Questions tagged [desktop]

Desktop is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users more easily interact with the computer.

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Dysfunctional desktop

I'm having problems with the behaviour of the Ubuntu 22.04 desktop. I don't know why, the block button stopped working. I mean the "lock" icon key in the Logitech MX Keys. I think it stopped ...
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What to do when a Linux desktop freezes?

I'm a Windows guy, dual booted recently, and now I'm using Linux Mint 12 When a Windows desktop freezes I refresh, or if I am using a program I use alt + F4 to exit the program or I can use ctrl + ...
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Can I make Gnome behave and look more like a traditional desktop?

Can I modify Gnome so it behaves more like Gnome2 and other desktops? One has to go to the activities menu in the corner, click, then click the buckshot pattern at the bottom then see this. Is there ...
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No "File Open" / "Save As" dialogue in Chrome/Brave

I have a strange behaviour in my Chrome-based browsers. I cannot open/upload/save/download files. It does not show me the "file open" dialogue when I press an upload button on any website. ...
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How to Change Size of Desktop

UPDATE: It appears my icons are appearing below my screen. This is part of a screenshot, but I cannot see it on my monitor: I am running Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon. I changed the size of my panel, and ...
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No mouse and close/maximize button Elementary OS

I've downloaded and installed Elementary OS in my laptop, but something weird is happening with me. I made an USB Flash Drive installation, using UNetbootin. I was able to test it (like a Live-CD) ...
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How to restore desktop color settings?

OS is Debian 12. Video driver is Nvidia 525.147.05. I'm trying to play an older game via wine that uses directx. (diablo 2). I launched the game in windowed mode, but when I did so, the colors of the ...
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Linux container for desktop experience

Just out of curiosity, are there any cases of it being possible to have a Linux container be the user-facing desktop environment instead of it being interacted with via the command line or any "...
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gThumb won't open from its own .desktop file nor from thunar, xdg-open is ok

gThumb doesn't start when launched from Thunar (right click, open with, gThumb). I also can't run it with dex /user/local/share/application/org.gnome.gThumb.desktop. In both cases nothing happens, no ...
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Select area on screen with pointer

Is there a command line tool that let one select an area with pointer and print the result to terminal? Much like with various screen capture tools, but I want the coordinates. For example x,y,width,...
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How do I add shortcuts on Desktop in Debian 12 (Bookworm)?

I changed from Kali Linux to simple Debian and I dislike the results so far. Previously I had shortcuts on the desktop but switching to Debian 12 there are no shortcuts? How do I add them?
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Where is the .xsession file in linux mint?

I would like to know how I can use start up scripts in .xsession in order to change the look of my Desktop, I assumed .xsession was in my home directory so I performed at my home directory: ls -a to ...
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Can I run GUI programs without needing a desktop environment?

I use Raspbian (i.e. Debian) Linux. I have been doing some reading but am still unclear. It seems to me when you boot to command line, it's not really made to use GUI stuff like mpv. Is there a ...
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Access desktop files from Linux terminal in college server

I am trying to access my desktop files from the college server. I can access my desktop files: cd /mnt/c/Users/Username/Desktop from the Linux terminal, but once I get to my college server using ssh, ...
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Benefiting of sched_autogroup_enabled on the desktop

I am running a 2.6.37 kernel with sched_autogroup_enabled set to 1. I am not certain that I am seeing the benefits of this patch since: I am launching my applications from the desktop; applications ...
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Bash script via .desktop save to variable external filename with fullpath

ok i try to make the most resumed the points i want to do. Sorry for the repetions i don't know how make this question more objectively The first i am making a script for launch "mupen64plus"...
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Lubuntu 15.10 dual monitor setup issues

Problem description I recently updated my two monitor system from Lubuntu 14.04 to Lubuntu 15.10. I set everything on the new system exactly as on the old one before and I figured out a strange ...
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get available screen size after considering space used by the menu bar and launcher

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. I know how to get my screen resolution using xrandr or xdpyinfo. But with these tools I get the maximum available desktop size .... I have a menu bar at the top that takes ...
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How to turn the screen total/pitch black in GNOME?

Use case / Problem I wanna hear music in the night with my laptop/device and as such I want the screen to be black, as I don't want to get dazzled in the night. Tried workarounds/“solutions” As such, …...
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How to stop an app from Requesting Attention/Alerting/Appearing in the Task Manager of multiple virtual desktops in KDE?

I commonly have this issue with both Unity and KakaoTalk - the apps constantly do this "alert" or "Request Attention" state where they appear orange and become visible on the task ...
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How do I "show desktop" in Fedora 38 with mouse?

I know I could set up shortcut key for "show desktop", but I need to do it with a mouse. What do I click to show the desktop? Os is default Fedora 38 with Gnome desktop. I asked ChatGPT and ...
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How do you create a functionnal desktop folder after deleting it?

On Mate desktop I accidentally did a rm -rf * in home folder, now every file that I create inside this folder appears on the Desktop, I created a new Desktop folder but it's not enough to fix it.
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Some folders on KDE Desktop does not follow accent color

Using Debian 12 with KDE Plasma 5.27.5, I went to System Settings -> Appearance -> Colors and set my accent color to purple, so my folders and highlighted stuff looks in that color, but some (...
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GUI volume indicator in Openbox

I am using plain openbox as my window manager. I have configured keyboard special keys, such as XF86AudioMute, XF86AudioLowerVolume and XF86AudioRaiseVolume. But how can I get the gui indicator, when ...
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I am looking for a linux distrution that still supports fvwm2 windowmanager

I am looking to build a desktop with servers. Debian, Ubuntu redhat.... I want to avoid snaps if possible.
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Ricing Xclock Colors

