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 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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Does GNOME 3 support desktop zoom?
GNOME 3 is not compatible with Compiz, so I cannot use the desktop zoom feature from Compiz. I googled for a long time, and it seems GNOME still does not support desktop zoom -- does it? I am using ...
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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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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 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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Can I run GUI programs without needing a desktop environment?
I use Raspbian (i.e. Debian) Linux. I have been doing some reading but am still unclear.
It seems to me when you boot to command line, it's not really made to use GUI stuff like mpv. Is there a ...
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Kde: how to bind permanently an application to a desktop/activity?
Im pretty new to Kde 4.8 and I can not figure out how to get this behaviour that I used to have in Gnome:
Desktop 1: developer/misc (browser, editor/ide, diff, etc..)
Desktop 2: virtual machines (...
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Change desktop wallpaper from terminal
I am running Mint 13 with Cinnamon 1.6. I would like my desktop wallpaper to automatically change depending on the time of day. So, the first thing that comes to mind is setting up a cron job to do it ...
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GNOME 3 Ctrl+Alt+D (show desktop)
I recently upgraded my system to GNOME 3. In previous versions of GNOME, the key combination Ctrl+Alt+D would hide all open windows and show the Desktop. This shortcut was eliminated from GNOME 3 ...
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Show file system instead of "places" in gtk file chooser
In almost any program, when I click on open, a file chooser dialog opens as shown below. This dialog shows Recent, Home, Desktop and so on.
This is extremely annoying. I am not using Desktop to store ...
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Visual feedback for window focus with Alt-Tab? (Cinnamon)
I have a frequent problem that occurs with window-based desktops like Cinnamon or XFCE, especially on multiple monitors.
I very often misread which Window has focus after Alt-Tab. So I will start ...
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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 can I open a window on a different monitor?
With multiple monitors, I have so far been dragging windows manually around. Is there a way to make a window open on a specific screen in a dual-head setup? (Not to be confused with multiple X server ...
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