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I am running an up-to-date installation of Arch Linux and GNOME 3.28. For security reasons I don't allow root login in the consoles. I have done this by configuring /etc/securetty.
However, it worries me that in the GUI I can still login into the root account from the GNOME GDM login screen.
Is there any way to preven... |
This can be achieved as stated here by adding the following line:
auth [user_unknown=ignore success=ok ignore=ignore default=bad] pam_securetty.so
To these files (some may not already exist and have to be created):
/etc/pam.d/gdm
/etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin
/etc/pam.d/gdm-fingerprint
/etc/pam.d/gdm-password
/etc/pam.d/g... | How to prevent root login from GNOME 3 login screen (Arch Linux)? |
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I am trying to fix the power button on gnome 3 not shutting down the system and as don_crissti said in this thread (Gnome 3: how to set power button to shutdown instead of suspend?) that options was removed.
He also mentions that you can fix it
if you're willing to patch and rebuild gnome-settings-daemon
so how woul... |
Make a directory build and download patch there, saving it as d.patch.
Follow this script (I have saved whole session, so you know from which directories you should cast these spells).
[user@MACHINE build]$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-settings-daemon #download GSD source
[user@MACHINE build]$ git clone git://g... | How to patch and rebuild gnome-settings-daemon? |
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I'm using fedora 25 gnome latest update. My dnf repo list is
fedora-cisco-openh264.repo rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
fedora.repo rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
fedora-spotify.repo rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
fedora-updates.repo rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
google-chrome.repo ... |
The GUI on Fedora Workstation uses PackageKit to install OS packages. PackageKit on Fedora uses the exact same repos specified in /etc/yum.repos.d.
It's also possible to use PackageKit through pkcon instead. It doesn't necessarily provide much detail in normal operation. There are some tools you could look at thoug... | Do dnf updates conflicts with gnome software center updates? [duplicate] |
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Updated the Kali Linux and as a result, updated the Gnome to version 3.20.1, but is now appearing in the title bar (and other places in some Gnome applications) squares instead of letters. How do I fix this?
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I found an answer over at AskUbuntu. It looks like some fonts are missing and need to be re-installed. Here's the steps from that answer:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
sudo fc-cache -fv
Reboot your machine and it should have the title bars fixed.
| Squares on Gnome 3 Title Bar |
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I upgraded my Kali Linux version 2 and now when I try to login in my Desktop I got this error message "oh no something has gone wrong".
I go to the console mode with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and I launch gnome-shell and it return this:
(gnome-shell:4934): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to open display. Y... |
The problem is python. I get a error with a package when I do apt-get upgrade.
It's because the usr/bin/python link to python3.4. So I change this for python2.7 and I do again apt-get upgrade and this solve the problem!
| gnome login fail after a upgrade: oh no something has gone wrong |
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I am using a lenovo thinkpad w520 running fedora 22 and gnome 3. This particular laptop has both an integrated (Intel HD Graphics 3000) and discrete graphics (NVIDIA Quadro 1000M) card. When I'm in Linux, I only ever use the integrated graphics card because support for the NVIDIA card isn't awesome without installing ... |
Create the following config for X11 following Archlinux wiki to force optimus hardware to use intel_backlight instead of nv_backlight:
# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-backlight.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
EndSection
Note t... | Change which brightness device gnome uses? |
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I built GNOME 3.16 on my LFS system. I have a strange configuration issue where my root and normal user see different items in the applications menu.
Here's a screenshot of gedit's menu options as user:
This is the screenshot as root:
As you can see, root sees 4 more items (preferences, help, about, quit). My questi... |
The way to do this is go to Tweak Tool -> Top Bar -> Show Application Menu = Off.
Apparently, the application menu items are in the Top Bar now. But if the Top Bar is running under a different or not available, it shows the preferences with the regular menu items. Hence, the two different views for root and user.
| GNOME 3 Different menu options for root and user |
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My wallpaper is now white, the icons are displayed, but the app in parameters/background does not launch.
In gconf, /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename is set to a valid image (I can see my wallpaper when I'm under the Activity mode)
I'm using debian testing updated today.
Any clue? Need other Infos?
See the
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I had the same problem. Just solved it, in gnome tweak tool under Desktop tab I disabled option "Have file manager handle the desktop".
| Lose gnome3 wallpaper |
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I am unable to launch Gnome System Log Viewer after setting some filters. This is so, even after rebooting and reinstalling this GUI program. I found the following relevant line in /var/log/messages:
kernel - [ 2345.123456] traps: logview[1234] trap int3 ip:32682504e9
sp:7fff9123c150 error:0
It seems to be some ex... |
The filter settings are saved as a gsettings scheme: org.gnome.gnome-system-log.filters. You can edit them with dconf-editor (org>gnome>gnome-system-log>filters). Replace the space in the name of the filter with a dash (or some other character), and gnome-system-log will work again.
| Unable to launch Gnome System Log Viewer after setting filters |
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I have an issue which bugs me for a long time. I'm using the Intel C++ compiler which includes shell scripts to set up environment variables for library paths, include paths and more. Sourcing these scripts in .bashrc works like a charm for the terminal. Unfortunately, I need the environment variables in Mathematica a... |
Confirm MKL_TARGET_ARCH is set
When you add this to the /etc/profile.d directory odds are the variable $MKL_TARGET_ARCH isn't set or hasn't been set yet, so the entire if/else block is essentially skipped.
You can test this theory by temporarily setting the $MKL_TARGET_ARCH just above the if/else statement and try log... | Restrictions of /etc/profile in Gnome |
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While using Fedora 14 (Gnome2), Each time if I was doing some privileged task (ex - mounting a new hard drive), I would be prompted for password and then there would appear an icon (like keys) on the taskbar. By clicking on it, I could exit the elevated priviliges mode.
I do not see any such feature - to exit privilig... |
In Fedora15/Gnome 3 when you execute a command which requires elevated privileges, those privileges will remain until the window that required them is closed or until the privilege timeout is reached.
I think this was actually fixed just at the end of Gnome2.
Worth testing to see how long you retain privileges for.
| Fedora15/Gnome3 - Exit elevated priviliges mode |
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I'm using gnome-shell 3.0.2 on Arch Linux and I want to use AWN's notification area plugin. However when I try to activate the plugin it complains that there's already a notification area running.
This is expected, of course, except that I can't find a way to disable gnome-shell's notification area. In gnome 2 I'd jus... |
At this time, you cannot. It is core functionality in the current GNOME shell.
| How to use third party notification area with gnome shell |
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I just updated to GNOME 3.22.1 on Arch Linux. When I tried to scroll, I noticed that it ignores the setting of natural scrolling. I'm stuck with natural scrolling (you move your fingers down and the page goes up) but I don't want to. I tried both settings in the Mouse & Touchpad settings.
