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I've been using Ubuntu for ages (Karmic or Lucid, I don't remember) and if my memory serves me well, the Details or Overview section was present in the system settings in GNOME 2 and Unity. But when I switched to Xubuntu years ago, that section was nowhere to be found in the settings.

Is it possible to install it? Or is it installed but not visible? Can I run it from the CLI? I've tried typing details and aboutbut these are not present or don't exist. If I type overview bash suggests me a very different command that is used to manage audio.Ubuntu Unity Details section screenshot

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    I would refer to that as the About page, and it's specific to the desktop being used. Every desktop has it, but it looks different if using Unity, GNOME, Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, etc... The program (thus command) also varies on the desktop you're asking about; as my system is a multi-desktop install; I have multiple installed (one for each desktop, ie. one for Xfce, LXQt, MATE, GNOME... and the command used controls which opens)
    – guiverc
    Jan 24 at 3:24
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    fyi: xfce4-about is the Xfce ABOUT app & thus command used to display the ABOUT details when using Xfce/Xubuntu. I'd use lxqt-about to view the LXQt ABOUT app & details which apply to the desktop I'm currently logged in with & using.... You can use whatever ABOUT apps you have installed, but a Xubuntu install comes with xfce4-about only by default as it's using the libraries/toolkits & details of the Xfce session that is running on a Xubuntu install.
    – guiverc
    Jan 24 at 3:47

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I would refer to that as the About page, and it's specific to the desktop being used. Every desktop has it, but it looks different if using Unity, GNOME, Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, etc...

The program (thus command) also varies on the desktop you're asking about; as my system is a multi-desktop install; I have multiple installed (one for each desktop, ie. one for Xfce, LXQt, MATE, GNOME... and the command used controls which opens)

xfce4-about is the Xfce ABOUT app & thus command used to display the ABOUT details when using Xfce/Xubuntu.

I'd use lxqt-about to view the LXQt ABOUT app & details which apply to the desktop I'm currently logged in with & using. (I logged in with a Lubuntu session today, thus am using LXQt currently)

You can use whatever ABOUT apps you have installed, but a Xubuntu install comes with xfce4-about only by default as it's using the libraries/toolkits & details of the Xfce session that is running on a Xubuntu install.

You didn't provide an actual release you're asking about (and the focal page you showed was from early 2020 or late 2019 prior to 20.04 being released), but to view the GNOME details you use

gnome-control-center about

BUT that will require it to be installed; which it is not on a default Xubuntu system (it is on my own bloated system as I have four desktops installed)

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    Do note; I tested the gnome-control-center about on two systems (different releases), it worked perfectly on one, but on the other release it opened gnome-control-center but it didn't open on the ABOUT page. It may or may not work on your release; but as you didn't provide a release... so it may or may not work exactly as outlined for your unstated release. (It maybe the gnome-control-center is just opening at the last page selected & thus the 'about' was doing nothing; sorry I'm not a GNOME user normally so don't explore it that much)
    – guiverc
    Jan 24 at 4:49
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    FWIW for KDE / KUbuntu: kinfocenter will do the trick....
    – andrew.46 ♦
    Jan 24 at 5:08
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    Yep can confirm kinfocenter .... (though it really just shows how BLOATED my boxes are given it was already installed!) ... mate-about will show MATE's About screen etc; though some desktop ABOUT screens show less system detail than others...
    – guiverc
    Jan 24 at 5:15
  • Sorry avout that. It's 22.04. I guess mine was an ignorant question, but being Xubuntu an official Ubuntu flavor and being XFCE a fork of GNOME2 I thought Canonical ported that About page on other flavors apart from the original GNOME2 and Unity. It seems I was wrong.
    – Martin Oscar Caballero
    Jan 26 at 1:00
  • I knew about the XFCE4 About dialog box, but I just like how the main Ubuntu dialog box shows the info and the detail it shows. Thanks again.
    – Martin Oscar Caballero
    Jan 26 at 1:02

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