GNOME is a full-featured, user-friendly desktop environment for Unix operating systems, based entirely on free software.
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Gnome keyring issue
I am attempting to restore some files to an OpenSUSE 12.3 machine that was backed up with deja-dup (duplicity). When prompted for the password to decrypt the backup, I enter the correct password and I ...
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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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Wine/PoL giving numerous errors in Fedora 17
I've been trying to run a handful of indy games for Windows on my laptop through Wine, but got a bunch of errors along the lines of:
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/jude/.wine'
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How to get name of Display Manager on Linux? [duplicate]
I want to see Display Manager name (Gnome, KDE etc.) via python or bash script. Is there any command for it as uname? (I try fedora and Debian)
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How to get the icon for a MIME type?
How to get the icon for a MIME type?
I don't want to use g_file_info_get_icon() because its input parameter is a file, not a MIME type.
My use case:
I have a wrapper file which embeds a media ...
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Xtightvnc: Ubuntu gnome-session-fallback: Fonts problem
I'm running a tightvnc server on Ubuntu 11.04 with a Gnome fallback session. Things seem to work fine except that when I try launching an application that needs xfonts-100dpi. All application menus ...
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Bactrack5 + VMWare + GNOME Fail
When I attempt to run any of the preinstalled GUI apps with startx it fails to run and terminates with the output
failed to load module "vmwgfx" (module does not exist, 0)"
Followed by ...xterm... ...
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Start the GUI automatically in OpenBSD
I can't find the GUI to start up automatically in OpenBSD hppa 5.3. What commands must I use to get this working?
I want to use Gnome like in OpenSuse which I am more comfortable with.
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GDM not showing when I boot my FreeBSD system
I've installed FreeBSD 9.1 in a VirtualBox VM, and did some basic setup.
After that, I had installed Gnome2 via sudo pkg_add -r gnome2.
Along the way, there were some errors. Mostly it was (I think) ...
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I can't login to Crunchbang Linux
I rebooted my VM and now I can't login. It gives me the following error:
Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some ...
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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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How can I make window borders transparent in Gnome?
I want to create a GTK+ 3.0 theme (for Gnome 3.6+) that features transparent window borders. Is this possible? If so, how can I do it?
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Debian 6 Gnome black screen after boot
I installed Debian a few weeks ago, and the last time I ran apt-get update, I think it updated something xorg/xserver, not sure.
Since then i get a black screen after boot.
If I go into recovery mode ...
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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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Debian's ReportBug equivalent on Fedora/Gnome?
When I was using Debian, there was a tool called "ReportBug" - or something like that.
Ironically, the tool itself was probably the buggiest program I have ever used. I was never, ever actually able ...
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Remove shadows from Metacity windows
My goal is to remove the dropshadow from all metacity windows. I realize there is not a setting to do this and I may need to recompile metacity. If this is so than I'll need some help on where to ...
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No gnome-power-manager command but it is installed on arch
I'm running latest Arch, have gnome and fluxbox and my main windows manager is Fluxbox. I wanted to manage my power settings in fluxbox and i added gnome-power-manager in startup but is says there ...
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network manager in gnome 3.6.2 in Arch Linux
Every network manager I've tried is "incompatible with this version" in gnome's settings panel... I can still connect from command line fine, but that's just kind of a pain.
solutions I have tried:
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Need to reset the Keyboard shortcuts defined
I bound some keys by mistake, and they don't work any more, such as HOME, END, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT.
Is there a way to reset all the bound keys to their original state?
I know this might be ...
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Can I change a shortcut key to Windows key?
I'm trying to change the shortcut key for "Run Application" ( Alt+F2 ) to the Windows key.
When I click "Show the panel's Run application dialog box" in Keyboard Shorcuts, it says "New Shortcut", ...
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Why is Run Application (Alt-F2) very sluggish on a new computer?
I just got a new, strong ubuntu desktop. First time linux user.
I'm trying the Run Application app ( Alt+F2 ), try "Ch" for Chrome, and the app thinks for 2-3 seconds before displaying the list of ...
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CentOS GUI problem using Gnome
For some reason lately when I try to set the date using the interface, or simply install a .rpm by double clicking the dialog that should prompt me to input my passowrd just shakes like it has a bug. ...
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Can we switch desktop ( GNOME, KDE, etc ) within linux?
I started using linux mint 13 mate yesterday. Although the words from their site is promising, I found it lack some ways for configuration.
For example, I want to enlarge the scroll bar so that I can ...
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How can I kill gnome shell widgets?
I have some gnome shell widgets that I need to be closed. I am unable to find which processes are behind them.
Any idea how can I kill them?
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What does GNOME do with multimedia keys?
GNOME makes multimedia keys, such as fn+directional keys on my laptop, maybe dedicated keys on your keyboard, into very useful keys. They seem to work with a large number of application. What can I do ...
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The application gnome-panel has quit unexpectedly
I'm getting the following error on a Solaris machine when logged in via VNC.
The application gnome-panel has quit unexpectedly.
The two options I see are Restart Application and Close.
I would ...
