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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How do I set up Awesome with MATE?

A tutorial called Quickly Setting up Awesome with Gnome describes the process of setting up Awesome window manager in such a way as to retain some features and advantages of GNOME. I figured MATE ...
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ubuntu gnome 17.04 boot failure in VirtualBox after installing guest additions

My VirtualBox Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 installation is suddenly not booting anymore. A screenshot of what I get at boot is attached, it just stays like this. The only thing that I did the last time before ...
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How to use gnome-keyring for `ssh-askpass`?

Is there a way to use gnome-keyring as an ssh-askpass app that is needed by git. The git server can be accessed only by providing a passphrase (doesn't accept ssh keys).
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Ubuntu 18.04.02, default (Gnome) spin, live session: am I right in thinking one can't change theme, fonts?

I'm trying out the default (Gnome) spin of Ubuntu and I'm liking it a lot so far, except that it seems I can't change the theme or the fonts. Now, Gnome lockdown hasn't gone so far that I will not be ...
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gvfs mounts do not show up in ~/.gvfs

We installed the ubuntu-desktop on an ubuntu server installation and added gvfs-fuse and gvfs-backends. I can now mount a smb share using gio mount or from nautilus. The mount works, but it is only ...
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Enable fractional scaling for display in ubuntu 19.04

I understand 19.04 enables experimental fractional scaling from a couple of resources https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/ubuntu-19-04-release-features https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-...
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Remap Super/Windows Start Button on Keyboard? [duplicate]

Is it possible to remap the Super (Windows Start) button to open All Applications instead of the Activities Overview? I installed Tweaks to do a few other things but haven't seen anything about ...
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fix GUI after Disco Dingo upgrade

After an upgrade of my system from 18.10 to 19.04, I find myself unable to use Ubuntu GUI anymore. On boot, the login screen appear, but it's very unresponsive (like a slide show), and when I try to ...
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Running Firefox from multiple users in parallel

I have Ubuntu 19.04. Logging in with gdm, running Gnome and need to run multiple instances of Firefox, having each instance running under a different user account (basically start Firefox using sudo ...
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Is There any application or extension that enables the mouse cursor follow the focused window in ubuntu 18.04?

There are many question and answer I found on the internet that asks for focus following the mouse cursor. But I am looking for the opposite. Recently I have learned touch typing and I fell in love ...
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Calendar constantly requiring Google authentication on 17.10

I recently upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10. The GNOME Calendar application displays a popup requesting my password for my linked Google account. It does so whenever launched explicitly, and at times ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 constantly crashing

My laptop is an Acer Predator Helios 300, Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ, 16GiB RAM, NVIDIA GTX1060 6GB (nvidia-driver-410) running Ubuntu 18.10. Ubuntu is very frequently crashing (something between every ...
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System Settings stopped working 19.04

Out of nowhere, system settings stopped working. Already tried: $ sudo apt remove gnome-control-center $ sudo apt autoremove $ sudo apt install gnome-control-center What I was doing before that: ...
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Removing probably everything from Unity/Gnome in Ubuntu [closed]

I want to modify my Ubuntu into a most minimalistic environment that I can, for making it suitable for industrial usage.I need to stay on Ubuntu also. So I want to remove everything like launcher, ...
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Microsoft exchange connection problem

Trying to connect to my exchange account with Gnome online accounts. and getting this error "Cannot find WebDVA end point":
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Desktop crash following 18.10 to 19.04 upgrade

Following upgrade from 18.10 to 19.04 I find the desktop is unusable. Following login I note the following: No items show up in the Dash-to-Dock dock on the left side except for the square with nine ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 in VM: Desktop does not restore window size

I run Ubuntu as Guest OS in a Windows VirtualBox VM Host. In the existing, up-to-date VB, I have just moved from 17.04 to 18.04 by creating a new VM/.vdi from scratch (including Guest Additions). ...
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Top bar too small, chrome and firefox render mismatch

I consider myself a n00b in Linux and have recently moved to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. I have integrated Intel graphics on my machine. My Ubuntu top-bar and its fonts are extremely small when compared to ...
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Installing Gnome Software center for Ubuntu 18.04 on Chromebook

So I have a Samsung chromebook. I put Ubuntu on it using the crouton and it installed ubuntu 16.04 with xfce. I was able to update the system to 18.04 and have confirmed that it is actually running ...
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Gnome shell can't save screen resolution

Today I decided to try Gnome shell 3.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 and I noticed that after every restart my screen resolution is set to maximum which is not desirable. In Unity I don't have such problems. Also ...
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How to close all running applications at once (not background processes)?

How to close all running applications at once? Is there a solution with a graphical user interface? Is there any addon? Please suggest one for both GNOME and KDE Plasma. In windows 10: ...
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Gnome suddenly switching from hardware GPU to llvmpipe

After I shut down my computer last night and booted it up this morning I come to find that the graphics device that Gnome chose to use llvmpipe for its graphics rather than my physical GPU. As a ...
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Running a long command, split into multiple lines, in a .desktop file?

Say we have this file, start-term-tabs.sh: gnome-terminal \ --tab --title="Term 1" \ --working-directory=/tmp \ -e "bash -i" \ --tab-with-profile=Default --title="Term 2" \ --working-...
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GNOME - Rebind Super key to custom keybinding

I've removed the default GNOME keybinding to the Super key and I tried to rebind it using gsettings to its own key: matt@hydrogen:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys custom-...
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Some Ubuntu core Apps don’t start at random times until I reboot my system

I used to have a good old DELL Latitude E6510 with a HDD running Windows 7. I replaced it with Kubuntu 19.04 but realized that I preferred GNOME more, so I installed it with: sudo add-apt-repository ...
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Is there a way to detect which workspace you are currently in from the command line?

