Ubuntu :: Keep The Background Of Gnome 3 As The 'activities' Menu?
Sep 1, 2011I'm wondering if there's any known way to keep the background of gnome 3 as the 'activities' menu?
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Feb 1, 2010the above event usually happens to me when im logged in to xfce my screen suddenly goes black for like 1 sec then my background becomes my background in gnome.. what does this mean? should i remove the gnome or there's some other options i can do to prevent this?
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Jun 3, 2011Recently made the switch to F15 and GNOME3. The changes are a little jarring, but I'm trying to have some good faith, see how I adjust to things, etc. Any ways, the applications menu (in "fallback" mode) or the 'activities -> applications' menus (in "full" mode) have every application I've ever installed, some times poorly classified. I'd like to edit these, making more minimal menus.
There is, of course, the "alacarte" application. While it runs just fine -- the changes are not reflected in the menus (in either mode). One could manually edit the desktop configuration text files, I assume, but as much work as I need to do -- I was hoping for a GUI application. Does an alternative exist? or a way to interface them?
Fedora :: Adding Downloaded Applications To Activities Menu?
Jul 12, 2011I have just installed fedora 15, I haven't seen fedora since version 7 back in 2007, and I must say, it's very impressive.I can't however figure out how to add a downloaded application, like Intellij-Idea to the activities menu. With the old gnome, you could just create a task bar short cut to any .sh and give it a png icon, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do the same for activities. Searching online doesn't help, since all I seem to find is how to add or remove packages, with the UI, which I would never do to begin with, as I am a command line person. But for some reason, I am quite impressed with this activities menu thing, and I want to use it on the laptop
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Nov 22, 2014I got a new laptop, Dell Vostro with AMD A6. This came with Ubuntu 12. Got rid of it!I installed Debian 7.6 from a Live dvd with gnome & update it and no have Debian 7.7. I saw a few videos where Debian 7 comes with a vertical menu bar at the left of the screen and most of the options are available is a nice graphical interface. This is missing in my installation.Below is a link of desktop image i could find. The left activities bar does not show on my system. URL....
Also including diplay details if this could be display drivers related.
01:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device 6663
Subsystem: Dell Device 0682
Physical Slot: 0
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
[code]....
Fedora :: Prevent Some Apps From Appearing In Gnome 3 (Activities->Applications)
Jun 11, 2011I don't want to install alacarte to do this. I've copied the .desktop files from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications that I don't want appearing in the gnome 3 applications list (e.g., email settings for evolution), and added 'NoDisplay=true' to the end of each desktop file. Restarted gnome shell, even tried logging out and back in, but they still appear there. Previously, in gnome2, desktop files under the home dir superceded the global directory. Do I need to edit them directly as root to effect the changes, or could this be a selinux problem?
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May 9, 2010Since upgrading to 10.04, any checkboxes or radials in my menus (File, Edit, etc.) are now really hard to read. They are now white in color and no longer show a "brown" background, blending right into the rest of the gray menu. I've attached a screenshot for clarification.Is there any way to make these things easier to see when they've been selected? How can I change the colors? I've tried to search the forum and google but to no avail.
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Jul 8, 2010I'm looking for a way to hide the icons in the Gnome menu bar.
The only thing i've found is the gconf-editor and unchecking /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons, but that only affects the System menu and not Applications and Places...
Example:
Must be like:
How to disable them ?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04LTS with Gnome 2.30
Ubuntu Installation :: Edit The Screen Background But There Is No Menu?
Jan 28, 2010the grub splash screen is too dark with very light colored text. i wanted to edit the screen background but there is no menu.lst. what file is shown by grub ?
by the way it works very well and has really scanned the complete computer for bootable partitions. and all work without any modification.
Ubuntu :: Changing The Color Of The Panel Menu Background?
Jun 25, 2011I know how to change the colors of the panels. But on the parts were the ubuntu symbol, the menus (Applications, Places, and Systems), the date and time, and the indicator applets is, they do not change at all. And pretty much the same problem on the bottom panel.
I tried Gnome color changer but only works for the texts and the drop down menus. I use Gnome classic (hated Unity). My goal is to make ALL of the panel background black.
Red Hat / Fedora :: Change The Background Of Boot Menu?
Oct 21, 2010how to change the background image of boot menu in fedora using a customized image.
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Apr 15, 2009i just installed centos 5.3, after the install was complete i decided to remove the productivty apps (word processor, spreadsheet etc). that part went succesfully until i restarted the server. i must have removed something related to the desktop beacause when i log in now, all i get is an analog clock, a console window and a firefox window. no background or menu bars. i attached a screen shot so you can see what i mean because i cant quite describe it.