The currently installed versi... |
From don-crissti's comment:
(GNOME) 3.22 defaults to a Wayland session. Log out and log back in choosing X session when at GDM login screen and see if it works.
| GNOME ignores natural scrolling setting |
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In Gnome 3 you can enter dconf-editor and navigate through lots of settings. Amongst others you can navigate to /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/ to find that Alt+Tab brings up the application switcher. You can change the keybinding for the application switcher or even add new ones in addition to the ones already pre... |
I figured out a solution to this problem myself that don't even involve modifying the Gnome source code. It is not what I initially looked for but it works perhaps just as well. In dconf-editor in /org/gnome/dekstop/wm/keybindings/ I just changed the following two settings:
switch-applications=['<Super>Tab', '<Alt>Tab... | Changing keybindings for arrows in Alt+Tab application switcher in Gnome 3 |
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Days ago I was playing with Gnome 3 and Cinnamon and I decide after a few test to keep Cinnamon and remove Gnome. The problem is I don't know if it's secure to remove everything marked as installed under the group GNOME Desktop => GNOME since I don't know if those packages are used in any other application or maybe by... |
The packages are grouped in the groups, that can be installed and removed together. Running
dnf group list
should tell you the names of available groups and one of them should be something like gnome-desktop-environment. Removing it should do the job:
dnf group remove gnome-desktop-environment
| What is secure to remove from GNOME Desktop => GNOME |
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Using Fedora 17, when I click an extension to install from gnome shell extensions site, it won't install!
How to know what the problem is?
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What browser are you using? Does it give you an error or warning?
I'll take a wild stab in the dark:
If you're using Chrome/Chromium, navigate to about:plugins and make sure "Gnome Shell Integration" is enabled. Then navigate back to extensions.gnome.org and when the ribbon appears at the top make sure you "Always All... | extensions.gnome.org is not working on fedora 17 |
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When I'm logged into my account on my laptop (A Thinkpad t420 running Linux Mint 12 with Gnome 3), the mouse has a noticeably lower frame rate than when I'm at the log in screen, or even in another user account. I've been trying to get to the bottom of the problem for days.
The mouse is perfectly responsive, but it s... |
I got the same problem an your solution pointed me to the actual reason (for me):
I had the screen magnifier always on, but with the lowest magnification, 1:1. So that way, I could change magnification fast without setting it on before and in the lowest magnification mode (1:1), the screen just looks like the normal ... | Mouse cursor 'frame rate' is slow, but only when logged into my main account |
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Is there a way to access, set gnome system-settings from the command-line?
I'm specifically interested in a way to set:
settings -> energy -> screen off = never
settings -> energy -> screen off = (N) minue(s)
I would like to access this settings from a bash script, so I could set screen-off to never when the script s... |
ok, I found it, this is pretty nice since it's set in seconds you can also set a value shorter then a minute:
# Set "turn screen off" to (N)seconds:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay N
# Set "turn screen off" to never:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 0
# Set "turn screen off" ... | Gnome3 - set screen energy settings from command line (script) |
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Today I wanted to try gnome 3 as the desktop environment. So I removed openbox completely and installed gnome 3 and run dpkg-reconfigure after. I also had dwm installed, which I left as is.
sudo apt-get install gdm3
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
So when I logged out, I had the gnome login screen. So far so good.
The pr... |
You need to install more packages than only gdm3, gdm3 is just the login manager.
To have a very minimal Gnome desktop environment, you need to install the following packages (maybe some are already installed in your system):
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates libgl1-mesa-dri x11-xserver-utils \
fonts-cantarell g... | Set gnome as default display manager |
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I am using Arch linux. However after the recent gnome update, I am not able to copy or paste anything into or from gnome terminal to gui applications like editors or browsers. However I am able to copy and paste within the the terminal like coping and pasting a previous command or output. I am also able to copy paste ... |
Copy/paste between Wayland windows and XWayland windows does not work yet (it has not been implemented).
I can't manage to find any official source on this, but here are a couple of links to posts saying exactly this:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/desktop-linux/49641-gtk-3-18-plans-for-full-wayland-sup... | Cannot copy-paste from or to the gnome-terminal |
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I cannot get OpenVPN to work with GNOME NetworkManager.
Authentication-Type is "Certificates (TLS)"
I have 3 files:
UserCert: user.crt
CACert: ca.key
PrivateKey: user.key
All live in my home-directory.
Connection fails with the following message:
Feb 25 23:16:49 archpad nm-openvpn[1138]: OpenVPN 2.3.2 x86_64-unknown... |
This one is the fatal error:
Cannot load CA certificate file /home/mak/Downloads/ca.key
There are a couple reasons that it may not be able to load the key:
Permissions are wrong. Check to make sure the file is readable
File doesn't exist. Confirm the path & name is correct.
File is in the wrong format, or is not a ... | Gnome Network-Manager OpenVPN |
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Somehow the main application window of my empathy application is gone and only shows me the contact list but not the account settings window so that I can no longer add instant messanger accounts or persons to an account. How can I restore that? I use GNOME Shell 3.6.2.
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Many Gnome 3.6.x apps have been ported to GMenu and as such the "menu" is only available from the main toolbar (it changes according to the focused app) , e.g. for empathy:
| How to restore empathy windows on Gnome 3? |
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I would like to remove my Gnome 2 desktop to replace it with Gnome 3, because I do not want to update to Debian Wheezy. How can I do that?
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This is in response to this answer:
I would NOT install every .deb separately - this is a terrible idea and there are much better ways. Plus the guide is quite outdated, although on the right track. You should look, as said in the link, into apt-pinning. But don't use experimental, testing is already on gnome 3.4 and ... | How to install Gnome 3 on Debian Squeeze (Gnome 2)? |
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running RHEL 7.9, with the installation of it as Server with GUI. My [work] operating environment is the server is in a server room and all users connect to it over the network using VNC.
Problem I have as an admin is I can connect into their existing VNC session, with the intent to close it out cleanly prior to doin... |
Give this a try:
Using redhat documentation as reference.
Create the user profile in /etc/dconf/profile/user if it does not already exist:
user-db:user
system-db:local
Edit /etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-screensaver
If there is already a section with the heading: [org/gnome/desktop/screensaver] then just edit/add: lock-ena... | disable GNOME screensaver screenlock in rhel/centos 7 |
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I've been trying to install Gnome on my Debian, I used i3wm previously, and I wanted to install Gnome for some demonstration purpose. I tried the command
sudo apt-get install gnome
And while installing, I was given an error while unpacking LibreOffice.
How can I resolve this?
