Questions tagged [gnome-shell]
the primary user interface and compositing manager of the GNOME 3 desktop environment, this tag is for questions about using and troubleshooting gnome-shell, theming it, etc. Extensions should be additionally tagged with [gnome-shell-extension].
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Is there a CLI for the default Wayland Screenshot tool? How is that tool called?
What is the standard screenshot tool of Wayland?
I configured it here:
But I am wondering if the same interactive screenshot tool can be launched by a terminal command?
(I am trying to solve: Connect ...
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who exactly responds to a command entered in a alt-F2 window? [duplicate]
I am trying to determine who is responsible for the frequent screen freezes that I am having after the screen has been "blanked" by the 15-min power timeout.
When the screen freezes, the ...
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How to decorate Always-on-top windows?
The idea is exactly as in the title.
Coming back to Ubuntu after a couple of years using Windows, I really enjoyed the way Always on top PowerToy emphasizes said windows.
Is there a way to achieve ...
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Show app as indicator
I want to see an app as an app indicator (eg. like discord indicator) instead of a full app in the dock. Is there anyway to do so?
There might be an extention but I can't find any.
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How to remove the outer border of applications folders in GNOME with the Blur my Shell extension?
I'm using the Blur my Shell extension on GNOME Shell. How can I remove the outer border from the GNOME applications folders?
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Which package includes calendar and time at the top in Ubuntu 22.10?
There's a bug I'd like to report but i don't know which package the calendar at the top tray belongs to. Gnome-shell or system-tray? The version is Ubuntu 22.10.
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Need help with Ubuntu 22.04 top bar
I was messing around with some Mac themes and messed up.
I defaulted the Ubuntu look but the top bar still looks the same, with the Apple logo on the left and all. Also, I have two bugged desktop ...
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typing on multiple USB keyboards causes Ubuntu 22.04.1 to pause the video system
I was trying out a new usb keyboard and noticed that when I type on multiple usb keyboards simultaneously that the x server will stutter/pause.
For example, typing 1 on one keyboard and typing 1 on ...
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GNOME Extensions doesn't install any extension
I've tried with the mentioned app, with Edge and with Firefox (snap and apt). It doesn't tell me what's wrong, it lets me click the Install option but it doesn't work. Here are some screenshots:
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How can I tile windows to the top and bottom half of my screen using keyboard shortcuts?
I have my screen rotated by 90 degrees (vertical orientation). The default Ubuntu keybindings only support left and right half tiling. I tried compiz, but it didn't work.
How can I configure Ubuntu to ...
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How to get rid of persistent notifications when in full screen?
Whenever I get a notification while watching video in full screen (for example in Firefox), it will not go away automatically after a few seconds like one would expect but rather it stays on top of ...
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Window-list color
Do anybody know how to change the background color of the items in the window-list and workspace overview? The items are placed on the panel at the bottom of my screen. I would like to change all the ...
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How to disable Save-As Dialog dropdown menu?
When I go to save stuff, a dropdown appears that I want to disable. I never use the dropdown and it gets in the way of functional use by requiring additional clicks to get rid of it.
How can I disable ...
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How to run an up-to-date Thunderbird package with HDPI+Wayland support on 22.04
To use Thunderbird on Ubuntu 22.04 I have these options:
Install from Ubuntu deb repos. (I've done this forever.)
✔ correctly rendered on hdpi and legacy screens
✖ about 10 versions behind!
✔ quick ...
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Windows keep overlapping with dock when maximized
After I updated Ubuntu to 22.04 I've started experiencing this annoying behaviour where application windows randomly overflow their width and slip beneath the dock; that area becomes invisible and ...
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Lenovo P50 crashes gnome-shell regularly after upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04.1 using Wayland (default)
I've been using Ubuntu on my slightly aging but never failing Lenovo Thinkpad P50 (20ENCTO1WW) laptop since I got it in 2017. It has survived with just a few bumps all the upgrades. Since the stable ...
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How to config gnome-shell to run on GPU instead CPU?