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Feb 4, 2011I was changing a few options in Compiz-Fusion today. When I saved one of the options, the X Server restarted and then suddenly, I had no taskbars or anything. I could run F2 to get a GUI Run dialog box to come up, but I can't run any GUI programs. I try GEdit, Google-chrome but nothing comes up. There's no taskbar, no AWG Dock, nothing. Just my wallpaper and I can't do anything with it.
I'm kind of annoyed that one little change can cause the whole X Server to crash and not start up. I tried booting into "Recovery Mode" but Linux doesn't automatically detect my drivers in this mode so I can't boot up into it. I've tried rebooting and I still get the wallpaper.
In TTY1 terminal, is there anything I can do to revert these changes?
As in, can I:
- Revert the changes of Compiz by somehow reaching a Compiz GUI (even though I can't open any GUI windows in GNOME)?
- Uninstall Compiz? (I tried this and it said it supported gnome-desktop..I decided not to get rid of it, any ideas? If I uninstall Compiz, will it revert and restore all the changes Compiz made?)
- Uninstall and reinstall GNOME? (if so, how can I do this?)
- Access the Compiz config through the terminal so I can perhaps find the option I set and revert it?
This is pretty urgent because I can't use my machine at all, so any help would be really really I'm still able to use the Cube and switch between workspaces (CTRL+ALT+<left/right>) which leads me to believe Compiz is working. I can also open the GUI run dialog, but just no other windows. I think Compiz must have an error and I'll have to restore to Metacity to view windows again.. any ideas?
Fedora Installation :: No Menu - No Panel - Just Plain Background After Install
Aug 8, 2010I've installed Fedora 13 from DVD and selected some extra features (php, mySQL). After the installation and user creation, I rebooted and logged in - clean clean desktop. No menu, no panel nothing. But I can run some commands (like firefox) from ALT+F2. It looks as if the commands works fine, but no menu.
I've re-installed my whole system.... same thing after logging in. I can see the bottom panel before log in.
Whatever I should do, I can only through command line as I'm able (from ALT+F2) to open a terminal. I suspect my resolution or something.
I'm working from a Acer laptop who's monitor is broken, connected a Samsung SyncMaster 943nwx to it. Its a 17" wide monitor.
OpenSUSE :: Change The Background Color Of The Bottom Kde Menu Panel?
Oct 16, 2010How can i change the background color of the bottom kde menu panel? I tried with systesettings>Advanced>Theme,it's not changing anything.
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Jul 7, 2010I wanted to use a regularly- and frequently-updating weather map as my desktop background (extreme desktop tweakers can stop reading here: yes, I'm committing the unspeakable act of using a 640x480 image as the background for my 1280x1024 desktop. What can I say? I'm a pragmatic kinda guy . . .). I came up with the following solution for doing this, but wanted to post here to see if someone else might suggest something more elegant and/or superior.
First, I created an extremely simplistic bash script that downloads the weather map image (640x480 a gif) and writes it to a file in my home directory called wmap-bkgrnd.gif. It's only two lines, as follows code...
So now cron downloads the image every 10 minutes and writes it to the wmap-bkgrnd.gif file in my user's home directory. Finally, I right-clicked on the gnome desktop and selected "change background," selecting that image as my desktop background.
It works, and gives the desired effect. I now have a weather map that updates every 10 minutes as my desktop background.
So, my questions. Is there a simpler/better way to accomplish this task? I have to say I have nothing against higher-resolution images and would use one if I could find something suitable. But so far, in the way of frequently-updated maps, I've only been able to find this low-resolution one.
Ubuntu :: Changing Background Crashes GNOME
Jul 9, 2010Been trying to get mac4lin to work, and in the process, I attempted uninstalling, rebooting, then reinstalling gtk-engines-pixbuf. This has now screwed my system so that the background is a light grey and any attempt to change the wallpaper just makes X crash, forcing me to Ctrl Alt Backspace. I'd rather avoid a reinstall of the system since I have it customized to my needs, so is there a solution to this? I tried reinstalling the pixbufs package, but no dice.
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Apr 1, 2011This is so bizarre I'm not even sure what to search google for. When I log in, the GDM background stays on one of my screens. It appears, however, that Gnome and my applications are running properly on that screen - as I move the mouse around, the pointer changes just as I would expect. The GDM root window is simply covering everything. I've tried logging out/in and rebooting, but that hasn't helped. I assume that if I simply kill the GDM processes that my session will exit. This seems to have started since I last installed updates (that's why I rebooted the first time earlier today).
