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install minimal desktop on centos 6.3
I just want to install a minimal gnome desktop without all the thunderbird/firefox and any other packages that may come with full centos live cd. Is there something like yum groupinstall base-desktop? ...
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How to change the properties of a desktop panel from the command line?
I use RHEL 6 as my regular operating system and for one of my user accounts I made one of the desktop panels as auto-hide and other as a fixed panel. I expected the hidden panel to appear above the ...
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which DE to use for setting up defaults
I'll use awesomewm as my main DE but without installing any actual DE(like KDE, GNOME, XFCE etc) I have to setup too many basic stuff like mouse cursor themes, gtk/qt theme engines and themes, ...
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Easiest way to install a Linux Desktop installtion on VirtualBox
I need a Linux Virtual machine (running on Windows with Virtual Box), and I need it run a desktop such as Gnome. Because it is running on a Virtual machine on a not particulary powerful machine I ...
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I would like to put one single icon in the Desktop that actually opens the Desktop. Any ideas?
The idea is to turn my Desktop into a place where I can put a image reference of what I am learning at the moment. This would be an example
This means:
puttig an image of the reference of what I'm ...
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PNG Image not displaying for desktop icon on Fedora 16/17 with Gnome
I attempted to create a desktop icon in Fedora Gnome but I only get a generic binary icon for my application. Installing Gimp or OpenOffice magically makes my icon appear.
I used Google Chrome on ...
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Can I have different desktop directories on different workspaces on Gnome?
I am running Linux Mint with "Gnome Classic", I guess it's Gnome 2. I am currently using 3 workspaces, and I have nautilus handling my desktop.
The problem is that my desktop is overloaded with ...
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Is there is tool similar to ShiftIt on OS X?
I'm looking for a keyboard controlled window sizing utility similar to ShiftIt on Mac OS X: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
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What happened to my desktop?
I have Linux Mint 12 Gnome desktop, everything was normal yesterday. I shut my PC down yesterday and went to sleep, I turned it on today, and see what happened
You see how everything is messed up? ...
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xdg-open ignores my application definitions
I am running compiz-gnome session with xfdesktop on fc16, don't ask why, but I have this weird problem. Some of the applications (e.g. tracker, or evolution )do not start the proper application for ...
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Does GNOME 3 support desktop zoom?
GNOME 3 is not compatible with Compiz, so I cannot use the desktop zoom feature from Compiz. I googled for a long time, and it seems GNOME still does not support desktop zoom -- does it? I am using ...
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GNOME 3 Ctrl+Alt+D (show desktop)
I recently upgraded my system to GNOME 3. In previous versions of GNOME, the key combination Ctrl+Alt+D would hide all open windows and show the Desktop. This shortcut was eliminated from GNOME 3 ...
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How to put Network places and My computer icon on Fluxbox desktop
I'm getting used to Fluxbox and it is great... I configured everything (icons, keys...) but I have this problem... I can't manage to put my Netowork places and Computer icons on desktop because I ...
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Debian GNOME 2.30, desktop does not respond anymore
I have Debian Wheezy with GNOME (2.30.2) installed on my computer and my problem is that my desktop does not work anymore.
I can't right click on the desktop (to change wallpaper, etc...). Moreover, ...
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How to run gVim in a single instance
I want it in such a way that on double clicking an already opened file, or a new file, gVim uses the same window. From this question asked previously on Stackoverflow I figured out how to do this by ...
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Dynamically change desktop background from bash script
Is it possible to change the GNOME desktop background during some period of time by just a random phrase from the list on black screen? Will is seriously load the CPU and consume battery life?
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Restoring the old 'lenny' Debian desktop
In lenny, the Debian desktop's default image was the red Debian logo, and it looked like this:
However, in squeeze, the desktop has been replaced by this:
How can one restory the lenny ...
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Why don't Gnome or KDE produce their own distribution (or other desktop projects for that matter)?
When I think of the recent debacle where Canonical and Gnome disagreed and each went their own way in terms of producing a new desktop, I wonder: Why doesn't a desktop project like Gnome produce its ...
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Add applications to launcher
I recently installed Matlab in /usr/matlab. What do I do to make it appear in the application launcher on the top left of the taskbar?
