GNOME is a full-featured, user-friendly desktop environment for Unix operating systems, based entirely on free software.
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Launching a GUI application in RHEL 5 hangs
When I try to launch any GUI application through a terminal in my RHEL 5.4, it takes a very long time for the GUI to come up. Also, sometimes it just hangs.
I see the following messages in the ...
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Theme looks different depending on location in FS?
I am noticing an annoying effect when copying GTK themes and I am unable to explain it. Copying a theme from /usr/share/themes to ~/.local/share/themes results in a new theme that looks different than ...
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How to disable popup inscriptions in gnome 2?
When one moves mouse cursor to certain positions following inscriptions appear: "Window Menu", "Close Window" and so on. How to disable them?
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No window menus in freenx
I recently upgraded an openSUSE 11.3 install to 11.4 by downloading the DVD, burning it, & chosing the upgrade option upon booting to it. I used all the upgrade defaults. Upon coming back up, I ...
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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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Gnome: Make system text copyable
Here I use "system text" to refer to the text displayed in the GTK widgets (labels, menus, dialogs etc.)
I would like to be able to highlight and copy any system text. I am using a locale with a ...
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Startx failing in FreeBSD
I've install gnome2, xorg, and xinit (should xorg have done that for me?), and startx yields:
"xinit: unable to run server "/usr/local/bin/X": No such file or directory"
I checked in the directory, ...
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How do I change the drag and drop threshold in Linux? (I'm using Gnome 3)
I'm not sure if it's a gnome setting or something deeper into the Linux OS, but I'd like to change the drag and drop threshold.
It happens too often on my clickable touchpad that I try clicking and ...
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Create new file type association
Let's assume I have a program X that uses files with the extension .xez. How can I make X the default application for all files with the extension .xez?
My first idea was xdg-mime default X.desktop ...
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Regain control of an X Server
I have a Gnome session running on my server. I started it with tightvncserver. Now it wont let me in anymore because of
Too many authentication failures - client rejected
This seems to be a ...
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How do I get gnome to use the same keymap for control as normal?
I'm using a relatively new centos system with Gnome. I have set the keyboard to dvorak, which was really easy and straightforward.
However, for some reason, the control keys are still qwerty. I ...
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Screen keeps dimming on Power (Dis-)Connect
I would like to disable the automatic screen dimming when I plug in our out my power adapter. Every time my laptop switches between battery/ac, my screen dims even though I have disabled it in every ...
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Which GNOME themes are suitable for black and white printing?
I need to place some screenshots of GNOME applications, such as the file manager, in a book. The book will be printed in black and white, and, although shades of gray are okay, it is best that I avoid ...
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What is going wrong with this theme when running Eclipse?
Please see this video to understand what I'm describing: Weirdness in Eclipse - YouTube.
Essentially, when I use the "Ambiance Evolution" theme with Eclipse, it starts wiggling and doesn't stop, as ...
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Debian 6: media keys in gnome-settings-daemon don't work
I am running a minimal Debian 6 x86_64 setup with pulseaudio, alsa and gnome-settings-daemon. Whenever I press a media key, gnome-settings-daemon spits the following out to stderr:
** ...
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How can I prevent Control+Alt+D from logging me out (of Gnome 2.22 on Debian 5)?
I was using Emacs, and typed Control+Alt+D in order to run Emacs' "down-list" command. I was dismayed to see, however, that I was instantly logged out; I assume this is some Gnome keyboard shortcut.
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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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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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Evolution: Scroll to bottom of inbox per default
I run Debian Wheezy with a Gnome 3 desktop. I migrated from Thunderbird to Evolution to manage my e-mails.
I have my inbox configured to show the newest mails on the bottom. However, when Evolution ...
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Windows losing focus on Gnome on Fedora 17
I have a problem using Gnome on Fedora 17 where, after a period of time, I cannot regain focus on any windows; that is, I can only see the desktop screen. If I Alt-Tab I can see the other windows, but ...
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How to add a custom widget to gnome panel
How could I add a custom widget to the GNOME panel. Which tool is used to create the widget. I want to create something like the weather widget.
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Disable sliding feature of tray icons
I want to disable sliding feature of these icons. I want them to be static, you know just like Windows perhaps. When I hover my mouse over them they slide & it greatly annoys me to again ...
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Visually-transparent & Input-transparent Windows
I'm a Java programmer who's rather new to Linux. I'm on Suse / Gnome and I need to create a window which:
Is visually translucent/transparent. This is the usual alpha blending
that composes a ...
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Gnome screensaver floating feet shows only one (left) foot any alternative screensaver with both?
I like gnome screensaver floating feet and looking for version that displays both right, left heels of gnome or at least with choice option for the right.
this is just for fun design related question. ...
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How do I set my login avatar in MATE? (Fedora 17)
Plain old GNOME 2 had a panel applet which displayed your user long name. It had a menu option under which you could set an image to be a login avatar, and it appeared in the gdm display manager (aka ...
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Alternative keyboard-triggred launcher for specific file type in file managers (Dolphin and/or nautilus)
Is it possible to have an (or some) alternative launchers (i.e. Open With) for each file type and be able to trigger them using keyboard modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl & Alt) in linux's KDE and/or ...
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GTK::Socket and Gtk::Plug unexpected behaviour under Gnome and FVWM2
The following code works fine if run within FVWM2. But if you change desktop to Gnome, then the embedded window is destroyed instead of being embedded.
