Questions related to "GUI"s - that is, a Graphical User Interface. (As opposed to a Command line interface from a terminal)
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How do I make a Qt4 app which uses a linux terminal? [closed]
What I'm trying to do is have a Linux an application which displays a GUI for options which would enter commands for a bash script in an embedded terminal. It would also be nice if I could have the ...
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Manipulating Unity [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I configure Unity?
I want to customize the Unity interface. I used MyUnity to do this but it had very few options. Ubuntu tweak seemed to be the right choice but ...
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Are there Human Interface Design Guidelines for Unity Development?
I was surfing developer.ubuntu.com, searching for Unity-Human-Interface-Design-Guidelines or a Unity-HIG, but I didn't find anything. I've seen design.ubuntu.com, but that's not what I'm talking ...
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No GUI after reinstalling 12.04
So I just reinstalled 12.04 using an alternate .iso. Now when I boot up there is no GUI.
I’ve tried the startx command but it says it is not found.
When I do sudo apt-get ubuntu-desktop it asks me ...
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Shutdown button not working [closed]
I have 12.04 installed on my laptop. It was working perfectly until yesterday. Since then, no matter whether I choose restart shutdown or suspend option from GUI, my computer suspends. Please give ...
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Ubuntu Studio 12.04: How to edit a custom Studio menu graphically after installing gnome?
I have installed Gnome and KDE alongside with default Studio Xfce in Ubuntu Studio 12.04. I want to use the default Studio menu structure in Xfce, with some modifications (remove the things that I ...
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Upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 lts broken gui
I was using Ubuntu 11.10 just fine, when I upgraded to 12.04 LTS all the images on the launcher have broken except for dash home and workspaces. The desktop background is gone, and even the bar at the ...
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How to find out console equivalents of Ubuntu System Settings GUI?
How do I in general find out, what the very nice "System Settings GUI" in Ubuntu (say 12.04) does and how to replicate the changes in command line?
Many people ask questions like "how to change the ...
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How can I set my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to boot to console without GUI?
So I installed Ubuntu server to run some tests on a VM. For various reasons I couldn't get a specific DEB file, and instead of using a shared folder I decided it would be a good idea to install ...
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How can I make Izpack detect that I'm *not* in a headless environment?
I'm not entirely sure why (or even when) this happened, but we use a lot of Izpack installers at work and they've all stopped working on my Ubuntu 12.04 (Gnome Classic WM). They all fail in the same ...
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is there a unified management console for Ubuntu 12?
is there something similar to the management console in Windows for example
GUI based Device Manager
In windows server there is a server management console through which we can manage all system ...
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vncviewer, remote desktop quit after open two software GUI in terminal
This is the first time I use VNC in Ubuntu. It worked fine in Centos. The problem is: whenever I open 2 GUIs (e.g. One is Matlab, the other is Gedit), the VNC remote desktop collapsed and can not be ...
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Why does Expo bug out the first time it's used?
Without fail, using the Super + W keyboard shortcut for Expo for the first time since starting up (specifically whenever compiz starts; restarting it without logging out does the same thing) makes the ...
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How to start GUI from command line?
I've installed the following version of ubuntu om my machine.
ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso
But when I switch on the computer now, I get command line;
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS COMP-1245 tty1
where ...
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How can you get quota warnings in the GUI/LTSP?
What would be a good/easy/best method to let users have quota warnings in the GUI and LTSP?
To be specific, Quota warnings, you get on the CLI= "you reached your quota of 5 Gb".
Some(Most) users ...
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Is there a GUI to convert/extract images to/from pdf?
I mean something like a graphical interface / front end for Imagemagick or a simpler application that would allow converting/extracting images through the interface (not in the Terminal).
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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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Running the bare minimal processes in Ubuntu
I was wondering if there was a why to add to my shell script ,for running Minecraft, that will shutdown everything that isn't needed to keep the system running. Only the Minecraft process and for it ...
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How to remove gnome-core
I installed gnome-core using sudo apt-get install gnome-core. But now I want to uninstall it and switch over to other desktop environments. Does anyone know how to do this and what are the other uis ...
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I cannot start graphical apps as root
I used to be able to do so, but something as simple as this fails now:
gksudo gedit
and this also fails:
sudo gedit
I receive the error:
Cannot open display.
I haved checked this:
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What Graphical Logfile Analyzers are available?
does anybody know a good graphical logfile analyzer for (mainly) syslog messages from ubuntu?
maybe one that converts the text-based messages in objects to sort/group/filter messages
like windows's ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS graphics problem, booting to tty
Since I upgraded my computer to 12.04 from 11.04 nothing works anymore.
My Hardware:
Intel® Core™2 Duo
NVIDIA graphics card
First I had Problems running the my old user (I guessed it had ...
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Ubuntu boots to terminal on start up
For a long time I've been unable to get updates due to a "repositories not found" error. Yesterday someone fixed this for me but after installing 94 days worth of updates my system wanted to restart.
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How can I start the desktop without having to “startx”?
I don't want to start every time startx is there any way to get GUI Direct login screen.
My files are
root@ubuntu:~# locate org.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
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Nothing showing
I installed Ubuntu and loaded it up, I had black screen and then the backround loaded and then it disaperaed. I managed to get it to stay up by insereting a dvd to make the video player open. The ...
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How do I launch the app from within `quickly test` for gui testing?
I'm trying to use ldtp to test my quickly app.
ldtp.launchapp('bin/myapp') doesn't work because myapp requires whatever voodoo quickly sets up in order to actually launch the app.
