Questions tagged [gnome-shell]
GNOME Shell is the default user interface for the GNOME 3 desktop.
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Unable to open Firefox private window from Desktop panel/favourites in Ubuntu 22 / Gnome
Running Firefox (latest, I assume) on Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome desktop (GNOME Shell 42.9).
Initially, the Firefox launcher on the favourites on the left of the desktop was working perfectly well. Now, ...
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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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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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Full screen in gnome desktop similar to i3-wm?
I used tiling window manager and I like two things that is tiling and full screen mode.
By using pop shell in gnome, I got the tiling but I didn't find any resources for full screen such that no panel ...
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How to reset PanelMenu.Button icon in runtime?
I am developing a GNOME Shell Extension, using gjs. Currently, I am setting panelMenu.Button icon as:
class MenuButton extends PanelMenu.Button {
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setIcon() {
const icon_class = ICON_CLASS[...
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Control panel UI/UX Ubuntu 23.04 Gnome 44 looks strange each install
Notice the rounded corners?
Yet they are both fresh downloads from Ubuntu.com, tried to update and update but doesn’t seem to correct the strand issue, plus the whole background apps thing only works ...
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Disable the "background activity" notification in GNOME when opening Flatpak applications
This sort of thing started happening a while back; I thought it was going to go away (because it's super annoying), but after a couple of system updates, it looks like it's here to stay.
As far as I ...
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GNOME Extensions do not install on Debian
I'm trying to install true-color-invert available at the GNOME Extensions website or similar tools. It does not appear in the Extensions application on my Debian nor the gnome-extensions list which ...
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Displays won't unsleep
Ubuntu 22.10, dual monitors (if that matters). Nvidia P620 card + Nvidia proprietary drivers 525. System set to not suspend, but to blank screen after a period.
Most of the time, displays won't power ...
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Gjs Gnome shell extension
I have the following code
const session = new Soup.Session();
const message = Soup.Message.new('GET','https://www.example.com');
let _data = session.send(message, null);
const response_headers = ...
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Gnome shell Window auto-focus not working for specific applications
I am using fedora 37 with kernel version 6.2.9.
Some of the applications like gnome-terminal and gnome software store when launched from the Dash in gnome-shell are not focused i.e. they are not being ...
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Is the GNOME Shell source code the code to the GNOME DE?
When browsing the internet, I found that there were two repositories that looked like source code to GNOME DE. One was called GNOME Utility Library and the other was called GNOME Shell. Which would I ...
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Ubuntu fails to boot due to GNOME display manager error
Ubuntu version: 22.04 last I checked, never upgraded
I use XFCE on Ubuntu as my desktop environment but I have to enter my credentials through GNOME's login screen before I can use XFCE. Today I was ...
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Remove Suspend / Restart / Power Off… menu from Gnome Shell & GDM
I need to remove Suspend / Restart / Power Off… menu from Gnome Shell & GDM.
I’ve been trying using Settings, Gnome Tweaks, Dconf Editor, but nothing found AFAIK.
Trying to enter the Polkit conf ...
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Unable to install GNOME Extensions on Pop!_OS 22.04
I'm running Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS with the GNOME version 42.5 on a X11 Framework Laptop.
In the Extensions Manager (Version 0.4.0) I can browse extensions and click on install but they won't install and ...
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How to stop GNOME from request unwanted weather information/forecast
I casually noticed GNOME keeps getting weather information even if there is no weather application installed in my system.
Yesterday I faced network issue, so I decided to inspect my system by opening ...
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How to separate gpu drivers from gnome shell
my goal is to separate the GPU drivers from all processes that are using them. lsof /dev/nvidia* tells me what processes I need to kill, after killing all the processes my PC is rebooting because ...
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Safe to update gnome-shell to 41 on LinuxMint 20.10?
I'm looking at this article https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-gnome-41-desktop-on-linux-mint-20/
Is this safe? Has anyone had any problems with this configuration? I'm currently running:
OS: ...
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Gnome 3 native elements too small
I am using manjaro, gnome 3. Previously I had i3 installed too.
My gnome native app widgets are too small, for some apps (nautilus) left side file tree area fonts are too small too. Affects only ...
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Floating top bar gnome
I would like to make the top bar in gnome floating. I found some tutorials suggesting editing the gnome-shell.css of the current theme.
I edited the file and added the below to the /* Top Bar */
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Fedora 36 login screen no icons and no cusrsor
Login screen icons are not visible anymore and the cursor is a transparent white box. This happens only when in the GDM login screen. Icons and cursor works fine when inside Gnome DE.
Tried ...
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How to disable GNOME workspace selection at login?
Right after session starts, GNOME wants you to select from one of the available workspaces, even if there's just one.
I'd much rather have this option disabled altogether, or perhaps have the 1st one ...
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How can I make all apps use the same theme in Gnome 42 on Fedora?
After a fresh installation, not all preinstalled apps seem to be using the same theme. And changing the theme seems to only change it for some.
How the window buttons of the file manager look:
How ...
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How to supress specific notification from dbus?
I'm trying but not understand how to supress notification like this:
What I have in dbus:
method call time=1659640147.068489 sender=:1.46 -> destination=:1.18 serial=63 path=/org/freedesktop/...
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Broken Gnome Shell
I was trying to update some package in my computer but it seems now I can't even run simple sudo apt install command.
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want ...
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Mesa crocus driver not being used on Debian
I have an i7-5500U chip (which I think means it's 5th gen) with Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09). I use Debian unstable and a few weeks ago the libgl1-mesa-dri package got updated from 21.3....