I'm trying to figure out how to get the workspace number from a terminal script in gnome. Any ideas?
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Ubuntu has trouble with this particular HDMI projector. Fedora is fine. Eh?

I posted this on the forums but didn't get any hits, figured I'd try here. Anyway, I'm trying (and so far, failing) to find a solution to an issue I'm having. Some context, we have an assortment of ...
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Hide FIles in Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I hide directories without changing their names? I would like to ask, if it's possible to hide files from nautilus without adding a dot at the beginning of the file/...
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Application issues only on my user after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04

Finally did upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04. After logging back in I've run into multiple issues. I believe the issue is in my "gnome user profile". Everything seems to work when logged in as different ...
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Openning NetworkManager's edit connections window from terminal

I need to open NetworkManager's edit connections window from terminal (for ssh -X ). What is the command that opens it?
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Get rid of unity desktop on Ubuntu 18.04

I've installed Ubuntu 18.04, and everything worked excellent until I decided to try Unity desktop. Bottom line - I've uninstalled unity desktop completely. But! I have some stuff that didn't recover ...
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How to change the background of the default Ubuntu splash screen in 19.04? [duplicate]

The default Ubuntu Logo plymouth theme has the description "A theme that features a blank background with a logo." Instead of that "blank background" I want to have my own customised image as the ...
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High CPU temperatures on Ubuntu 19.04 despite low usage

After years of not using Ubuntu, I finally decided to reinstall it after my copy of Windows went haywire following an update and I decided I'd had enough. However, as soon as I installed Ubuntu I ...
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Custom sound theme for Ubuntu 19.04

I am using Ubuntu 19.04 with the default GNOME desktop. The Yaru theme is too quiet and I am trying to add some sound files to a new folder I created: /usr/share/sounds/MyTheme. The problem is, I am ...
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Texmaker not displaying the menu bar with Ubuntu 14.04 and Gnome 3

I installed Texmaker 4.2 (Qt5) on my Ubuntu 14.04 (Gnome 3). The installation went smooth but I don't have a menu bar and therefore I can not configure the Texmaker. My program looks like this ...
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Can I expect Gnome 3.32 in the next point release of Ubuntu 18.04? [duplicate]

I was looking for a PPA of Gnome 3.32 for Ubuntu 18.04.2 . But I couldn't find one . Currently Ubuntu 19.04 has Gnome 3.32 . Then Will Ubuntu 18.04.3 include Gnome 3.32 ?
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Bash one-liner to display ALL `gsettings` in GUI dialog window

Recently I've been encountering many questions in Ask Ubuntu that require changing gsettings to solve the problem. For example this question: How to prevent shutdown when one of two batteries is empty?...
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How do I get Chrome to un-minimized when activating an existing or opening a new tab?

I have 18.04 installed with default Gnome desktop. When Chrome is minimized and I click on a link in terminal or via my IDE, Chrome opens a new tab for the link but stays minimized. When this first ...
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Ubuntu 19.04: Some .desktop shortcuts don't work anymore

I just updated to Ubuntu 19.04 and now some of my .desktop shortcuts don't work anymore. For example, this: #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Icon[...
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New window placement behavior different on 19.04

Before upgrading from 18.10, whenever I would open a new window, it would open exactly to the top left, flush with the screen edge, like so: This was preferable because it made the most of my screen ...
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Switch from mirrored to extended displays

I have multiple monitors and I was using extended display, so I can drag windows from one monitor to the next. I accidentally pressed some keyboard shortcut and now I have mirrored displays. I want ...
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Login into desktop via SSH

I have a server running Ubuntu 18.04 which I use with an monitor to display stuff. I don't have a mouse/keyboard connected, only connection per SSH. When the server starts (it runs gnome desktop) I ...
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Natively install Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity

Questions: Is there an Ubuntu 18.04 which is bundled with Unity instead of Gnome3? Description: I liked the Gnome look and feel for a desktop computer with a large screen but for a laptop I ...
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KDE and gnome canvas

Is gnome canvas supported by KDE ? Etherape Crashes when opened within KDE and complains that gnome canvas isnt supported. If this is true is there a way of importing "gnome canvas". Or are there any ...
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Applications do not focus as expected or at all but only the mouse input focus is wrong

I have recently been trying to get a working Linux install on my main PC. My PC runs on a GTX 1060. I've been having this issue where my mouse won't click properly in what looks to be a properly ...
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A couple of minor issues after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04

Hey guys so I just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and I'm having a couple of issues that I can't find an answer for: 1)Dropbox Icon is very large in the gnome menu, very annoying. 2)Variety will remove ...
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Resolution changes after startup/login

I have been trying to use Gnome 3.8 / 3.10 / 3.12 since Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 and no matter what I do it changes the screen resolution to 720p, instead of 1080p, so I have to manually set 1080p every ...
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How do I get back to normal log in after hibernating in Ubuntu 18.04?

After using the command sudo systemctl hibernate to hibernate my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04, the login screen changes design and some applications I installed went missing. I restarted the computer ...
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Keybinding to launch another terminal rather than gnome-shell

The 'gnome-shell-terminal` is bonded with 'Ctrl + Alt + T" I work on alacritty substitute for gnome-shell-terminal daily. How could config the key-binding to alacritty?
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After upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04, I cannot run terminal and many apps don't load

Having run 16.04 happily, I thought I would try an upgrade to 18.04. This went fairly smoothly. However, now I notice many issues, which are stopping the system working well. One main one is that when ...

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