This week I formatted my laptop and installed the new Ubuntu 22.04 (I was using 20.04), and after switching the OS, I found it slower than it was in 20.04 and I also, I found a lot of problems in this ...
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Excessive CPU usage from mouse movement since upgrading to 22.04 LTS
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, I have noticed that my mouse pointer is stuttering, so I investigated, and it seems like moving the mouse causes >90% CPU usage spikes, when the load returns to ...
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Top bar in gnome 42 in my ubuntu 22.04.1 blinking
Hi its hard to explain but i show a video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RLRNbuIlznPPdu0Z8IkhIWWYUeMWr13M/view?usp=sharing
It seems that There are some kind of second top bar behind my official top ...
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How do I customise the gnome-shell commandline?
I'm trying to create a new GNOME session that has some custom arguments to gnome-shell (specifically, creating a couple of virtual monitors). But I'm having some strange difficulties.
I've started by ...
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gnome-shell crashes repeatedly after virtualbox update
I am using virtualbox 6.1.34 with Ubuntu 22.04 host and guest and gnome-shell started crashing about every minute.
It worked fine for years and I don't know what changed exactly.
I copied the vm over ...
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make mirroring displays the default in gnome
I use gnome with multiple displays.
I use these in a mirroring setup.
However, whenever my external display reconnects (whether by plugging in or by powering on the display), it seems to forget that i ...
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How to force GNOME using software rendering
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and have a graphics card installed. There's some problem when I enable the GPU acceleration option. Is there any way to force GNOME Desktop Environment, using software ...
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How to change the position of close/minimize/maximize buttons from top right to top left? [duplicate]
Is it possible to change thee position of the close/minimize/maximize windows buttons from the default top right, as it is in Windows, to the more Mac style of having it to the left?
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gnome-shell-extension app not working on Ubuntu 22.04
Recently I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 with wayland disabled by default on my system. So I clean installed recommended proprietary nvidia-515 driver to switch to wayland. But this driver is rendering any ...
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How to unmap Explorer key opening Nautilus window?
Help! I am trying to map a custom command to the Explorer key on my keyboard, but my system seems to have the key mapped to open a Nautilus window somewhere other than Settings > Keyboard > ...
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How to disable GNOME Screenshot UI, selection frame, necessity to click something to make a screenshot of an area in Ubuntu 22.04?
In Ubuntu 20.04 I could just press a shortcut, select an area and have that area in the buffer. Now it is gone and there is some annoying, irritating app.
How to delete it? If I delete it will ...
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Is it possible to hide the workspaces thumbnails in the application launcher?
Is it possible to remove the workspaces thumbnails under the search bar in the application launcher to make more room for the icons?
Edit: With this change I'm hoping to have 4 rows of icons instead ...
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Gnome-Shell Broken Broken
I am on Ubuntu 20.04 desktop.
Problems:
1.) No extensions will launch, even though https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ says they are installed and activated.
2.) Gnome-shell ignores appearance ...
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What are these Disconnected notifications in the notification list?
I keep getting these "Disconnected" notifications throughout the day (even when I'm not using the computer), but I don't understand what's causing these notifications or what they mean. ...
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Gnome panel calendar events hard to read in Ubuntu 22.04
The question
When looking at an an event in the box under the calendar in the top-panel flyout, is it supposed to be impossible to see more than two lines describing the event without hovering over it ...
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Dock window preview becomes too large when multiple instances of the same app is open
When multiple instances of the same app is opened, I get to see the preview of the opened instances. Before it was alright. Recently, it happened like this.
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I was on "restart in not available on wayland" screen. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F7 and got this black screen
Here's an image of a black screen. I'm getting this input line blinking repeatedly.
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How to get GNOME to recognize hibernate and make it available from dropdown menu and as a power button otpion?
Now that I managed to extend swap and enable hibernation, I'd like hibernate to be available from the menu and as an action under the power button.
