Version 2 of the GNOME desktop environment. It is no longer developed, having been superseded by GNOME 3.
Questions tagged [gnome2]
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Nemo Filemanager suddenly looks different
Today I started Nemo and noticed it's new (ugly) look which looks like some kind of fallback mode:
When looking at the package history, I only see recent updates of phonon packages and the installation of wireshark and minitube. The current version…
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How to make Mutter default window manager
I'm running Debian Squeeze and removed Metacity in favor of Mutter. How do I avoid having to run mutter --replace each time I start Xorg (GNOME)?
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How do I read alternate GNOME configuration files
I have a number of versions of GNOME installed on a number of different hosts. All users have network mounted home directories. In some cases GNOME works poorly when reading configuration from the .gnome2 directory. I would like to read config files…
ulve
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Network printer needs to be manually enabled after reboot
I've recently installed Debian Squeeze on a new machine, and decided to try out the default GNOME setup rather than attempt to do everything myself.
I added a printer using System > Administration > Printing — it found my network printer just…
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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 use SSH keys for passwordless SSH via X11 apps (like nautilus)?
I've just reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, and I'm trying to get SSH pubkey authentication working via X11 applications. Specifically, I'm trying to use baobab to display the usage of a remote filesystem, and I need to SSH in as root but root…
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How to add xeyes to the taskbar
Hoping my question is not regarded as silly, I would like to know how, if possible, I can attach the xeyes utility to the task bar. I do not simply want an icon on the task bar for launching xeyes, but rather have the animated eyes appear on the…
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How could all the GNOME keyboard shortcuts be removed in a script, in other words, NOT using gconf-editor?
I am developing custom software on a RHEL system, which tightly locks down every user on the system. I have implemented my own lock screen through dbus, user screen lock (Alt+L) through xbindkeys, and that's pretty much all I want them to be able to…
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How to get GNOME volume applet back?
I'm running GNOME 2.30 (Squeeze) and have lost my Volume Control applet. I can't find it in my Add to Panel window.
[update] Note that the Volume Control applet appears again in the window, and I have no idea what fixed the issue.
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How to get touchpad functional, again?
I messed something up and can't get my touchpad functional at all on GNOME 2.30 any more. I looked at Mouse Preferences on the Touchpad tab, and can't find the magic switch. The touchpad works on the Virtual Terminals, and on LXDE.
Here's output…
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Kickstart - Wallpaper configuration
I am writing a kickstart file for an automated & custom CentOS 7 (Gnome 2) installation. I would like to set the same desktop wallpaper for all my users (not only root).
I didn't find any good example about setting a desktop wallpaper in a kickstart…
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Disable alt tab window switching in Gnome 2
How do I disable the alt+tab switching between Gnome 2 windows?
Which part of Gnome is responsible for doing the alt+tab ? metacity ?
I am using Gnome 2.16.0 (RHEL5). I do not see any keyboard shortcut for alt+tab, when listing the configuration…
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What is the reason behind changing the name of well-known apps?
MATE has forked a number of applications originating as the GNOME Core
Applications, and developers have written several other applications
from scratch. The forked applications have new names - mostly in
Spanish:
Caja (box) – File manager…
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FreeBSD - delete a partially installed gnome2?
I've been trying to compile x11/gnome2 under FreeBSD 10.0-REL, but have been running into all sorts of issues. Eventually I found things indicating that gnome2 is no longer really supported, and that I should use something else (MATE, Xfce, KDE,…
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