GNOME is the name for a collection of software that provides the desktop environment used by Ubuntu (but not Kubuntu or Xubuntu). This is a very general tag that should only be used for questions referring to GNOME in general, and not a specific component.
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Gnome Terminator doesn't load the customized configuration on start
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 + Unity with Gnome-Terminator as replacement for the default terminal and I have created a profile with a specific layout. When I restart terminator it doesn't look load my new ...
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Black background in Gnome control center
I must have messed up something, because all of the subwindows in Gnome control center have black backgrounds. It makes them quite hard to read. I use Ubuntu 13.04 with Gnome Shell 3.8. Changing ...
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Why is packagekit starting up throughout the day
Why is packagekit starting up throughout the day? There is no
indication in the messages which component is sending the message to
start packagekit, just a dbus message indicating that the service
was ...
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Cinnamon reverted to gnome
After Installing 12.04 and installing Cinnamon and using it for a while, I logged out and then back in to find that it was just loading into gnome 3.4.2.1. I have tried removing it and purging it and ...
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Unity/GNOME/GTK3 & Other Desktop Issues
Well, it's been about a week, and i'm quite frustrated. I just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my desktop, and i've run into more than a few problems along the way.
First, it began with having ...
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Keyboard layout indicator in gnome
It has been discussed several times. This question is just to get the latest answer from the experts.
Is it still impossible to get a keyboard layout indicator in the top panel in gnome shell?
My ...
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I can't watch some Videos in fullscreen with Gnome 3
When I try to watch Videos in Fullscreen with my Webbrowser, it doesn't matter wether Firefox or Chrome, only at some video sites the whole panel disappears, sometimes the panel does not disappear, ...
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How can I get the network manager indicator?
I've tried the suggestions in Network manager indicator missing (and rebooted), but I still don't have a Network Manager indicator.
How can I diagnose the problem?
For what it's worth, I'm using ...
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“Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so” error even though not using Mplayer
I keep getting the following error message on my terminal:
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I understand this has something ...
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Gnome 3 Favourite bar missing
I am using ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 3.From last few days I have noticed a change in my gnome is clicking on activities button doesn't shoes favourite bar/dash (screenshot attached). I have tried a lot ...
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How to persistently maintain cloned mac address on Network Manager
I'm on Gnome 3, and it seems like I'm able to add cloned mac address to my network interfaces from the GUI wizard of Network Manager. But the catch is, every time I reboot my computer the cloned mac ...
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Enable transparency in GNOME Activities Overview
Instead of having a tranparent background like this:
...my GNOME Activities Overview is having a solid black background. How can I get the transparency?
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How to print multiple files the easy way?
Let's have a few files.. . I'd like to send them to default printer the easy way, I mean without CLI?
It's very common action under windows but I don't see solution for that in Linux.
I've found:
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Missing Top/Bottom Panel in Gnome on Ubuntu 12.04
I am using Ubuntu 12.03 and the system recently installed some updates. Then I logged back in, the top and bottom panels (System, Time, etc) were missing from gnome. I thought it might be an issue ...
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System switch to Chinese [duplicate]
I've just installed Ubuntu in a Vmware 5 virtual machine (OSX host, so Fusion). The system was working fine with gnome as the GUI; however, the interface randomly began to switch to Chinese in bits ...
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Cant open gnome-control-center?
When i click on system settings in the dash nothing happens. When i run the command gnome-control-center i get the following output.
gnome-control-center: error while loading shared libraries: ...
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Which has the most updated Gnome-Shell: Gnome Remix 12.10 or Ubuntu Gnome 13.04?
I am thinking about replacing regular Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop with 13.04 Gnome - or Gnome Remix 12.10, given that the latter oddly has a longer life cycle as of now. Which of the two comes with the ...
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black screen during shutdown
Good morning.
I'm testing the 13.04 64bit with Gnome-shell 3.6.3.1.
It happens randomly after choosing shutdown of the machine, I receive a black screen "stuck" (no splash screen, no messages). ...
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text launcher in gnome classic
How do I create a text based launcher in gnome classic? I want to be able to keyboard shortcut and have a list of apps come up as I type just like gnome 3, unity and windows 7 has.
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Gnome broken splash screen
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 today with gnome(First Ubuntu 13.04, then apt-get install gnome-shell). After this my boot screen is broken, you can see this here:
This happened at Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu ...
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keep gnome fallback, drop everything else
I've been on 13.04 since alpha and have gotten really used to gnome fallback with compiz again (it wasn't as well evolved when I switched to Gnome shell in the first place). I have set this up the way ...
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Gnome 3 and discrete only nvidia
Long ago I've installed Gnome 3 over Ubuntu 12.10
Currently I'm working on a scientific project, that requires lot of graphical work. I'd like notebook to run nvidia GPU only. So I disabled nvidia ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 unresponsive after sleep
I am running ubuntu 12.04 with gnome classic. When I leave my computer for a few minutes the screen goes dark and after I wake it up all I get is black screen and mouse. That happens every time and I ...
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USB HDD not visible in nautilus/nemo
The HDD is visible in the 'disks' utility. I can mount the one and only partition on that drive using mount. gvfs-mount Recognizes the disk:
$ gvfs-mount --list
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Drive(2): 750 GB Hard Disk
Type: ...
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How to disable popup volume bar?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity.
Is there a way to make the volume bar pop ONLY when I click on the sound icon and NOT when I use a hot key?
My problem is that when I'm running a fullscreen ...
