GNOME shell is the default user interace for the GNOME 3 desktop.
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Linux Mint - Gnome Shell with dual monitor switch main screen
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 with Linux Mint 12 and gnome-shell on it.
Its a Intel HD 3000 Graphics card in there.
When I'm at home, I have another Screen plugged in (19" 4:3) and everything works ...
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How to get alt+right mouse to resize windows again!
I'm frustrated that this was removed/altered in gnome-shell3. There are certain key bindings for resizing and moving windows like alt+right click etc, that I'd like back. I've tried to use the system ...
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Can I prevent “Disable touchpad while typing” from affecting mouse movements?
When I click my name in the upper right, then click "System Settings", then "Mouse and Touchpad", and then "Disable touchpad while typing" it affects my mouse movements. I have to wait two seconds ...
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Where is the “About Gnome” dialog in gnome-shell?
I'm used to Gnome 2 in Debian and Fedora. But recently I've been using Gnome 3 and Gnome-shell (3.0.2). Today I noticed I wasn't able to find the About Gnome dialog. It's been helpful in the past ...
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How do I disable the left-(meta|windows) key binding in gnome-shell
I changed the keybinding to Show the activities overview in the panel System Settings / Keyboard / Shortcuts to Shift-ESC, but the left-meta or left-windows key is still bringing it up.
How do I ...
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Is Pidgin integrated with Gnome Shell?
Does Pidgin integrate well with Gnome Shell, compared to Empathy? I'm using Linux Mint 12 right now. Would I be better off installing Empathy?
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How does GNOME Shell Extensions work?
I have switched over to GNOME Shell, and use GNOME Shell Extensions to tweak the looks and functionality of my distribution.
However, I have not yet found out what technology is used to install, ...
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Why do Mono applications only start from their own directory?
If I want to run the application monodevelop, I need to chdir to /usr/lib/monodevelop/Bin and then execute ./MonoDevelop.exe. This is the same for all other Mono applications such as banshee, tomboy, ...
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Will Docky run on gnome 3 with gnome shell?
This is not Ubuntu specific (as I no longer use Ubuntu) but will Docky ( http://wiki.go-docky.com/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Docky_wiki ) which is in the Ubuntu repos run on gnome shell? I know it ...
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One PC, several users, Gnome 3 and Awesome. How to easy switch users via GDM
I'm using Arch Linux with Gnome 3.6 installed. There are several users on this PC with their own accounts. We used to use just switch user button instead of logging out. So almost always several users ...
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Focus “mouse” or “sloppy” do the same thing on gnome-shell
My problem is actually very annoying.
I am very familiar with the mouse focus but right now it's not working.
Inside gnome-tweak-tool the last option "windows" has the "windows focus mode" switch. ...
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Gnome3 defaults to fallback
I'm new to Arch Linux and I've installed Gnome3. When I start it, it just offered me a fallback mode, that's not bad, I mean I've been using it for several days. But I'd like to try the standard mode ...
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How can I automatically restart gnome-shell coming out of suspend mode?
So, due to an issue with gnome-power-manager, gnome-shell, and my nvidia card, I'm left in the awkward position of coming out of suspension/sleep with my graphics broken. This problem resolves itself ...
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How does battery life on a laptop compare between GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 (GNOME Shell)?
Since GNOME 3 uses hardware acceleration by default, I assume that it will be worse for battery life on my laptop, but I can't actually find anything to back this up, and by how much. Has anyone done ...
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How do I add eclipse to my gnome shell favorites?
I run gnome shell 3.6 and Eclipse 4.2. I installed Eclipse manually, in my /opt directory, because the Ubuntu package for Eclipse is very outdated.
I've created a .desktop file for it, and placed in ...
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Preloading gnome-shell before getting login dialog from gdm, is it possible?
Is there anyway to (pre)load gnome-shell before getting user account login dialog from gdm?
The problem is after login from gdm I have to wait for gnome-shell to be ready with non-responsive , no ...
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Is there any gnome-shell mixer icon relying on alsa and not pulseaudio?
So, long story short, when I installed Mint 12 on my Dell laptop I realized my HDA-intel sound board have problems with pulseaudio. I uninstalled pulseaudio and got my sound back, but removing ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome shell - suspend wake up sound
I would like to be able to enable some sound file to play whenever I suspend and wake up my netbook (MSI Wind u100) but I can't found a way to do this in gnome shell.
I'm using PinguyOS 11.10, which ...
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Difference between Gnome3 and Gnome-shell
What is the difference between gnome3 and gnome-shell, if any?
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How can I make the Gnome3 calendar use Thunderbird instead of Evolution?
Can it be done? I don't want to use Evolution's calendar... I want to keep using Thunderbird... I have to add some addons (like lightning) first right?
My goal is to have some calendar-like on ...
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How are Gnome shell extensions supposed to be managed?
I'm having trouble understanding the intended way of managing Gnome shell extensions.
I can't find any appropriate programs in the Dash for doing that. The only way I can actually manage extensions ...
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How do I resize GNOME shell top bar
I am on Ubuntu 12.04 and installed gnome-shell, but I found the top bar is larger than it normally is, how can I change its size?
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keyboard shortcuts only work with left super-key
I recently had to change the keyboard-shortcuts after updating my system. I had to use dconf-editor to manually set the shortcut from <Super>+R to <Mod4>+R in order to get them to work ...
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How do I disable a keyboard shortcut in gnome-shell?
There are tutorials all over the web on how to set various functionalities to activate on a keyboard shortcut, but so far I'm unable to figure out how to un-set a keyboard shortcut. That is, how do I ...
