Questions tagged [gnome]
GNOME is a popular desktop environment for Linux, Solaris and other UNIX operating systems.
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Screen recording with gst-launch-0.10 on CentOS 6.7 + Gnome 2.28
I need to make short videos (1-2 minutes long) capturing the screen. Unfortunately I cannot install new software on this machine, so all I have is gst-launch and gst-launch-0.10 (of course, together ...
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x11vnc can not connect to X server of gdm greeter
OS: CentOS 8.3
GDM creates a X server for the greeter, and a different one each user that logs in.
I am trying to run x11vnc to enable remote access to the machine, but x11vnc is rejected by the X ...
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x11vnc on Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome with systemd
I am having troubles to start x11vnc service on Ubuntu server 16.04 Gnome.
It used to work just fine under 14.04. Not sure if related to x11vnc itself or the systemd.
Here is the systemd service file ...
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Troubleshooting GNOME Interface Unresponsiveness after Deleting DNF Cache on Fedora 39
I encountered a problem with my Linux system running Fedora 39 after executing the following command:
sudo rm -rfv /var/cache/dnf/*
I know now that I should have used it
dnf clean all
Initially, I ...
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How can I install a modest but not barest of bare-bones windowing system on top of Fedora-Server? [closed]
The title says it, but some detail:
I've got Fedora Server 38 installed (current version). It'd be nice to have a windowing system on the box but it won't be used too often and shouldn't be a full-...
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Rocky Linux 9 touch screen disable on-screen keyboard
I need to run an application on X11 in Rocky Linux 9.2, on a machine that uses a touchscreen monitor in addition to a mouse and physical keyboard.
When I launch the application by touching its icon, ...
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Create "Default keyring" from command line on CentOS 7
I have a CentOS 7.4 machine that I need to start in kiosk mode. There is a touch screen attached to that machine and on boot, google chrome must start in full screen and load a certain web page.
What ...
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CentOS 7 w/ GUI GNOME login for standard users bounces back to login screen
CentOS 7 machine is unable to sign in standard users via GNOME, but root account works just fine.
Steps to recreate the issue.
Select user account and input password and login (user account is part ...
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Configuration Issues with XRDP and Gnome on Debian 11 server
I have a light duty Debian 11 (Bullseye) server. It will mostly be a file server when ready. I had installed XRDP so I can connect to and manage it from my Win10 machine when working with the UI would ...
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After deleting a big file the space isn't freed even after rebooting the system:
So I have that problem. The space hasn't been freed, either checking by GUI (Nautilus or Disks utility) or by TUI(df). I've read that it could be because another process was still handling the file ...
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On Debian 11, how to change from xfce4 to GNOME desktop
I installed xfce4 with lightdm on my Debian server (EC2) for users to connect over vnc, so I could run Proton and Windows games. I've since discovered that Flatpak, AppImage, Lutris and Proton greatly ...
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Logged into Ubuntu as domain user, asks for first local user password on admin tasks
I have an odd issue that happens on all of the Ubuntu machines I join to my Samba4 domain.
When installing, I create a user named user and then use that user to get the domain going. Everything goes ...
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Run Systemd Service After Display Manager
I have a script that changes some Gnome settings which I want to run on startup. The script itself works fine when I run it manually, but I get the following error when I run it as a systemd service:
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Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS - Installing nvidia & cuda installs gnome as well
I have a GPU server which requires cuda for example for machine learning tasks.
unfortunately, as soon as I install the NVIDIA drivers and cuda, apparently a variant of gnome is installed as well. ...
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Applying systemd control group resource limits automatically to specific user applications in a gnome-shell session
Having seen that GNOME now launches apps under systemd scopes I've been looking at a way to get systemd to apply some cgroup resource and memory limits to my browser.
I want to apply a MemoryMax and ...
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Having a Secure / Copy Protected DESKTOP Environment in Cent OS Linux
We have a VPS / Bare-metal server rented on a data-center and we access them over internet through user ID and password. It is running CentOS 7. That is direct access and there's no VPN in between. We ...
