Questions tagged [gnome-panel]
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GNOME: Bottom task bar is missing/blank after upgrade
I am running kali linux, which has gnome. I just updated with
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
and that completed without incident, only a little while after did I realise that my bottom taskbar was missing(well technically just blank(black)). The…
Totem
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How do I run a script when I switch between keyboard layouts
I use more than one keyboard layout, and I would like to find a way to run a script when I switch between them.
Is this possible?
So far, I can assign a shortcut for a script like this:
#!/bin/bash
#switch between two layouts (English and Greek in…
Radu Rădeanu
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synchronize gnome 3 (panel) settings between computers
I'd like to synchronize the configuration of my gnome panel(s) between computers and keep the configuration in Git. How can I dump / import the necessary information? I already found gconftool2 --dump but did not find anything that looked like my…
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Top and bottom panels disappeared in Ubuntu 10.10 (Gnome)
For some reason my top and bottom panels have disappeared. I can't right-click and add a new panel either. I tried executing gnome-panel from the terminal, rebooting, but no luck. Any idea how to recover these panels?
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Gnome menu panel blank space
I'm having a problem in the top menu panel since a couple of days, some space has been created between some icons and I don't know how to remove it. A screendump:
Does anyone know what the reason could be for it?
By the way, I'm using Ubuntu Lucid…
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How to stop gnome from forcing me to logoff / logout?
From time to time my Gnome 3 shell or some parts of it are crashing. Gnome sees a time out and is forcing the user to logout without other possibilities.
"Oh no! Something has gone wrong." See superuser for a screenshot. (Fail whale is providing…
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Why are there pipe characters '|' and square bracket characters '[' ']' in my Cinnamon window names? How to disable them?
I was puzzled why there were pipe and square bracket characters in my Cinnamon window titles in the panel.
Eg. Firefox window title showing as "| Firefox" or "[ Firefox ]"
Why are they there, and how to disable?
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Gnome panel missing application icons, chat bubble menu, and power menu
I've been messing around with my system too much and messed something up. I'm new to Ubuntu, but have been using linux on servers for a few years. I'm not sure of the correct terminology so I'm including screen shots to explain what is going…
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How do I move gnome-panel between monitors without gnome-settings-daemon in xmonad?
I'm running xmonad with gnome-panel, but not gnome-settings-daemon. I start up gnome-panel by spawning in xmonad.hs. How can I (on the command line) get gnome-panel to switch monitors?
xmonad.hs:
myManageHook :: [ManageHook]
myManageHook =
[…
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How can I figure out why gnome-panel is frequently misbehaving?
On my system (Debian Lenny AMD64), gnome-panel seems to act up now and again. I've not found a way to force it to happen, but it seems to be related to launching processes. Basically, I launch some process, and I see 1 core max itself out, and the…
Anonymous
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GNOME Panel Completely Blank
I had rebooted my laptop running Debian while it was in a perfectly fine running state. After the reboot, I log in again, and the top GNOME panel is completely blank. I only have one panel as I use Cairo Dock in the place of the bottom panel.
When…
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relocatable schema not provoking changes in Gnome panel
In order to hide the main menu bar of a Gnome panel, this command should make it:
gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.toplevel:/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ auto-hide "yes"
but I see no effect after executing it, the new value is there, as shown by…
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System menu and desktop right click don't appear in Gnome3
I run Arch Linux with Gnome3. I need to escape from the "routine" and change to Gnome for some weeks or even months. When I open it, I can't see the system menu, which is supposed to be right of "places", and cannot right click my desktop.
Is my…
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How do I adjust the format of GNOME's digital clock to an advanced custom format?
The digital clock of GNOME I am referring to is indicated in this screenshot:
(The image shows the date/time as “Sat 12:49 PM”.)
This is the advanced custom format I would like GNOME's digital clock to have:
%l:%M:%S %p %A, %e %B %Y
At the moment,…
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`Control + Alt + Tab` does not show the top bar in Gnome 3
In Gnome 2, when an application was fullscreen, Control + Alt + Tab would let you select either the top bar or the bottom bar (AFAIK, they are also called "panels"). In Gnome 3, the same keyboard shortcut lets you select only the bottom bar. How…
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