I have edited the ~/.Xresources file for the forground and backgorund of Xclock: xclock*foreground: #ebdbb2 xclock*background: #282828 Only the background shows up. The forground remains the default ...
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overriding a single field in a desktop-entry

I'm setting up a Debian system, with LXDE as the Desktop Environment (really, I'm just remastering a Raspberry Pi OS image). I have an application that ships with a .desktop file. Cool! Unfortunately ...
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ffmpeg: record screen area selected by mouse

I have found a ffmpeg command to record area of my screen: ffmpeg -video_size 2000x1600 -framerate 25 -f x11grab -i :0.0+2140,280 output.mp4 But to find the correct area, I had to do multiple trial/...
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Windows's top border overlaps menu bar

Environment OS: Arch Linux Desktop Environment: Mate Display: Dual displays of the same resolutions and the same inches. Uncommonly, they are aligned vertically (see picture below). Location of ...
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Geo-spoofing (a desktop app for Debian)?

I want to spoof my location on my android device without jailbreaking. I saw this post about desktop software that can spoof mobile device via usb. Can you please help me find a free alternative that ...
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lxde desktop shortcut remove prompt that ask action (open execute)

I've create a simple file.desktop from chromium but every time I click on it it prompt : this file seems a script whatn you want to do? Execute Execute in terminal Open Cancel This happen with ...
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How to prevent Gnome and XFCE desktops from overlapping

I noticed a weird behaviour in my XFCE sessions. The DE starts fine and at a certain point, I still don't know what causes this, the XFCE desktop is transparently overlapped by the Gnome one. All my ...
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Don't set wm_class of "Navigator" when starting Firefox

I'm starting Firefox as follows: /usr/bin/firefox --no-remote -P Fastmail --class "FastmailFF" The ultimate goal is to figure out a command to put in a .desktop file which will have it's ...
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Make firefox open url in currently selected virtual desktop

Recently, i tried to organize my computer using KDE's virtual desktops, so windows that i open on my gaming desktop do not disturb me when i'm on my working desktop. But there is a problem with ...
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How to scale the resolution/display of the desktop and/or applications?

While using Xorg X11, on KDE/Gnome/XFCE how can we scale the display/resolution for the whole desktop and/or per application? (when this is not available on the settings GUI) The purpose is to keep ...
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Linux Mint - System notifications disappear without doing anything

I'd like to have my system notifications remain active until I manually mark them as read. Unfortunately they disappear without doing anything. What do I need to change? These are my preferences:
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How do I refresh Gnome 3 applications

I just added and modified a .desktop file in my /home/user/.local/share/applications folder. Is there any way to refresh the icon and caption in the list of applications without logging out?
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How to increase GNOME timed wallpaper repaint frequency?

I'm setting up a timed wallpaper in GNOME, but when duration is configured to be < 1 second, it doesn't work as expected. The duration (or each frame) is timed correctly, however the desktop ...
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Kde: how to bind permanently an application to a desktop/activity?

Im pretty new to Kde 4.8 and I can not figure out how to get this behaviour that I used to have in Gnome: Desktop 1: developer/misc (browser, editor/ide, diff, etc..) Desktop 2: virtual machines (...
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In Ubuntu 22 file explorer GUI, how to add "Desktop" to left hand side shortcuts?

Have tried to search for it, but only get answers for the normal sidebar. Here is a screenshot where I have opened the file explorer on my recent Ubuntu 22 machine: How do I add a Desktop shortcut to ...
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Drop down terminal when mouse hits top border of Desktop

I would like a drop down terminal which drops down when I move the mouse to the top (or bottom, left, right), similar to how the panel can be configured to auto-hide and only drop down or pop up if ...
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Why can't create a shortcut icon in start menu?

I can create a shortcut icon in the start menu for firefox: sudo vim /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Mozilla Firefox not esr Comment=Browse the World Wide ...
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Catalog of keyboard shortcuts

Is there anything remotely like a catalog of all keyboard shortcuts used by Linux applications? I work with AutoKey, an X11 desktop automation application that allows various desktop tasks to be ...
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Show file system instead of "places" in gtk file chooser

In almost any program, when I click on open, a file chooser dialog opens as shown below. This dialog shows Recent, Home, Desktop and so on. This is extremely annoying. I am not using Desktop to store ...
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openbox+fbpanel: highlight current window when using Alt + Tab

I am using openbox 3.6.1-8 on Debian 10. When I use Alt+Tab to cycle through open windows, I see the preview of the applications as I am cycling through them in the middle of my screen: unfortunately ...
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In gnome desktop, the mouse is on the black desktop and can't do anything on Debian 11

When I enter the gnome GUI desktop on Debian 11, the mouse is shown on the black desktop and I can't do any other things. That is my computer screen is black but the cursor is on the screen and I can ...
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Why are my application.desktop files not showing up in Linux application menu?

I've written quite a few open source programs over the years, but not very recently, and I've never had this problem before. The menu items for my new project simply refuse to show up in menus on ...
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How to add new folder to the list of personal folders (Documents, Download, etc)

I would like to add some very used folders to the list of personal/important folders in Files (or Dolphin, or Places) - (Documents, Downloads, NewFolder1, NewFolder2, etc). This folders are located in ...
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How to set the Exec when bash command is too long?

The desktop file works fine: [Desktop Entry] Type=Action Name=unrar zip or rar file Profiles=unrar [X-Action-Profile unrar] MimeTypes=inode/directory Exec=bash -c "unar /home/test.rar -o /tmp;...
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Getting visual feedback of workspace switch in xfce

I make heavy use of workspaces, and have a lot of them (a 6x4 grid). I usually run openbox, but am currently using a machine that doesn't have openbox set up, so I'm using xfce because it's already ...

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