How can I get ...
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How can I turn my desktop Ubuntu 8.04 into a command line only install?
The question says it all really. I had a problem with the 8.04 alternative install .iso (which after some research is a well known bug) so I had to install the full desktop version. I know I can ...
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Is it possible to install gui in ubuntu server 10.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install software on an old now unsupported Ubuntu version?
I tried this:
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
But i got this error:
Failed to fetch ...
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GUI doesn't start in VMWare
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 in a Virtual Machine. It installed correctly but the problem is that the Graphical User Interface (GUI) does not start. I only get the command prompt where I can ...
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How do I add or delete user accounts?
How do I add or delete user accounts in Ubuntu?
I know that the "useradd" command could be used to do this, but I hear that Ubuntu has some other command-line tool and some GUI somewhere, either one ...
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No GUI, No internet connection, please help 12.04
I am new to Ubuntu and I tried to install ubuntu server 12.04 on my laptop. now my problem is - I am unable to connect to the internet (I have wifi ONLY connection). ubuntu didn't recognize my ...
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Does not boot into a gui env
Ubuntu 12.04 .. Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-23-generic-pae .. under vmware player
on win7 64 host
Does not boot into a gui xwin env. tried kwin .. kde-window-manager FATAL ERROR
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What widget can I use to edit text and highlight parts of it?
Using the quickly ubuntu-application template (i.e. python and GTK3), what solutions exist to display a text editor in which I can highlight some parts of the text and add annotations/extra visuals at ...
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Which framework/toolkit for modern unity applications?
I want to code some applications for ubuntu (no other platforms), but which gui-toolkit would be the "official" one... in the past (gnome) gtk+ was my choice, but afaik unity uses Nux. I don't want to ...
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how to switch between unity and gnome (or recovery console) from serial-console
i am currently working over a serial-console (from desktop computer to a developing board)... i tried switching between this three visual alternatives: unity, gnome and recovery console (using the ...
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Problem with Ubuntu 12.04 after installation [duplicate]
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Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my PC, but when I boot Ubuntu, it simply shows the wallpaper, not any menus or ...
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Computer is randomly shutting down. What could be?
I'm having some problems, my computer is shutting down at random intervals, but from today it started to shut off rigth after the login screen.
It's a Toshiba Laptop. I thought it was the cpu ...
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Is there some way to get a more usable file chooser dialog?
On other operating systems the file chooser dialog in applications lets you do things like:
see a larger preview of images in the current directory
create a new folder
change the view of the current ...
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Replace Unity with Gnome / Cinnamon [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install the Cinnamon Desktop?
I have already installed Ubuntu 12.04 and now cannot reinstall Kubuntu Xubuntu etc.
I don't want Unity and its associated stuff ...
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How to install MacBuntu on an Ubuntu minimal install?
I've tried going for Cinnamon install however the process failed. Discussion here.
I want to try a different approach.
Thus my question is, how do I install MacBuntu or MAC-4-Lin right onto a Ubuntu ...
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How can I add a desktop/GUI to a command-line Ubuntu installation?
I had installed Ubuntu on a VM, with a command-line only interface, now I have had enough of command-line interface experience and plan to proceed with GUI mode.
But I dont want to install a fresh ...
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Web Development on Ubuntu
I recently started learning Ubuntu, and i'll like to know if it is possible for me to practice and develop Web Applications with PHP/MySQL and HTML/CSS on Ubuntu, develop Linux based Applications/GUI? ...
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Connecting / disconnecting DisplayPort causes crash [closed]
I wanted to file a bug about this using ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg-video-intel, but the system prompted my to try posting here first. So here goes :-)
While the situation in Ubuntu 11.10 was still ...
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I killed a frozen ubuntu desktop using “killall gdm” then after it takes me to a terminal?
So i am running a theme on gnome and it froze, so i used killall gdm to kill it, after this it took me to a fullscreen terminal which i can not get out of. It tells me to login, which I do. and then ...
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How can I reduce lagging with GUI/GPU stuff — make Unity run smaller, quicker, faster?
Finally installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my HP Pavilion 2000. Have all of my apps on and loaded and am happy thus far.
ONE ISSUE -- I'm experiencing a small amount of GUI/GPU style lagging when I go to open ...
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Strange GUI duplication issue
I am just wondering if anyone knows what is causing this issue. I can only describe it as a GUI duplication issue as I do not know what else to call it however here are a few more details:
This ...
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CUDA instructions ask to stop GDM but it doesn't exist
I am trying to install and run some CUDA exemples in Ubuntu 12.04. First of all, I downloaded all .run files from http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads, then followed the instructions at ...
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How to add applications and GUI to the minimal Ubuntu?
I would like to build a custom Ubuntu from the minimal Ubuntu version. I plan to use the 11.10 version.
My question is, how to I add the basic necessary packages like networking, desktop, apt-get, ...
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Not getting GUI mode on ubuntu 12.04 desktop edition after installation on vmware workstation 7
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 desktop edition on my PC using VMWare workstation 7.
I assigned 1GB RAM and 20 GB Hard disk to Ubuntu.
While starting Ubuntu virtual machine, It is not starting up with GUI ...
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Xubuntu 12.04 UI glitches [closed]
I'm having some strange problems with Thunderbird and Chrome in Xubuntu 12.04 XFCE 4.10 (installed from PPA).
Some UI elements from both windows sometimes are drawn on each other, no matter which ...
