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[one-liner]: GNOME & Nautilus Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on March 28, 2012 by News

Background

I’m always forgetting GNOME & Nautilus keyboard shortcuts so this is a list of some of the more common ones that I’ve used in the past.

Solution

Here’s the lists. I’ve tried to organize the shortcuts first by whether they’re GNOME related or Nautilus. I’ve also tried to break them down into a sub groups based on […] Continue reading →

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[one-liner]: OK’ing a Dialog Box that’s Displayed Partially Off Screen Under GNOME

Posted on September 13, 2011 by News

Background

I recently ran into this problem where I was presented by Fedora’s package manager with a dialog box that had its OK/Cancel buttons being displayed off screen. This solution doesn’t necessarily fix this problem, but does give you a way to work around it.

Solution

The solution is pretty straightforward. Within GNOME there is a keyboard/mouse binding […] Continue reading →

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Prevent Ubuntu from asking a password after resuming from Hibernate or Suspend

Posted on September 6, 2011 by News

When you close the lid of your laptop and Ubuntu is running, the computer goes into Suspend mode. Same goes for chosing Hibernate from the shutdown menu, when the laptop goes into deep sleep and consumes less power. When resuming from these two states, Ubuntu will ask you for your password. If you’d like to […] Continue reading →

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Disable the overlay scrollbars in Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on May 8, 2011 by News

With the new Ubuntu 11.04, the scrollbars in almost all applications and windows look radically different than those we grew accustomed with. Here’s how to revert them to the old looks: sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar sudo su echo “export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0” > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars Continue reading →

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[one-liner]: Deleting File Associations in GNOME

Posted on April 12, 2011 by News

Background

Quick tip on deleting file associations within GNOME. REMINDER: a file association allows for double clicking a certain kind of file and having it automatically launch a specific application.

Solution

First you’ll need to navigate in Nautilus to a file that’s got the particular association you’re trying to delete. Next you’ll need to select the file […] Continue reading →

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[one-liner]: Associating .jar files with the Java executable under GNOME

Posted on April 11, 2011 by News

Background

I’ve been using a password management program called jpasswords which is written in Java. It’s deployed as a single jar file (jpws-deluxe-0-5-0.jar) for example. Normally I would just run it from a shell but wondered how to make it run just by double clicking on the jar file itself from GNOME.

Solution

APPROACH #1
Now one way would […] Continue reading →

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Working with the Gnome Desktop from the Command Line Using wmctrl

Posted on January 25, 2011 by News

Background

Have you ever wanted to minimize a window from a script, or make another window fullscreen from the command line? Or maybe get a list of all the windows that are currently open on all your virtual desktops, from a shell? Then the tool you’ve been looking for is wmctrl.

Solution

For those that are die hard […] Continue reading →

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[one-liner]: Fedora 14: Nautilus Icon… Where are you?

Posted on January 17, 2011 by News

Background

In previous versions of Fedora the Nautilus icon would typically appear under the menu Applications -> System Tools.

pre Fedora 14

However looking in the same location in Fedora 14, nor anywhere else, I couldn’t find an icon to launch Nautilus. Here’s “one way” to get the icon back.

Solution

Now I could just go and add the […] Continue reading →

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[one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME

Posted on November 8, 2010 by News

NOTE: This is an update to my original post on this problem when I 1st encountered it in Ubuntu 9.04.

Background

This one threw me for a bit but I finally realized that when I had Compiz enabled on an Ubuntu 10.04 system, I couldn’t use VNC to connect via Remote Desktop Sharing in GNOME (aka. Vino, […] Continue reading →

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Make Ubuntu sleep instead of hibernate

Posted on September 19, 2010 by News

One of the few things you can’t easily configure in Ubuntu is the option to make the computer sleep instead of hibernate when idle for X minutes. Here’s how to do it:
Press Alt+F2 and type gconf-editor then press Enter
Go to /apps/gnome-pow… Continue reading →

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