Questions tagged [gui]
GUI stands for Graphical User Interface. An Ubuntu Desktop system includes a desktop environment (such as Unity), display manager, and many graphical applications, providing a GUI for many components of the operating system. A GUI is in contrast to a command line interface (CLI)
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screen goes black when pressing "super" button or clicking the "Show Apps" launcher
Every time I press the "super" key or click the "show apps" (tic-tac-toe) button in the task bar, the screen goes completely black. If I press CTRL-ALT-DELETE the screen will come ...
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Lubuntu 22.04 log in problem [closed]
In February , 2023 , some how unconsciously I cut my GUI of lubuntu . Later I tried to log in but it showed incorrect and I failed to log in . Now , I have been trying in many ways like recovering or ...
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Gui won't start start dist-upgrade [duplicate]
I did a fresh install, set up everything all day yesterday, did a dist-upgrade and autoremove, boom. Tried to reinstall desktop, no luck... Any help please?
some package mismatch
gui not starting
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Ubuntu-frame on Ubuntu Server
I installed the ubuntu-frame on ubuntu server, but when i try to run a gtk GUI app (gnome-mastermind) then i got error: gtk cannot open display: <-(it is blank)
I followed this tutorials:
https://...
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Firefox display glitches then freezes when resizing on Ubuntu 22.04
I updated to Ubuntu 22.04 a few months ago on a MSI laptop half a year ago and have been having the same recurring display issue with Mozilla Firefox.
Sometimes when resizing the Mozilla window the ...
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Accidently removed libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 and now I can't access my computer in GUI mode
I removed the libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 package and my computer froze and started doing weird stuff so I tried to restart it, but now it does not boot and I get this error instead:
Bluetooth: hci0: ...
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List all application names that are in "show applications" button and in "dash to dock" sidebar
Is there any possibility using command line/bash to list all the application names which are presented in show applications (through icons) button when it is clicked, and the applications presented in ...
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Terminal getting opened along with GUI Application
I have GUI application created using GTK in linux. Now if I launch the application by clicking on the icon or by using xdg-open file.myextension, an empty terminal gets opened along with the ...
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CPU usage when GUI is on vs GUI is off : Ubuntu 20.04 and Raspberry pi 4
Myself going to use Raspberry pi 4 (8gb ram) with ubuntu 20.04 installed in it, for my projects using ROS. I will use the GUI for some main debugging purposes, or else I would stop the GUI and prefer ...
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GUI doesn't show up after a failed upgrade
I got a prompt to update my Ubuntu version from 20.04 to 22.04. I chose to upgrade, but the upgrade failed for some unknown reasons (most probably it couldn't update my NVidia drivers). I was seeing ...
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Issues with Libinput, but then again also issues with switching to Synaptic drivers
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 with i3wm.
I have a script which sets some settings. But since I'm using libinput, some of those commands result in an error:
property 'Synaptics Scrolling Distance' doesn't exist, ...
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Start a GUI app automatically each 10 days
My idea is to define a systemd user unit and start it with a timer unit. But I even fail to start the application manually with the unit in:
~/.config/systemd/user/signal-desktop.service :
[Unit]
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Deleted python and now can not login into interface
I started learning some python. I already had python2 and python3.8 installed as defaults. But recently installed additional version python3.11. It was not working as expected so i decided to get rid ...
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Difference between several command-line tools provided for 7-Zip compression (like `7z`, `7zz`...)
When I search for 7zip in Ubuntu 23.04 packages, I find several results.
For example, package p7zip-full contains the /usr/bin/7z executable, while package 7zip contains the /usr/bin/7zz executable.
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My Ubuntu's GUI doesn't show things properly. How can I fix it?
What happened:
I installed adb and putty by using: $apt install adb and $sudo apt install Putty. Then, I started Putty and then I found out the configuration GUI of Putty doesn't show anything. After ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu 20.04 VM Booting to Terminal After Power-Off
I have been working on an Ubuntu 20.04 VM for a project for about a week now. Between work sessions I have been just saving the machine state (not fully shutting the VM down) and resuming. For the ...