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How to deactivate specific hot corner in gnome shell?
I've installed "Custom Hot Corners - Extended" (link). Ok it's great. Now I would like to "deactivate" (erase, remove) specific one. How can I do that? I have this right now, but ...
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Create keyboard shortcut in Arch [gnome]
Im new to Arch and just installed it with gnome as a DE. I can run the gnome shell by clicking the icon but would like to setup a shortcut for it.
I'd like to setup the shortcut like in Ubuntu, Ctrl + ...
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Supress spammy discord log
Everytime I open discord (installed using deb package), my log always spammed with these kind of message every second:
Jun 25 20:14:20 pop2104 gnome-shell[102661]: [2022-06-25 20:14:20.833] [102901] (...
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When Click an Application Icon On Taskbar, Jump To the Workspace It was First Created
I am using Zorin which uses Gnome.
I am attaching an screenshot first:
You can see that, I have open nemo and firefox in workspace 1.
Then I went to workspace 2.
Now when I click nemo icon on taskbar,...
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How to turn the screen total/pitch black in GNOME?
Use case / Problem
I wanna hear music in the night with my laptop/device and as such I want the screen to be black, as I don't want to get dazzled in the night.
Tried workarounds/“solutions”
As such, …...
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Switching automatically from X11 to wayland in RHEL 8
I'm executing a shell script inside profile.d, which needs x11 as the default gnome-session. It works fine when login into system as USER1, but the XDG_SESSION_TYPE is shifting from x11 to wayland ...
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how to make GNOME Dialog boxes
So I have played around with Zenity on a few Linux distros, but I haven't ever been able to achieve this effect:
So My question is, how do I create one of these dialog boxes? I would like to have ...
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default window for Enter key when accessing overview by the keyboard
Within Gnome 41.
If I press super, then Ctrl+Alt+T, then Enter, I think I am most likely to go to the terminal rather than going to the window under the cursor.
The behaviour can be avoided by ...
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disable Alt+Super workspace switcher
How can I disable Alt+Super+Left/Right from switching workspace in gnome-shell?
If I go into Keyboard settings there is no options
I am using latest GNOME version on Arch Linux.
I am on Xorg.
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How to remove the Title Bar of Gnome applications
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I have one Ubuntu20 Desktop(Gnome) and I want it to be fully black and ideal. As reference, I have taken one Ubuntu20 Server and Installed openbox on it.
I hided the title bar of all the ...
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How to retrive information like PID, PPID, Depth in bash of all processes?
I will trigger seven dummy descendant processes using below code:
#!/bin/bash
if [[ "$#" -ne 1 ]]; then
set -- 7 #To set command line argument to 7 when arguments aren't provided
fi
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Halfway translation in GNOME
I changed my GNOME's language from english to persian. Some parts are well translated, but some other not. For example most of numbers and some of apps' names.
This is output of locale:
LANG=fa_IR
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automated activation and configuration of gnome-shell extension
I'd like to automatically install and configure a gnome-shell extension, specifically the Simpler Off Menu. What I achieved so far is to download the extension, then expand the archive with correct ...
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Focus window by title in GNOME Shell 41+ under Wayland
In my shellrc I have a function to activate (focus / bring to the foreground) a window by its title, using the org.gnome.Shell Eval dbus interface. (The xdotool approach doesn’t work under Wayland.) ...
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Gnome-Extensions didn't install
I am using arch linux and on that i installed gnome and chrome-gnome-shell (I use chrome as defualt browser) and then head up to https://extensions.gnome.org/. Firstly the site loads very slowly and ...
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How to make nautilus forget an invalid ssh connection whose credentials were stored for forever?
I wanted to access some files on a remote. I used nautilus, entered ssh://my-ssh-server location bar, entered my user and password information and made it store the credentials for forever.
Now I ...
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Disable "plop" sound in Debian 11 / Gnome when changing the sound volume
After update from Debian 10 to 11 and the corresponding update in Gnome, my system is full of unwanted sound effects. Terrible design I want to say to the person responsible for this, if they are by ...
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Gnome3 v40 transparent bar on the buttom
I noticed an almost half a centimeter thick transparent bar on the bottom of my screen, which is there on top of every other window, and doesn't seem to be interacting with anything, or the mouse. ...
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How to dynamically switch terminal colors for all open terminals?
I use gnome-terminal on Ubuntu / Fedora. For color schemes I use base16-shell, along with its corresponding settings for my editor vi.
I have configured my .bashrc to set the base16 theme on start up. ...
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Horizontal Display on Gnome
I'm stuck trying to find a way to get the login screen to display horizintally upon bootup. I'd prefer the login page on the monitor on the left but whatever.
Any ideas here? I'm using Gnome
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How to make Dolphin the default file manager on RHEL 8?
I installed Dolphin successfully, its icon is in Application → System Tools and it works well.
But, in Settings → Details → Default Applications there's everything else just not File Manager. Why this?...
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How do I send a window to the back (lower it) in GNOME Shell?
Most window managers let you send a window to the back. For example, in MS Windows, it's AltEsc. In twm (and the like), you can configure it. In fvwm2 it's called the "lower" function.
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How to assign hotkeys to more than 4 worksapces in Gnome 40?
I am using Gnome 40 on Arch and I have hotkeys assigned for each of the 4 workspaces. But I'd like to set up hotkeys also for the 5th and the 6th workspace (e.g. super+5, super+6). How can I do that ...
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How to add the output from an app to the topbar
Recently I installed the Argos extension to add plugins to the topbar.
I managed to successfully install two or three things made by someone else, then I tried to do one on my own, basically what I ...
