Questions tagged [gnome]
GNOME is a full-featured, user-friendly desktop environment for Unix operating systems, based entirely on free software.
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How to rename connected computer monitors in linux using wayland?
I have two identical computer monitors, both from the same manufacturer, with matching models and revisions. These monitors are connected to a Thunderbolt 4 docking station via DisplayPort, and the ...
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Disable touchpad while typing on external keyboard
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing true
the above tweak disables my laptop's internal keyboard while typing. But this doesn't work same for the external ...
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gnome overvew on second monitor - how to turn it off
Is there a way to turn off overview (zooming) on second monitor.
When I hit supperKey I want to have an overview on my main monitor but I do not want the second monitor to resize go to overview mode.
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How to resize/transform touchscreen area with Wayland
I have an external monitor connected to a machine with a built-in touchscreen display. When setting a 16:10 external display to mirror the 16:9 touchscreen display, we get black bars on the ...
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Debian keeps closing my tabs with Ctrl + W key
Since I've installed Debian 12 with GNOME environment on my laptop. At random times, it starts to kind of glitch and Google Chrome or other apps using the Ctrl + W shortcut are closing. I am not ...
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How to disable the audio output of Gnome Boxes (or at least mute all sound)?
Most desktop environments and distros use various alert sounds, can be distracting when you have a high-end sound system connected to the computer and some ~0 dBFS bell jingle or a generic error sound ...
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Debian+Gnome Remove Libreoffice
Is there no way to remove libreoffice* without removing gnome?
If i type sudo apt purge libreoffice*
It automatically also wants to remove gnome
Is there a solution to this?
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How to remap keys in the linux console? (Wayland)
I need to remap the num enter key to enter in the terminal. I'm using openSUSE with GNOME and Wayland. Num enter doesn't work when I use ssh. From the factory, my laptop's regular enter key works like ...
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Automatically resize windows to fit display when dragged to smaller display in Gnome?
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I use multiple monitors, and one is smaller than the others (the laptop's built in display).
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I often have windows on the larger display that are larger than the small display. When I ...
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Debian apt issue (not found and deb12u1)
I wanted to install texmaker the other day but I ran into an issue : it downloaded 500mb but it told me it could not find a few dependencies, for instance
Err : 4 http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/...
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How to use gnome 43
I came from windows, and I have a small experience with ubuntu.
both these Operating systems provide a taskbar out of the box to see and switch between your running apps fast, sometimes when the ...
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sudo: get sound playback running as another user
I block all Internet traffic for my kids' Linux accounts using iptables. Sometimes I want to allow them to use one program or another. In such cases I enable them to run that programs as another(...
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Installing gnome-do on Debian 12 (Bookworm)
While attempting to ./configure gnome-do I have run into an issue that I cannot seem to resolve. It's looking for gnome-desktop-sharp-2 but cannot find it. I cannot seem to find a suitable library ...
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Switching from Wayland to X11 breaks my dual-monitor setup
I've recently installed Debian 12/GNOME. I have a dual-monitor setup. My primary screen is landscape; my secondary screen is portrait. When I initially installed Debian and setup my monitors, all was ...
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How to quit all apps/all apps from workspace?
I can't find anywhere the gnome action of "quit all open applications" - which seems strange as it's such an obvious thing to do.
Does it exist in gnome (or anywhere - in wayland/xorg/system)...
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How do I force new windows to open on the currently active monitor
To me it seems that GNOME is opening the windows on a random monitor. How can I tell GNOME that it should always open a window on the currently active monitor (the monitor with the mouse)?
My gdm3 ...
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Celluloid fails to start, saying "Settings schema ... does not contain a key named 'menubar-accel-enable'"
After dist-upgrade'ing my distribution (Devuan Daedalus to Excalibur), and trying to run celluloid, I get the error:
(io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid:16054): GLib-GIO-ERROR **:
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Wrong font colour in GNOME's Application menu while in dark mode
I installed GNOME Tweaks through the Pop Shop to play around with the customizability.
