-center <applet name>
Examples
Launching the sound applet?
$ gnome-control-center sound
Launching the printers applet?
What are all the names of these applets?
$ gnome-control-center -l
Available p... | How can I launch the sub applets in the GNOME's Control Center (v3) directly from the command line? |
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With classic Gnome, if one had two monitors, one could set up "separate X sessions" for each monitor. In this configuration, each monitor had a separate user login session and application windows were captive to the X session they were launched from. Is something similar possible with Gnome 3? If so, how do you go... |
This has nothing to do with the desktop environment you are going to use an this answer remains valid.
Basically you need to gather the names Xorg uses/gives your devices and monitors, then you combine devices and monitors to "seats". In xorg.conf terminology seats are "ServerLayout" sections. Then you reconfigure you... | How can I set up multiseat/separate X sessions with gnome 3? [duplicate] |
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I've just installed fedora 17 and gnome-tweak-tool, but it crashes everytime and I can't change the theme. Any other way to do that?
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You can do that with dconf-editor or in terminal.
Install gnome-shell-extension-user-theme (if you haven't already).
Enable gnome-shell-extension-user-theme:
dconf-editor: expand org > gnome > shell then edit the value field for the enabled-extensions key, adding '[email protected]'to the existing elements (if any)
... | Install Gnome-Shell theme without gnome-tweak-tool? |
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Successfully installed Gnome3 on archlinux (not the fallback mode).
EDIT: My wired internet connection works fine.
However, I can't see the network icon (or wireless networks) in the tray. When I open Network Connections from Gnome3 the Wired and Wireless tabs are empty.
I think I tried everything I could think of:
p... |
As always, the problem was with no finishing the reading of documentation.
I needed to actually run NetworkManager (gnome automatically picks it up), and disable archlinux's network daemon. It's all here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager#Configuration
NOTE: You can start daemon manually by running:
... | No wireless in Archlinux Gnome3 |
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Today I installed Fedora 15 in a VBox VM to try out Gnome 3. After installing the guest extensions almost everything works fine. Except for the slow response time in fullscreen mode (HOST+F).
By that I mean textareas responding only after I've typed whole words, window dragging won't register etc.
However in maximized... |
You can solve this problem by right clicking on the VirtualBox menu item and selecting the "Run with nvidia graphics" option. I'm not exactly sure what it's called in the English version of Windows because I'm using a different language.
I have Optimus as well and I've had the same problem as you when I ran it with th... | Slow response time with Gnome shell in Virtualbox fullscreen mode |
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Since some recent upgrades on my Debian system, I experience the mouse pointer disappearing in front of Gnome backgrounds, meaning the top-bar, the desktop and system window. As soon as the pointer is moved in front of a window of any application it appears again.
I did some research on this topic and did not find mor... |
Use a different kernel version. It looks like 5.1 or 5.3 should be OK.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/772#note_600786
As a temporary workaround, when the cursor disappears, perform some action that changes the cursor. Some people use the screenshot shortcut. I press the windows key, and move the invisi... | Debian 'bullseye' - mouse pointer disappears on GNOME3 backgrounds |
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I have a computer running centOS 7 and Gnome 3.2 and everytime the computer boots it boots with airplane mode enabled and the ethernet interface disabled. I've been looking for a solution but I cannot find a proper way to disable it. I've noticed that both the Airplane mode and the ethernet interfaced can be enabled a... |
This helps in debian gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.rfkill active false
| Permanently disable airplane mode gnome 3.2 |
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I have GNOME Shell 3.16.4 installed on my Ubuntu 15.10 machine. However I get the old boring Unity like file manager. Here's a picture of my file Manager. See the top bar is like Ubuntu and button are on the left.
However, I want this my top bar completely like one below. Where you get to type the path. Also, you g... |
With some simple command in your terminal:
To show the pathbar:
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry false
To change the button layout:
add the values at the left side of : for buttons on the left side
close,minimize,maximize:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-la... | customizing file manager's top bar in gnome [duplicate] |
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Conky is a system monitor software. I want to display the directory size of /usr and /var. Unfortunately I did not found any conky command so i made my own.
/usr $alignr${exec du -sch /usr | head -n1 | awk '{print $1}'}
/var $alignr${exec du -sch /var | head -n1 | awk '{print $1}'}
It works as expected for my /usr di... |
Yes, you can give your user the right to run sudo du /var with no password, I'll show you how later. However, do you really want this? There are very few files and subdirectories that du needs root access to. The difference is reported size between sudo du /var and du /var is tiny (at least on my system):
$ sudo du -s... | directory size in conky |
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I Downloaded Debian 2 weeks ago I got 7.6. The thing is that it has Gnome 3.4.2, I am aware that it probably won't support Gnome 3.10 and above. I won't put add the Ubuntu repositories, because I don't think that is a safe thing to do, despite the fact that it might work. So is there a way to get Gnome 3.6 or 3.8 for ... |
Newer versions of Gnome 3 are available for Debian Testing. To enable it, you need to alter /etc/apt/sources.list
The following lines will backup your /etc/apt/sources.list, update it accordingly and upgrade Debian to testing.