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Official tools to save/restore gnome settings
Is there an official tool that can save and restore gnome-specific settings ? I know several applications uses ~/.config, I don't care about them, just settings for gnome, e.g panel applets, keyboard ...
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Building pango-1.32.6 for use in building gtk3 from git
I'm trying to build pango-1.32.6 to use when building gtk+3 from git, but I'm getting the following error:
checking for CAIRO... yes
checking which cairo font backends could be used... none
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Adjust mouse wheel sensitivity in Fedora / Gnome
Short Question
Is there a way to adjust the mouse wheel scroll sensitivity in Fedora 18?
Long Question
I'm running Fedora 18, with the standard Gnome desktop. I use a Logitech M705 mouse with the ...
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“Home Directory / Not Ours” on boot
I get the line Home Directory / Not Ours repeated about 30 times when i boot Debian.
This has recently started happening since i did an update where everything was stuffed up. eg. Gnome and gdm3 ...
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Turning off gnome's Function key mapping
I recently upgraded to Fedora 18 with gnome. My function keys started to do things like open the cd player (F12) and turn the volume up (F11) and down (F10). I'd like to just pass those though to the ...
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Gnome 3.6.1 doesn't work with startx anymore, only with gdm
I normally prefer my system to boot in text mode and manually start Gnome with startx but if I do that with Gnome 3.6.1, I get many errors and a basically unusable operating system. After installing ...
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Vino on Gnome DE Fedora 18 listening on 0.0.0.0
Listening IPv4://0.0.0.0:5900
After a bit of searching I found this in an error log somewhere. I appreciate the vagueness of this but how do I configure the ip vino should be listening on?
also I ...
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Is there a way to assign a shortcut key to nautilus' right click context menu?
Does anyone know of a way to assign a shortcut key combination to the menu items in the context menu that pops up in nautilus when you click on a file?
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Modifying $HOME variable on a session startup script: Gnome ignores it?
I'm modifying the $HOME variable on a /etc/profile.d script. This seems to be OK for console sessions.
There are some caveats on graphical sessions, though: Gnome won't load my desktop ...
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Display problem - Random grid appears on screen
I have recently started using Arch with nvidia driver (I had a lot of problems getting nouveau to even work so I decided to try nvidia) and I started experiencing rather odd problems. Every now and ...
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How to remember window location metacity (Always on visible workspace)
I need to have some applications running on specific workspaces on gnome and have the option (Always on visible workspace) ticked and remembered each time I'm loggin out. Is this possible?
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How to do a print screen or capture an area of the screen
Is there an equivalent of the Window's Print Screen + Paste (or better yet the Mac OS Cmd+Shift+4, Space) in gnome?
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gdm graphical login prompt problem (OpenSUSE 11.2)
I'm trying to figure out why the graphical login prompt won't show up at the login page. I see the wallpaper just fine, but the graphical login prompt wont show up no matter how long I wait.
So, In ...
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How to remove LUKS auto-unlock?
Unfortunately my drive unlocks automatically. This makes the whole encryption useless. How do I turn off this annoying feature on a specified drive (e.g. /dev/x) ?
The cryptsetup command I've found ...
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Keyboard combination to insert non keyboard characters
on windows one could with Alt+235 print ë into (any) textfield. I tried the same on linux and it seems to be not working. Depending on the application the result is different, but never the wanted ...
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No panels in Ubuntu? libcanberra-tk cannot open shared object file
I booted up Ubuntu and have a background but no panels. Everything else seems to work fine, I can get into terminal and run Firefox for instance. I can create folders on my desktop, etc.
I'm new to ...
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Enabling Numeric Keypad
I have trouble with the numeric keypad (NumLock keys) being unusable while typing.
While I don't think it's GUI specific, this happens both in Gnome and KDE. Sometimes it works in TTY, other times it ...
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How to get the GNOME version?
Is there an authoritative way to get the GNOME version, as long as I have a working GNOME desktop (any version) running? Several of these suggestions don't work on my system, either because the ...
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Enable remote desktop for Gnome from command line?
I am trying to set up some automation scripts to set up a Linux environment. I would like to enable remote desktop sharing without the user having to actually use the GUI to do so. My plan is to write ...
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Where place own application icons? How to get the current theme icons?
I'm developing a little application for Gnome, Unity and KDE desktops. I want the application icons to be fully theme aware.
Now, I'm including the icons on the application directory on ...
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Setting mouse speed in Gnome just like in other desktop environments
When I'm using XFCE I can set mouse pointer speed to "Acceleration: 5.0 | Sensitivity: 4 px". When I have to switch KDE I can use same settings because these are simply configuration tools for X11.
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Can't open Gajim
When I try to open Gajim using terminal on gnome I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gajim.py", line 106, in <module>
import common.configpaths
File ...
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How do font managers work in Fedora?
I am looking to do some font management on my Fedora system. I have installed both Font Manager and Fontmatrix. My goal was to be able to have more fonts installed than I wanted displayed, and to be ...
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Will GNOME and GTK libs bloat up my KDE?
I want to use Shutter. I installed it previously under Kubuntu and it needed a lot of libs.
What bothered me most was that Kubuntu wanted me to restart, that is rare for OS's nowadays and in general ...