Under Appearance>Themes>Applications I tried switching it to some of the other preinstalled themes. But ...
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Flameshot not working with Flatpak on Wayland
I'm trying to take screenshot using flameshot on my fedora 38 system but the issue is I'm unable to do so. I'm running a wayland instance and do not intend to switch to X11.
I'm running the flatpak ...
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Gnome crashes - dbus-broker-launch: Too many open files
I have been having an issue where GNOME just randomly crashes - I get a blinking cursor for a minute or two and then it automatically restarts. Of course the session is not preserved.
This happens at ...
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GUI apps using Qt seg-fault, think wrong path is being checked?
I cannot open any of my Ubuntu 22.04 apps which use the Qt library (Konsole, P4V, Wireshark etc). They immediately seg-fault.
When I start Konsole with debug logging I can see it's trying to find ...
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Detach running command from terminal window
I run the following .desktop file in Gnome, to start my Remote Session:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=xfreerdp RDP
Comment=A sample application
Exec=/usr/bin/xfreerdp +clipboard ...
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gnome-shell crash
I installed Fedora like 4 days and it start crash with that reason: 'gnome-shell killed by SIGABRT'
Logs:
User Logs:
--Aug 09 21:55:49 fedora gnome-shell[1851]: gvc_mixer_ui_device_get_id: assertion '...
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GNOME: Select multiple windows
I'm a fullstack dev with a past in C and a current focus on Python and React. I'm not a sysAdmin but I've been using *nix systems since 1989 and I'm afraid of no dirty hands admin task.
The UI problem
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How do I separate this two menus on gnome (pop os)
How do I separate the audio popup from the default system one? is there a way? sorry if I am phrasing this badly, but I couldn't find anything online and English is not my first language.
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Switch buttons on only the left-handed mouse (input devices)
I've got two Logitech M650 Mice hooked to by Debian 12 Gnome 44 Machine. One is a "Left-Handed" mouse. I would like to swap the buttons on just the left mouse so that I can use my index ...
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How to properly set QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE env var in GNOME on NixOS?
I have a question about theming for Qt apps on Gnome.
I'm running NixOS with Gnome, using Home Manager and Flakes. My theme is Adwaita-dark, but I've noticed that some Qt apps such as VLC do not have ...
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In GNOME on Wayland, how can I issue a command to reset the idle time?
I know I can issue this command to get the Idle Time
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor /org/gnome/Mutter/IdleMonitor/Core org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor.GetIdletime
, but how ...
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Is there any backside to creating a softlink instead of the various default folders inside /home?
I'd like to know if there are any backsides to replacing the various default folders (specifically: Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos) with symlinks to a different drive? Basically, I ...
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Consistent Icons for Zoom in Gnome Wayland on NixOS
I use zoom on Gnome Wayland in NixOS (dotfiles). The problem I’m trying to solve is that while I can see the zoom icon in the launcher/overview:
I get the default application icon everywhere else:
I ...
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Is there a setting to have the Activities screen timeout and go away?
When you press the Windows key on the keyboard the Activities screen comes up. If you press the Esc key, it goes away.
I've noticed that if there is a display change like HDMI disconnect and ...
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How to force all new windows to open in primary monitor on GNOME?
I am currently using two monitors side-by-side with my Linux desktop running GNOME. I have been using the Join Displays option to make the most out of my space. As time progressed new windows started ...
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Depmod command not found but kmod is already installed
When I use depmod in the terminal, I got the message "depmod command not found". But kmod is already installed.
And I can find a link to something called depmod in sbin.
Do you know how to ...
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How would I convert this gsettings command into a dconf configuration file?
With a basic gsettings command such as, for example, gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.secreensaver lock-enabled true, I could easily turn it into a dconf config by just replacing the dots with slashes ...
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XRDP oh no something went wrong log off redhat linux
I have been using redhat linux server using xrdp, it was working and recently it stopped working with the following failure.