I tried assigning hibernate through gsettings
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/var/log/syslog suddenly grew to 44 GB due to gnome-shell (actually: Chromium or Chrome) error logs
Why is gnome-shell writing 17783 lines per second of these errors to my /var/log/syslog file?:
gnome-shell: ERROR:broker_posix.cc(46)] Received unexpected number of handles
gnome-shell: ERROR:...
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GNOME top bar tray icon shows error icon "A problem occured when checking for updates"
I installed a fresh installation of Ubuntu 20.04 and a couple of applications. Now on this relatively fresh system I have this error icon in the top bar in the tray icon section.
When clicking it, it ...
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Where is gnome-terminal.desktop?
Ive wanted to add --maximize option to its Exec command. But the file is just missing. Googling for it I've found that the file was there in the previous versions of gnome but there is no such ....
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Restarting GNOME Shell by pressing using Alt+F2 is not working on Ubuntu 22.04
Two days ago I installed Ubuntu 22.04 and I was trying to restart GNOME Shell using Alt+Fn+F2. The command prompt opened, but when I entered r and pressed Enter, GNOME Shell does not restart.
The ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 gnome-shell --version return 40.5
I just upgraded Ubuntu from 21.10 to 22.04 and I couldn't install several of my gnome extensions. After a few hours of research, I finally realized that there seems to be a gnome-shell version issue ...
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apt packages gnome-shell switched to now and does not update
This morning there was an update for gnome-shell on my 22.04 notebook and I updated it. On my 22.04 desktop PC this update was not listed. I recognized that on my notebook when I run apt list gnome-...
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Chrome application to a local file is loaded with an empty profile
I want to load a local HTML file as an application ('shortcut'). So I created an application from a website (Settings -> More tools -> Create shortcut...) and then edited the .desktop file to ...
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Boot directly on desktop instead of overview / dash / dock - Ubuntu 22.04
When starting a Gnome Shell session in Ubuntu 22.04, the session starts with the dash or dock in an active state. The Gnome Shell search has focus and Workspaces are visible.
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ubuntu automatically switches between apps
I have the ubuntu 22.04 LTS version.
My issue is that my distro automatically switches between apps.
To make it more clear, when I'm working with VSCode and I get a notification on Microsoft teams or ...
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dbus calls to gnome shell don't work under Ubuntu 22.04
Trivial example: Under Ubuntu 20.04, the following command:
gdbus call -e -d org.gnome.Shell -o /org/gnome/Shell -m org.gnome.Shell.Eval true
produces this output:
(true, 'true')
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Start new GNOME screenshot/screencast tool from CLI in Ubuntu 22.04?
I like the new screenshot tool in GNOME 42/ Ubuntu 22.04.
Although it does miss the possibility to record a window, and an option to record audio.
How do I start recording or take a screenshot from ...
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When upgrading an Ubuntu Server instance with ubuntu-desktop-minimal package to 22.04, Dock disappears
After upgrading an Ubuntu Server instance with the ubuntu-desktop-minimal package installed to 22.04, the Dock disappears and won't come back
Failed attempts to remedy this
choosing to disable and ...
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Disallow overlapping maximized window
Tldr: I'd like to emulate macOS maximized window behavior:
the maximized window fills the whole screen. Call this a maximized screen.
no windows can be underneath the maximized window
only modal ...
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Ubuntu notebook computer lost its GUI
After trying to switch from Intel driver to the Nvidia graphics driver on my notebook computer, using Software Updates option from the gnome-control-center, it now boots only to command prompt with no ...
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Remove lock button/icon from system tray Ubuntu 18.04 with gnome 3.28
For the life of me I'm trying to find a way, to system-wide REMOVE the lock 'icon' from the system tray (ie under the top left dropdown)... I've tried everything under the sun to either: stop it from ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Gnome Shell Extension Manager not working properly (Settings freezing)
When using Gnome Extension Manager on Ubuntu 22.04LTS, the app freezes every time I open the settings of some extension
I tried to install the app with Snap, apt-get, Flatpak and even tried the Chrome ...
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