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Apr 22, 2011I want to look for a different background for gnome Fedora 14. Where can I see different backgrounds for Fedora 14 and downloads.
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Jan 10, 2009I added an entry to grub's menu.lst and reran grub (grub-install hd0) and now my background is gone and the entries just show up like on a normal console.
I searched the forums and I couldn't find anything. Does anybody know why this happened and how to fix it?
I have not changed anything in menu.lst except for adding the new OS.
Ubuntu :: Icons With White Background In Gnome-Panel?
May 3, 2010I have a problem with Ubuntu 4.10 and gnome-panel. The new icons are very nice, but if I go to open software like vlc or banshee get similar results: (See at the end of panel the icons of VLC and banshee)
I think a screenshot is worth a thousand words, how to resolve?
Ubuntu :: Old Gnome Background Appears When Coming Out Of Screensaver?
May 25, 2011Everytime I unlock my screen in KDE from the screensaver the background for the Gnome interface momentarily appears before the KDE plasma workspace returns. It only appears for a second and, sure, I can live with it but I wondered if there is a way to fix it and why it is happening in the first place? I initially installed ubuntu 10.4 then installed kubuntu through the package manager and have since upgraded to 10.10 and now 11.4. I think this problem has been here since install of kubuntu
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Mar 12, 2010This is how my Firestarter and Pidgin icons appear in the tray against a panel using an image background, even though the icons are transparent. What can be done to fix this? According to this five year old thread, GTK libraries didn't support transparency in the tray area back then, but surely this must've been fixed by now? There are even some links to bugfixes in that very thread, but I'm hesitant to apply something that old. What to do?
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Jan 17, 2011I'd like to change the default transparency level for the gnome-terminal.The gnome-terminal has this setting in: Edit --> Profile preferences --> Background tab, called "Use background settings from system theme". Indeed, I can simply uncheck this setting and manually adjust, but then my changes would apply to all themes, if I were to change my theme in the future.How can I edit the transparency of the GTK theme itself so that it applies to gnome-terminal?I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with the "Ambiance" theme, and I'm seeing these files which are probably relevant. Am I on the right track? (those files don't contain anything obvious like "transparency" or "opacity" to change ... so I"m not exactly sure what/where to change)
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Apr 8, 2011First, I wrote a bare bones bash script to change the gnome desktop background to a random image [URL] Then, I realized there are dozens of bash scripts posted in the ubuntu forums just like this one [URL] next, rothalem & I rediscovered the drama of processing files in bash that have spaces in the name [URL] Finally, sflitman suggested dumping bash all together & just using perl [URL]
Result :
A pretty little perl script to change the gnome desktop wallpaper / background to a random image. - If you are unfamiliar with perl :
[URL]
The completed script isn't bullet proof but it will :
- accept command line arguments
- accept files & dirs with spaces in the name
- catch most errors or use the defaults.
Step 1 : Inherit the appropriate CPAN library ( from command line )
- Main Menu -> Accessories -> Terminal
Code:
sudo cpan File::Random
Step 2 : Cut-n-Paste this code into a perl script & change red line to the path_to_your_wallpaper_images
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# rocuan & sflitman
use Cwd;
use strict;
[code]....
Ubuntu :: 10.04.GNOME (Classic) Why Does Some Terminal Window Background Appear Differently
May 22, 2011Why does on some computers my terminal window have a background I can see through and on others its a solid color? I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on 4 machines as base OS and I have many virtual machines of it also. I havent changed the terminal preferences on any of them, however on some computers the terminal background which is purple is not solid in that you can see what is in the background behind it. On others the background is truly solid purple; you can not see behind/through it.
Is there any way to change the terminal window for these machines that are displaying solid to the 'see-thru' way? Ive been using some ebooks and things and really like opening up vi/vim in the purple see-thru window that allows me to write and see the text in the background...however on some machines I can not do this because the terminal display is truly solid. ? All my computers have the same profile settings for terminal..
color = use system theme
background = Solid color
Note - I am making a distinction here between what I call see-thru and the 'transparent' setting in the terminal preferences as this seems to use the desktop background and is different from what I am talking here.
Fedora :: Gnome Desktop Background Distortion?
Jan 27, 2010F12 current updates. The Gnome Desktop Background images are compressed in the horizontal axis enough to make a cessna 182 look like a disney cartoon. I am running 1280X1084 75 hertz update rate. The Gnome Image Viewer gives a correct image. The image I am running had to be stretched to fill the screen. I suspect the stretching algorithm is at fault. Is this a bug that need reporting?
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