The Activities overview in GNOME Shell is where you can manage windows, applications and workspaces.
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Gnome dash shows only first 8 letters of application names
The overview of unity shows only cropped versions of the application, see here:
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 3.2 gnome shell.
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How do I remove the Dash Icon Dock when hitting the top left corner of the screen?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome3 (i didn't remove Unity, just switched while logging in).
I love the feature of hitting the top left corner of the screen to see an overview of my open windows and ...
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Files and folders in Gnome-Shell 3.6.2 overview not showing
I've done a fresh setup of Xubuntu 12.10 on a 32bit machine, but changed to Gnome-Shell 3.6.2.
When hitting the activities button, only documents or contacts search provide results, files or folders ...
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Gnome 3 Overview misbehaving [closed]
I have an issue with Gnome 3 where the Overview screen doesn't behave as it should.
When I open an application it will sometimes cause the following to happen:
This can then result in further ...
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No recent files in GNOME Shell in 12.04
I upgraded from an almost default install of 11.10 to 12.04. All went well. I can boot into GNOME Shell. Get Activities overview, except that there are no recent files!
In 11.10, I used to get Recent ...
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How to make gnome-shell launch the first app when pressing enter in overview [closed]
I'm using gnome-shell with ubuntu 11.10 and I was wondering if there was a way to make gnome-shell launch the first app found when pressing enter in overview, as it works with unity.
Typical usecase:
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How do I turn off Gnome Shell Activities Animations?
I'd like to turn off the animation (windows zoom back) effect when the activities overview is activated because it really gets slow and laggy with a lot of open windows.
Is there ANY way to do this, ...
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On-the-fly file search in gnome 3?
I recently switched to Gnome 3 (on Onereic 11.10). I was a big fan of gnome-do (on Gnome 2), where I heavily used the "files and folders"-plugin. This allows to configure a list of files and folder to ...
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Prevent gnome-shell's dash from listing Recent Items
I am using gnome-shell in Ubuntu 11.10. I am getting annoyed when dash search lists Recent Items. I have tried many ways to prevent it like
Deleting activity.sqlite and activity.sqlite-journal files ...
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Activity log manager is not preventing Zeitgeist from logging files
I am running Gnome Shell and I do not like Zeitgeist indexing all my files. This makes the overview search in gnome-shell very slow. I do not want the overview to search recent files, so I installed ...
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How to set Applications as the default view in GNOME Shell Activities when there are no windows open?
If there are no windows opened, it doesn't make any sense to have the Windows view as default when we go through Activities.
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Bind GNOME-Shell activities overview to custom mouse button
I have a Logitech G500 mouse which has a third button between the usual "backward" and "forward" mouse buttons.
I want to bind the GNOME-Shell activies overview to that button button.
I tried to do ...
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Disable automatic activation of Gnome Shell activities on mouse over
I have been searching for a way to disable the "hot corner" feature of the Activities button in Gnome Shell. I would prefer it to require a click such that I don't keep accidentally activating it upon ...
