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Martin Hope
Technick
Asked: 2023-06-09 21:43:11 +0800 CST
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I'm using Ubuntu 23.04 for just a few days and tried to install user themes with the Gnome-tweaks tool. However the themes do only affect the tweaks app and the top bar, but not the File Manager or the Settings app.

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Martin Hope
Chris Midgley
Asked: 2020-11-03 00:57:12 +0800 CST
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I use gnome-tweaks to turn my Caps Lock into a Control Key. This works normally, but not when I plug in a new external keyboard. I can make it work by:

  1. Opening gnome-tweaks
  2. Getting to the right place on the GUI: Keyboard & Mouse -> Additional Layout Options -> Caps Lock behaviour
  3. Flipping between any other option and "Caps Lock is also a Ctrl"

Is there some terminal command I can run that will refresh gnome-tweaks for my currently plugged in devices? Failing that, is there a command I can run that will do this switch I'm currently doing manually?

This is a bug, but it's affecting my current version and the above would serve as a workaround.

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Martin Hope
Mark
Asked: 2020-10-17 00:03:59 +0800 CST
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I use gnome tweaks to switch my left CTRL and ALT keys. This has been working fine since 18.4, and I had no issues since upgrading to 20.4 until today...

When I open the settings I can see the checkbox to swap the keys is still ticked. When I untick the checkbox and reapply it the key bindings work - for around 5 minutes. Then for no apparent reason reverts back to default. I've even tried leaving the window open - I can see it remain checked, wait for it to no longer apply, it's still ticked, I untick and re-tick it and it works again

Any help for how I can troubleshoot this is much appreciated.

gnome gnome-tweaks 20.04
Martin Hope
Broadsworde
Asked: 2018-04-30 00:15:03 +0800 CST
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Following a fresh hardware install I found "GNOME Tweaks" in the Software app and installed it. Subsequently I ran in terminal:

sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool

To my surprise it installed another package, not an upgrade.

The Tweak Tool works fine, but I'm wondering if I now have 2 versions of the tool installed, and if so which one should I remove?

Update
I found out that gnome-tweaks is the prime package to have installed:

$ apt show gnome-tweaks
...
Breaks: gnome-tweak-tool (<= 3.27.4)
Replaces: gnome-tweak-tool (<= 3.27.4)
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
...

$ apt show gnome-tweak-tool
...
Source: gnome-tweaks
Depends: gnome-tweaks
...
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