Questions tagged [gnome]
This is a very general tag that should only be used for questions referring to GNOME in general and not a specific component. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a collection of GTK-based software that provides the desktop environment GNOME Shell.
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Keyboard layout shortcut interferes with Firefox shortcut [duplicate]
I am multi-lingual, and I use several keyboard language layouts.
I am used to using Ctrl+Shift in Windows to changue input language, so I want the same for my Linux. Default Alt+Spacebar is very ...
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Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 shutdown from GUI doesn't work
When I use the right menu from title bar and click shutdown, nothing happens. When I type in terminal
sudo shutdown now
It works immediately. Last change I made was to add a wake on lan service:
sudo ...
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Cannot add google account
Cannot add google account to my new Ubuntu installation in settings, says unacceptable TLS certificate. Please help what to do?
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Can't use CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+RIGHT (LEFT) [duplicate]
Got Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for development needs, but In Jetbrains Rider i am not able to use CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+[RIGHT|LEFT] shortcut for code rearranging. Tried to find the shortcut in settings -> ...
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KDE Apps on Ubuntu 20.04 - Right Click Issue
I use Gnome desktop and depend on several KDE apps for my daily workflows. I have noticed that since migrating to a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04, all KDE apps have an issue with the mouse right click ...
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Stop power-off during lockscreen
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 x86-64.
When I go to bed, I want to lock the screen and have backups run in the middle of the night.
However, when I get to the computer in the morning, it has powered off/...
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Broken login screen theme
I was trying to change the background color of the login screen for the gnome desktop manager on Ubuntu 20 but i've made a mistake and now have a error on the login screen with the message 'Oh no! ...
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"Open With Other Application" on Desktop not working as expected [duplicate]
The current Ubuntu 20.04 behavior for "Open With Other Application" seems to work differently on the Desktop compared to Files/Nautilus.
Example: I configured VS Code IDE to be the default ...
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What property does gnome use to group application windows?
I want to run two instances of a terminal emulator (urxvt) and have them appear as separate applications. I have two .desktop files and thus two entries in the launcher but when I launch the second ...
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upowerd: "energy_full is greater than energy_full_design" - causes laptop to suspend prematurely (Lenovo Thinkpad T440P)
I am running Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS x86_64 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T440p. The laptop only runs for about 20 minutes on battery power. In the process of troubleshooting this issue, I have installed tlp and ...
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Keep Gnome system menu open always
Is there a way I can keep open the top right corner "System Menu" options?
Example: In the picture below I opened Power-off/Logout menu, can it be remained open always so that I can save a ...
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Caribou opens even with the setting disabled
I'm using a Dell Latitude E7470 running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa and GNOME version 3.36.2.
My problem is that the on-screen keyboard opens up even if the setting is disabled. Pretty much the same ...
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Icons in Gnome top bar misplaced and overlapping with applications [duplicate]
this week I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and connected it to my external 27" screen (EIZO 27" with 3840x2160px).
In order to enable video acceleration in Firefox via VA-API I switched ...
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Accidentally installed Gnome GUI on Ubuntu Server; how do I get rid of it?
I'm not sure which package I installed that also installed Gnome GUI. I did deluge (not just deluge-console) by accident, so maybe that was it. Or it could be gcp maybe?
Either way, now that I boot up ...
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Flickering and sudden resolution changes on 20.04 and old Radeon HD 6570 card
Initially, Ubuntu started with far lower resolution than my monitor. I've tried xrandr --newmode command*, it temporarily helps to get back to my original 1600X900 resolution. But now screen sometimes ...
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UI freeze when switching windows' focus on Ubuntu (20.04) with Gnome
When I boot it works correctly. After a day or so of usage this problem appears: when switching focus of a window (either from one window to another or from window to desktop or vice versa) windows ...
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Programs scroll by themselves, and in terminal certain text appears by itself ~~~~~
I recently upgrade GNOME and certain things started happening:
In any window that can scroll, after a certain amount of time scrolling down happens by itself, even if I try to scroll up again it will ...