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Scite on Ubuntu 22.04 Mate: cannot read text when selected (selection fully black)?
I usually use Scite as my primary text editor, and I just have a new install on Ubuntu 22.04 with Mate desktop, where I noticed the following - when I type text normally, all is good:
But when I ...
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Kubuntu GUI freeze issue
My friend and me have same problem. Kubuntu GUI freeze issue.
When GUI freeze we can move mouse cursor but could not click anywhere. Keyboard is not working except switching to ASCII console with Ctrl+...
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kubuntu 22.04 'oh, no! something has gone wrong'
I implore your help. I'm an average linux user and I'm stucked in tty.
My network does not work and when i try to launch startx it shows me the screen 'oh, no! something has gone wrong'.
All hapened ...
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Upload file in browser from network share not working
I ran into an issue when triyng to upload a file from a network share (smb),
the brwoser does nothing, copiyng the file to a local folder and selecting it then works.
I'm usning Ubuntu 22.04.2
the ...
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GUI broken when trying to compress file
Version: 22.04.1 LTS
Hey there. When I rightclick on a file or folder, and "Compress", then click on the drop down menu there is a broken GUI. It's a minor annoyance, but I would like to fix ...
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How to increase top menu bar width in gnome?
On my Ubuntu 20.04 with 4K monitor, the top bar is quite narrow which makes it difficult to click a tab.
I know how to increase the width of the interface fonts using gnome-tweaks tool but it is ...
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Automate menu actions within a GUI app?
I'm currently programming an ESP8266 chip through the Arduino IDE. However, I have two versions of the IDE running at once, because I need an older version to upload files to the chip, and the newer ...
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Audio playback issues and GUI programs crashing randomly
I'm having some issues with audio playback and program crashes on Ubuntu 22.04, Pulse Audio.
I've uninstalled some random stuff that I have installed recently off of my disk (some
python stuff and ...
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Ubuntu 20 GUI Reverted to older version
Early to day my computer froze, and I force restarted it. Following the restart my GUI completely changed to an ancient looking interface. There's no side bar, all windows look they are from 2010 , ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 desktop icons disappeaer and reload
A week ago I woke my machine up from sleep and the desktop icons were missing, but all those files were still in desktop directory in files and terminal. So I closed all apps and restarted the system ...
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Why does my system not allow me to snap file windows to either side of the screen?
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
By 'snap' I mean that feature which allows one to partition the window to either side of the screen either by dragging the window to a side or ...
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When opening Git Giu on Ubuntu 22.04 Virtual Box the screen does not show the graphics correctly
When opening Git Giu on Ubuntu 22.04 Virtual Box the screen does not show the graphics correctly.
I have recently used the same functionality a couple days ago and I had no problem with it. I really ...
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How to access GUI from TTY
Ubuntu enters tty mode with itself I'm trying to go back to GUI by using ctrl+alt with F1-F12 but It doesn't work. In addition, when I'm trying to update by using sudo apt update it gives me errors ...
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UBUNTU 22.04.2 LTS Does not work correctly with RTX4090
PC specs:
CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900k
GPU: NVIDIA RTX4090 Gigabyte
Motherboard: Z690 Ace
GNOME 42.5
I have Ubuntu installed on the above PC, but since then there are many problems with:
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Desktop icon does not appear in LXQt
I am using Lubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with LXQt 0.17.1 and am trying to launch the intel vtune-gui (standalone version installed from here and environment variables set from instructions here) via a desktop ...
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Help with GUI issues
Hello Ubuntu Community!
I run a VirtualBox VM with Ubuntu 22.04 on a Windows 10 host (with Intel Integrated Graphics).
Yesterday I updated VirtualBox to the latest version (from 6.x to 7.0.6) and I ...
