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Keyboard Shortcut for Changing Desktops in Lubuntu
Ctrl + Alt + Left switches to previous desktop
Ctrl + Alt + Right switches to next desktop
Reference: Lubuntu/Keyboard
In Lubuntu 16.04 LTS the following default shortcuts switch directly to a ...
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Disable switching between different desktops with mouse scroll
As vanadium put in his answer, the extension setting is not exposed in UI. But you can install dconf-editor and change the scroll-option to do-nothing setting under the dash-to-dock extension.
Or you ...
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Installing several different flavours of Ubuntu 20.04
Yes you can install multiple desktops on a base system.
The system I'm replying to you on is originally a artful (17.10) Ubuntu desktop install, on which I added lubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop & ...
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Plasma hangs when I try to switch desktops
OK, got it, it is kwin dying for some reason.
If you have the same issue, you may press alt+f2 or alt+space or whatever your hotkey for executing a command is and
kwin_x11
restarts kwin. Since the ...
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Installing several different flavours of Ubuntu 20.04
You can install different desktops from the terminal e.g.
sudo apt install ubuntu-mate-desktop xubuntu-desktop
You can choose which one to use when you log in.
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Remove extra screens from CLI
I used xrandr to workaround this issue as follows:
xrandr --listmonitors
Shows two monitors:
0: +VGA-1
1: *+LVDS-1
Then I used xrandr to turn one of them off.
xrandr --output LVDS-1 --...
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using 2 desktops with 2 gpus
So, this is not exactly what I was asking for, but I found a solution that does what I want.
I wanted something that would let me use my computer with my iGPU while the NVIDIA GPU was busy with ...
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Why don't I get Unity as an option when logging in?
The sessions typically are listed on the login screen if they are read from .desktop files provided in /usr/share/xsessions folder.
On my system ( default Unity desktop ) I have the following ubuntu....
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Disable desktop switching with the scroll wheel with Openbox?
I found that inadvertently moving the scroll wheel when my mouse was over bare desktop caused my windows to disappear and a switch to a new desktop with Lubuntu 18.04. This was not what I wanted. I ...
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