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How can I adjust the mouse scrollwheel speed?
Adjust scroll speed
This is based directly on an answer to a similar question on AskUbuntu by user stvn66. I have tested it under elementary OS 0.4 Loki.
Unfortunately there is no simple setting to ...
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How can I view the desktop?
You can put the 'Desktop' docket to Plank (the dock application).
Ctrl+Right click on the dock and select Preferences from the menu. In the Docklets tab you can find Desktop, just drag-and-drop it to ...
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How to add "Show Desktop" icon in elementary OS?
There are two easy options.
Ctrl + right click on plank and go to preferences. There is a show desktop docklet.
Hot corner solution. Install wmctrl
sudo apt install wmctrl
Then you can use wmctrl -...
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Why can't I place files on the desktop by default, and how can I get this feature?
Although this question is quite old, there is a more acceptable answer for the OP's question now. Appcenter has an application called Desktop folder now, which you can install and use.
https://github....
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How to disable desktop switch on fullscreen
You can deactivate this feature by disabling dynamic workspaces in gala preferences.
Open dconf Editor, if you have it, and go to org -> pantheon -> desktop -> gala -> behavior and untick dynamic-...
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Desktop displayed as a window
It is because of the Nemo file manager. Nemo could be installed by other applications as a dependency.
To remove the desktop:
pkill nemo
Pkill will stop the nemo process.
To run Nemo without an ...
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How to enable desktop icons and right click in Elementary OS Freya?
To enable the desktop
Step 1:
Install Nautilus dconf-tools:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends nautilus dconf-tools
Step 2:
Open dconf-editor and go to, org > gnome > ...
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Why does Firefox keep creating a ~/Desktop folder?
You can set your $HOME directory as Desktop in xdg-user-dirs config file (~/.config/user-dirs.dirs).
This can be done manually through text editor. Open this file:
scratch-text-editor ~/.config/...
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Do you plan to develop Night Mode?
You might want to look at the package redshift (universe packages) or fluxgui (in the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~nathan-renniewaldock/+archive/ubuntu/flux)
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Files Don't Appear on Desktop?
There is not a desktop folder in elementary OS, you can't put icons or files in the desktop, all the icons go to the dock bar and the files to your home folder
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How come Loki does not have the window snap feature?
What do you mean? Window snapping is definitely there in Loki (source: I'm using it right now on Chrome, snapped to full-screen).
Note that some windows have fixed, forced sizes, and therefore cannot ...
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How to remove second workspace?
Empty workspaces are deleted automatically when you stop viewing them.
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How to add a JetBrains IDE to the Plank if "Keep in Dock" does not appear
After installing another IDE from the JetBrains suite, I saw the installer mention that I could add the program to my Applications drawer by going to Tools > Create Desktop Entry...
As far as I can ...
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Is StackExchange where we get support for elementary OS?
The forum is a third party thing and has no affiliation with the elementary team.
If you go to https://elementary.io/support you will see that the place they tell you to go to have frequent questions ...
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Deleted wallpapers still showing up in "Desktop"
Actually, I found it. Elementary OS stores wallpaper cache for Applications->System Setting->Desktop in:
~/.local/share/backgrounds
Really confusing to find especially after googling for solutions ...
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nemo desktop icons on elementary os
There is a decision by elementary os to enable client-side decorations which affect windows not aware of that. See GTK+ Incorrect Window Size
This is tested to work for Freya in VBox:
GTK_CSD="" ...
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How to add desktop shortcuts for installed applications - freya?
By default, the desktop in elementary freya is disabled. You need to enable it first. After enabling the desktop, open the file browser and navigate to:
/usr/share/applications/
You can find list ...
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How do I change the wallpaper through the command line?
Thanks to the Set Wallpaper Contract there already is a convenient way to set a new wallpaper: set-wallpaper
Example:
set-wallpaper ~/Downloads/coolpicture.png
set-wallpaper some-name.png will set ...
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How to change Desktop icon font color?
If you enabled the desktop icons by Nautilus (How to enable desktop icons and right click in Elementary OS Freya?), you can do the following:
cd ~/.config/gtk-3.0
nano gtk.css
add the css: .nautilus-...
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Can I install another desktop environment in elementary OS?
It's probably possible to remove Pantheon/Granite and install GNOME on elementary OS, but it's also a bad idea. :) Installing GNOME would likely result in an unstable OS. In addition, apps that are ...
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How to add "Show Desktop" icon in elementary OS?
I came looking for a solution to showing the desktop in a single key press and the solution of mapping wmctrl -k on to SUPER + D got the job done. Quite handy if you have a really funky conky ...
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Do you plan to develop Night Mode?
f.lux is more reliable than Redshift and has a wing panel icon to easily adjust the color and pause it.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/flux
sudo apt update
sudo apt install fluxgui
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Gnome Shell Extension Counterpart in ElementaryOS
indicator-netspeed-unity
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fixnix/netspeed
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-netspeed-unity
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Is it possible to re-arrange the indicators in the panel?
It's not possible to re-arrange the indicators in the panel.
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Plank not starting after reinstall
This is controlled via a dconf setting in Loki:
gsettings set org.pantheon.desktop.cerbere monitored-processes
It should contain plank (the default is ['wingpanel', 'plank']). If plank is not ...
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Display Desktop Icons
Have you tried this tip? Keep in mind that desktop folders is not a deal in the elementary. This can be harsh, I know.
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Display Desktop Icons
There's an app called Desktop Folder that's available in the AppCenter. It adds desktop folders, among other things.
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Desktop System Setting missing
As it turns out, switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell wasn't installed for some reason.
sudo apt install switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell
Solved the problem.
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