I have even tried fixing broken install... |
The LibreOffice packages in Debian conflict with the OpenOffice packages you currently have installed. If you want to install GNOME 3, you’ll need to remove the OpenOffice packages:
sudo apt purge openoffice\*
You will then be able to install GNOME:
sudo apt install gnome
| Can't install Gnome on debian |
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in RHEL 7.5, or 7.6 where I am using GNOME classic 3.28,
I run a tar command in a terminal window which takes a few seconds, when finished a popup happens saying command completed
and other times when I right click and do new terminal, the terminal window shows up almost immediately, but i also get a popup saying ter... |
I'm using gnome-session 3.28.1-10.0.1.el8 and have a Notifications page in Settings that allows me to turn off all notifications or just those for a particular application. Turning them all off seems to have prevented the annoying completion messages.
| gnome 3.28 disable ready/completed pop-up |
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I've installed TeamSpeak 3 to $HOME/Applications and I've created a custom desktop file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=TeamSpeak 3
Comment=VOIP Client
Path=/home/tomas/Applications/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64
Exec=bash ts3client_runscript.sh
Icon=/home/tomas/Pictures/icons/teamspeak-3-icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application... |
I was able to fix it by adding this to my .desktop file:
StartupWMClass=<GnomeShellTooltipOfTheSecondIcon>
xprop can also be used to know the WM_CLASS.
Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/635839
| How do I make custom .desktop files behave correctly in the Gnome 3 sidebar? |
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I pride myself on keeping my system up and running a long time between restarts. I have a long running RHEL7 workstation. Occasionally (usually if it has been running continuously for a month) the window manager crashes.
By crashes I mean the windows are 'visible' but have no title bars, menus etc. The mouse pointer c... |
Yes. There is still a window manager and you can restart it.
You can confirm you are running gnome-classic as below:
>set | grep DESK
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome-classic
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP=yes
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME-Classic:GNOME
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome-classic
You... | Identify and restart (gnome-classic) window manager on RHEL7 |
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I really love the extension "auto-move windows", but it is rather limited: the "Add Rule" Button shows a list which only contains certain applications -- those that installed through apt, I suppose. (But then, why whould System Monitor be missing then?)
What I want is to add any application I made a .desktop file for ... |
The gtk application chooser used by the extension's settings used to exclude applications that do not support opening files, i.e. have no URI/file parameter in the Exec key of their .desktop file. This issue got fixed and the fix is included in gtk+ 3.22.25 and newer.
| Gnome "auto-move windows"-extension does not show all applications |
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When my system boots up, and I click my username, and enter my password, the login attempt fails. However, when I try the exact same password again, I can successfully log in. What could have caused this? I am using the latest arch Linux on the latest gnome3/gdm.
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I just realized that for some reason, the first key I press on my USB keyboard does not get registered.
| GNOME3/GDM first login fails but second login succeeds |
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I am using xterm. I want to open two separate instances in arch linux.
However when I click on the icon it does do any activity.
I have used Ubuntu before. It was normal to open multiple terminal in Ubuntu. Is it possible in Arch Linux? I am using gnome-desktop.
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Since you stated you were using GNOME, I assume you're trying to open xterm from the screen that pops up on which your desktop applications are listed, right? (I think the scientific name for that screen is "Activities Overview". Anyway...)
Try holding down the Ctrl key while left-clicking on the xterm icon, that shou... | how to open multiple windows of terminal in gnome-shell? |
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I just installed ubuntu GNOME 16.04. So far, so good.
When I run "GNOME terminal", I can do the all the things. But when asked to press "Enter", and I press the button labeled "Enter" on my kepboard near the keypad, it just does an error squirt-beep.
If I press the button above right shift (labeled <-|), it works.
... |
The two Enter keys are different. The one above the right-shift key sends a carriage-return character (which the terminal driver translates to line-feed as newline), while the other may send an escape sequence when the keypad application mode is enabled. Your instructions meant the former (unless the application use... | Gnome Terminal - keypad enter just beeps |
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I want to display my desktop notifications (I'm using Gnome 3) on some other device. So I want to write a software that gets the notification on my computer and sends it over the internet. Unfortunately, I didn't find any good point to start on how my code can get the notifications and do something with them.
Is there... |
Well, Gnome notifications use D-BUS to pass the messages around. The gnome specification describes how to use the org.freedesktop.Notifications.* classes and has a good deal of formatting tips. In general it is a HTML-ish format.
Yet, you absolutely cannot talk to the D-BUS on another machine remotely. Let's not ev... | How do I get the desktop notifications? |
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I'm trying to use this to make the US international with dead keys layout function correctly -- the combination ' + c should give a ç instead of a ć, and more importantly, unsupported combinations should just give both characters in sequence, for example ' + t should output simply 't.
The above works in most applicat... |
Of course, right after posting the question I managed to fix the problem.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources true
did the trick.
| Dead key functionality with US-Intl layout in Fedora 23 |
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After upgrading Debian Wheezy to Jessie, I experience some random unhiding behaviour of the bottom panel. It does not appear - as before - by moving the mouse into lower right corner. It seems it is showing up, when you move the mouse in the middle of the bottom... but only in 1 out of 15 cases...
How is the right wa... |
Moving mouse to bottom of the screen is usually enough to show bottom panel. Just move the mouse to bottom and a little bit more down ;) I know, sometimes it doesn't work for the first time. Second way is to use keyboard shortcut – windows key (left to the left alt) + m. Panel is not supposed to hide automatically, so... | GNOME 3 - bottom panel is hiding - how to unhide it or change behaviour |
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I'm currently in the process of trialling Gnomebuntu 13.10 in a virtual machine for web development work with a view to potentially ditching Windows 8.1 for development work in the near future. One of the issues I currently have with Gnome 3.8 is that there are no minimise or maximise buttons by default which screws w... |
You were close:
From the gnome-tweak-tool, select Shell and look for the option Arrangement of buttons on the titlebar. By default, it's set to Close only, you want to set it to All.
If the effects are not immediately apparent, press F2 and enter r into the command box that appears followed by Enter to restart the Gno... | Add maximise and minimise buttons to Gnome 3.8 |
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I just did an update in Arch Linux, and now the Videos app (Totem) is using the same icon for every control:
The controls still work; you just can't tell them apart without hovering over the control until the tooltip shows up. This worked fine before the upgrade.
I've reinstalled totem, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-icon-... |
This sort of behavior is usually caused by icon & pixbuf loaders problems.