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Garbled text in GUI
This is what I see in some places on my Ubuntu 22.04 with Wayland and GNOME in a VirtualBox VM:
It's particularly bad in VS Code: the dialog window (which is supposed to be about settings sync) and ...
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Some application GUIs do not render correctly since updating to 22.04
I use Ubuntu on VirtualBox but I haven't used it for some time. I launched it today and upgraded the release to 22.04, however since the update I have noticed some of my apps GUI do not render ...
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After upgrading to 22.04LTS, GUI no longer works on chrome, totem.Nomacs "unable to create a GL context"
I was running 20.04LTS - I had started getting dependency errors, but upgrade to 22.04 which appeared to load (there were 2 or 3 warnings) did not work.
When I start various apps (chrome, VLC, nomacs) ...
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opening terminal when save as executed inside a given program for instance Texmaker Ubuntu 22.04.1
Is there a way to open terminal instead GUI when saving a given file inside a given program in Ubuntu?
For instance, after editing a latex document inside Texmaker, I will press Ctrl+S and the GUI ...
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Unable to start Ubuntu in GUI mode after upgrade
I have upgraded my Ubuntu from 20.04, but when it restarted in graphical mode ...
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How to recover Ubuntu GUI? [closed]
I was working in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial.
I was trying to upgrade from Python 3.5 to Python 3.8.
After doing pip install, I checked python3 --version it was still showing version 3.5.
So, I removed python ...
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upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 - ubuntu locks me out of the ui for brief bursts
It feels like I no longer get ui events or can click anything. like there is an invisible window between me and all applications. I can get out of it by hitting the windows key and re-selecting any ...
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After upgrade from Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 GUI can not load
I've tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop but there are many broken packages from ubuntu 20.04 and it has been impossible to me.
Why is trying to install ubuntu 20.04 packages instead of 22.04?
How can ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 problem with start-up
About 20 seconds after the BIOS appears the download is completed and this message appears.
[ OK ] Finished Wait until snapd fully seeded.
After this there is nothing.
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No GUI on Kubuntu
I have installed the LTS version of Kubuntu. After installing there is nothing displaying but the wallpaper. Note, that system is functional, but I seem to not have the Terminal, Browser, etc.
I have ...
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Failed to execute child process "/bin/sh" (input/output error)
I am using RedmiBook with ryzen 5 4500u, Ubuntu 22.10 (22.04 have same problem)
Every time after waking up from suspend and working correctly for few seconds, it starting to throw an error from title, ...
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Reskin Ubuntu to other OS (MS Windows, Android) Muscle Memory [closed]
I know there was a linux OS that was very similar to windows, so allow users to switch from windows more easily...
As one of the issues with non-technical users is learning the command line or ...
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Can I disable the "release to select" of my context menus in favor of "click to select"?
In every program I've tested this in (VSCode, Firefox, Thunderbird, and Nemo) on Ubuntu 22.04, if you right-click to bring up the context menu and continue holding the right-click, then move the ...
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Where can I find a list of the languages supported by Ubuntu in the UI?
Where can I find a list of the languages supported by Ubuntu in the UI?
I find this list https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=language-pack but it strikes me as incomplete because there is no ...
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Indicator to show online / offline in 22.04
I have this Python code that sends a notification when we are offline. I was wondering whether it is possible to have a visible indicator based on this code in Ubuntu 22.04. Green when the connection ...
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Software Updater check UI not working after updating to 22.10 [duplicate]
Next screenshot with tick selections allows to select/unselect those that are selected (blue). However, you can not interact with the rest.
In any case, after clicking on "Install Now" all ...
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How to remove everything that is related to GUI and peripherals
I played a bit with gnome and a few things related to graphical interfaces, like X11 etc.
Now I want everything removed except the core Ubuntu Server features (and the other web-related servers I ...
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Laptop boots in Terminal mode
I've seen a couple similar posts about this problem, but none of the solutions I saw worked for me so I will try my luck here.
The problem is that after not using my laptop for something around 3 or 4 ...
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