# cp /etc/apt/sources.list{,.bak}
# sed -i -e 's/ \(stable\|wheezy\)/ testing/ig' /etc/apt/s... | Debian 7.6 Wheezy Gnome upgrade |
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Brief background information: I just installed Fedora 18 with Gnome 3.6.3.1 on my computer. It is connected to a Windows share (CIFS) containing music, which I play using Clementine. If I suspend the computer while Clementine is playing a song from the CIFS mount, upon resuming, it (Clementine) hangs. Eventually, if I... |
After doing some more research, it seems like UPower should indeed use systemd when it is detected. But for some reason, it does not. I am currently looking into this, but as a temporary workaround, I directly edited the relevant lines in userMenu.js and powerMenu.js as follow:
Replace (comment out) all the lines that... | How to suspend from Gnome3 using systemd |
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I have been installing several version of Komodo editor. (The installation consist of extracting a .tar.gz archive and then running an .sh script as root.)
Yesterday I installed Gnome 3.
Now I see in "Application" section of Gnome Shell both "Komodo Edit 7" and "Komodo Edit 5" despite of only "Komodo Edit 7" is instal... |
This is likely because Komodo Edit sticks a .desktop file somewhere that Gnome Shell picks up, and it's not getting removed (probably for lack of an "uninstall" functionality). So, you'll have to dig through your folders a little bit to try to find where it's hiding. Here are some of the common places that I know of:
... | Remove old icons in Gnome 3 |
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This has been bothering me for a long time. I have a fairly default installation of Fedora 16 with Gnome 3. I know that since Fedora 15 (don't know about before) I have never been able to view pictures in order in shotwell.
Steps:
Open a folder with a bunch of pictures ordered by name
Double click on one of the files... |
As far as I can see, they fixed it in version 0.12.3. I'm using Fedora 16, and had to compile it from source -- http://yorba.org/shotwell/install.html
| Have shotwell go through pictures in directory in order? |
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I'm running F16 on VMplayer, I don't think the drivers I'm using are for my nvidia card. I'm getting a max resolution of 1280*768.
My card is EVGA 9800GTX+ --- I need instructions on how to change my xorg config (I'm assuming that's the problem).
In gnome display settings I'm now able to set my resolution to 1920x108... |
Partially Solved, although vmware tools did not install properly, the xorg drivers for vmware were installed but xorg.conf wasn't pointing to those drivers.
I changed the driver from default vesa to vmware..
full list of resolutions is now available under gnome settings.
My xorg.conf at the moment;
Section "Device"
... | How to force 1920x1080 resolution - Fedora 16, VMPlayer, 9800GTX |
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Under some circumstances I don't want my screen to lock. (Typically: I'm stepping away from the desk, while a computation is running, but I won't leave the room and still have an eye on it why it's active; sometimes, I'll add more tasks to a queue, so that it's not "done when it's done")
Is there a mechanism to tell G... |
At least under X, you can use xdg-screensaver to inhibit a compliant screensaver as long as a given window exists:
xdg-screensaver suspend <window-id>
There is a Freedesktop D-Bus interface for screensavers, which you would invoke using something like
dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver --type=meth... | How to tell gnome-session(3), or gnome-screensaver, that there's been activity? |
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I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on a Dell XPS 13 with FHD display (1920x1080 resolution).
Clearly, this resolution is too much for my eyes with a 13.3" display, so I'm vetting a couple of alternative solutions.
Using this resolution (1920x1080) but using the fractional scaling provided by both Wayland and X, and set it at 1... |
Fractional scaling will consume more power, I believe. It can give performance issues.
Using a lower resolution should definitely be noticeably worse.
Another option would be to use GNOME Tweaks and scale the font while on native resolution (1920x1080 here) with 100% scaling.
| GNOME fractional scaling benefit vs lower resolution |
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I use GNOME 3.36 on Arch Linux and even if control panel shows up the right option activated (see the screenshot below); none virtual keyboard is shown when needed i.e. on an input box like the search box on the upper-left corner.
How can I have an onscreen-keyboard?
Do I need any external package?
journalctl does n... |
Thank to @muru,
I solved this issue by installing the caribou package
| Where is the GNOME virtual keyboard? |
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