Questions tagged [gnome]
This is a very general tag that should only be used for questions referring to GNOME in general and not a specific component. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a collection of GTK-based software that provides the desktop environment GNOME Shell.
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How to revert to GNOME Classic Desktop?
I'm used to GNOME Classic and personally don't want to change to anything else, but it seems there is no more GNOME Classic in the Oneiric release. After apt-get installed gnome-session and all, ...
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How do I install and use the latest version of GNOME?
I followed the instructions for compiling GNOME Shell and it did compile with a few errors here and there but it didn't run. I installed GNOME Shell using sudo apt-get install gnome-shell but I got ...
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How do I reset GNOME to the defaults?
I was playing around with some settings, and now I need to reset GNOME to it's defaults - how do I do that?
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How to remove GNOME Shell from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to install other desktop environment from scratch?
I have just installed the final version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop system from ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso.
After two days of testing I completely do not like its graphical interface - the GNOME ...
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Desktop forgets theme?
I am running Ubuntu in VirtualBox (on a Windows 7 host). Several times now, the top-level menu bar, the task bar — and seemingly every system dialog — have forgotten the out-of-the-box "Ambiance" ...
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How do I use the gconf editor?
I see some answers where people post to set a key in the gconf-editor, however there is no entry for gconf-editor in my menu.
How do I run it and how do I use it to set keys that people recommend?
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Desktop doesn't remember brightness settings after a reboot
Every time I reboot my machine the brightness goes back to 100% in Gnome. I wish it would keep the last setting. Is there anyway?
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How do I switch to the Classic GNOME Desktop? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to revert to GNOME Classic?
How can I setup the Natty Classic Desktop to be "really" classic? I want to have the menus in the application window and I want to have the ...
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How to remove "phone style" Gnome swipe to unlock
I need to remove the annoying new "locking" screen that shows a giant clock: I can't remove it with just moving the mouse (as with any other desktop environment), the animation is slow, and it isn't ...
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Background not changing using gsettings from cron
I'm trying to change my wallpaper to a random image using Indrajith Indraprastham's suggested script here:
How to change desktop background from command line in Unity?
When I run the script from a ...
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Can I apply a different GTK3 theme from the main one to an individual application?
For example, can I keep Ambiance as main theme but assign elementary theme to elementary's app?
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How can I specify the default save directory for gnome-screenshot?
Are there any sort of configuration options for specifying the default save location for gnome-screenshot, or is this hard-coded into the source code?
It used to be ~/Desktop, which seems to have ...
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Why are all snaps being mounted and listed as block devices or partitions for Ubuntu 18.04?
As of Ubuntu 18.04 running lsblk shows 16 snap loops (2-3 times for each snap). The question is, why are they being listed as results for lsblk, fdisf-l, and blkid?
It creates a lot of clutter from ...
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Font characters displayed as squares in Ubuntu 18.04
Recently, on my Ubuntu 18.04 I have noticed that at least on gnome-calculator and chromium browser the fonts are displayed as squares. I have followed instructions here and here, the calculator is ...
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How can I add "Show desktop" to the GNOME dash or Ubuntu Dock?
I am migrating from Unity to GNOME. One item I am missing is a "Show desktop" button (aka "minimise all windows") in the dash. How can I add this functionality to the GNOME dash (or Ubuntu dock in ...
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How do I get a vanilla GNOME after Ubuntu 17.04?
Some people (me) would prefer the straight GNOME experience as opposed to the Unity style desktop offered in Ubuntu 17.10.
How can I get the standard GNOME desktop and interface?
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GUI does not start
Initially, the computer was showing the error as mentioned in How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics mode" error? question. Fixing it resulted in the above error.
Please take ...
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How do I save/remember last-used window position and size for applications?
When I log in Ubuntu, I would like all windows opened at previous session (terminal and Firefox mainly) to be re-opened automatically at the same size and position.
How to proceed?
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Is it possible to use multiple desktop environments on same system?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I want to try out KDE and other desktop environments.
But I'm not sure if I'll like them enough to switch permanently. I want to be safe and make a transition in a piecemeal ...
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How can I change GNOME Shell theme?
I've installed the GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to change the "Shell Theme", But it doesn't allow me to do that.
The alert says something like: "The GNOME-Shell extension is not activated", ...
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Only squares instead of letters and numbers are displayed in my calculator and other apps in Ubuntu 18.04
I don't know what I did wrong in my Ubuntu 18.04 OS. For some reason some of my apps look like this:
This also happens to other gnome apps like pdf-reviewer and Logs. Window title, menu bar etc. are ...
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Add custom command in the open with dialog?
In earlier versions of Ubuntu (10.10-) there was an option in the "open with" tab in the properties window, to add a custom command to open a file. However, this is no longer the case in Ubuntu 11.10. ...
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Cannot login to my user account
I upgraded my ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10 via mounting the latest alternate CD image released on Oct. 13 as the final standard version and running the cdromupgrade prompt successfully, with full latest ...
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How do I install KDE?
I want to have both KDE and Gnome shells on Ubuntu. Ubuntu only has Gnome installed by default. How do I install KDE?
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How to change keyboard shortcuts?
I'm new to Linux and I am having trouble with Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab to switch between applications and Alt+Shift to change the keyboard layout.
Can anyone help please?
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Shouldn't dconf-editor and gsettings access the same database?
This is a basically 'academic' question --- to try to understand better the configuration system innards.
I understand that the dconf system is the new configuration system in gnome3 that has ...
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Ubuntu desktop suddenly points to home folder
As of now, my desktop has begun showing the contents of my home folder (~) instead of the contents of ~/desktop. I must have changed something, but I have no idea what, or what I was doing exactly ...