I was checking xrdp-sesman -nm.
the following is the error.
flatpak: /...
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Gnome app search engine is not finding any apps
I am using Manjaro, and a recent update may have broke something, when I use the super key (the windows key on my keyboard), my windows are all displayed, and there is a little search input field at ...
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How to switch to a different xdg-desktop-portal to have a different file picker?
I am using nemo as my default file and desktop manager using How to set Nemo as the default file manager in Ubuntu?
In brief it looks like:
sudo apt install nemo
xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/...
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How to switch to a different xdg-desktop-portal?
In my machine I, have multiple xdg-desktop-portal
$ ls -la /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals
.rw-r--r-- 100 root 23 Mar 14:48 gnome-keyring.portal
.rw-r--r-- 99 root 20 Mar 02:25 gnome-shell....
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Which xdg-desktop-portal am I currently using?
On my machine, I have multiple xdg-desktop-portal instances:
$ ls -la /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals
.rw-r--r-- 100 root 23 Mar 14:48 gnome-keyring.portal
.rw-r--r-- 99 root 20 Mar 02:25 gnome-...
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Firefox gets stuck at XWayland
I am running GNOME 44 on Wayland (Arch Linux), and I would like Firefox to run in Wayland mode as well.
Unfortunately, it is getting stuck in XWayland. I followed the steps mentioned in Archwiki [1], ...
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GNOME pictures missing under Control Center
I'm using GNOME 44.2 under Arch Linux. I did not install GNOME using the gnome group because I don't really use most of the applications installed by default — and if needed I can use their Flatpak ...
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How to disable GNOME session lock on a VM? Privacy is already Off, Blank Screen on power saving: Never. But a Windows locking still causes its locking
I've a trouble some Debian 10 VM running under Windows.
For a reason, it often freezes when re-entering a GNOME session.
Finding the root cause is difficult, and for yet I want to avoid facing the ...
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use a portable software as a global app
I'm with Fedora 38 (previously Mint). I have pdfsam-visual subscription, but they have no rpm/flathub option, only portable. The poratble comes as zip, inside there's a .sh that open the application.o ...
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How to find out what makes Linux (Gnome 44 with Wayland) sluggish?
I noticed a couple weeks ago that my laptop got very sluggish. Most noticeably the mouse pointer would not move for a bit. Sometimes just so it looked like choppy movement, sometimes the pointer would ...
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How to add custom default bookmark to Gnome Files?
Is there a way to add a custom directory to the default shortcuts to Files' sidebar? Not as a bookmark, as a default XDG directory?
For instance, I've added XDG_WORK_DIR="$HOME/Work" to ....
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LibreWolf browser unable to remember view settings
I'm using NixOS version 23.05.885.bb8b5735d6f under GNOME. I installed LibreWolf — using Flatpak. The problem I'm facing is that any time I open any site and set the zoom level, for instance, to 120 %,...
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How to remove padding in floating windows in Gnome?
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Linux: Wayland, Gnome44 and Fedora38
I just discover there is air gap between windows of application at the right edge and bottom edge in float mode, if the window is resize by win+arrow, then ...
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gnome-tweaks on ubuntu with i3wm throws freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
I'm running Linux Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS along with i3wm.
I'm trying to run gnome-tweaks to adjust the theme, but get following error:
gnome-tweaks
WARNING : Error getting shell mode
CRITICAL: Error ...
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Mouse Click Dead Zone in Gnome on Fedora
I'm experiencing a peculiar issue with Gnome. In the top right corner of my screen, there appears to be a 'dead zone' that doesn't respond to mouse clicks. For instance, when I have a web browser open ...
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How to disable screen reader at gdm3 start in Debian?
After upgrading Debian stable from 11 to 12, my gdm3 started to read out stuff loudly from the login screen. This feature was a great surprise, absolutely useless to me, and even disturbing (and the ...
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