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How to list gnome-control-center panel names?
There's an (as far as I can tell) undocumented feature of gnome-control-center which can be used to show a specific panel directly. For example, gnome-control-center sound will display the "Sound" ...
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How do the various gnome flavours use the config resources they do or do not share?
One of the things that has kept me away from gnome until now is the lack of a common, central place for configuration. This was bad in the old days, but after the advent of compiz, mutter and dconf, ...
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How to find out which software or plugin defines a shortcut in Gnome Shell?
How to move a window between monitors with Gnome Shell?
The answer is (with some caveats): Ctrl+Alt+NUMPAD 4 and Ctrl+Alt+NUMPAD 6. Which plugin/piece of software is responsible for this? Is it ...
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CryptKeeper dissappeared with my encrypted data!
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04. CryptKeeper worked fine, but suddenly it faild to launch forever. I can no longer see it on the system tray!. CryptKeeper works well in other user accounts including root. Now I ...
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Is it possible to run the GNOME user manager from XFCE4?
If I run 'gnome-control-center' and click on the 'User Accounts' icon, the gnome-control-center crashes.
I built it from source to see what's going on, and it turns out it's doing a
if ...
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In the Gnome Shell extension Icon Manager, how do I move the “Removable Devices” from the tray to the top panel?
In other words, what icon name do I have to put in dconf-editor/org/gnome/shell/extensions/icon-manager -> top-bar to get rid of the Removable Devices (and Ubuntu One) from sys tray?
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Conky colors wont show up
I am running Gnome 3 and am trying to get conky to work. When I just installed and ran conky in terminal, this showed up.
So I googled how to make it look better and I found Conky Colors. I ...
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How do I remove my name from GNOME Shell panel?
When I installed the latest version of Ubuntu with GNOME Shell, I saw it displays my name on the right-hand side of the top panel. I know my own name, I don't need to see it on screen all the time and ...
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How can I configure the mouse scrollwheel sensitivity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Increasing scroll speed
Is there anyway to increase the speed of the wheel scrolling of my mouse in Ubuntu? I use extended files (PDFs, web pages etc) and I need to ...
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Command to change Gnome 3 setting system-wide (for all users)?
I´m looking for a command to set / change Gnome 3 parameter for all users. Gsettings works fine but only for one user.
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Enable dragging between workspaces, Gnome-Shell
I finally got around to installing Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop. I played around with Unity for a while, but wasn't a fan, so I installed Gnome-Shell. On my Ubuntu 11.04 machine I was able to drag a ...
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Customizing Gnome Shell in 11.10
Since Unity on my old MBP is not that snappy, I really want to change my GUI to Gnome Shell.
However, I've really been struggeling with the customization of Gnome Shell. Can you help me with the ...
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How can I get the buttons back on the left side in GNOME? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to switch window controls to the left?
I installed Ubuntu 11.10 along with Gnome 3.2. Under Gnome 3.2, the window buttons for closing, minimizing and restoring are ...
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How can I configure Gnome Shell Notification settings?
I couldn't find where I can change Gnome Shell notification settings. I clicked the button that appears with "Don't Show Again" (or something like that) label on a notification, and now when that ...
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1answer
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How to configure Gnome 3 through a configuration file?
Before, one could configure certain options in Gnome 2.x through the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file. With Gnome 3, one would assume that ~/.gtkrc-3.0 works but it doesn't.
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Change preferred applications in GNOME 3 fallback
I can't find out how to change my preferred application since I'm using GNOME 3 fallback (two panel style) in Oneiric.
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How can I stop workspaces from switching automatically to other workspaces when selecting different applications?
How can I stop workspaces from switching automatically to other workspaces when selecting different applications?
I personally find it extremely annoying, and bad UI, to have the ...
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1answer
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How do I reset GNOME to the defaults?
I installed gnome from a kubuntu 11.04 installation using apt-get
$ apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
Everything was working just fine until I decided to change the panel format.
Then a ...
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How do I reset GNOME to the defaults?
I was playing around with some settings, and now I need to reset GNOME to it's defaults - how do I do that?
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Gconf-editor missing gnome-system-tools from tree
I am trying to to enable the /apps/gnome-system-tools/users/show_all flag that is supposed to be in gconf-editor.
According to the Ubuntu community documentation, and many google searches, the key I ...
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How to reset main user account?
My main account got messed up, as I tried to fix it things went downhills.
keyboard mess - tried unity --restore and deleting .gconf2*, fail
deleted .* in ~, total havoc. Chromium and Firefox ...
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Dual monitors: one monitor starts blinking and after a while turns black
I am using dual monitors in Ubuntu 11 with classical interface (Not Unity). I am using two monitors. The system can detect and automatically configure the monitors correctly. The problem is that after ...
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How can I revert back to initial configuiration of 11.04? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I restore default settings and configuration, but keep local data, installed apps, and PPAs?
Is any way to return to the initial configuration of my ubuntu??, ...
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Exclude folders from being scanned by shotwell
I have a phone (an HTC Hero) and when I plug it into my computer, Shotwell shows me my photos and some other files that are on some applications folders that I don't want to import.
Everytime I ...
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Merge home directory after fresh installation with existing (Gentoo) home
I reinstalled my desktop machine with Ubuntu 10.10., coming from Gentoo where I used XFCE. My home is usually NFS-mounted from a server. During the install I let the installer set up my user, but of ...
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Changing media key defaults in Gnome
Under XFCE, I had option to set my keyboard media keys to run particular programs or scripts. I understand the options to adjust the Keyboard Shortcuts under Gnome, but how do I change the default ...
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Which programs are tweakable in gconf-editor? and: What governs which ones end up there?
I am happy that gconf-editor exists, and is readily accessible (once you know about it), but it seems strange that there are two completely seperate places to customize an application's look and feel. ...
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Reset gnome font configuration?
How do I reset the font settings - actual font and size - to their default?
(I changed some values in System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts)
This is particularly important with the new Ubuntu font ...
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How to log out without having to confirm?
Whenever I log out from a Gnome session (by clicking on the "power" button in the top panel and choosing "Log out...", I have to answer the "Are you sure..." question. How can I configure my system ...
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How can I disable Ctrl+Q for all applications (system wide)?
A lot of applications like Firefox, Chrome etc, get closed when I accidentally press Ctrl+Q instead of Ctrl+W because of the proximity of the Q and W keys on the keyboard. Is there a way this shortcut ...
