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Luís de Sousa
Asked: 2019-02-14 03:23:38 +0800 CST

System settings application crippled in i3

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I have been working with i3 for a while on Ubuntu 18.04. Controlling some of the peripherals has been quite elusive, since the system settings application shows only a few of the settings available in Unity:

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The i3 folk claim that this has nothing to do with the DE, but is rather an issue with my system. What do I need to do to have the same settings controls in i3 as I have in Unity?

system-settings i3-wm

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  1. Best Answer

    You should try to declare environment variable with GNOME desktop and launch GNOME Control Center with it:

    env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center
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