Questions tagged [gui]
GUI stands for Graphical User Interface. An Ubuntu Desktop system includes a desktop environment (such as Unity), display manager, and many graphical applications, providing a GUI for many components of the operating system. A GUI is in contrast to a command line interface (CLI)
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What rule arranges the selection grid for multiple windows of the same program?
When I have multiple windows of the same program running (e.g. multiple documents in the same editor, or multiple terminal windows), and I click on the program's sidebar icon, and it shows a grid of ...
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winpdb GUI not running
I installed winpdb ( a python debugger ) . When I tried to run it's GUI version it showed this error
wxPython was not found.
wxPython 2.6 or higher is required to run the winpdb GUI.
wxPython is the ...
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Sharp and Crisp GUI in Ubuntu? [closed]
I have recently installed Ubuntu with the hopes of doing software development in a Linux environment.
However, coming from a Windows 7 environment, I can't help but notice how the default Ubuntu GUI (...
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Is it possible to set Totem as frontend for Xine?
The Wikipedia article for Totem player says that "until version 2.27.1, it could alternatively be configured to use the Xine libraries instead of GStreamer".
I like Xine very much, but not its ...
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No Unity/compiz after boot - GTK problem?
ASUS Zenbook Prime, Ubuntu 12.10 using double boot with Windows 7.
While working in Ubuntu, suddenly file icons didn't display properly anymore (all icons where the same white page) and desktop ...
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Make GNOME 3 favorites launch a new window with left mouse button
Left-clicking the icon of a running application on the GNOME 3 favorites panel switches focus to a running instance of that program. Right-clicking brings up a menu with a "New Window" option. Is ...
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GUI is not displayed anymore
I am running 12.04 LTS on a VM. I encountered a problem with the screen being black and the familiar orange background showing for a fraction of a second when clicking or resizing the screen. I had to ...
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Can i reasonably link in C code to an application managed with quickly?
I'm looking around for a way to program some gui apps in ubuntu 12.04.
I ran across the quickly tutorial and the tool looks fantastic.
It looks like the primary language you develop with is python, ...
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Installation of graphical desktop changes kernel?
I've a Ubuntu Server 11.10 amd64 installation that needed a graphical desktop to execute some visual apps.
While searching for the correct way to achieve this, I noticed that there are a lot of ...
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How can I change the window shadow size for windows in the GNOME shell?
How can I change the window shadow size for windows in the gnome shell?
I'm trying the shell out and I like it so far. I know it uses mutter rather than compiz so there's no ccsm that I'm used to.
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Is there a way to get an indication after I double click a desktop icon?
I'm setting up edubuntu for my son's kindergarten, and I put shortcuts on the desktop for some of the applications. The problem is that when you double click an icon, you get no visual hint that ...
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How to - View sound percentage?
Is there a way to make Ubuntu show me the current main volume level in the form of a percent? Like Windows 7 does when you change the sound level.
I'm just sorta a number freak, and I like to know ...
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No GUI boot; startx error, I suspect no filesystem corruption
Till yesterday, my Ubuntu 9.10 was working fine. I had watched a movie using vlc. I had also charged my ipod using the laptop.
Today, when I started it, I automatically booted into command line. ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS fails after an update
I enjoyed Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, 64-bit desktop, kernel release 5.19.0-50-generic. It worked for a good long while, with zero issues on Dell Vostro 3020 SFF.
Today, the OS suggested that I have a ...
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GUI doesn't show up after a failed upgrade
I got a prompt to update my Ubuntu version from 20.04 to 22.04. I chose to upgrade, but the upgrade failed for some unknown reasons (most probably it couldn't update my NVidia drivers). I was seeing ...
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Some application GUIs do not render correctly since updating to 22.04
I use Ubuntu on VirtualBox but I haven't used it for some time. I launched it today and upgraded the release to 22.04, however since the update I have noticed some of my apps GUI do not render ...
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After upgrading to 22.04LTS, GUI no longer works on chrome, totem.Nomacs "unable to create a GL context"
I was running 20.04LTS - I had started getting dependency errors, but upgrade to 22.04 which appeared to load (there were 2 or 3 warnings) did not work.
When I start various apps (chrome, VLC, nomacs) ...
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Can I disable the "release to select" of my context menus in favor of "click to select"?
In every program I've tested this in (VSCode, Firefox, Thunderbird, and Nemo) on Ubuntu 22.04, if you right-click to bring up the context menu and continue holding the right-click, then move the ...
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Problem with GUI apps: Cannot open display [Docker Desktop, Ubuntu Host, Ubuntu based image]
I'm having problem with opening any GUI application in a running container. In short, I always get similar "cannot open display" errors from different applications.
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Host : Ubuntu 22....
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Does Ubuntu OpenVPN client supports static-challenge?
I have a functional OpenVPN MFA Linux server setup that authenticates user with username/password and TOTP value from tools like Google Authenticator or similar.
Client configuration relevant part ...
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Is there a GUI-based MIME-type editor?
I remember seeing on some other distro this file type editor. What it had was a table, containing MIME types, their associated names (e.g. text/plain would show as "plain text document"), ...
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GUI no longer launching after (aborted) upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04
I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04, but at some point during the upgrade everything (except the mouse) stopped working and I did a hard reboot. Since then, I am no longer able to start ...
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Themes websites do not sync with system theme
Themed websites like Youtube, Gmail, Github, Reddit, even Google Chrome settings have a theme, and one option is to match to system theme. I currently have Ubuntu 22.04 (Gnome 42) set to Dark Theme, ...
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UI For My Ubuntu Machine
I'm running an Ubuntu server with Digital Ocean. I want full UI access, like a personal computer, however this is hard. I have a VNC server running. When I connect, the only way I can open windows, is ...
