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GUI volume indicator in Openbox
I am using plain openbox as my window manager.
I have configured keyboard special keys, such as XF86AudioMute, XF86AudioLowerVolume and XF86AudioRaiseVolume.
But how can I get the gui indicator, when ...
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In Ubuntu 22 file explorer GUI, how to add "Desktop" to left hand side shortcuts?
Have tried to search for it, but only get answers for the normal sidebar.
Here is a screenshot where I have opened the file explorer on my recent Ubuntu 22 machine:
How do I add a Desktop shortcut to ...
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In gnome desktop, the mouse is on the black desktop and can't do anything on Debian 11
When I enter the gnome GUI desktop on Debian 11, the mouse is shown on the black desktop and I can't do any other things. That is my computer screen is black but the cursor is on the screen and I can ...
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How to transform a CLI linux into a GUI one? Or at least how to run a gui app like firefox in CLI linux? Installing x windowing system?
I just want somebody to walk me through the steps of switching a command line interface linux box into a gui based one. I know this has to do with the X Window System but I don't exactly know how to ...
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Is there a way for a normal person like me to create a linux GUI like Cinnamon or Gnome? [closed]
So, I am trying to create my own Linux distro based off of Ubuntu (called "Cubuntu" and pronounced "Chew-buntu") and I was wondering if I could create my own GUI or desktop environment for cheap or ...
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CentOS 6.5 gets installed in minimal mode after the message "X startup failed, falling back to text mode."
I am trying to install complete CentOS 6.5 including GUI on a x86 platform (32 GB RAM, 1 TB Secondary Memory) using a DVD but for some reason only the minimal commandline CentOS gets installed after ...
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GUI file managers infinitely loading folders never showing content [desktop: KDE5 - tested file managers: Dolphin, Thunar, Nautilus]
GUI file managers do not show any folder content anymore.
Running KDE5 [plasma-desktop-5.7.5-1.fc23.x86_64] on Fedora 23 [4.7.4-100.fc23.x86_64] GUI file managers suddenly stopped to show contents of ...
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OpenBSD - X Window system - no choice on reinstall
I have an AMD64 desktop that I currently run a Centos client on and today I got inspired to convert it into a BSD machine with a gnome desktop environment. I have been running an open BSD server on ...
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name of binary vs. name in GUI
In icedove>preferences>attachments, for 'JEPG image' one can select 'Image Viewer' or 'Use other ...'. It turns out that 'Image Viewer' is actually '/usr/bin/eog' on my system. I only know that ...
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Config to re-enable gtk2 tear-off menus?
Following an apt-get update on Debian jessie/sid, several Gtk2 applications no longer have tear-off menus enabled.
I'm aware that this is a deprecated capability of Gtk (and disagree strongly with ...
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Application launcher with grid like hotkeys
Is there a desktop enviroment or tool wich can provide the following functionality?
If I press a self defined hotkey, a menu of self defined shortcuts/launchers is shown somewhere on the screen where ...
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How to install GNOME 3 on RHEL6?
I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, it has Gnome GUI, but it is very simple and not like Ubuntu's GUI.
I want to install/upgrade my GNOME Desktop Environment to its latest release.
How can I do ...
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Install Desktop on Centos 6.3 remote server
Through our hosting provider, we can create servers running CentOS 6.3. However, these installs are meant to be used as servers that are accessed remotely. They do not come packaged with a GUI "...
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Where to find and how to install Ubuntu GUI themes?
I tried Ubuntu several times, but I didn't stay with it for very long. One reason was I felt the interface was boring.
Today I saw some nice themes here: the #6 in http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/...
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Making applications persist when closed (like on Mac OS X) on Linux
Once an application is first launched in OS X from the dock, it stays open in the background, even after you close all open windows for that application. For example, if I open Google Chrome from the ...
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