Re-installing librsvg and running (as root):
gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/gnome
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
should, in most cases, fix it.
| Missing control icons in Totem (Gnome Videos) |
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I have a laptop running Fedora 15, Gnome 3.0.1, and Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset. I have a VGA monitor connected to it, as well as a DisplayPort to DVI adapter to connect a second monitor. Both monitors are detected by the system and I can use them individually, but not both at the same time. Both monitors are t... |
If you look at the chipset datasheet, there are only two display planes and display pipes (see pp. 78–79). You can also take a look at the tables on pp. 86–87. So, you've hit a hardware limitation.
You may be able to get it working if two of the displays are displaying the same thing, with the exact same settings (sam... | Connecting 2 monitors to a laptop |
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Upon going to the user themes extension webpage, I get the following message:
This extension is incompatible with your version of GNOME. This extension supports the GNOME unstable release, 3.3.2
I have Gnome Version 3.2.1 according to System Info. So how would I go about installing the lastest unstable Gnome releases... |
You can build the latest GNOME Shell (sandboxed) using JHBuild pretty easily, as explained here.
Note that this doesn't care about which distribution you're using, so there might be another way, i.e., some Fedora analogue of using experimental packages on Debian, that I don't know of. (I found this 3.3.3-1 GNOME-Shel... | How do I install user theme extension in Gnome in Fedora 16? |
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On my System (Debian Wheezy x64, Gnome 3) I don't have any system sounds. Other audio is working well.
When I go to settings > Audio > Sounds (hope it is called like this in english) as normal user, all sounds are greyed out. However, when i go to this panel as root, I can play all these sounds.
Is it a problem with p... |
I found the solution to this issue here.
What you need to to is fire up *d*conf-editor
Go to org/gnome/desktop/sound and there activate event_sounds after a restart empathy notification sounds should be working !
| gnome 3 system sounds not working |
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In gnome3, when I hit Windows button a new view with windows/applications appear. I can also do some search there and can choose from two options: wiki and google. Is there any way to add some other choices there, together with code that would make proper search? For example I would like to add some torrent search the... |
I have managed to do it myself. Here is how I have done it:
If you are using Gnome3, then you are probably using integrated searches for Googling or finding something on Wikipedia. Only those two choices are available, but fortunately it’s easy to add new or even exchange them for some other kind. Here is how you can... | Gnome3: How to add more search options |
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in RHEL/CentOS 7.9 anyway, when running gnome-disks which is under the Applications-Utilities-Disks menu, for a recognized SSD it offers the enabling of write-cache.
I would like to know what technically is happening when turning this on, that wasn't already happening.
I was under the impression, whether it was an SS... |
This controls the cache setting on the disk so it's not related to Linux or RAM, this controls how the disk itself caches the data in its internal memory before writing them to the disk permanent storage.
GNOME Disks (or UDisks to be correct) just sends an ATA command to the disk telling it to enable/disable the featu... | gnome-disks write caching |
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At the login screen and also in the system settings I see a user that I don't really want to see in any interactive context. After all I am not being shown the nobody user (UID 65534)
Here's how that looks (I have no idea how to make a screenshot from the user list on the login screen, though):
The details for that u... |
Change the value for the SystemAccount key (in section [User]) in /var/lib/AccountsService/users/libvirt-qemu (or whatever the equivalent on your distro is) to true and restart AccountsService using sudo systemctl restart accounts-daemon.service. If there is no such line or file for that user, you can copy it from ano... | Get rid of unwanted user listing in GNOME3 (lock screen, login screen and settings) |
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I have a brand new Purism laptop (Librem 15 version 3) with PureOS I started up for the first time today.
While setting it up to my liking, I opened Gnome Tweaks to change the Caps Lock button to be a Control key. Immediately upon changing the setting (without any other action on my part), the system locked the screen... |
With help from Purism support and commenter @icarus above, I was able to remove the offending configuration at ~/.config/dconf/user and rebooting.
Moreover, I was able to achieve my intended result by modifying /etc/defaults/keyboard as seen here.
| Gnome Tweaks change of caps lock to control caused lock out of the system |
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When I press Shift for 8 seconds (as the upcoming dialog says, I rather feel these are 10 seconds) GNOME enables "slow keys", how they call it.
Fortunately a dialog pops up before it is finally enabled. However that cannot be quickly dismissed by navigation with the keyboard (you can only click on "Cancel", moving wit... |
Just to close this question as answered: In the question you can see how to do it, it is actually possible in the visible settings application.
There only was a bug that prevented this from working correctly in GNOME 3.28 at least, and has been fixed (to be released in v3.32, I guess.).
| How to disable GNOME's 8 sec. shift hotkey for activating slow keys/keystroke delay? |
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this is archlinux speaking, fresh install with Gnome 3.30.1.
After having installed xbindkeys and setup a ~/.xbindkeysrc file with:
# corresponds to ctrl+Y on my machine, according to `xbindkeys -k`
"paplay /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/sonar.ogg"
m:0x14 + c:52
I can hit ctrl+Y and hear a sonar sound. But ... |
Okay, I get it. The bug only occurs if you log on Gnome wayland session, which happens to be the default one now. Should you log with Gnome Xorg instead, the bindings do work with every window then.
My guess is that xbindkeys is a X-related utility, that every new Gnome app do not rely on X anymore but on wayland, and... | xbindkeys not working when native Gnome 3.30.1 windows are focused |
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I use workspaces heavily, and I have another visual indicator in the top bar to tell me what workspace I am in. By default Gnome has a number like in the screenshot below to show current workspace
The 2 is the element I want to remove
I do not need the default workspace indicator, however there does not seem to be a... |
The workspace indicator is not a built-in feature of the Gnome desktop. It is provided by the "Workspace Indicator" Gnome extension, which is pre-installed on some Linux distributions.
You can edit its settings or disable it entirely from the Gnome Tweak Tool's extensions section.
| Gnome 3: Remove Workspace Number from Top Bar |
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I had the problem with libreoffice --writer crashing on my system without any message. libreoffice --calc was working without any problem. (I did not check on the others like draw or impress).
I have been able to just start libreoffice without any option, but experienced the same crash when selecting new writer docume... |
This seems to be fixed since version: 1:5.4.3-4+b1
Libre Office did not run anymore, with or without: libreoffice-gtk3
It just quit without any message when started from the terminal, with or without option (--calc --writer...)
Happily this time it could be fixed as @StephenKitt recommended earlier by moving the old c... | LibreOffice Writer crashing on Debian "buster" with Gnome desktop |
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When I tried to logged-in on gnome shell, it will just goes black then after a few seconds it will just comeback to GDM.
I am using fedora 26.
Any advice how I can fix this? thanks.
Edit:(requested on the first comment)
I don't know if it caused by the update, but I did an update before it was happened. This morning I... |
The cause why Wayland kicking me back to GDM, is because of the La Capitaine cursor theme.
