I want to format the date on the lock screen without the use of extensions.
I have already used the answer to this question to set up my top bar clock formatting. However, it did not affect the lock screen formatting.
When connecting to websites like Netflix and Stadia I would like to route the traffic outside the VPN I have setup to connect to my office. It is a L2TP IPSEC VPN setup through NetworkManager on Ubuntu 18.04.5. I have searched for an answer but none of the solutions I have tried has worked for me.
There are a lot of similar questions to mine on here, but not one of them seem to have a working solution for me. I found this answer very promising. But pushing non-VPN traffic outside of the tunnel did not work for me, so I left a comment.
My main issue is that I have zero networking knowledge. A such I could be making a very simple mistake and not knowing it. Some step by step instructions on how I would route the traffic to certain websites outside my l2tp ipsec vpn would be greatly appreciated. If you need any more info to help me with this, please let me know.
Edit: I just realised, maybe this has more to do with the sites I am trying to route outside rather than my setup? Maybe pointing to the stadia.google.com host isn't enough?
I am wondering if this is at all possible in Ubuntu 18.04 with Eclipse 2019-03 and Eclipse 2019-06. I am testing the new version in parallel to check for any issues we might have, before moving all developers over to it. I have two different .desktop files and both as favorites on the dock. When launched from their respective icons however, they both group on the older version. It would be a great quality of life improvement for me if I could have them on their own respective icons. It would be easier to switch correctly back and forth and a lot easier to see which version I'm currently in.
I have found this older question about it, but it has no answer. The xprop WM_CLASS is the same for both versions
$ xprop WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Eclipse", "Eclipse"
As suggested in the old question, I haven't been able to find a plugins.xml with properties regarding the name of the application. Is there any other way to separate these windows or applications so that they don't group on the dock?
Edit
I tried adding the --class flag to the Exec part of the desktop file but it is not having any effect on the WM_CLASS variable.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Eclipse 2019-06 Java 11
Type=Application
Exec=/home/simonc/jee-2019-06/eclipse/eclipse --class Eclipse2
Terminal=false
Icon=/home/simonc/jee-2019-06/eclipse/icon2.xpm
Comment=Integrated Development Environment
NoDisplay=false
Categories=Development;IDE;
Name[en]=Eclipse 2019-06 Java 11
Name[en_US]=Eclipse 2019-06 Java 11
StartupWMClass=Eclipse2
The result is still
$ xprop WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Eclipse", "Eclipse"
I have a pretty specific problem, that I have had no luck trying to find a working solution to. I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 docked using 2 external monitors resulting in 3 screens. I want to have my top bar on all 3 screens to easily look up on the current screen to see the time. I enable this using the Multi Monitors Add-On Gnome extension. I am running Ubuntu in English, but set to Swedish formats. This makes for a very ugly and incorrect date format in the top bar.
This is pretty much English format with Swedish names for days and months. On a side note, this localization "bug" has been fixed and is ready for an upcoming gnome release.
My main issue is that I want to change the format of the date displayed to something like:
I can easily get this format using any of the many clock formatting Gnome extensions (Clock Override, Datetime Format). However, none of these extensions work with my Multi Monitors Add-On, leaving me with a nicely formatted clock on the main monitor, but ugly formatted clocks on the other two screens. I have tried getting the developers of these addons to collaborate, but apparently dependencies between gnome extensions is "hell".
I have also tried editing the locale files directly, both the en_US and sv_SE. Specifically the LC_TIME d_t_fmt format for date and time strings, but this seems to have no impact on the clock format.
In a last attempt I also unpacked the libgnome-shell.so file located in /usr/lib/gnome-shell/ to try and edit the JavaScript files used to display the clock, using this answer. I had a look in dateMenu.js and calendar.js and changed most of the format strings that I could find to my desired format %Y-%m-%d. I then ran GNOME_SHELL_JS=$HOME/gnome-shell-js gnome-shell --replace, but again it seemed to have no effect. To be fair, I am in deep waters here and could definitely have failed in my attempts. As such, the solution could still be in this method.
Have anyone had any experience with a situation like this? Changing the format of date and time displayed on multiple monitors using Ubuntu 18.04? Feel free to try what I have tried already as I can certainly have missed something that could have made it work.
I recently found /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/ on my Ubuntu 18.04.1 machine. I found this other related question, but not much else to explain what it is used for. I also seem to have several versions of it: /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/70, /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/74 and /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/current.
What does this snap do? And can it be removed without breaking anything significant?
I have multiple icon themes installed in Ubuntu 18.04 and I am currently using a Papirus theme. I am now tinkering with a tool to create GNOME shell extensions (Argos) and wanted to use a Papirus icon for one of my list items. So, I found the gtk3-icon-browser thanks to this answer and thought it seemed perfect for what I needed. But when running the gtk3-icon-browser I can only see a small set of standard icons, presumably the standard GTK icons. None of my installed icon themes show up, not even the one I am currently using.
Have I misunderstood what gtk3-icon-browser is supposed to do? Or am I missing something else?
I just want to be able to use my Papirus icons with the Argos iconName field. Placing the full path to an icon there does not work. So I probably need some sort of unique name and thought that the gtk3-icon-browser would provide me with that.
So I need a way to find the unique names for my icons, a way to see them in gtk3-icon-browser or a way to use my icons with Argos without the unique name. Any help on this will be very much appreciated.