GNONE 3 provides screenshot tools and utils and also provides keyboard shortcuts which are convenient and quick to use. With the GNOME 3 screenshot keyboard shortcuts, users can make screenshots without having to open the Screenshot app. In general, there are 2 major categories of screenshot shortcuts: those to save the screenshot as a file,…
How to do screen recording on Wayland in Linux? Many screen recorders do not work on the new Wayland. Using Green Recorder You may try Green Recorder which supports Wayland. Note: Green Recorder is no longer under development by the original author (Please check the project README for more details). It still works well for…
How to change the logo shown during booting in Ubuntu? I originally installed Ubuntu MATE 18.04. But I am using GNOME 3 now by replacing the DE. But the log shown during booting is still Ubuntu MATE’s. How to change it to another one? It is plymouth the application that manages the “splash” screen during…
In GNOME 3 “Settings” -> “Devices” -> “Mouse & Touchpad”, after setting “Natural scrolling” to On, the scrolling is still as the same before (non-natural). How to fix this? This is likely related to the X11 driver. Remove the xorg-x11-drv-synaptics driver if it is installed. And install the xorg-x11-drv-libinput driver if it is not installed….
How to install the GNOME 3 (gnome-shell) desktop environment in Ubuntu MATE 18.04? To install gnome3 to Ubuntu, install these packages sudo apt install gnome-session gdm3 ubuntu-desktop During installation, the installation tools will let you choose the default display manager. You may choose gdm3. Then reboot you Ubuntu Linux and gdm3 will be shown. Click…
How to autohide top and bottom panels in RHEL 7 while application is running I don’t think GNOME 3 or GNOME 3 classic has this function available or there any plugins that supports so. If you need this function that the panel can hide automatically, you may consider another desktop environment, such as MATE, that…
The gnome 3 classic’s bottom panel looks not useful to me. I do not use it. How to remove the bottom panel in gnome 3 classic? That bottom panel is from the “Window List” plugin. The gnome 3 classic package depends on that plugin package on CentOS 7 as far as I checked. And Gnome…
There are options for Gnome 3 and Cinnamon to make touch pad “natual scroll”. But in MATE, there is no such options in its “Mouse” control options. How to enable natual scroll of touchpad in MATE on Linux? You may manually set the change of your ‘scrolls’ from the touch pad to negative values using…
How to open the preferences dialog in Gthumb 3.4 on Linux? There seems no options to open the dialog in the menu on the toolbar. It is in the application menu of gthumb under Gnome 3. Click gthumb application icon on the top left side of you desktop and in the menu you can find…
How to force ibus to restart in Gnome 3? There used to be a menu. But it does not provide the restart option anymore. To kill current ibus daemon: pkill -o ibus-daemon To start a new ibus daemon in Gnome 3, run this command in “Enter a command” tool by Alt+F2: /usr/bin/ibus-daemon –replace –xim –panel…
How to exclude users from appearing in the GDM login screen of Gnome 3? There is a long-time bug related to this ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723708 ) which causes that the /etc/gdm/custom.conf has no effect. The closes workaround I find working on Fedora 20 is to totally disable listing of users (run as root): cat > /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-mysettings…
How to map the Win key to another Ctrl on Linux? You can set it in gnome-tweak-tool in Gnome 3 by setting the “Alt/Win key behavior”:
How to rearrange Alt, Ctrl and Win keys on Linux: Win as Alt and Ctrl/Alt as Ctrl? On Linux, the Win key is seldom used. Mapping the Alt keys which are close to my thumb is damn convenient for Emacs users. Hence, the keyboard at the bottom line would look like: ———————————————————— |Ctrl|Alt|Ctrl| Space Bar…
The default Alt-Tab in Gnome 3 switches among applications and windows are grouped by application. How to make Alt-Tab switch among windows instead of applications in Gnome 3? Check the Alternate Tab Gnome 3 extension and you will love it. Substitute Alt-Tab with a window based switcher that does not group by application. This extension…
How to remap the Caps Lock key to Control for Emacs? My left little finger is just so tired… You can either change it in gnome-tweak-tool on Gnome 3: Or: You can make use of 2 tools: xev to find out the key code for Caps Lock and xmodmap to modify key maps. First, run…
How to change the fonts used in Gnome 3? The default configuration tool of gnome does not provide an option to change the fonts. However, the gnome-tweak-tool provides it. If you have not installed it, you need to install it first. On Fedora, run # yum install gnome-tweak-tool. Then you can run gnome-tweak-tool and set…
How to change the fonts of gnome-shell for gnome3? Like the system bar. The fonts of gnome-shell is described in its own theme. For the default gnome-shell, you need to edit the file as root: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css Right, it is a css file. Find the font-family keyword and change the corresponding fonts. Then you can restart…
It was ever possible to set it in gnome-teak-tool. However, in the latest Gnome 3, it disappears. Is there any other way to set it? The configuration is the org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences titlebar-font under dconf. You can use dconf-editor to find the appropriate key entry and set it. Or use gsettings: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences titlebar-font ‘Sans…
With Gnome 3, I try to start a vncserver with $ vncserver -geometry 1024×768 to start a vnc server with geometry 1024×768, which works well with Gnome 2 before. This also works for twm. However, after I connect to the vnc server, the resolution is not 1024×768. I change the geometry to other resolution and…
How to restore a Gnome 3 session? Which means: opening all the programs running last time when I log out in Gnome 3. If your purpose is to automatically start programs after logging in Gnome, another possible method is using the autostart script: https://www.systutorials.com/qa/119/how-to-write-a-autostart-script-for-gnome Run gnome-session-properties. In the “Options” tab, select “Automatically remember running applications…