When I tried to change the cursor to Adwaita(default) when I am still in Xorg, then logged-out and logged-in back to Wayland I can logged in back successfully. But as soon I change the cursor theme to La Capitaine Wayland kick m... | Logged in loop on gnome shell on fedora 26 |
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I have many figures of widthxheight (550-570)x(465-486) at the southwest logically set there by Matlab's movegui() function.
I would like to open all those southwest windows of the size range in an external display or in Workspace 2.
Meuh's command shows those figure dimensions width x height, their hex codes and ti... |
There is no supported working solution for Gnome 3.14 in Debian 8.5.
Let's hope the next release of Gnome at Q1-Q2 2017 will help the case.
| How to move windows of dimension range to Workspace 2? |
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I installed Debian (Wheezy 7.9) as a VM in VirtualBox. But looks like I have a Desktop environment problem:
When I right-click on the Desktop, I get nothing (I'm supposed to get a menu).
No computer or home icons (even-though they are enabled in Advanced Settings).
BTW, when I enable 3D acceleration for this image ... |
I found the solution. It's really simple.
Yes as according to @AhmedWas, one should enable 3D acceleration before installing the image. (This will only prevent image crashing)
Applications -> System tools -> Preferences ->Advanced Settings -> Desktop -> and turn on "Have the file manager handle the desktop".
| Blank desktop with Gnome in a virtual machine |
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I'd like to add a trash icon to the Gnome 3 favorites vertical bar on the left of the desktop.
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Just make your own launcher e.g. trashcan.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Trash Can Viewer
Comment=Because I Can!
Exec=gvfs-open trash:///
Icon=user-trash
Terminal=false
Categories=GNOME;
place it1 in $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications (usually ~/.local/share/applications) if you intent it to be u... | How to add a trash icon to the Gnome 3 favorites? |
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I'm testing GNOME 3.16.3 wayland (1.8) session on ArchLinux 64bit. Everything seems to work fine so far except for VirtualBox 5.0.2.
If I run windows 8.1 as guest, after entering the password on the login screen, VirtualBox just freezes (that not happens while running on X11).
Also, I have the following env set:
GDK_B... |
Ok, I found out that by disabling hardware acceleration (both 3D and 2D video) on my virtual machine settings does the trick.
Perhaps not the best solution but I can live with that for now...
| Win 8.1 guest on VirtualBox 5 running on Wayland 1.8 freezes after login |
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I would like to enable the Control + Alt + Backspace sequence to kill the X server, plus other sequences, without editing any files, if possible (or at least, no system files).
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You can re-enable Ctrl+Alt+Bksp on a per-user basis by adding the option
terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
to gnome xkb-options via gsettings or dconf-editor.
The easiest way is with dconf-editor - go to org > gnome > desktop > input-sources and add terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp to the xkb-options, e.g
With gsettings it's a bit mor... | Gnome 3: enable Ctrl+Alt+Bksp on a per-user basis without editing any files? |
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I am using debian testing with gnome 3.14. despite trying googling around why that happened, I didn't find a solution.
My question is:
Why is my terminal and sublime text not consistent with the gtk theme?
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I solved my own problem ! Here is the solution, move the themes from home/.themes to /usr/share/themes. The problem was that apparently meta-city themes were not recognized there. Once I moved them to the folder everything got resolved.
Hope that helps someone like me !
| Why is Gnome 3.14 window decoration inconsistent |
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I have freshly installed arch linux according to the steps listed in arch linux wiki page, installed xorg and gnome. In my ~/.xinitrc file I have added the line exec gnome-session.
Now, when I boot my system and login to tty1, as a normal user( not root) and type startx at the prompt the gnome session doesn't star... |
Ensure you have the .xinitrc file in the user home directory. It seems you have the .xinitrc in the root directory and not the users home directory. to verify this run ls -la in the user home directory. If you see a .xinitrc file inspect it using a text editor to see if it has the required content.
| Unable to start gnome-session without root ? |
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I have a 700MB CD on which I'm putting the LXDE version of Fedora 18, and I wanted to know what happened when I remove LXDE and install GNOME 3, as the GNOME 3 version is too big for my CD.
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You can use yum groupinstall GNOME, and after everything is in place, remove the LXDE group.
| Removing LXDE and installing GNOME 3 |
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In previous versions of gnome-shell in Gnome 3, it was possible to use an icon in place of the "Activities" text in the left upper corner. These tutorials tell how to achieve this, the second one even providing an extension. It does not work with gnome-shell version greater than 3.2, though. Can the icon be brought to... |
The Activities Configurator extension allows to modify, or even hide, icon and text.
| Give an icon to the Gnome Shell 3.6 activities button |
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The idea is to turn my Desktop into a place where I can put a image reference of what I am learning at the moment. This would be an example
This means:
puttig an image of the reference of what I'm learning as a background of the Desktop (already possible)
having the icons of files, folders or even removable USB pens ... |
This is not an answer to my question but, until now, it IS the best solution I could find.
I wrote a script called cs with the following code
#!/bin/sh
eog --fullscreen [path to the image I want to see]
and placed it in ~/bin since this is in my $PATH.
Then I run:
chmod +x ~/bin/cs
Finally, to get access... | I would like to put one single icon in the Desktop that actually opens the Desktop. Any ideas? |
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I normally switch between Geany, vim and Emacs (depending on my mood. LOL) when editing on a linux platform.
Recently, I have begun exploring the Mallard Project, but have been unable to find the right tool for editing files to be processed by Mallard. Does such a tool exist?
UPDATE
Shortly after posting my question,... |
In addition to using Gedit (per Mallard mailing list answer posted in the update to my question), another answer was posted (which does not require me to adopt another tool):
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 21:44 -0500, The Geeko wrote:
Is there a tool available which properly handles Mallard documents?
I normally use Geany, ... | What editor can be used to provide highlighting for Mallard project files? |
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Using Gnome 3 on Fedora 15, where should I put a script that needs to execute once when the user logs in graphically?
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When a user logs into the graphical mode, the predefined desktop environment starts (Gnome 3 in your case). This is the software package that should be used for setting up and configuring anything that is to be started when the user logs in graphically.
First create the script, place it in some private place like ~/... | Where should I put a script that needs to execute once when the user logs in graphically? |
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I'm using Debian 10.3 + GNOME 3.
When i start my computer i get opened window of MEGAsync program in desktop.
I can close this window by ESCape key. But this will have to do every time the operating system starts. It is not comfortable.
How to configure automatic removal of this window from the desktop, for example, t... |
I found a solution!