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Ubuntu GUI Software Center (Snap store) very slow when searching
My Ubuntu Software center (Snap Store) is very slow when searching software, even when the software is not available. I using it logged in and tried several mirrors (local, USA, Europe) and the ...
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How to open password change dialog from gnome-control-center from the terminal?
I can open the User sections by running gnome-control-center but I need to access directly the password dialog box. Is there a way to directly open it?
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Configure GUI and VNC on Ubuntu 20.04, Server for Oracle Cloud Instance
I am newbie for servers. I want to to configure GUI and VNC server on ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I am having free instance on Oracle Cloud.
I had tried from several links which is for lower version of ubuntu ...
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Terminal, Nautilus, FF and some other applications have a very narrow scrollbar. How can I expand it?
Terminal, Nautilus, FF and some other applications have a very narrow scrollbar. It is difficult to catch on with the mouse. How can I expand it? I have ubuntu on 20.04.
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Xastir interface text not appearing
I've just installed Xastir on an Ubuntu Groovy box. When trying to use it, important parts of the interface text don't appear (per screenshot)
(Entries are definitely present, I can select different &...
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How do I remove GNOME desktop compeletely after installing KDE? [duplicate]
I try to use KDE desktop a couple days, I think I like it and I don't wanna go back with GNOME. What will I do to remove it completely? I am using Ubuntu 20.04 by the way
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Tooltips in Geany: improve or disable?
Ubuntu 20.04.1
Theme: Yaru light
Geany v 1.36
In Geany, mouse-over tooltips have a big padding and are positioned such that they regularly cover up the things I am trying to look at.
The unnecessary ...
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help, no gui or desktop after upgrage from 16.04 to 20.04
I just upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04, cannot get a desktop or gui, cannot access home directory.
Upon rebooting I entered my password to decrypt my home directory, then I am logged in at the terminal ...
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How to get Scilab 6.1.0 GUI (not just CLI) working on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS without smashing other applications?
There is a question: How to get Scilab 6.1.0 working on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? that shows how to install Scilab 6.1.0 from either the Scilab tar from Scilab or from Ubuntu 20.10. The first one is for the ...
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Desktop is crashing when I try to use any app -Ubuntu 20.04 VM running on VirtualBox
I hope you could help me to diagnose this problem. My environment is:
Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Release: 20.04 - Codename: focal
Oracle VirtualBox: Versión 6.1.8
When I search for an App, or ...
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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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Ubuntu 20.04 refuses to start GUI on boot
I am unable to get my dualbooting Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 machine to boot to Ubuntu. It will idle forever with one line of text on-screen reading /dev/nvme0n1p5: clean, 807036/5259264 files, ...
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Display tty1 in a terminal window on GUI
I am not trying to open a GUI in tty1, but I'm trying to display tty1 in a GUI desktop (Ctrl + Alt + F7).
Because it's running the Daily apt download activities, which prevents me to install anything,...
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20.04 Fresh Install - Log in on GUI doesn't work
I just installed Ubuntu alongside Pop OS and the installer went along without issues. I rebooted into grub and into Ubuntu. I went to log in, typed in my password, and was redirected back to the start ...
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Backups initiated to pull from remote Ubuntu hosts
I am looking for a user-friendly solution to back-up a small cluster of Ubuntu servers. Ideally, I'd like to take a minimal representation of the standard configuration (i.e. a list of installed ...
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Can I adjust the way GUI applications are grouped?
I'm using the default Ubuntu dock but I'm frustrated by one of its behaviours, the way that if you open application A via application B, the dock treats A as an instance of B. For instance, say I ...
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Cannot exit from login screen TTY1
I was trying to learn how TTY's (teletypes or virtual terminals) in Ubuntu 18.04 work, so I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 , and the Login screen showed. According to the post " How do I switch between console ...
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Slow UI rendering after kernel update
I'm using Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS + HWE (Hardware Enablement) and Openbox as a GUI. I've configured everything and it worked great. The HWE was installed via linux-generic-hwe-18.04 and xserver-xorg-...
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Is it possible to run GUI applications on a server without a desktop via x11 or similar?
I'm very new at Linux.
I'm running a mediaserver (pms) on Ubuntu 18.04.3 mini, with no desktop or something like that.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to connect to the server, and run ...
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Multiple icons task bar git gui [duplicate]
When I use Git-gui I get multiple icons in the taskbar/favorites (Ubuntu Dock), see below:
Is there a way to fix this? I have only one window open.
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problem with GUI documentation programs
The problem is within a program that their documentation is in a html file. Let's say Tex maker or wxMaxima. When I click the tag "Help" it show me the documentation through the browser, not in a ...
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Why ubuntu hangs so many times?
I have recently started using linux - ubuntu 18.04 at work, so here is the list of apps I have installed that I need everyday:
Skype
JetBrains Rider C# IDE (runs on JVM only)
IntelliJ IDEA Scala (...
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Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, what is the name of the Default Desktop / GUI?
For Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
what is the name of the Default Desktop / GUI?
For the Default install of Ubuntu.
Is it Unity OR GNOME? Or something else?
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Viewing PDF annotations in Evince
I'm trying to get around a bug in the Evince GUI. Annotations in a PDF are shown with (1) a highlight to the text color, and (2) a small comment-box icon. Clicking the comment-box icon opens a sticky-...
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Have Ubuntu Desktop on EC2 with the same GUI as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on a PC
I am new to Ubuntu and not very much familiar with all the details.
I followed the instructions here to create a GUI for an EC2 instance:
https://medium.com/@s.on/running-ubuntu-desktop-gui-aws-ec2-...
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