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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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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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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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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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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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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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Elementary Tweaks - How can I Toggle "Prefer Dark Theme" via Terminal?
I don't think there is an command for this, but you can edit a file.
Create/edit the following file:
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
And change it to this:
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-...
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Headphones are recognized as an input device
Your headphones are being recognized as an input device, because, according to the official PC system design guide color-coding sheme for connectors and ports, you are plugging them into a line-in ...
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Keep topbar transparent on maximized windows
The key has been changed in Newer version of Wingpanel like version 2.0.1. Use this instead
gsettings set org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel use-transparency true
If you want to reset, use
gsettings ...
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How to set alternative terminal as default
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec gnome-terminal
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg ''
If you want to set a terminal other than ...
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Save custom keyboard shortcuts ~ possibly backup other configurations
They are stored in the dconf system registry in a list stored by the key custom-keybindings under org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys, whereas you have a custom… entry for each custom ...
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Run AppImage on Startup
Got it working by copying the relevant .desktop file from ~/.local/share/applications/ to ~/.config/autostart.
The AppImage I downloaded, when run the first time, gave an option to add shortcut file,...
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Where is the option to add online accounts listed? It certainly isn't under settings in my system!
Online accounts hasn't been released into stable yet. You won't have it on a clean install. It's still in development.
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How can I change the names of paired/connected remote bluetooth devices?
I don't use bluetooth so I can't test, but I found something that should work:
When your device is connected, it should be listed in /var/lib/bluetooth by its MAC address. In that MAC address folder ...
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Can not install Japanese language
Nothing wrong in your steps, it happens to me as well, might be a bug.
But we need to install
language-pack-gnome-ja
language-pack-gnome-ja-base
language-pack-ja
language-pack-ja-base
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How can I access hidden plank settings?
Its hard to rightclick to get the preference. You can do it from the command line
plank --preferences
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Loki, additional hardware
In the terminal:
sudo apt install software-properties-gtk
after install -> software-properties-gtk
Info retrieved from -> https://askubuntu.com/questions/441415/what-has-jockey-been-replaced-with-...
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