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Is it possible to set su to use WE password dialog
I have sometimes problem when during entering password for su other window appears and steals the focus ("wait - did I just entered root password on public IRC chatroom?" - it did not happened but ...
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Is it possible to execute a sub-command from a Gnome Shell launcher?
I've got an alias set up to launch my text editor in a way that keeps it local to the specific desktop I'm working on in Gnome Shell:
alias geany="geany --socket-file=/tmp/geany-sock-$(xprop -root ...
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Run metacity without gnome-shell (gnome 3)
Hi how can i use metacity with composite manager without gnome-shell. I'm trying to do so in my custom xsession
#!/bin/bash
if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax ...
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How to add additional Gnome-Shell and Unity workspace navigation shortcuts
I am very familiar with (and love) the workspace switching in Gnome-Shell and Unity (using Ctrl+Alt+[Up/Down/Right/Left]), but being a vim fan, it would also be great if I could add an additional ...
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Wrong Opera Icon in Gnome Shell
I am using Opera 11.60 on ArchLinux (64bit) with Gnome3 and KDE4. Since I installed KDE4 last week Gnome3 shows the wrong Icon for Opera in the upper left corner and in the task switcher (alt+tab).
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How to use third party notification area with gnome shell
I'm using gnome-shell 3.0.2 on Arch Linux and I want to use AWN's notification area plugin. However when I try to activate the plugin it complains that there's already a notification area running.
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How to place Empathy in Gnome 3's messaging bar?
For consistency between Skype and Empathy, I'd like to put Empathy into the bottom messaging bar in Gnome 3 (Gnome Shell, if you will). Is there a way to do this?
(I use Gnome 3.4, although answers ...
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Where does gnome-session/gnome-shell store its configuration?
Long story short; I have a debian system that's been running the unstable tree for over a decade straight (through fire, flames, and multiple hardware upgrades, but that aside). However, a while ago ...
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How to create a custom region in gnome3?
Gnome3 doesn't include my region. I need:
calendar week to start on monday
british-english spelling
8.5x11 as the default document size for printing
celsius for temperatures
miles for distances
...
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Fedora 15 Gnome Shell Pauses on certain wireless networks
Whenever I connect to my girlfriend's wireless network, gnome shell will "pause" randomly. Gnome shell quits updating or drawing. The clock is set to use seconds, and will pause for anywhere from 1 to ...
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Why is clutter not working?
I've managed to install Gnome 3 on Debian testing. However, it is just running in fallback-mode.
When want to start mutter or gnome-shell, there seems to be a problem with Clutter:
# mutter ...
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Does Gnome Shell use Mutter?
In Wikipedia is written that Gnome Shell in Gnome 3 uses Mutter window manager.
But ps x | grep mutter shows that Mutter is not running. Moreover I had experience with working Gnome Shell before I ...
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Install Cinnamon on Debian
Is it possible to install Cinnamon on Debian unstable?
There is no packages for Debian on their official download page, and when i tried to add PPA to my repositories list, it won't install because ...
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extensions.gnome.org is not working on fedora 17
Using fedora 17, when I click an extension to install from gnome shell extensions site, it wont install!
How to know what the problem is?
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How to format a curl command for a special task?
There is a search page in a form http://site.com/search.php and it sends a search query via POST request. I want to fetch this request via curl command line tool to inspect a POST request.
The HTML ...
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How do I install user theme extension in Gnome in Fedora 16?
Upon going to the user themes extension webpage, I get the following message:
This extension is incompatible with your version of GNOME. This extension supports the GNOME unstable release, 3.3.2
I ...
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Remove old icons in Gnome 3
I have been installing several version of Komodo editor. (The installation consist of extracting a .tar.gz archive and then running an .sh script as root.)
Yesterday I installed Gnome 3.
Now I see ...
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Force Epiphany to open links in Chrome (in Gnome 3)
Chrome Web Apps don't get a separate dock icon in Gnome 3. A way around this is to use Epiphany for web apps, but the downside is that all links will open in a new Epiphany window.
How can I have ...
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GNOME Shell - display path of files in Activities window
One feature that I really like of GNOME Shell is the possibility to just type the name of a file in the Activities window and have a list of matching files shown, so that you can open them.
However, ...
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Gnome 3 on FreeBSD 9
I recently installed FreeBSD 9-Release and I want to install Gnome 3 after having installed marcuscom ports. However after a long time, it stops with an error in libgdata.
How can I solve this ...
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Meta key does not open “Activities” menu in Gnome 3
I've started using the Gnome 3 packages that just came through the Debian testing repositories, and encountered a problem.
Hitting the Super/Meta/Windows key would not open "Activities" menu. Other ...
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Bring hidden Gnome 3 notifications back
I was working with Gnome 3 network settings, and accidentally clicked the "Hide" button on a VPN disconnect notification. Unfortunately, this means whenever my VPN gets disconnected, it doesn't say ...
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Duplicating Opera icon in Gnome Shell Dash
When I launch Opera manually I have a single icon in the Dash (red icon on top). But when restarting Gnome Shell (with Opera running) or having Opera restored from saved session on login, another ...
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Reset Nautilus “Computer” folder list
In my setup I tend to symlink major user folders in Linux to their Windows equivalents, IE Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc. Usually I make sure nautilus isn't running before I do it and ...
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Sound events in Gnome 3
I've installed Gnome 3 yesterday. I use Gnome Shell.
There are no any sound when a window closes and no any sound when I switch windows.
Can sound be added (at least when I close a window)?
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How can I upgrade to gnome-shell 3.6 from 3.2?
I have Linux Mint 12 which has gnome-shell 3.2.2.1 but I would like to update it to 3.6.
So my question is how do I upgrade it?
And also, AltF2 doesn't doesn't do anything, how can I get that ...
