Version 3 of the GNOME desktop environment
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How do you implement a login warning banner in Gnome 3?
This question documents how we used to inflict the mandatory login banners required on our Linux machines at work. Unfortunately, this procedure is no longer effective with Gnome 3 in Fedora 15, 16 or ...
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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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What happens when I press “Shut Down” from the GUI?
I have been banging my head against this for quite a while now. It's related to this question. I would like to find out exactly what happens when I choose to shut down my Linux box from the GUI. This ...
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My laptop cannot adjust brightness
I have a problem adjusting my laptop's brightness. This is a hardware problem but I can solve it with ccsm, but other programs do not work for me, e.g., xgamma, etc.
Now I am running Fedora 15 and ...
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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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NetworkManager issues in Arch Linux
Have had WiFi working fine via wifi-menu on command line for a while, but would much prefer the gnome icon, so i switched to NetworkManager, and now nothing will connect.
I enabled my dhcp daemon in ...
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kde install destroys gnome desktop
I recently installed KDE 4.7 on my wife's computer. I did not use the recommended Debian 'install task' method, which emulates the full install-from-.iso process.
Instead I just did:
# apt-get ...
