Questions tagged [desktop]
Desktop is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users more easily interact with the computer.
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What to do when a Linux desktop freezes?
I'm a Windows guy, dual booted recently, and now I'm using Linux Mint 12
When a Windows desktop freezes I refresh, or if I am using a program I use alt + F4 to exit the program or I can use ctrl + ...
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How to re-load all running applications from swap space into RAM?
If my desktop run out of memory and swaps a lot then I free or kill the application wasting my RAM. But, after that, all my desktop/applications have been swapped and are horribly slow, do you know a ...
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How can I set desktop defaults for new users? [duplicate]
How can I set up desktop defaults, much like most distributions do, for every new user?
(ex. default wallpaper, apps, etc)
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How to scale the resolution/display of the desktop and/or applications?
While using Xorg X11, on KDE/Gnome/XFCE how can we scale the display/resolution for the whole desktop and/or per application? (when this is not available on the settings GUI)
The purpose is to keep ...
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How to launch shell script with double click in CentOS 7
I need to be able to execute an executable shell script (sh) with a double click. I set the executable flag on the permissions for the file, and yet when I double click on it, it opens in a text ...
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How do I refresh Gnome 3 applications
I just added and modified a .desktop file in my /home/user/.local/share/applications folder.
Is there any way to refresh the icon and caption in the list of applications without logging out?
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Screen corruption after hibernate — Is there another way to refresh the X11 display?
When I restore from hibernate the screen is often corrupted. I suspect the graphics memory is not being saved. Suspend-to-ram works fine otherwise.
It also looks like the font-cache is corrupted, as ...
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Why are my application.desktop files not showing up in Linux application menu?
I've written quite a few open source programs over the years, but not very recently, and I've never had this problem before. The menu items for my new project simply refuse to show up in menus on ...
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Play audio output as input to Zoom
Somewhat related to how to pipe audio output to mic input and https://askubuntu.com/questions/602593/whats-a-good-soundflower-replacement-for-ubuntu but those both involve "recording".
I want to ...
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How does the Linux desktop perform system actions?
The Linux desktop can perform several actions which is otherwise not available to the user when logged in from a terminal. Actions such as system shutdown, and changing system time are accessible only ...
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How to refresh the desktop background in various desktop environments? [closed]
In XFCE 4.10 I can refresh my desktop background with xfdesktop --reload.
I would like to know how I can do the same for as many as possible other desktop environments (Unity, KDE, LXDE, Mate, ...
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Create menu entry and desktop icon for application installed from .tar.gz
For install an application from .tar.gz I follow this steps (I will take phpStorm as the example):
Download the .tar.gz file and uncompress under ~/apps. After run this with the given example I end ...
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Select area on screen with pointer
Is there a command line tool that let one select an area with pointer and print the result to terminal?
Much like with various screen capture tools, but I want the coordinates.
For example x,y,width,...
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GNOME confuses names of multiple different Firefox installations
I use GNOME on Debian Jessie and I have different Firefox installations:
the ESR version bundled with GNOME, which I cannot remove (as it is a dependency)
the stable version installed from the ...
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Arch Linux, "hang" on "Reached target Graphical Interface"
EDIT: I just tried gnome and gdm and it worked flawlessly. So something with the virtualbox packages and the SDDM package seems to not work.
At first this question looks like this one (Arch Linux ...
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