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Can no longer lock my screen on Ubuntu 20.04 with vanilla GNOME, how to debug?
Background: I am using vanilla-gnome-desktop on a Ubuntu 20.04 which was installed from scratch. What was not done from scratch was the user profile. It got ported from another machine.
Now for some ...
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Redirect output of systemd service to Ubuntu Boot Screen (20.04)
I have a systemd service that performs sync between local disk and Cloud Storage during shutdown. Something like this:
[Unit]
Description=Syncing with MEGA cloud storage v56
After=network-online....
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Problem with Dark theme on GNOME, after uninstall Plasma KDE on Ubuntu 20.04
I've installed Plasma KDE on Ubuntu 20.04 and after i uninstall it with this command (which i found here):
sudo apt --purge autoremove plasma-desktop-data plasma-workspace kded5 libkf5plasma5 ...
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how can I adjust gnome shell top bar icon alignment on ubuntu 20.04
I've just install Ubuntu 20.04.
I added many gnome-shell extensions, but the top bar's icon alignment is weired.
Some icons overlap other icons.
How can I adjust icons' alignment??
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How to use AppEditor to add app to app drawer?
Ubuntu 20.04 on Hyper-V VM
I have installed AppEditor as I am trying to add a file as an app but I can't get it to work. I have directed it to the file I want to add as an app but it won't launch ...
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Not Able To View HTML Using GNOME Yelp
In the GNOME Yelp docs, it says that Yelp supports viewing HTML. But when I run yelp file:///home/myusername/Desktop/test.html, it displays "The URL can't be shown."
How can I resolve it? Actually I ...
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Software center doesn't have any proper icons and outputs a lot of errors when going into the update section
I'm a complete newbie that installed Ubuntu a couple of days ago and ran into some issues.
The software center looks like this:
And when I enter the updates section, the following errors are ...
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What is happening when I type ctrl+shift+e, then type and underlined text appears? [duplicate]
In Ubuntu 20.04, if I type ctrl+shift+e, then start typing in any app (terminal, browser, whatever), underlined text appears. It could even be in gedit. There are no spaces in what appears, and if I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Lenovo ThinkPad L390 fingerprint driver problem
My configuration is:
Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad L390
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit GNOME (3.36.2)
Kernel: version 5.4.0.-33-generic
I can't seem to find a fingerprint setting even though the laptop has ...
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GNOME propagate key event after handling them [duplicate]
I run Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME 3.36.2.
I have set switching keyboard layout to Shift+Left Alt:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-input-source "['<Shift>Alt_L']"
However, ...
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Problems with GNOME, Dbus or Polkit in Ubuntu 20.04LTS
Bug description:
After upgraded my Ubuntu from 19.10 version to 20.04LTS, I cannot install, update or remove any software inside "Ubuntu
Software". I also realized that my credential window doesn'...
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How to change nautilus title bar background color?
I want the titlebar background color of Nautilus (when active window) to be significantly different from the title bars of background windows. By default, the background color is too similar to ...
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Empty workspace doesn't go away
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 without any desktop tweaks or add-ons. Somehow I hit a wrong hotkey and I'm stuck with a second, empty workspace and a bar on the right. How do I get rid of it?
EDIT
I have ...
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Customize desktop icon grid location and dimensions on Ubuntu 20.04?
i'm gonna preface this by saying that i'm a new linux user, i joined circa 2 months ago, as such, i don't know too much about linux and its distros, but i've already got some tools like dconf and ...
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Missing spotify album image from top bar pop up menu
I'm not seeing the album image in the top bar's pop out menu (I'm unsure what the actual name of this is...).
I recall it was there previously but can't remember when it disappeared.
Missing ablum ...
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new windows position on dual monitor setup ubuntu 20.04
is there any shell-extension or something that can force new windows to open on the monitor where the mouse pointer is in a dual monitor setup? even if it is a new instance of an open app like a new ...
