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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 change alt+tab behavior
Detailed step by step guide of how I accomplished the desired behavior:
Download/clone the fork:
git clone https://github.com/jibbo/gala-elementary-alt-tab-switcher
Install dependencies:
sudo apt ...
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Delay during login after entering correct password in Loki
OK after some digging around, the output of journalctl command showed the following when the delay occurred at the time of login finally happening after 90 seconds:
Oct 11 20:50:18 skybird gnome-...
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How do I make all window corners to be rounded?
In what looks like a forward-looking change according to issue #5 on the stylesheet's GitHub repo, apps have to request the rounded corners via a class in elementary's GTK+ stylesheet. See pull ...
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Change workspace from the terminal?
I finally achieved this using the wmctrl command.
sudo apt-get install wmctrl
wmctrl -d
gave me output:
0 - DG: 1366x768 VP: N/A WA: 0,30 1366x738 Workspace 1
1 - DG: 1366x768 VP: N/A WA: ...
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Enabling back-cycling when using alt-tab?
I just encountered an issue related to this in elementaryOS 6 (Odin). The Alt+Shift shortcut for switching keyboard layouts was interfering with the default Alt+Shift+Tab shortcut for cycling ...
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How to connect to elementary OS using rdp client (remmina)?
You can connect to a Linux machine using a RDP client if you install the xrdp package.
However, what the xrdp really do is to translate the RDP to a VNC server, installed via package dependency. So ...
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Make Win + ↓ minimize the current window
If you go into System Settings --> Keyboard, you should be able to change the shortcut for minimizing the current window. If you change it to a shortcut that's already in use (such as Win+↓), the old ...
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Problems with High CPU use when Elementary OS is Idle and Unused
A recent article claims a bug exists that allows Samba to max out 100% cpu usage, if you re not using Samba or any of it's features change the permissions so it wont start on it's own.
sudo chmod ...
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How to reduce title bar height?
I had the same problem with Visual Studio Code, except that I'm using Loki, but I don't see why it won't work with Freya.
Go to /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0 and add this inside apps.css :
....
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How do you disable edge tiling?
If you mean by sticky edges that windows change their appearance when they are moved close to the edge of the screen (e.g. get maximised), you can indeed disable this in elementary freya 0.3.2. The ...
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xrdp gray screen
This is a known bug in Ubuntu 14.04, which is the provider of all the base packages. Some people claim that you can install xfce desktop, and change your ~/.xsession file to use it instead, but I have ...
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How can I get multitasking / multiple workspaces to function in Loki?
EDIT: running
dbus-send --session --dest=org.pantheon.gala --print-reply /org/pantheon/gala org.pantheon.gala.PerformAction int32:1 in Terminal issues the same dissatisfactory result.
EDIT: ...
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Is possible to make Pantheon snap windows like Windows 10?
This functionality has been finally added with elementary OS 5.0 Juno.
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Gala Background services Icon
If you load appeditor from the App center you can go into Gala Background Services and deselect "Show in launcher". I had the same problem last week.
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Why does compiling gala from source not work unless I change how HashMap is used?
I solved this mystery. It's related to #869 which is a fix that happened shortly after 3.3.2.
At the time the 3.3.2 build was made the vala version itself was different, so this code compiled at the ...
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Gala Background services Icon
Thanks for the reply.
'Show in Launcher' was not selected...I toggled it on and then off and saved.
it worked.
Thanks
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Issue with starting gala
Well, I've find out the problem: I've used ppa:elementary-os/stable repo that has issue with dependencies gala <-> libmutter.
So I've removed this ppa using ppa-purge:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:...
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Strange window behavior
That's a known bug that may be out of the scope of elementary. Anyway the fix is to run the app with GTK_CSD=0. You can do this from the command line:
GTK_CSD=0 playonlinux
And you can also modify ...
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Gala high CPU usage in VirtualBox
I had this problem and rectified by selecting VMSVGA as graphics driver.
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How do I use gala picture in picture plugin?
I'm not actually sure if Gala is updated on elementary OS Loki, so if the following steps don't work you might need to build gala from source to get the latest version.
When you press the combination ...
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Glitch in wallpaper during transition from greeter to gala during login to desktop with HiDPI
The elementary team were kind enough to review and accept my patch which is now in trunk! It should be available in Loki's greeter release whenever it next gets an update I believe. Again, this just ...
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Is there any fix for the high CPU usage of Gala?
It's not normal for it to be so slow. There might be a corrupt package. Try reinstalling gala.
Open synaptic package manager by typing it in the applications menu search bar. Let it load. Once done, ...
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how to define a grid and snap windows to it?
This is generally a feature associated with a tiling WM. Gala is a floating WM and does not support anything more advanced than window snapping.
An alternative would be to 'fake' tiling features ...
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Gala consuming a ton of memory with Nvidia Optimus
Known: Yes, Fixed: Seem Not Yet as there is a bug report still open.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gala/+bug/1488183
You can register in launchpad and flag that bug as it does affect you. So it will ...
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Desktop displayed as a window
As ansered by Jeroen, this is caused by nemo. I faced the same problem even in Loki. To fix this, I changed the .desktop file entry for nemo and added nemo --no-desktop in the entry.
Use the following ...
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Unresponsive desktop after login because of maya
I was experiencing the same unresponsive behaviour yesterday after an update. I couldn't track it down to Maya, but basicly the whole system froze a few seconds after login.
For me, the issue was ...
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How do I build and install gala plugins on freya?
I'd suggest you to give a look at the active branches at the Gala launchpad page.
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