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Ubuntu consistenly restarts at gui interaction
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Gnome. I recently swapped out my AMD gfx card for an Nvidia card and then back again. In the process i have ended up here - a rebooting system.
I have thus far used ...
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How can I kill/close an 'orphaned' window?
I've been running some Python scripts to graph some stuff and occasionally I'll lose track of what windows it spawned and just kill it with ^Z. However, unlike in Windows, the associated windows ...
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How to shut down the system while using GNOME desktop environment in Ubuntu 11.10
I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and I have GNOME and KDE desktop environments installed on it. While I am using Unity, I am able to see the shutdown option and able to shutdown the system by clicking that ...
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How to use Gnome3 window switcher in Unity?
Is there any way to use the default window switcher Alt+Tab from Gnome3 inside Unity? (or a suitable alternative?)
I find the Unity one a bit hard to see which app is selected as they've all been ...
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Does Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 Contain Gnome Classic Session?
If I understand right, Ubuntu-GNOME will be using GNOME 3. I was wondering if it also included Gnome Classic as well, or if I would have to go download it?
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Cannot run any pkexec-based applications in Gnome 3 (synaptic, gparted, …) [closed]
I'm using a fresh install of 13.04 Ubuntu Gnome with gnome shell 3.6 and I have a peculiar problem with programs that need pkexec to run, like gparted or synaptic. When I try to run them via the menu ...
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How to install Gnome 3.4 (not 3.6) in Ubuntu 12.10?
Whenever I install Gnome from software center I get Gnome version 3.6 but I want to install gnome 3.4 as all my extensions and themes work on it. How to do it? Would I get Gnome 3.4 if I install from ...
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How to export saved FTP password from GNOME Commander?
I am migrating to another computer. And I need saved FTP passwords from Gnome Commander which I was using for the connection. Where should I search for these password?
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Uninstall empathy without affecting dependencies
I am trying to uninstall empathy from my Ubuntu 12.10. So I issued the following command
sudo apt-get purge empathy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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Gnome 3 not showing up, just looks like original gnome, plus 1 panel is not working. NOT Gnome Classic
I've opened a random application to show that it's not showing up on the bottom panel.
Yes, I have tried WIN+ALT, right click and add to panel, Windows List (and also windows switcher) but neither ...
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Ubuntu 12.04LTS cannot change Date&time and Wallpaper and screen timeout in System Settings
Problem:
Cannot change Date&time settings, there is no response toggling "Weekday", "Date and month" and "12-hour" or "24-hour".
Cannot change Wallpaper.
Cannot change "Turn screen off when ...
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Installing Gnome 3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04
Gnome 3.8 is released and I wanted to have it on my system running Ubuntu 12.04. I came across this:
Gnome 3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04.2 lts
In the answers, it is mentioned that Gnome 3.8 is not available in ...
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Install gnome desktop in kubuntu
I am trying to install gnome desktop from kubuntu. So I did this : sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop It ran well but now I am getting this error:
sudeep@sudeep:~$ sudo apt-get install ...
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Applications close unexpectedly after updating to Gnome 3.8
I am currently using Ubuntu 12.10 installed on an Acer machine.
Today I updated gnome to gnome 3.8(actually it shows gnome 3.7.90).
Now the problem is it that some of my application are getting ...
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Uninstall apps installed with GNOME3
I have installed GNOME 3 desktop environment in Ubuntu 12.04 and want to free some space by removing apps I don't need. When I try to do so via Software Center, I get a warning that the Gnome Desktop ...
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kerberous under gnome 3
I am running the gnome spin of ubuntu 12.10 and exchange support works great. Ive noticed there is enterprise logon support but cannot get it to connect to my sbs 2011 domain.
Set the hostname in ...
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Gnome 3 uninstall failed?
Oke now i really messed up my system. I have tried to uninstall gnome 3.
I have followed this guide.
But now my system do not anything at all. When I boot it stops when it needs to load the GUI. I ...
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failed to install gnome3 ubuntu 12.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-session
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
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Unity panel gnome 3
I'm looking for solution how to change the unity panel (the panel on the top of the screen) to look more like in gnome 3. And I do not mean only transparency or font.
I was able to ad transparency, so ...
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Outlook.com and Google Apps email notifier for gnome-shell?
So, pretty basic question,
I use outlook.com for some work email, I use multiple Google Apps emails for different things.
I don't use an email client, I just use the different webmail interfaces,
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xrandr is detecting the wrong minimum / maximum resolutions?
xrandr output
$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 1200
default connected 1920x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm
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secondary HDD problems with gnome
I have two HDDs running in my computer,however when I logon using GNOME,the drives do not appear unless I logout,log back in using the default ubuntu shell,open the drives,then logout and back in with ...
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Replace title bar with a full window border
I'm wondering if it's possible to remove the titlebar of every window and instead add a coloured border a few pixels thick around the whole window and stil keep the ability to move the window around.
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My Ubuntu runs both Unity and GNOME Shell at the same time
Unity and GNOME 3 at same time
My Ubuntu seems to run Unity and GNOME 3 at exactly the same time. Sure, I like it, but is there a way to remove Unity launcher?
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problem in installing GNOME Network Manger in Ubuntu 12.10 version [closed]
problem in installing gnome network manger in Ubuntu 12.10 version
karunakar@karunakar-VPCEB14EN:~$ ls
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Music
network-manager-gnome_0.9.6.2-0ubuntu6_i386.deb
Pictures
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