The extension SimpleTray for GNOME 3 solved my problem:
extensions.gnome.org/extension/1483/simpletray/
| How to hide a window from desktop after booting in GNOME 3? |
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I am preparing a PC that will be used by a lot of people in the company I work for to access information on our local network through a specific software. The PC will have a Debian 9.3 with Gnome 3 installed. I am trying to shrink as possible the number of software installed, so people do not try to tinker with the sy... |
As mentioned earlier apt, apt-get, aptitude, and even dpkg can be used to manage installations of software packages on Debian systems. You will most likely use apt or apt-get to install GNOME. Here is a guide on a minimal install of GNOME on Debian. They happen to show a list of all packages associated with and needed... | What is the script responsible to bring up Gnome graphic environment in Debian 9.3? |
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To be able to access the Minimize and Maximize buttons in Debian, I have to change every users settings from gnome-tweak-tool, individually. Is there a way for me to change every users tweak-tool setting's so that they are all the same, without doing it individually?
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Created a user called "tmpuser"
Logged in as that user in GUI mode and apply the following tweaks:
Enabled Desktop icons (done by launching Tweak tool, and setting “Icons on Desktop” in “Desktop” tab)
Enabled maximize and minimize buttons on window title bars (done by launching Tweak tool, and setting “Maximize” an... | Change all tweak-tool config files for all users |
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There are many solutions to link things in one figure in applications.
However, I would like to link windows in Gebian Gnome
open one window etc from Gnome Overview/...
the second window opens at the same time
I am thinking if such procedure is technically is possible in Debian and Gnome.
I would like to create s... |
I think this can be a future feature in the coming release, but it cannot be reached itself in Gnome 3.14 now.
Next Gnome release is coming at about Q1 of 2017.
I think it can help the situation.
| How to link windows in Debian Gnome? |
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I would like to create a devilspie (the one with Lisp-like syntax, however, a solution for devilspie2 would be just as good) rule that matches windows of the Spotify music streaming app. Specifically, I would like to set its _GTK_THEME_VARIANT property to dark so that the color of its title bar matches the rest of its... |
I have recently noticed that
(is (application_name) "Untitled window")
matches Spotify as it starts. I did not notice this query matching other windows. Remarkably, it does not even match other Electron apps such as the Slack desktop client.
Devilspie running on the console prints the window_name, application_name an... | How to make devilspie match Spotify windows? |
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I am writing a script that will systematically install Numix theme using gnome-tweak-tool.
I want to make sure that I don't reinstall items if they are already installed, so I used which [name of item] > /dev/null.
Here is my current script:
function installNumix() {
echo "Checking if Numix is installed ..."
... |
Instead of getting the user to manually use gnome-tweak-tool, you can set the gtk and window-manager themes and the icon-theme in your script with gsettings. e.g.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme Numix
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme Numix
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.inter... | How would I make this script more efficient? [closed] |
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I'm using fedora 23 64 bits here, i suppose i have all dev deps installed, however this last one i don't know how to solve:
[sombriks@sephiroth planner]$ sh autogen.sh
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
***Warning*** USE_COMMON_DOC_BUILD is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
***Warning*** USE_GNOME2_MACROS is depre... |
While hitting the same problem I found out that the below helped:
touch xmldocs.make
| unable to compile GNOME planner from source |
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OS: Archlinux
Emacs: 24.5
Theme: Solarized-light
It is ok before upgrading to gnome-unstable(3.20)
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The bug seems to be in the gnome-unstable gtk3 package. As a temporary workaround you could disable the gnome-unstable repository in your pacman.conf and downgrade your local gnome packages to the stable versions with
sudo pacman -Syyuu
In my case this fixed the blue screen bug in emacs.
| Emacs got blue background after upgrading to 3.20 |
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I need to change the trisquel 7.0 look to become like that
i knew that trisquel uses GNOME 3.4.2 but it looks strange, so is there a way that can i follow to replace the trisquel look with the one in the picture ?
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1 - install gnome-shell from synaptic package manager
2- restart pc
3 - select gnome3 from the gdm login screen
| how can i make trisquel look like gnome 3? |
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After I logout I can't login back. I type the password but just got a blink, then the login screen is back again without error messages. I have to reboot to login again. Besides, even the Nautilus that's shipped with Fedora, keeps crashing over and over. I suspect it's something related do desktop manager.
I'm using C... |
I am having this same problem, and only since upgrading to Fedora 23:
I log out and when I try to log back in, I get sent back to the login screen.
I have been looking for a relevant bug report but can't find one (and since I do have a Fedora account, I might just start one).
There is a Fedora bug report for this issu... | Fedora 23 - can't re-login after logout |
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I want to start gui-java application on startup.
So I tried to use
/etc/xdg/autostart/
with my .desktop
debian@debian:~$ cat /etc/xdg/autostart/alclient.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=ALClient
GenericName=ALClientt
Comment=ALClient
Exec=/home/debian/my/app/2.4.93/client/bin/client.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application
X-... |
Keeping your existing setup as described in your question, modify client.sh like so:
#!/bin/sh
OPTIONS=
this_dir="$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")"
if [ -f "$this_dir/client.l4j.ini" ] ; then
OPTIONS=$(grep -v '^#' "$this_dir/client.l4j.ini" | tr -d "\r" | tr "\n" " ")
fi
java $OPTIONS -jar "$this_dir/client.jar"... | Autostart application on login |
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I installed the gnome-manual-duplex package from the AUR. In Ubuntu this used to add a virtual printer that you could print to.
No printer was added when I installed this package on Arch linux. The application was installed and can be run standalone but it's mostly useful when used as a printer.
How do I go about manu... |
I solved the problem.
The issue is that the /etc/xdg/autostart/gmd-applet-3.py.desktop runs a python2 script whereas the default python on Arch is python 3.
I modified the EXEC line in the .desktop file from:
Exec=/usr/share/gnome-manual-duplex/gmd-applet-3.py run-in-tray
to
Exec=python2 /usr/share/gnome-manual-duple... | Gnome-manual-duplex in Gnome 3 on Arch linux |
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I have this extension, which I created as a spin off of this one and is basically the same, it just removes the adding of buttons to the panel (I did this to make it easier to use on a computer with a small screen).
I have created a few updates for it, but I cannot work out how to upload them.
Is there a place I can f... |
(that was easy)
Updating the version number properly and then uploading the zip file here worked.
| How can I update my Gnome Extension? |
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I recently bought a laptop and wrote a script that sets up a reverse ssh tunnel if a certain user logs in through GDM. I did this because I've had a laptop stolen in the past and would like to be prepared in case it happens again.
I put the script in the directory below which GDM runs as root whenever a user logins.
... |
I would enable this script so that it's verbose and writes its output to a file so that you can more easily ascertain what's tripping it up.
