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How can I customise plank?
Plank has a hidden settings window for developers/OEMs.
Hold down Control and right click anywhere on the dock
Select "Preferences"
Go nuts
Please be aware that some of these options will lead to ...
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Does elementary OS perform any sort of remote data collection?
In a nutshell, no. You can check the elementary Privacy statement on the website, which says:
Your data always belongs to you, and only you. We don’t make advertising deals or collect sensitive ...
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How can I disable transparency throughout the UI?
In order to turn off transparency, open a terminal session and run the following commands, depending on your version of elementary OS:
0.4 Loki
Turn off transparency in WingPanel
gsettings set org....
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Elementary OS ignoring suspend disable
This is a known bug: https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-power/issues/89
There's a workaround near the (current) bottom of the page:
This problem is because the power settings are used ...
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What is "Pressure Reveal" in dock preferences?
Pressure reveal is a feature designed to make it harder to accidentally un-hide the dock. Instead of revealing any time the cursor hits the bottom row of pixels on your display, it reveals when you ...
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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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Does elementary OS perform any sort of remote data collection?
Ubuntu
Ubuntu uses Unity as its desktop environment and this contains the code for Amazon Web Search and collecting data.
elementary OS
elementary OS has its own desktop environment called Pantheon ...
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How can I change the names of paired/connected remote bluetooth devices?
First of all, following steps are directly derived from answer by @wolf
Note: This answer has only been tested on Ubuntu 16.04(Dropped here from google search. Thought to add my experience)
And I ...
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How do I create a simple SMB file share?
You need to install samba server and make some edits in its config file:
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common
After that you have to edit the file /etc/samba/smb.conf
Just add the following (of ...
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How do I update elementary OS when new versions come out?
For the moment is impossible to upgrade from one version to other, the problem is that they are based in the LTS versions of ubuntu and you can't upgrade from LTS to LTS, I don't know if the ...
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How do I enable NumLock at login?
Edit /etc/lightdm/pantheon-greeter.conf (in newer versions io.elementary.greeter.conf) with you favorite editor and remove the # on the line activate-numlock=true.
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How to change laptop lid close behaviour (to not suspend when the lid is closed)
The solution given by cheekyngeeky does not work for some laptops.
Alternate solution:
sudo vim /etc/systemd/logind.conf
find line "#HandleLidSwitch=suspend"
Replace line with "HandleLidSwitch=...
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How to reset elementary OS settings to default without reinstalling?
The following commands effectively take the same action a reset button would.
You could try to use gsettings.
First, create a file with all the keys in it:
gsettings list-recursively | grep '^\S*' &...
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Why does my elementary OS Freya show an Ubuntu logo?
Logo changed because you use Moka icon theme.
If theme was installed from PPA, logo can be returned to default by following command in the terminal:
mkdir -p ~/.icons/Moka/48x48/places && ln ...
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How can I customise plank?
It is quite easy to fine-tune the settings of Plank.
Navigate to ~/.config/plank/dock and open the settings file in your preferred text editor. You can view hidden folders by pressing Ctrl+H.
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How can I set Hot Corners shortcut to minimize all applications?
I haven't used commands you mentioned. but here is the solution for what you are asking.
first you need to install wmctrl.
sudo apt-get install wmctrl
then here is the command for minimize.
wmctrl ...
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Once locked, screen stays black and cannot be unlocked
Run sudo -i scratch-text-editor /etc/default/acpi-support
Find and change POST_VIDEO=true to POST_VIDEO=false
Find and change SAVE_VBE_STATE=true to SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
Restart your laptop, issue ...
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How to set hot corners on a second display
It seems that as of now, elementary designs hot-corners to work like wingpanel and the dock and show them only on the primary display.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1385296
https://...
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Can I change the date format in the panel?
It's possible to change date & time format in Wingpanel, but there is no direct UI for this kind of setting.
You can either install and run dconf-editor, navigate to com -> canonical -> ...
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When should dconf Editor be used or not used?
What you should always keep in mind is the fact that if a developer does not add a visual setting to his application (or to the system settings), he has a reason for that. elementary OS tries to ...
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How can I access hidden plank settings?
You can still change them - on any icon on Plank, just do CTRL+RightClick, then proceed to "Preferences"
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No Google or Microsoft account option in System settings
Additional account services are still under development. What's available is already present.
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Night light sunrise/sunset not working
As an interim solution you can install dconf-editor and change the key org/gnome/system/location to enabled. After that, the Night light settings will work as expected.
You can also change the ...
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How to remove user and his /home contents
Pretty simple answer for this one. In order to the data be deleted with the removal of the user, one has to click on the delete user (small minus sign at the bottom of the user administration settings)...
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How can I find the source code that relates to keyboard settings UIs
In this case, there is a separate project in Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/switchboard-plug-keyboard.
Also of interest to anyone else starting out like I am is this google doc on building large-...
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