In ubuntu 20.04 the default store is a package called snap-store that is capable of installing both snaps and debs, but if you try to reinstall it with snap remove snap-store and snap install snap-store the package loses the ubuntu branding and the ability to install debs. How do I reinstall the original store and what difference is there with this snap store?
I tried following my own advice from this question, but the workaround there failed to work in 19.10 while it worked up until 19.04. The tearing (applying the tweak in the linked question) is reduced, only the upper part of the screen has tearing now, but it still isn't completely gone.
It is once again a firefox specific issue (chromium and the electronplayer snap don't have this issue). Are there any other workarounds to reduce tearing in firefox other than the aforementioned one?
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other windows become transparent when I resize one. How can I remove this effect?
When I play a video in fullscreen with firefox (i.e. youtube, netflix etc.) it tears constantly. Chrome, Chromium and Opera don't have this problem. How can I fix it?
I thought running something like snap connect app_name:/tmp would work but it didn't. Is there any way to accomplish this?
What's the difference between xdotool getwindowfocus windowclose and the command executed by Alt+F4?
Firefox complains when being closed by the former method but doesn't complain when using Alt+F4, so there must be a difference but I can't seem to understand it.
I would like to install the default GNOME 3 shell theme (the one used in Fedora for example), but I can't seem to find it anywhere (it's not even on gnome-look).
Can someone tell me how I can achieve this? The only way I can think of is to use the gnome-session package, but that seems quite overkill frankly.
To clarify, I'm looking for the shell theme, not the GTK theme (I have the User Themes extension installed).
I'm using kdocker (I'm using GNOME though) for thunderbird and that works great. Now I've found this really nice desktop client for whatsapp and would like to start it at startup. There are 2 problems though: it's a snap app, so it takes ages to load and thus doesn't work well with kdocker (kdocker gives a timeout error and after that whatsdesk opens not minimized in the tray). The second issue is that it already has it's own icon in the system tray so kdocker adds a duplicate in any case.
As a workaround for now I'm running this script on startup:
#!/bin/bash
snap run whatsdesk &
sleep 10
wmctrl -c "Whatsdesk"
I was wondering though if there was a better way to do this, instead of opening the window and then killing the application (it minimizes in the tray even after being killed like this).
As per title, I'd like to install the development version (4.13) of xfwm4 insfead of the regular 4.12 since I've found out that it now supports vsync and opengl and thus removes tearing completely (i.e. no more need for Compton). Unfortunately the only way to install it seems to be from source but, while that's not usually a problem, I've read somewhere (I can't find it anymore) that I'd have to remove xfwm4 4.12 to install 4.13, and that worried me a bit. Also I tried looking something up on askubuntu but only got this question, upgrade xfce4 applications to the latest versions , that doesn't solve my "problem".
So the question is: is there a step-by-step guide or ppa that can ease the installation process? I know that arch has xfwm4-git in the aur but I can't seem yo find anything similar for Ubuntu. Thank you in advance for any help.
My problem is similar to the one in this question (not exactly the same), I did try the answers there but they didn't solve the issue. Basically when I change volume via keyboard shortcut I get multiple notifications, like this:
I do NOT have xfce4-volumed installed, the notifications come exclusively from the pulseaudio plugin in the panel. If I remove the plugin and install xfce4-volumed the same happens but with a different notification style (the speaker is smaller). The only workaround that I've found is disabling notifications from the puldeaudio plugin properties but that isn't exactly ideal. Any help is appreciated. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with xfce installed (not xubuntu).
I'm running ubuntu 18.04 with Xfce installed to replace GNOME. I'd like to be able to search gnome-software from the whisker menu. In the man page gnome-software doesn't say it has a search option though, I can only launch the store's default page. The same applies to the synaptic package manager.
In alternative if using a GUI application from the whisker menu isn't possible can I search applications from the terminal? I'd prefer not to use apt-cache search because I find it to messy to search for applications. I did find this question but I find implementing the accepted answer into something I could launch from the whisker menu quite confusing.