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How can I get snap icons to use my icon theme and not change back after updates?
Snap .desktop files are stored in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications. The icons used there have a hard coded path. I can change the path to just the application name so that it uses my gnome icon ...
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VNC on Ubuntu 20.04 without monitor
since couple of days I am trying to set VNC Connection with my "server" Ubuntu desktop 20.04. I want to use it as remote workstation and I want to use gnome3 environment, VNC Connect or NoMachine (for ...
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Gnome and Xfce at the same time?
I thought that I had changed my Ubuntu to a Xubuntu by switching to xfce desktop (Ubuntu 20.04). Though, when I enter gnome-shell --version in the terminal, I get GNOME Shell 3.36.1.
When I enter ...
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night light per monitor
I just installed ubuntu 20.04 and I'm loving night light.
But I'm in a dual-monitor setup, and sometimes I'm watching a movie in a screen and browsing the web in the second screen. Yes, it's kind of ...
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How can I automate tts?
Right now I have a keybinding that uses the xsel program to grab the contents of selected text and pass it to the festival text to speech engine:
#!/bin/bash
xsel |festival --tts --pipe
I want ...
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Play music automatically after start pomodoro gnome task
I have installed gnome pomodoro plugin, so it have action capability by every task like this:
So I like to play music from one saved playlist with random selection shuffle during pomodoro time. And i ...
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"Downloads" folder shortcut on the left pane of nautilus disappeared; how do I get it back? [duplicate]
"Downloads" folder shortcut disappeared
The Downloads folder shortcut on the left pane of nautilus has disappeared. How do I get it back?
Today, I opened the terminator and removed the "Downloads" ...
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Assign an icon to a custom mimetype
I tried to create a custom mimetype (text/graphml+xml) by creating the file ~/.local/share/mime/packages/graphml+xml-mime.xml with this content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-...
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Problem with minimize action in gnome
I am fond of Ubuntu Unity version and this is the first time when I am using gnome with the Ubuntu, and I found that minimize action is disabled by default so I enabled it by using gsettings set org....
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How do I only dump dconf settings I've customized? [duplicate]
Is there any way with dconf to export a file with only the customizations I've made?
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Parts of desktop glitching on Gnome 3.28.4, Ubuntu 18.04
Recently upgraded from 14.04 to 18.04 (via 16.04) on Lenovo G580 laptop core i5 3rd gen integrated graphics.
The problem is that only the Gnome part (as i understand it) is glitching. I can scroll ...
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How do I get rid of the ugly selection boxes around the desktop icons in ubuntu 20.04? [duplicate]
It used to be so that the icon shape itself was the selection area in 18.04 and you also had the option of not snapping the icons to grid, all of that seems to be gone now in 20.04. Could someone ...
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After installing ubuntu-gnome-desktop i can't remote destop to vps
I install ubuntu-gnome-desktop on my Ubuntu16.4 using putty and after installation completed , i can't remote to VPS using remote desktop.
I try this command to install
sudo apt-get update
sudo ...
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Upgraded Ubuntu 19.10 -> 20.04 and my search bar is now BROKEN can't find apps etc
I just upgraded from 19.10 to 20.04 and now everything has disappeared when I click the dash search. This makes it impossible to get to software etc...
I tried all the usual
sudo apt-get update, ...
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Cannot log on as other user with Bionic and (vanilla) GNOME without first logging off
NB: This is not the same issue as in this question (Unable to switch users at lock screen. Unity, Ubuntu 18.04)! In my case lightdm isn't even installed and so reinstalling it is not an option.
I am ...
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Too long to wake up screen
I am using xorg + gnome3 + gdm3 on 20.04 (I think).
After entering the password on the login screen it takes too long (>1 min sometimes) to log in and show anything useful. When the screen goes blank ...
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Can not open terminal in a normal way on Ubuntu 20.04
I have updated my computer from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. During the update, may be I accidentally deleted some file when some pop-up appeared.
I accepted this ubuntu ask to replace config file. And ...
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