Why is that? What am I missing?...
The code ...
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gnome-open creates /bin/bash -ic (uname) which uses 100% CPU to open gvim
When I execute gnome-open textfile I expect gvim to open up. Instead what happens is that a command /bin/bash -ic (uname) > /tmp/{some random string of characters} uses 100% of the CPU. When I kill ...
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Gnome update-notifier doesn't show updates when user not in sudo group (Debian Squeeze)
Gnome desktop notifications of new updates is not working on my system. I noticed that the notifications stopped working when I removed my desktop user from the sudo group (I prefer to have a separate ...
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Debian “sid”/Gnome: bash + browser cursor blink
I'm struggling to make the cursor in bash stop blinking. Also, the cursor in Iceweasel has started blinking again, but, for some reason, a lot slower than in bash :) I got those problems since I ...
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Clicking on Gtk apps menu bar kills mouse
I'm using the following configuration:
Ubuntu 11.10 x64
Awesome Window Manager v3.4.10
Gnome 3.2
...and I got the following problem:
Every time I click on the empty space in a menubar or ...
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Apple keyboard in openbox
I just upgraded from Fedora 15 to 16.
I am using openbox as an alternative to gnome 3. The problem is that I cannot find a way of using the multimedia keys properly in openbox. Changing the keyboard ...
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Ctrl+F2 no longer opens the app launcher in Gnome 2
In KDE I press Alt+F2 and the app launcher opens. In Gnome, however, I press Ctrl+F2, it doesn't work. When I first installed Mint 12, it was working, but I think it stopped working when I installed ...
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Full screen mode for Chromium or other applications on FreeBSD with Gnome 2
Can I set Chromium and some other applications on Gnome 2 in FreeBSD 9 to run in
full screen mode? I mean a window that covers the top panel, not Chrome full screen or toggle full screen key binding.
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GNOME / GTK app installed from source runs with default theme
I've installed a GNOME / GTK application from source (GitG 0.2.5 in Linux Mint 11) - after resolving all the dependencies, I successfully ran the application.
The dependencies were also installed ...
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Gentoo Gnome 3.2 Wireless “Connecting…”
I recently updated my Gentoo with GNOME 2.x to GNOME 3.2. My NetworkManager applet refuses to connect to my network; however, it does not give an error as it simply hangs as "Connecting..."
I checked ...
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White listing directories for GTK
Back in 2007 there was some work done to allow system admins to lock down GTK+ and Nautilus. File dialogs can only view white-listed directories.
This won't create permission problems for programs, ...
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erratic keyboard shortcut behavior - gnome debian testing
Sometimes my keyboard shortcuts in gnome do not work (ctrl-alt-right for next desktop, ctrl-alt-m for menu, ctrl-alt-b for browser, et cetera)
Sometimes after rebooting they do work.
I wish I ...
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Gnome trouble on a DisplayLink device in a Linux virtual machine
I have a virtual machine running Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit. Using the tools provided with VirtualBox, I have added a DisplayLink device to the VM and created the following xorg.conf file:
Section ...
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change gnome theme by command/script in Centos 6
My target is to write a shell script to change my gnome theme, as I am developing a GUI program (this program will set the same parameters as Gnome theme), where user can select one out of four themes ...
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How to remove Gnome's Mod4+P keybinding
Where in gnome's twisty little passages is this key binding hiding, and how do I kill it?
I have the same problem described here, but I don't have the gconf path offered in the solution comment: ...
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Why is mouse freezing in FreeBSD 9.1 Gnome or Fluxbox?
I'm new to FreeBSD 9.1 and I wanted to install a desktop GUI environment. I first tried Gnome 2 since I am familiar with it. I appended the following lines to the /etc/rc.conf file:
hald_enable="YES"
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Fedora 17/18 on ARM architecture
Well I am fully aware of the packages available but sadly none of them provide what I need. Now to get things clear, I found a Korean company (Odroid x as far as I remember) which makes single board ...
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Gnome and Cinnamon loads in fallback (classic) mode only
So I have been using linux mint for a while now. A few months ago my Gnome shell crashed and I was unable to use the full 3d features and loaded into fallback mode only. From that day (around 2 months ...
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MATE Desktop on Mint breaking after PC crash - why?
I've had the MATE version of Mint 14.1 installed on my middle-aged home PC for a while but haven't done much of anything in it until today. Twice today I have witnessed the following:
First the PC ...
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How to change Chrome icon in the Message Tray
I want the Chrome icon in the message tray to be bigger. Where is the icon file located?
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gkSudo Error no matter what I do
I don't know why, It wasn't happening yesterday. Was it because I turned the machine off and back on again this morning?
Anyway here's the error. GkSudo won't run anything at all now.
(gksudo:3262): ...
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Convert gnome window manager theme to xfwm4 theme
I found this link on ubuntu-art.org, it contains a metacity theme, title bar and other icons.
But how can I convert that to an xfwm4 theme?
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Linux Mint freezes while downloading eclipse
I installed linux mint on parallels on my mac computer. It seemed to work fine and then, while downloading eclipse from Software Manager the entire system froze when it got to 40%. I've tried ...
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Mint 12, workspaces and two screens
I have two screens connected to my machine, using the NVIDIA X Server Settings program I set them up with TwinView.
I had the same exact set up in Mint 11 and it all worked well, today after ...