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Installing a graphical interface on Centos VPS
I have a Centos 7 VPS running, with 2 CPU's and 4gb RAM.
My question is: can I install any graphical user interface on this VPS, to access it remotely, and use a web browser on it? All I need is to be ...
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How do I properly launch a dbus-monitor --session as root?
I am working on a script that will detect if and when a Gnome session is "locked" by a user in order to kick that user and prevent people locking screens in a public use lab. However, it ...
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How activate the GNOME ENVIOREMENT in SLES 11 SP4?
i am trying to run the gnome envirioment in an SLES 11 SP4 instance, i do the following:
First i install the package:
zypper -n install -t pattern x11 gnome
And make the next changes:
In window ...
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Accessing KRB5CCNAME from /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default on RHEL8
I would like to run a script after a user login. This script, using his kerberos tickets, will mount an SMB share.
Under RedHat 7 I could simply call the script from /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default and it ...
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automatically change the gnome-terminal "title" for the window
Trying to change the title of a current gnome-terminal (similar to the "set title" that you can do manually")
The system is running Fedora 9. The HowTo Xterm-Title discusses how to set the prompt, ...
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setting default gsettings for relocatable schema in /etc/dconf/db/local.d
Settings default gsettings for all my users with a /etc/dconf/db/local.d/my-settings file like this works fine:
[org/gnome/desktop/background]
picture-uri='file:///usr/local/share/backgrounds/...
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"Unable to open display " "" error on VNC Server
I'm trying to run a GUI for my CentOS 6 server. I've installed VNC, and I have followed this guide through to the end - http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server
Once the VNC server is started, I try ...
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Dell R720 and Ubuntu display issues
Dell R720
Matrox G200 Embedded Graphics
2x Nvidia GRID K1
Ubuntu Server 19.10
After pure install, display is 640x480, but after installing nvidia-340 drivers, gdm does not start. K1 GPUs don't have ...
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Dialog Connect to Server in Gnome Nautilus contains no items
I have installed Gnome Nautilus 2.28.4 on my Debian 5.0 box and a dialog File -> Connect to Server -> Service type is almost empty:
How can I fix that?
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how to run gnome-terminal on remote centos 7 machine?
My local machine is linux mint, and remote one is centos 7.
I try to open gnome-terminal on remote machine with x-forwarding, and its not working.
When I connect to host in interactive mode
$ ssh -...
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CentOS desktop startx no screen found on VPS
I installed Gnome/KDE/XFCE,... on CentOS 7 on a VPS
yum groupinstall "Server with GUI"
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
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yum groupinstall "Server with GUI"
yum groupinstall "Xfce"
But when I ...
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How can I retrieve screen unlock times in gnome?
The last command only retrieves the login times. I'm interested in the times that the screen was unlocked. Any indirect means of getting this are also welcome.
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VNC Not Seeing Gnome Desktop in Centos 7
I have a linux box running CentOS 7, which I installed in bash only mode (so it just boots straight into the command prompt), which I am using as a file server. I could do with having a GUI for ...
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Ubuntu laptop keyboard half-functional
Right half of the built-in keyboard in my Asus laptop stopped working under Gnome. For instance, keys j k l ; p o i m . / don't work.
They do work fine when pressed on external USB keyboard or on in-...
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"git init" via "gio mount" on samba: fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'
I want to push my repository to a Samba share mounted via GNOME's Nautilus. I believe it uses gio mount under the hood. However, when I try to run git init in a mounted Samba share, I get the ...
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Is it possible to limit the number of previous users on login screen in centos?
I'd like to customize the login screen on CentOS to limit the number of users displayed? I know how to disable the user's list by customizing the dconf gdm db but I wonder if I can set a limit value......
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Gnome-Boxes "fails to start" images
Using Gnome-Boxes on Ubuntu 18.04 I consistently get an error when attempting to boot any disk image. Can anyone interpret this for me?
