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How to prevent Laptop from sleep when it hits critical battery
You can avoid critical action by completely stopping upower:
sudo systemctl stop upower && sudo systemctl mask --runtime upower
Don't do it unless you understand the risks involved in ...
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How to set single key for customization keyboard shortcuts in gnome
I've found the solution for the problem which I mentioned in the comment under Pixelbog's answer.
If you want to change any behavior(key-binding shortcut) that belongs to gnome shell and also if it ...
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25 second delay: "No skeleton to export"
Had exactly the same issue with Manjaro after the last updates (2023-11-28 and 2023-12-1).
I copied the /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/gtk-portals.conf file to ~/.config and renamed it into xfce-...
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Unable to start gnome applications because of shared library libappstream
I got the same error one week ago or something and for me this was because appstream had been updated to version 1.0.0-5 which was not compatible with gnome-software. My solution was to downgrade ...
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How to disable GNOME workspace selection at login?
if you're using the dash to panel extension, you can configure it at
extensions -> dash to panel -> settings -> behavior -> overview -> disable show overview on start up
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How to set single key for customization keyboard shortcuts in gnome
Just follow these steps:
Create your custom-keybinding (just use any shortcut keys, you are going to change it in the next step anyways)
Open the dconf editor
Go to /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/...
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How to close the selected window via keyboard while in gnome-shell overview mode?
I found another extension called AATWS - Advanced Alt-Tab Window Switcher. There's to much settings that you can do, including bindings another keys to some special functions, in this case I'm using q ...
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Command line tool to install GNOME Shell extensions
I could not comment on Ahmad Ismail post above so updating here. I spend some time with this and was partially successful and saying partially as unfortunately there is no way of installing extension ...
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Setting keyboard layout on Fedora 38/39
The problem was in Gnome Tweaks - I've turned on keyboard layout switching with Right-Shift + Right-Ctrl and that automatically added extra Czech kbd layout. It's pitty it's not possible to use only ...
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Different name on terminal than on file manager
What you're observing is a common behavior in many Linux distributions, including Red Hat. The discrepancy in file names between the graphical file manager and the terminal is due to the way desktop ...
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Different name on terminal than on file manager
The name you see in the terminal will always be the real one. Presumably, your file manager is hiding the extension. Then, since this is a .desktop file, it probably contains its own display name ...
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RHEL 8 authentication required window is not taking correct password
There was an issue with RHEL 8.4, 8.5 with the Gnome environment: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1971534 (that went away)
I was still able to SSH remotely to the machine. So I re-...
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How exactly does Nautilus sort files by name?
By default, 'ls' uses the libc locale-specific sort order, the same as used by 'sort'. For all *.UTF-8 locales (except C.UTF-8), Glibc implements the Unicode Collation Algorithm (or something close to ...
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Flatpak applications borked under NixOS
This is (or was) a known issue for people running Flatpak applications in NixOS.
Took a while, but there is already a fix for it, so once the changes are merged and released, this won't be an issue ...
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How do I "show desktop" in Fedora 38 with mouse?
You could install and use any available "Show Desktop" extension for Gnome.
Dash to Panel has the hide windows button on the right which does that as well: https://extensions.gnome.org/...
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Open multiple instances of a given application
Afaik running as other users helps. As superuser just like that: sudo app &. As another user sudo -u username app & one need to give username permission to use X display, e.g. xhost si:...
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Is there a way to capture screen when menu bars are opened?
Many screenshot utils, among them xfce4-screenshooter and mate-screenshot, allow for setting a delay time. That way you have enough time to open said menus.
One of the most basic ones would be:
scrot -...
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Is there a way to capture screen when menu bars are opened?
sleep 5; any_console_utility_which_makes_screenshots
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How do I "show desktop" in Fedora 38 with mouse?
It's been a while since I used Gnome, but it did have the option of "hot corners", i.e., you move the mouse to one of the screen corners, and get the "activities" menu, which I ...
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