For increased verbosity add this before the first if statement.
set -x
To get the script logging everything to a file you can use this method that's described in this SO Q&A tit... | Run script after GDM login into GNOME? |
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Since I discovered gnome3-shell I really appreciated the different Dekstop-type to work with, and I'm still using it.
But, I'm battery-addict (using a laptop) and I'm feeling poor performances and less support with Gnome3, consuming too resources, such as long loadings of little programs and some laggy animations, ... |
There are many alternatives for a graphical desktop. These involve
Desktop environments (DEs) like GNOME or KDE. They offer a complete graphical interface, pre-loaded with the necessary apps like a file manager, web browser, etc. They are usually very resource consuming, and this can reduce the battery lifetime due t... | Gnome3-like alternatives [closed] |
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I recently installed Arch Linux on my Mini-ITX machine using the recommended xf86-video-ati driver for the AMD Llano-APU. XFCE works -- with compositing -- perfectly fine, but Gnome 3 shows a lot of glitches, like you can see in the pictures below. Any ideas how to fix this, without using the proprietary Catalyst driv... |
Fixed with xf86-video-ati version 1:7.2.0-2.
| Graphic glitches with Llano APU in gnome 3 (Arch) |
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I am trying to load Compiz on my Fedora 15 desktop. When I finished installing the compiz packages, I restarted. However, it started in text terminal mode and the gui didn't load automatically.
I executed following commands externally to load my gui (in root mode):
cd /etc/dconf/db
exec gdm
Though that is working per... |
Fedora 15 uses systemd. First make sure you're running the 'graphical' target by making sure that /etc/systemd/system/default.target is a symlink to /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target, which is the equivalent of runlevel 5 (and not multi-user.target, which is the equivalent of runlevel 3).
Next, make sure that the ... | How can I autostart GDM on Fedora 15? |
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Nautilus, for some reason, becomes very ugly when using custom GTK+ themes. I can't figure out why. There are only a few ones GTK+ themes work properly with Nautilus.
How do I fix this? Is this a Nautilus issue?
Here's a list of data that I think might be relevant:
I'm using GNOME 3 on ArchLinux
Icon themes aren'... |
Themes that make Nautilus look ugly are not updated to support that new header bar widget that came with GTK 3.10
some examples of themes that don't work and some that do work:
| Nautilus ugly with custom GTK themes |
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I am currently using Arch with the GNOME desktop environment. I do not know where to specify the programs I want to run automatically when the computer boots. If there are multiple methods (GUI or non-GUI) to achieve this, I would like to know both.
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You can add the applications you want to automatically start when booting the system by adding them to Startup Applications in the tweak-tool - open the Tweak Tool from Activities launcher :
Alternatively copy a .desktop file from /usr/share/applications/ to ~/.config/autostart/.
| How do I specify the programs that I want to run when the computer boots ? [Arch] |
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I'm running ArchLinux and gnome shell 3.16.1.
GTK+ theme: Evopop-gtk-theme
Icons: Adwaita
Global dark theme.
Running applications like nautilus, gnome-tweak-tool, dconf, system-monitor, gnome-terminal I get the style I have configured.
The problem is when I run other applications like Filezilla, Thunderbird, Caja, T... |
As far as I know Adwaita GTK theme is for both GTK3 and GTK2, but the theme you installed (Evopop-gtk-theme) seems to work only for GTK3. So that's why GTK2 applications look ugly.
The way to fix it is to install lxappearance (or any other GTK2 config tool, but this one is lightweight and has no dependencies) and set ... | GTK applications looking bad |
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I want to get rid of the automatically installed solitaire "games" in my brand new Fedora 18. I tried the gnome way, but nothing gets listed when I search for "silitaire". I tried the command line way:
$ su -c 'yum remove *solitaire'
Password:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No Match for... |
The program you are looking for is /usr/bin/sol, part of package aisleriot. In any case, you should be able to:
yum erase /usr/bin/sol
(yum understands package names, file names and features provided; and also handles groups of packages).
| How do I remove a simple piece of software? |
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I am using Debian 12. Gnome 43. zsh is my default shell (sudo chsh --shell /usr/bin/zsh ismail).
In my .zshrc, I have set the path variable like:
export PATH="$HOME/.dotfiles/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
The alacritty binary is located in:
% which alacritty
/home/ismail/.dotfiles/.cargo/bin/alacritty
The following desktop file... |
The following solved my problem:
When bash is the default shell, have to use .profile to set environment variables.
When zsh is the default shell, have to use .zshenv to set environment variables.
we must logout then login to get the path variables.
| Where do I need to set the $PATH variable so that .desktop file can see when i am using zsh as my default shell |
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On my personal laptop I'm using Fedora 29 and have two user accounts for myself; let's call them "personal_admin" and "personal_user". My personal_admin account is strictly for administrative tasks (installing software and updates mostly), which my personal_user account is for day-to-day use. Is this overkill?
How s... |
From a security perspective, switching VTs directly and using GNOME’s “switch user” are equivalent. The “switch user” feature is more about making it user-friendly, than it is about security: it means you don’t need to know which VT you’re logged in on, or even whether you’re logged in yet.
If your two accounts are co... | How secure is switching TTY sessions vs GNOME "Switch User"? |
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I prefer getting things done using the keyboard instead of the mouse. In Gnome to shutdown the PC, I have to click several times to shutdown my PC.
I prefer to press Alt+F2 and type poweroff.
My question is: Do these two different methods perform the same actions and if not, what is the difference?
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When I do ls -l /sbin/poweroff I can see that /sbin/poweroff is only a symbolic link to /bin/systemctl. So there should be no difference (at least on my system).
TIP: I would do it with Ctrl+Alt+Delete and then Enter as I find it easier.
| Different ways of powering off |
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Is there a way in Gnome3 on CentOS7 to list the actual keyboard shortcuts for things like the activities view? I can find lots of web pages that tell me what they should be, but I'd like to know for sure.
For instance, a "Gnome Help" site says that the shortcut for the activities view is "Alt-F1", but that just bring... |
You can see all shortcuts under "Keyboard" in the "Settings" and add custom ones.
And you can change the key for the applications menu in the Gnome Tweak Tool.
| How to determine or set keyboard shortcut for activities view in gnome3 on centos7? |
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nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=1
now what is the easiest way to run this one bash line of code at startup???
I am running Gnome 3.14.
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You can use gnome-session-properties in terminal or using Alt+F2.
That opens up Startup Applications Preferences in my Linux Mint (could be different for your distro).
Give a name for your command (optional)
Write the bash code in Command option
Add any comment (optional)
Alternatively, you could give a command to exe... | I need to run a one line startup script under gnome and systemd |
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I need to open a couple of terminal windows and watch the output of a couple of programs.
