Questions tagged [desktop-environments]
Software that provides a graphical user interface, with elements like icons, windows, toolbars, as well as additional features. Popular examples include Gnome and KDE.
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Alt-tab within VNC and back to my desktop
My local desktop is Windows 7, and my remote Linux machine is Ubuntu + Gnome. I access my linux machine via VNCViewer.
When I'm working on my desktop, Alt+Tab switches between my desktop programs.
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How do I change desktop enviorment in debian
I have installed multiple desktop environments when I started debian. I want to change the desktop environment to gnome but I do not know how.
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How to show same panel on every monitor in KDE 5?
I'm using KDE 5.4.3 shipped with Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid.
I want to show a same panel on every monitor, but I didn't find the option.
I have been using Ubuntu Unity desktop environment for a ...
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Linux Arch Xorg xf86EnableIOPorts failed
I recently installed Arch, as a desktop environment I chose Budgie desktop and I would like to run without any display manager.
But sometimes I encounter an issue where when I log in and exec ...
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Place icons on the Chromebook desktop
I am accustomed to windows/mac/ubuntu/debian/mint/centos/rhel desktop operating systems which all have a "desktop" (please see the link for the word "desktop" if you are not sure what a desktop is or ...
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Manjaro gnome to cinnamon environment
I have a manjaro gnome and i was trying to install cinnamon using terminal all operations were successful then when logged out of gnome and switched to cinnamon nothing showed up shortcuts work but no ...
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lightdm and desktop session control by command line
Using linux desktop systems (lightdm login manager, openbox, lxde or unity desktops), how can I enter and exit sessions (eg. log in from lightdm and log out from the desktop session) by command line, ...
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Custom icons for the different mime-types in LXDE/PCManFM (open desktop)
I want to create new mime-type (text/something) for some kind of files. I know how to make it, but I don't know how to make the file manager to display different icons for these file types?
I am ...
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apt-get only downloading gnome classic
For the past few weeks, I've been having a problem with my two laptops. Somehow (both on linux mint 13 and ubuntu 12.04) I have been trying to download gnome 3.4 shell. Unfortunately it would only ...
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Desktop entry equivalents on Windows and macOS?
What are the equivalents of Freedesktop's .desktop entry for different operating systems?
I'm making a Python package that would allow managing and registering such entries for other python packages ...
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It it possible to not use a desktop display manager and just use the DE's lock screen?
I have a laptop running Debian Linux and KDE Plasma as the desktop environment. This is a pretty trivial issue, but I hate the look of SDDM and would prefer to always use KDE's lock screen by booting ...
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How do I de-KDE gnome?
I was using KDE for a while, but switched back to GNOME. However, some of the styles from KDE got into GNOME, and now I have a weird KDE/GNOME fusion. How do I revert back to GNOME style, and also ...
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Boot Pop!_OS to shell, no GUI
I have simulation that requires 30 out of my 32 GB of RAM. Unfortunately, Pop!_OS and its Desktop Environment take a little bit more than 2 GB. This means I cannot run my simulation. I tried ...
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No desktop environment while nomodeset is disabled
Desktop environment won't start while GRUBCMDLINELINUX_DEFAULT is set to nomodeset.
While it's disabled Gnome starts but without some features like brightness controll or external display detection.
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How do I run cinnamon in Ubuntu?
Is there a way to change the desktop environment of Ubuntu to cinnamon?
I only have gnome on this computer.
I am using ubuntu 18.04.
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