I am unable to make heads or tales from the troubleshooting log:...
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Skip printing dialog on Debian
If you are running a ticket application on desktops, how would you limit the users to make any change to the printing job configuration?
Ticket application is an electron app. Currently it launches ...
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Autostart Firefox on CentOS 6 kiosk system with Gnome Display Manager + Openmotif Window Manager
I am in process of creating kiosk system on CentOS 6.9 minimal install with Gnome Display Manager (gdm) and Openmotif Window Manager (mwm) and Firefox web browser.
I have connected gdm to mwm by ...
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ssh -N steals keystrokes
When I run an ssh session purely for tunnelling purposes, I start it like this:
ssh -N -L 5432:localhost:5432 user@host &
However, when I do so, about every second keystroke in the terminal ...
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Gnome Desktop Environment install error
So i moved to a new server and i want to install gnome desktop environment to access my server via vnc viewer.
But, i don't remember how i managed to install last time, so i tried
yum groupinstall "...
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Window on Gnome/Linux/Ubuntu was bad shown [closed]
My window on Gnome is not correctly shown.
When moving a Gnome window, it is slow to moved.
My problem is shown in the image below:
How can I fix this problem?
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When SELinux is set to enforcing, startx will not bring up the user GUI
I have a machine (CentOS) that is using SELinux that must be set to enforcing (in MLS mode), I want to be able to go into the gui to show the system works in a gui setting for people who don't use a ...
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gnome -- create symlinks when mounting a file system
I'm not 100% sure where the problem is... udev or gnome or ...
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I have an "IronKey". I have a udev rule that allows my IronKey to plug into my machine. After I've plugged it in, I go to ...
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CentOS 7 w/Gnome hangs on boot after Nvidia driver installation?
there is a lot of information available on these topics separately, but I haven't been able to find an answer to what I feel is a really common situation.
I have 2 Nvidia GTX 1080s in a server with ...
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Fedora 15 setting gnome-fallback as default for all users
I apologize in advance for my ignorance. We just switched from Fedora 8 to Fedora 15. I would like to make gnome-fallback the default desktop environment for all users. Via google I've found that:
$...
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gnome-terminal - I have no name
Environment:
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS x64
HW: VM on vSphere with 2vCPU and 2GB Memory
Default GNOME desktop installation with gnome-session-flashback
3.8.0.
Connected to AD domain using Samba and ...
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Convert $no_proxy to gsettings ignore-hosts
In order to use Chrome in Ubuntu and have it respect some hosts in $no_proxy, I need to set those comma-separated values with
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts <no-proxy>
where ...
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PackageKit version issue after upgrading from fc21 -> fc22 -> fc23
I'm trying to build a package using jhbuild, and when I run sysdeps --install, it runs through and tries to install things using PackageKit.
When it does this, it shows for example, llvm-devel;3.5.0-...
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Impossible to Switch User in CentOS
We have a CentOS 6.7 server installed with Gnome 2.28.2 that is not allowing users to switch sessions.
Users can log in and click on the "Switch User" option on the menu (or "Lock Screen"). The lock ...
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How to enable login as root on xrdp with centos and GNOME?
Was wondering if anyone knows how to enable root login on xrdp with GNOME and centos 6?
Below is my config for /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
[globals]
bitmap_cache=yes
bitmap_compression=yes
port=3389
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Is there a way to change the graphical user from the command line on Centos?
I am currently using a remote log-in application (TeamViewer) on my Centos server. The application runs in the user's graphical session. I deliberately 'switched' users to see how my Teamviewer ...
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disabling screensaver on Linux
I all, i have need to disable screensaver for Gnome and KDE graphic environment on more server with RHEL4 and RHEL5.
Is there a way to do it at boot time or any other solution?
thank you very much.
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Ubuntu login page: where to specify users list shown
Using Ubuntu 10.04.1 Desktop (Latest)
After the boot process, GDM shows the graphical login screen along with a list of users that can log in. Clicking a name will ask for its password.
I would like ...
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