Currently I open them in ~/.profile, then once in Gnome I click them to bring them to the front, then resize them, then select "Always on top", then move them to a specific spot on my screen.
Can this all be done automatically? S... |
Gnome is a EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. You should use wmctrl to interact with the windows that works very well.
wmctrl -r part-of-title-string -e 0,100,200,300,400
sets a window with "part-of-title-string" in the title to width 300, height 400
at position 100,200 (the 0 is for default gravity).
wmctrl -r ... | Gnome 3: open and resize application at startup |
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I am using Debian Testing (Sid) and i want to install Gnome 3.10. How can i do it? Is there a repository I can add in order to upgrade? I have searched a lot and the only thing I have found is the Ubuntu repositories but I don't think that's safe.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next
sudo add-apt-reposi... |
No, it is not safe, Ubuntu repositories are not compatible with Debian. While they might work, it is really not a good idea to mix them.
At the moment, the newest version of gnome available in the Debian repos is 3.8.
If you really want to try the new Gnome out, you will either have to wait until a .deb is released ... | How to install Gnome 3.10 on Debian |
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Sometimes (rather rarely) when I boot up my laptop, my Gnome3 desktop stops loading. I can move the mouse, but there's nothing else on the screen (except my wallpaper). And it seems that no matter how long I wait, the gnome menubar (the thingie with the Activities and shutdown buttons at the top of the screen) just re... |
This appears to be issues with gnome-shell at various times across multiple distros (Red Hat for example).
Your best bet would be to browse and file a bug in Debian BTS, including relevant output from strace, top, etc. Note that Debian 6 is still the Stable release and Debian 7 is Testing. Your help reporting and trac... | Debian 7: Gnome3 sometimes stops when loading |
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I have recently installed Arch Linux and GNOME 3 on my new laptop and have a problem whereby nm-applet is not showing in gnome-panel, unless I manually restart the NetworkManager daemon.
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I found the answer with help of the Arch Linux Forums:
I tried to start the networkmanager daemon before the dbus daemon, which does not work. Changing the order solved the problem.
| nm-applet not showing until NetworkManager restart in GNOME 3 |
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I was surprised to see that Gnome 3 extensions are updated automatically by Debian. Hence, I am wondering:
Which community procedures or practices make it difficult to inject harmful code in this way?
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Which community procedures or practices make it difficult to inject harmful code in this way?
There's a human review process, https://gjs.guide/extensions/review-guidelines/review-guidelines.html#basics
| Safety of automatically updated Gnome extensions |
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Essentially what I want is to run vscode without giving it permission to read my home directory.
So I created a new user vscode and downloaded the .tar.gz file from https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads
Now I'm trying to run code as vscode while logged in as me, like this:
~$ su - vscode -c "/home/vscode/code-s... |
you need to
Set the $DISPLAY variable correctly,
give access to the ~/.Xauthority file
share the socket within the /tmp/.X11-unix directory
Note that once you share your X server with a different client, it's basically the same as running the program as your own user, security-wise: the client can observe the keyboa... | How to run an X app (vscode) as another user |
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I have been trying to find the source code for GNOME desktop versions 3.14 and 3.26, but it seems like there is nowhere to look anymore.
Are there any FTP's or mirrors with those? Thanks in advance.
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Gnome's sources are hosted by gnome.org.
More specifically:
https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-shell
As I'm on Debian-based system, I would probably just get a copy of the sources using apt source gnome-shell. That would contain all of the distro-specific building rules and patches.
If you want the upstream rel... | Where can I find a mirror for full GNOME 3.14 & 3.26? |
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I use Gnome 3.36.3 (Ubuntu 20.04.1) with GnuPG 2.2.19 as SSH agent.
I tell OpenSSH where to find the GnuPG SSH agent socket in my ~/.profile file:
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket)
This works fine in terminal windows. Whenever I connect to a remote SSH server, I get prompted for my PIN.
But... |
TLDR:
sudo chmod +x /lib/systemd/user-environment-generators/90gpg-agent && reboot
The Longread:
When opening remote locations with Nautilus, the gvfs-daemon takes care of
connecting to the remote system and mounting its file-system in the background.
gvfs is managed by systemd. And systemd seems to manage its own env... | How to start GnuPG SSH Agent for gvfs? |
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In Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver with GNOME 3 we can use dconf to set a lot o keybindings. What is the syntax to associate AltGr (that is right Alt) to a keyboard shortcut?
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The AltGr key is used as a modifier to other keys on many layouts, so I guess that's why it can't be used. On my layout, Norwegian, AltGr+2 makes @, for instance.
| How to set a dconf keybinding to use <AltGraph> key? |
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I would to know how to delete the gnome web browser from the browser. I'm not finding it's name. I can see a lot of the gnome apps by typing gnome- and pressing tab, but the web browser is not located there.
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The traditional name of the gnome web browser is Epiphany.
You can remove it with the command
sudo apt remove epiphany-browser
| How to delete gnome web from the terminal? |
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Seems like i today updated my system. After system reboot i can see Login screen. But after login with my user, booth screens turn in black and after ~30-45 seconds i get kicked back to login screen.
By pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 from Login screen i can get into terminal mode and can log in.
I tried to run startx with no lu... |
I will post answer on my own.
1) Check /home permissions by entering ls -la /home in your terminal. If you see that owner of /home/user directory are not your user but for example root then you should change it to be your user.
2) Change ownership of /home/user directory by entering chown -R user:user /home/user in yo... | Black screen after Login Fedora 29 |
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Nautilus 3.26 does not show icons normally, but before I upgraded to nautilus 3.26, in nautilus 3.24 icons are shown normally without any problem. Nautilus 3.26 shows icons like the following picture. How can I fix it ?
https://i.sstatic.net/1lUn5.png
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Downgrade pango library used for text rendering. This solved my problem.
sudo dnf downgrade pango-1.40.12-1.fc27.x86_64 pango-1.40.12-1.fc27.i686
| Fedora Nautilus 3.26 Icon Alignment Problem or Bug: Icons are misaligned |
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I am trying to have some stability in image orientations but they differ in Debian image viewer/LaTeX and with image viewers.
I do but it does not have an effect on the orientation of wrongly positioned images; manually adjusting it with -Orientation=[1234] does not help
exiftool -Orientation=1 -n *.jpg
Fig. 1 Outp... |
I did not manage to solve the problem by ridgy's answer.
I managed to solve it in the end by LaTeX in the thread How to rotate image 90 if height overful?
The case where both picture dimensions are bigger than page size is unsolved in the thread.
exiftool is about one file. To have pictures relationally nice on the pa... | Why exif Orientation does not force image horizontal? [duplicate] |
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