Questions Tagged With gnome

Keyboard keys wrong on Gnome and Xfce-4, but not KDE

Roger P — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:49:56 -0400

When I log onto our Linux server (Redhat 16) using xterm and run the gnome or xfce-4 desktops the keys no longer are entered in correctly - (e.g. when pressing the "d" key - "s" is displayed). And that is for the whole keyboard! The keys are mapped correctly for KDE desktop.

There is no problem running the gnome desktop on my other (Solaris) machines using the same account (I use NIS and export the user accounts to all machines - sort of a simple cluster) so I don't think it could be anything on the user's account.

Roger

Cursor in Gnome on Gentoo spinning endlessly

unixbhaskar — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:56:09 -0400

But I can log in with that spinning cursor..but lot of other fucntionality missing.I am told at gentoo forums that I have more then one gnome installed in my system.I need to figure out how I can enlist them and get rid of them?

Something is definately broken..but couldn't pinpoint what is actually causing it...due to my lack of brilliance and time.

I know eselect ..that doesn't help either.I know unmerge...but I need to know...what is in respect to gnome is installed...I know q and I have genlop installed..and used it with find out..but alas!

Can someone show me the way...exactly how can I determine how many gnome instances I have installed from user space on Gentoo?

cant ask if idont know how to request?

lillopez1369 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:56:53 -0400

can someone share the linux/gnome commands with me. everything has to have a ug in front of the request or what? please help? if you could send me the basic path map to get to the linux or gnome enterprise i would be very appreciative

switching between different input methods phonetic vs typewriter in ibus preferences Hindi typing

Registered User — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:39:11 -0500

I use Ubuntu 11.10 and Gnome environment. I am able to type documents in Hindi by a method shown here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL7icGNhIfI I installed ibus-m17n and ibus packages and have enabled support for Hindi language in gnome-language-selector.I have following input methods enabled in ibus preference window

Hindi inscript (m17n)
Hindi phonetic (m17n)
Hindi itrans (m17n)
Hindi remington (m17n)
* Hindi typewriter (m17n)

a snapshot for the same can be seen here https://picasaweb.google.com/107404068162388981296/UnknownAsianLanguage#5705518106929667058

Also you can see in this snapshot that these methods do come in drop down menu of ibus

https://picasaweb.google.com/107404068162388981296/UnknownAsianLanguage#5704771437325752466

I open libreoffice and press Ctrl+Space so that I can type in Hindi. I am able to type in Hindi.

When the input method is off as in this snapshot https://picasaweb.google.com/107404068162388981296/UnknownAsianLanguage#5705519585633896530

then I am able to type in Hindi with following kind of keyboard

/usr/share/m17n/hi-typewriter.mim

i.e. by pressing key "h" letter प gets typed.
Which is expected behavior.

Now comes the problem upon selecting the method phonetic as in this snapshot https://picasaweb.google.com/107404068162388981296/UnknownAsianLanguage#5704771437325752466

pressing key "h" letter again प gets typed.
Which is not expected.As per my understanding the keymap for phonetic input method in this case is

/usr/share/m17n/hi-phonetic.mim and given that input method phonetic is already selected
(with phonetic selection) upon pressing key "h" letter "य" should get typed.

That means that selection of different input methods has no effect on typing. So is ibus not working properly or I missed some thing? How can I get expected behavior when selecing different input methods in ibus preference window?

Cannot change gnome-terminal keyboard binding for "Select All"

lsiden — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:40:22 -0400

Somehow (fat fingers) I got the letter "p" assigned to "Select All" in Gnome Terminal's keyboard shortcuts. But when I go to edit the keyboard shortcuts under the Gnome Terminal Edit menu, there is no entry for "Select All" (only Copy and Paste). I tried to look for a file under ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome2 where these settings are saved, but couldn't find anything. How do I get this reset back to normal?

How to make Docky appear over other windows

Phenom — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:00:12 -0400

I have Docky in autohide mode. The problem is that if a window is in the area where docky is supposed to pop up, like say if a window is maximized and takes up the whole screen, docky will appear under it, and it will be covered. How can Docky be made to appear above other windows?

SSHFS drives not owned by current login show up on desktop (GNOME)

Andy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:15:44 -0400

I use sshfs everyday and find it very useful. One item I have not been able to figure out is when the mount takes place, the mount points show up as "drives" on my desktop. I'm okay with that except for some of the mount points are not owned by my current login. In other words, I have one mount point that is owned by "root" but it appears on my desktop. I get permission denied when I try to access the drive but I'd prefer it not show up if I can't view it. I use GNOME so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Any thoughts?

Login problem in RHEL 6.0 Beta

Ashi Sharma — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:15:34 -0400

I have downloaded RHEL 6 beta from www.redhat.com site and installed it on my PC successfully. When I want to login with root in GNOME/KDE, the system gives me a error message that AUTHENTICATION FAILED and I'm unable to login while I can login with root from terminal/text mode.

But I can login with other user or local user successfully.

Please help me and solve my this problem.

Gnome Aero Snap: maximize a window to half the screen by dragging it to the left/right edge?

Kurtosis — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:57:56 -0400

KDE and Windows7 both have a nice feature that lets you maximize a window to half the screen by dragging it to the left or right screen edge. Does Gnome have anything similar?

Edit: The feature is called Aero Snap in Windows 7.

Howto enable sound for Gwibber, Empathy and MeMenu in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynix?

abgalphabet 1 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:12:46 -0400

I did what this link told: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1194501 however, the sound doesn't come out. Is there any other way to configure the sound? I use fujitsu S6420 notebook.

gnome-terminal:keyboard shortcut launches terminal with / directory default!

deepclutch — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:56:24 -0400

Hello , I ran this 'gconf-cleaner' just for the sake() on My Debian Box.

If I launch "gnome-terminal" from Applications Menu or from a panel icon ,it works with default $HOME directory(default behaviour). But ,with custom keyboard shortcut for Gnome Terminal in Gnome-2.30(Can set via menu System>Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts),it opens in root directory.I mean in "/" directory. The Easy fix is to assign 'gnome-terminal --working-directory=%f ' or something similar.

Is there a way to fix this Behaviour without adding any lines to ~/.bashrc etc ?

BTW ,$HOME variable is correct.rest everything is Fine.

volume control on GSB 2.30

martin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:05:44 -0400

I'm running slackware64 13.1 and GSB 2.30. I'm puzzled as to what to use to control sound volume. When I right click on the panel and open "Add to Panel" utility I can see the volume control applet but it says "deprecated" next to it. What is recommended then?

thx

How to avoid ugly Compiz/Gnome shadow for Conky?

guerda — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:49:44 -0400

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome and installed Conky recently.

It works very well and I really like Conky. One problem exists nonetheless:
Compiz or Gnome create a drop shadow to all windows. I like this effect for all windows but not for Conky. Conky has now an ugly shadow that looks like it's not embedded into the desktop.

How can I disable this drop-shadow for Conky only?

Is it possible to define an exclusion for some applications?

KDE vs. Gnome - is there a comparison chart?

butik — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:22:47 -0400

Hi,

I would like to know if someone has a feature comparison chart between KDE and Gnome ?

Thank you