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Questions tagged [gnome3]
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Move / disable legacy icon bar from bottom left in GNOME 3.16
Fedora 22 (GNOME 3.16) introduced this expandable legacy icon bar in the bottom-left corner of the screen:
As you can see, even when closed it takes up a few valuable pixels in the corner (where I am usually looking, when using a terminal). It…
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How to set default display for new windows in Gnome 3
I have 2 displays, a monitor and a TV. The first one I use all the time and it has set as primary in Gnome settings, but a TV is turned on only when watching movies from a sofa. Mainly, everything is going as expected, but some apps opens at the TV…
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How can I show the date in the gnome 3 menubar?
Gnome 3 has a menu bar that includes the day of the week and the time. The date and time settings allow the time to be shown in 24 hour or AM/PM style.
There do not appear, however, to be any options for displaying the date. Instead of "Thu 1:59…
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Periodically changing wallpaper under GNOME 3?
I use Fedora 15 with GNOME 3 and I'd like my wallpaper to periodically change like it's possible with Windows 7. It would be the best if it could use RSS/Atom or a specified directory.
I haven't found any tools in the repository. I guess you can…
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How to remove gnome 3 and all its dependencies from a debian wheezy netinst
I downloaded a Debian wheezy netinstall iso file, and just made a very minimal installation with no Display manager or desktop environment.
I was using the terminal for testing purpose. I later installed cinnamon from Linux Mint backport repos. It…
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logind.conf not working, closing lid will not suspend laptop
I am running Fedora 22 on a Dell Latitude E6230. At some point I got a software patch that broke the laptop suspending when I close the lid. It was working, and now it is not. I am not sure what patch caused this, or why. I am also a newbie to…
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Meta + Arrow Keys to move windows between monitors?
In Windows I can use the "Windows Key + Arrows" snap feature to quickly move windows between monitors in a multi-monitor setup. I'm looking for a way to do this same thing in Linux. I've tried Cinnamon, KDE, and XFCE and haven't had any luck…
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How to override GTK3 / Gnome Shell themes per application
I'm using both Cinnamon and Gnome Shell (Gnome 3) on Fedora 17 with the dark theme Blapple. Quite a few applications can't handle dark themes very good.
In Gnome 2 I had a simple solution for these programs. I just instructed them to use a light…
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Is there a way to make nautilus display the "recently used" files and directories?
Is there a way to make nautilus display the "recently used" files and directories, just like the "open file" dialog does?
Just to make my question clearer, here are two screenshots:
The GTK open file dialog, showing the recently used items:
A…
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How to change focus-mode: mouse's delay?
How can I change delay before focus when having focus-mode: mouse in gnome 3?
I am used to this behaviour from my previous WM (awesome), but I decided to give a Gnome another try (last used was gnome2) and I havem more or less happy so far, only…
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Recording only one window in Gnomes 3 default desktop recorder
Gnome 3 has great feature under Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R shortcut1. I guess this is Istanbul. It appears that it's not istanbul... Yet I can't find any info about this program.
Where can I find man page? How can I run it from console?
And most importantly:…
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How to disable the "is not responding" message on Fedora
How can I disable the message :
"your application" is not responding
on Linux, Fedora ?
When the message pop up I'm still able to play the game in the background
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Why is /usr/share/gnome-shell/js missing?
I'm trying to debug a gnome-shell extension, but I don't seem the have the folder /usr/share/gnome-shell/js. I'm on fedora 20 with gnome 3.12. I couldn't find it when I had gnome 3.10 either. Were the files moved? Is there a package that I'm…
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How do I change the lockscreen background in Gnome 3 (Fedora 17)?
While seeking a solution to my login background question I realized that the lockscreen has to be configured seperately. But how? On a quick google search I only found the suggestion to replace the images in the Adwaita theme. Is there a better way?
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gvim redraw failure
I have a problem with gvim where the screen redraw partially fails.
It's hard to explain but when I open a text file and page down or up
the entire text file is not redraw properly. I have to move the cursor
first before it redraws. I've got a…
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