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I once used gnome-mount like this
gnome-mount -o ro -d /dev/sda2 or gnome-mount -o ro -p "Macintosh HD"
But, alas, gnome-mount seems to be no more. RIP.
I can do this
gvfs-mount -d /dev/sda2
(which generates a whole lot of errors but does mount the partition in the /media directory.)
This is a related question:…
My setup is weird and I can't change it now. I have two machines:
local-machine: it's my desktop running Ubuntu with Gnome
remote-machine: it's one virtual machine, also running Ubuntu but without X
In both machines I have my private and public SSH keys.
I need to run SSH from remote-machine to local-machine and…
I'm an elder non-techie Mac-to-Linux convert trying to play the linux tech game by ear, so please be gentle! :)
I am running XFCE Ubuntu 12.04 totally on a 8-gig flash drive and it's fantastic. I am starting to run into potential space issues (down to 1.0 gig free from 1.9 gigs since being installed last summer),…
There was a way to register URL protocol handlers with Gconf, which is now obsolete and there seems to be no way to do the same with DConf (or Gsettings, its recommended wrapper).
How do one properly register an URL protocol handlers since DConf?
Additionally, something looks strange to me (as I don't understand…
Please, I have been dealing with the alt-tab problem for a long time. I have alreade check keyboard shortcuts in the configuration panel but it still doesn't work. (I already had this problem in ubuntu 12.04, but since I installed 14.04 another problem came arround. I can't add work spaces. I tryed changing the…
We all love transparency, since it makes your desktop so beautiful and lovely—so today we’re going to show you how to apply transparency to the panels in your Ubuntu Gnome setup. It’s an easy process, and here’s how to do it.
This article is the first part of a multi-part series on how to customize the Ubuntu…
Hi all,
On Windows it's possible to right click on a folder of MP3s and (when it works) click on play to have the default media player queue up the contents in track order.
Does anyone know a way I can do the same thing on GNOME (Ubuntu)?
TIA
Andy
Gnome Do let's me run programs, search for files, perform application actions, 'microblog', queue music and search the web among other things via a search and select type interface operated from the keyboard. Is there a similar program for Windows XP?
I'm constantly frustrated by the two separate clipboards in X/Gnome. I'm constantly doing things like control-C to copy, and then middle-click to paste, and getting the wrong data. Or select something, then go where I want to paste it, and selecting what I want to paste over, only to lose my first selection! …
Is there a way to customize/manage the tab lenght in sticky notes in gnome-linux. Presently the size of tab is 8 spaces, can i change it to say 2,4 or so?
I use both of these frequently. In Jaunty (Gnome 2.26) I was able to use both, but the "mouse" dialog in Karmic makes me choose between the two. Is there any workaround for this?
I know with readline you can use emacs or vi commands to edit the input of several
interactive text programs. I wonder if there exists such a similar facility to control
the whole desktop in Gnome or in any other desktop environment.
Maybe it could be a program that intercepts keystrokes and process them in…
Way back from Windows 3.x days to the latest 64bit Windows 7 (classic/standard theme).. there is a way to make the window edge border wider then 1 pixel... I often use 3 to 5 pixel to make it easy to grab on hi-resolutions displays and hi DPI monitors.
There doesn't seem to be an easy or obvious way to do…
Recently I installed a copy of Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 on my ThinkPad. Everything went fine, I installed the gnome shell and gnome-tweak-tool to customize everything. I changed the shell theme, the GTK+ theme and the icon set.
After everything fit my needs perfectly, I installed some updates from the update…
After performing an upgrade from Natty to Oneiric, I had a problem similar to the one reported in here at every system boot:
Desktop forgets theme?
Everything, from the LigthDM greeter to the ubuntu desktop used the ugly raleigh theme, apart from firefox, thunderbird few other applications after logging…
I was trying to disable the global menu as per http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/07/disable-global-menu-on-ubuntu-13-10-saucy/#comment-8612, but while it didn't change anything, after running the autoremove command unity-tweak-tool broke. Obviously my first reaction was to re-install the removed…
I use Ubuntu 14.04 x64 and I use gnome-shell on my laptop. I have a Bose companion 5 (which is basically a USB sound system) and a HDMI port, both does work perfectly when I just boot with the cable plugin.
However, when my laptop go to sleep or get unplugged from those two outputs, if I plug back…
I recently upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 and after doing some updates and such my application launcher and title bars (for window dialogues) are missing. Basically the entire unity GUI is missing!
Not sure what happened so I installed gnome 3 and it was missing a launcher too, but did have title bars. In…
I'd like Ctrl-Backspace to delete the current word in vim insert mode. From within xterm I can pull this off via
:inoremap <C-H> <C-W>
but in gnome-terminal I cannot figure out a way to make it happen.
When in vim insert mode, if I type control-v and then press backspace, I get ^H in…
Using Shotwell, I discovered that to publish to Flickr I need to set up an online account. But the online-accounts system settings only has support for Google, Facebook, Windows Live, Microsoft Exchange and Enterprise Login (Kerberos).
How do I add account types?
These appear to be properly…
Are there any sort of configuration options for specifying the default save location for gnome-screenshot, or is this hard-coded into the source code?
It used to be ~/Desktop, which seems to have changed to ~/Pictures (in 12.04).
The only possible solution I've seen is about Setting the…
On boot at the password prompt - after I enter my password I get some error popup which disappears too fast to see then it reverts back to same password login Greeter screen. Same screen has icons where I can choose :
Select desktop environment
Cinnamon
GNOME Flashback
Ubuntu
I…
Recently when doing an update, I noticed I was downloading a bunch of packages related to Unity. I use Gnome-Classic, and have no intention of ever using Unity.
So, I thought I might save myself some bandwidth and download times (which can be slow on my laptop) by removing Unity.
…
I'm trying to create a kiosk PC only for web browsing using this tutorial as a reference (only difference - I'm using Firefox instead of Chromium)
It is working correctly in principle (only FF window opens when I log in using the Kiosk session) but it looks, well, super ugly. The…