As of the moment writing this, gnome-terminal is the default terminal app in GNOME. However, considering development progress of the new app called gnome-console you may want to use it as the default terminal app and hence to be able to open it with Ctrl+Alt+T.
In recent versions of GNOME, changing keyboard shortcuts is much easier than before under Keyboard section of Settings. But the question is what the command is to open Console – no, it’s not gnome-console.
Files transferred by Viber are stored on ~/Documents/ViberDownloads by default. How is it possible to change the destination to a location under ~/Downloads?
Logging out the session (not on shutdown) takes too long: more than 3 minutes on my netbook. On the process CPU isn't working, seems just waiting. No difference using indicator menu, shortcut key, or the command gnome-session-quit --logout.
How can I find out the reason for the problem? Are there any special logs for logout process?
I always modify keyboard layouts to add special characters as my needs. To modify the layout I open the codes under:
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
The changes would apply after a re-login, or a reboot for the default one.
But now on Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04, with the new text entry settings, the changes don’t take effect even after a reboot, if I’ve enabled them before editting.
Is there any way to force Ubuntu to reconfigure keyboard layouts, Somewhat like dpkg-reconfigure locales for locales? The files are saved correctly!
As mentioned in an OMG! Ubuntu! post, menus and toolbars of GTK3 apps are fixed in Ubuntu themes. But there’s still an inconsistency in Ubuntu theming between GTK2 and GTK3 menus where GTK2 apps don’t follow theme colors for menus.
I know this is possible in GTK2 as well by editing gtkrc file and setting the menu style the same as the existing dark style. Opening the gtkrc file, you can see these lines:
style "menu" {
xthickness = 0
ythickness = 0
engine "murrine"
{
roundness = 0
}
}
Fixing the menu colors is as simple as changing the first line like this:
style "menu" = "dark" {
xthickness = 0
ythickness = 0
engine "murrine"
{
roundness = 0
}
}
But this leads to a problem with ComboBox menus, especially with Ambiance because of the dark colors; for example, in Tomboy preferences all entries of a drop-down menu are illegible:
I’ve just found the fix for this problem!
Is it possible in GTK-2 or/and GTK-3 to remove the scrollbar trough or make it invisible?
I know there are scripts to remove the scrollbar steppers, like:
GtkScrollbar::has-forward-stepper = 0
Now I want to know if there is such script to remove the trough.
In other words, GTK scrollbar is at the end of content, but I want to put it over the content – just like Overlay scrollbar.
EDIT: Let’s make my question more clear. I’ve edited both GTK-2 and GTK-3 themes to make scrollbars more similar to Overlay since I don’t like a low-contrast wide scrollbar. So I edited gtkrc and gtk-widgets.css files to change the slider color to orange and the trough to white, but as seen in the screenshot below the contrast between the trough and a dark background is annoying.
The question is here if it’s possible to completely remove the trough or make it transparent. I guess the latter is possible.
My ideal is something like this:
Empathy use Ubuntu font for the UI, but the chat texts is in the Sans. How is it possible to use Ubuntu font for them too?
There is no option in Mouse & Touchpad Settings to enable horizontal scrolling in Ubuntu 13.04+ (Raring/Saucy/Trusty) (GNOME 3.8+):
No horizontal scrolling even by enabling two finger scroll or content sticks to fingers.
How is it possible?
This is not a duplicate of this or that!
The problem in detail
The brightness hotkeys works well in increasing or decreasing the brightness, but if the brightness is less than 100%, after a reboot the brightness level and actual backlight will mismatch; where I mean the actual backlight is not at its maximum while the brightness level shows 100%. To avoid such problem I should set the brightness level at 100% every time before shutdown.
Efforts
I’ve tried all suggested answers for brightness problems, including acpi_backlight in grub and echo values in rc.local, but no change. Recently I found that pressing brightness hotkeys while brightness settings window is open sometimes make the brightness slider disappear!
I’ve had this problem after 11.04, I mean in either 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10, and saw in various netbooks and laptops. I guessed it should be related to unknown graphics driver; because I had a known driver in 11.04 and no problem, but an unknown one in all computers with this problem:
So I just tried 13.04 via USB and faced the same problem although the graphics was known:
A possible cause
In the folder /sys/class/backlight there are two links (to folders):
acpi_video0 which contains brightness files with the maximum 15;
intel_backlight which contains brightness files with the maximum 125. I wonder that in this folder brightness is 125 (at maximum) but actual_brightness is 70, even if the backlight is at its actual maximum.
Does anyone know about this or any possible solution?
When Nautilus is loading a folder or searching for a file, there's an animation like this:
How can I change it to gnome-spinner (Humanity process-working)? I’ve searched all animation directories in /usr/share/icons/ but couldn’t find any PNG’s for such animation.
Thanks everyone in advance.
After I saw Windows 8 uses hybrid hibernation instead of shutdown by default in order to solve its slow startup issue, I want to know if it's possible to use hybrid hibernation on Ubuntu to speed up its fast startup?
If yes, how? And does it really affect the startup time – for example 30 sec to 10 sec?
I'm working on a new Latin-based script for Persian. So I've used such lines in GB locale file, to modify the sort order:
First of all, I've introduced the new characters in such way:
collating-symbol <acirc>
Then, defined the order:
reorder-after <a> <acirc>
And, finally the unicode:
reorder-after <U0041>
<U00C2> <acirc>;<CIR>;<CAP>;IGNORE % Â
But, after I save the file, and run the command sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales, nothing is changed, and the applications such as Text Editor or LibreOffice Writer don't obbey the new-defined order.
Should I do more to introduce this new sort order to apps?
There are discussions on minimize button icon recently: since the launcher is on the left where minimized window goes, should Ubuntu minimize button be vertical? There are many different suggestions, such as a dot, an arrow, etc., but I think a single left-pointing arrow is the best.
Whether this is right or not, how to change minimize button to a left-pointing arrow?
When there are scroll wheels on mice and scrollbar functions on thouchpads, a low contrast wide scrollbar doesn’t make sense. So I wanted to change gtk-2.0 scrollbar to something like overlay one – orange narrow slider with white background.
I couldn’t find anything about this topic here, so I decided to write something about it.
Possible Duplicate:
How do I modify the power options?
I'd like to shutdown my laptop by closing the lid; but in Power Settings there's no option to do that.
Is there any way to add "shutdown" to the pop-down list in the power settings for "when the lid is closed"? I prefer the way through the terminal without installing a third-party application.