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Lock keys panel indicator for MATE Desktop. Num Lock indicator stays on

I have activated the Mate Tweak for "Enable Keyboard LED" which works for CapsLk but NumLk stays on all the time after first activation. Any suggestions for curing this annoyance would be ...
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How to click and launch an application in "background"?

I'm not sure I'm using the good words : I'd like my applications (Firefox, LibreOffice for instance) not to go foreground and capture the focus when I'm launching them (typically with a click on the ...
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Remove GNOME panel Ubuntu 20.04

I cannot remove GNOME panel so the background is always black. I want to close it but it's disabled. Do you know how to enable this? I use Alt + Space
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Black background on Ubuntu 20.04

After I 'reset to defaults' on tweak, my desktop background looks like this Do you know how to fix it?
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How to move the ribbon into the Top bar in ubuntu 20.04?

I would like the top bar to include the ribbon, which is File, Edit, View etc. Similar to Mac OS. Then it would also be best if I could move the 'time' to the right side instead of the middle. Any ...
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How can I make available same setting of Gnome-tweak tool for all other users in my system?

I'm able to configure windows 10 theme using Gnome-tweak tool for 1 user. But I need the same setup should reflect for all other user in the same system. Want to re-use the extensions, themes and ...
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Only default themes are listed in Gnome Tweaks

Linux noobie here, using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my laptop. I'm having issues installing custom themes (downloaded from Gnome-Look), in this case Application themes, using Gnome Tweaks. No matter what I ...
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Unity Tweak Tool missing themes

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Trying to change themes found only 4 they are Ambiance, Highcontrast, Paper and Radiance. Looking in usr/share/themes I have 20 titles. How to have Unity to see all of them. Thank ...
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How to disable all the resident apps and services I don't use?

Once I open the system monitor I can immediately notice a number of processes I am sure I make zero use of: avahi-daemon, evolution-addressbook-factory and 5 more evolution processes (taking 116 ...
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Cannot Change Launcher Opacity Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I installed both Unity Tweak Tool and Compiz Config Settings Manager to try and make my launcher transparent in Ubuntu 16.04. Adjusting the launcher transparency in both of these programs had no ...
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Speeding up boot time

I'm setting up a PC in the living room for Steam Big Picture (a "media center" version of Steam, which can also stream videogames from another computer on the local network). All the computer has to ...
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Hotcorners keep being disabled

It bugs me a lot that one of the best features of unity; hotcorners, are disabled by default. I use Unity Tweak Tool to activate hotcorners, with the upper left corner activating the workspace ...
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why gnomeshell's systray's menu lags so much? and how to fix it (is there any dconf or some other option I could use even to recompile gnome)?

if I hover the mouse over anything on systray, it is fast. The moment I click in something there that shows a menu, between hovering over every menu entry, there is a whole interface freeze (...
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Why Tweak don't see themes in folder .themes?

I using Ubuntu 22.04 I have already watched a lot of videos on this topic, but did not find the answer. I would be very grateful if anyone knows the solution. Installed User themes, themes in .themes ...
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Cupertino/Pantheon task bar (panel) does not show 22.04

I love the mac styled Ubuntu Mate taskbar (or panel as they call it in MATE). However, it has been (all since Ubuntu 18.04) a pain in the neck how lazy it shows up, when I give it a mouse trigger - by ...
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Unity's window size/position shortcuts on Gnome

I love and I'm so used to the ALT+Mouse to move a window and SHIFT+Mouse to resize evenly shortcuts that Unity has, but now I'm thinking on moving to Gnome and I am not able to find those gestures in ...
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Font looking Ugly after changing size and not recovering

I tried to change the size of my fonts. Now the font is looking ugly. I can't change to previous form. See how ugly it is looking! I am using KUBUNTU 18.10. What should I do?
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change Bangla font style systemwide

This is a screenshot of my bangla font in Akregator in KUBUNTU 18.04. I don't know which font family for bangla is being used in my system. This font is seems ugly and unreadable. I am using English(...
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getting error for user-theme extension by executing commands

this are some commands to install user-theme extension. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme click this.this is ...
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What tweaks can be used to make Ubuntu run faster on a weak CPU?

Most tweaks pertain to low RAM systems or to making the system use the HDD less. In my system with a SSD and 8GB of RAM, the CPU (or SoC in the case of my Intel Celeron N3150) is the bottleneck. I ...
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Lubuntu with an Ubuntu desktop: system menu not visible 14.04

These are the steps I followed: install Lubuntu 14.04 install Ubuntu desktop 14.04 install ubuntu-tweak-tool install unity-tweak-tool (this did not work, it asked me to install missing packages) ...
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