Questions tagged [gnome-control-center]
Use this tag to ask questions about `gnome-control-center` - a graphical user interface to configure various aspects of GNOME.
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How to manually set system wide proxy used by gnome-control-center in Ubuntu 22
How do I manually from terminal set the value of proxy server read by gnome-control-center? It doesn't use the http_proxy environmental variable and I notice apps such as Browsers uses value in the ...
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System settings do not show up on Ubuntu 22.04 (gnome-control-center)
I am not able to open my Settings window anymore. When I click on it, it loads for a faw secs but nothing happens. It was completely fine before and I do not remember doing anything special (packages ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 System Settings will not open
I tried the following commands. Both ran successfully, no errors.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-control-center
Both of these commands produced "Bus error (core ...
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Wayland keybinding for raise-or-lower not working for some keys
I am running Ubuntu 22.04.03/Wayland.
Using gnome-tweaks I have set Window Focus to "Focus on Hover" but without "Raise Windows When Focused". I want to be able to hover over a ...
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Failed to register: Unable to acquire bus name 'org.gnome.RemoteDesktop.User'
GNOME remote desktop server on cinnamon.
/usr/lib/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon
Failed to register: Unable to acquire bus name
'org.gnome.RemoteDesktop.User'
I've used CLI grdctl to set it up but when ...
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Cannot open settings on ubuntu 23.10 GNOME
After upgrading from Ubuntu 23.04 to Ubuntu 23.10 I can't open settings.
I was trying to open settings via terminal using
gnome-control-center
but I got message:
Running gnome-control-center is ...
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GNOME control center vanished, nothing on desktop except for background - Ubuntu 22.04
GNOME functions suddenly vanished:
GNOME control center disappeared and I had to manually reinstall it again.
Files on desktop are not displayed and I can't interact with it. (e.g. clicking dragging ...
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GNOME Control Center freezes when trying to add a Gmail account
I want to add a Google account on my gnome-control-center online-account. The popup OAuth window for connecting GNOME to Google loads the first page (email), but when I validate, the window freezes ...
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GNOME control center display settings not showing any displays
I am having this problem since I got a new NVidia GPU (I was using an Intel IGPU previously). For setting up my displays I am using xrandr, but I need to import icc profiles for my 2 monitors, which ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 unable to launch applications
Have a new Ubuntu 22.04 system. Unfortunately it appears it is all locked up and I cannot find nor execute 2 apps that I installed. Also the Activities Bar is frozen.
I installed Chrome from the ....
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Wine32 conflicts with gnome control center
I tried install wine32 on my ubuntu 22.04 it setting option disappeared. I reinstall gnome-control-center with colord and libgd3, now settings came but wine stopped working. How can I keep both ...
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Issues trying to install gnome-control-center [duplicate]
Trying to reinstall gncome control center and keep getting the following issue:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not ...
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Can't open gnome-control-center: gtk_style_context_add_provider_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed cannot open display: :1
when I used gnome-control-center it gave me a segfault error, so I tried sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-control-center but nothing changed.
After searching I tried export CLUTTER_BACKEND=gdk ...
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How to fix gnome control center (monitor submenu) showing duplicate refresh rates
My gnome-control-center show up duplicate refresh rates, like: 50Hz,50Hz; 59,54Hz/59,54Hz; 60Hz,60Hz ... (under xorg, wayland no issue)
xrandr command returns fine refresh rates for specified display.
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Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't show external display options
I am trying to connect my laptop to an external display (TV/projector) using a Ugreen HDMI-to-USB C adapter. This process has worked on my windows system but ubuntu doesn't show this option for me at ...
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