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How do I change the font DPI settings?
I installed Oneiric on a clean system, and found that the font tab is gone from the Appearance settings. This is a problem, because by default the text in Ubuntu is too large.
I changed the text from ...
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Change the location of saved screenshot when screenshot taken by printscreen button in GNOME 3 [duplicate]
I want to change the default location of "Save a screenshot to Pictures" to save it to Desktop.
If that is not possible, is there any other way to do it? I am using Ubuntu GNOME 17.04.
NOTE: I don'...
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Ubuntu 18.04 gnome-shell high CPU usage
I installed 18.04 from 17.04 (passing briefly through 17.10, didn't test it and jumped to 18.04) and I am experiencing a high cpu usage on gnome-shell, it takes almost all available CPU time:
$ top
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Remove title-bar of all maximized windows in GNOME 3
(Ubuntu 13.04 with GNOME Shell, upgraded, GNOME version 3.8)
Recently, I upgraded Ubuntu to 13.04. the default desktop is gnome-shell.
Except Nautilus, other software border doesn't disappear when I ...
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How to upgrade to the latest GNOME version?
I am running Ubuntu 15.04. I installed GNOME on top of that. Now I am using GNOME Shell. I heard 3.16 has many improvement. I am thinking about upgrading. My question is that, if I upgrade to GNOME 3....
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Is there any tweak to bring back emblems in Nautilus?
I read the following dev email Removing 'Backgrounds and Emblems' and when i read this part:
Note that this does not completely remove the ability for extensions
(e.g. Dropbox) to add emblems ...
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Keyboard shortcut for open terminal Nautilus >= 3.16
How can I set a shortcut for open terminal in current directory for nautilus?
I'm using Nautilus 3.16.2 and I already tried this answer but look like it's broken in newer version.
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How to disable multimedia keys entirely? 18.04 LTS
I have a fresh vanilla 18.04 LTS install, using gnome-shell 3.28.4. I'm using a wired Apple aluminum keyboard:
I would like to use the top-row F-keys as keyboard shortcuts in various end-user ...
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How do I disable the window resizing when accidentally touching one of the screen edges in GNOME 3?
In Ubuntu 18.04, when moving the windows there is a resize effect that occurs when accidentally touching one of the screen edges. This control was available in CCSM and Ubuntu Tweak in previous ...
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How can I activate Unity?
I previously had ubuntu 10.10 installed and upgraded to 11.04. However, desktop is same 10.10 (gnome) as despite the upgrade. How can I disable the Gnome and activate Unity instead?
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How do I scale the enormously sized desktop icons on Ubuntu 18.04?
I just upgraded to 18.04 (with GNOME 3.28) from 16.04. I am using gnome-shell, gnome-ubuntu-desktop. After upgrading the icon size on desktop are very large.
I am unable to find my option to decrease ...
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How can I make gnome-shell treat both monitors in the same way?
Gnome-shell seems to like to leave one monitor as "fixed" when you switch workspaces.
Additionally, there is no preview in the Activities view of my secondary monitor.
Also, on the second monitor, ...
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How to start an app with "Always On Top" set?
There are a couple of applications that I find myself marking as "Always on Top" every time I use them, so I wonder if there is a way to automatically set them as so, whatever way I start them (menu, ...
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Permanently set keyboard layout options with setxkbmap in gnome/unity
Ubuntu 13.101 (and maybe upstream gnome) introduced very annoying bug: pressing keyboard layout switch shortcut makes focus go away to some system window, then back to window where shortcut was ...
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How to achieve List/Tree view in Nautilus?
How to achieve List/Tree view in Nautilus like the following screenshot?
Cant find information about this.
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Im using Ubuntu Remix with pure Gnome 3, and last version of Nautilus.
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How do I disable auto-maximizing of newly launched windows in GNOME?
Each time I open any application, it zooms to fill-up the entire desktop and so I am always forced to use "Unmaximize" using Alt+Space menu.
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Difference between Unity and GNOME
I often come across the terms Unity and GNOME while reading about Ubuntu. I understand that Unity is the default desktop environment for Ubuntu. What is GNOME and how is it related to/different from ...
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How do I move child windows without moving or minimizing parent in GNOME 3?
I have Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME 3.
What happens:
I have (for example) LibreOffice Calc open, with some data columns in it. I highlight the columns I want to chart, then I select INSERT > CHART. The ...
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How do I boot into the console and then launch the Ubuntu desktop from it?
At the Ubuntu login page I have to hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to be able to login as an user using the command line.
But how do I get to the command line first and then start the Ubuntu desktop from it?
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Indicator icons do not appear after upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10
Only GNOME extension and native icons are displayed. Other icons like Dropbox, shutter, enpass etc. do not appear in the top bar.
Am I missing something? I already tried using extensions that I used ...
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After adding a group, logout+login is not enough in 18.04?
In ubuntu 18.04 with default desktop, behaviour of logout/login has changed:
Previously on an Ubuntu system, when I find that I need to add my user id to some group, it was sufficient to
sudo ...
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How can I remove Gnome Desktop Environment without messing Unity DE? (Ubuntu 16.04)
I need to get rid of the GNOME Desktop Environment which has been installed by default when I updated my pc from 15.10 to 16.04.
After a while, I found myself not only with GNOME DE, but also with ...
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Gnome keyring daemon not starting up properly
Since a few days ago my Gnome-keyring daemon hasn't been starting up properly.
After logging in:
ps aux | grep keyring
user 3496 0.0 0.0 214408 15800 ? SLl 13:30 0:00 /usr/bin/...
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