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How to make Evolution not wrap lines in composed Emails?
Evolution seems wrap long lines automatically in “Plain Text” mode. How to make Evolution not wrap lines in composed Emails? Evolution does not have (so far) “Flowing Text” mode where “the text is soft broken at the composer edge, but those soft breaks aren’t translated to hard breaks when the mail is sent” ( Reference: […]
autohide top and bottom panel in RHEL 7
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 […]
How to remove the bottom panel in gnome 3 classic?
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 […]
How to enable natual scroll of touchpad in MATE on Linux?
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?
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 export Google Chrome password on Linux?
How to export my Google Chrome password on Linux to a human-readable text file? In newer versions of Chrome, the passwords are stored using the encrypted password storage provided by the system, either Gnome Keyring or KWallet. We need to force Chrome to use a temporary profile folder with unencrypted password storage. Step 1. Connect […]
How to change the display manager on Fedora Linux?
The default display manager on my Fedora 22 is gdm. If I would like to change it to other display manager like KDM, LightDM or other, which is the portable and reliable method? You can use the “system-switch-displaymanager” tools to manage the display manager. This is possibly the most portable way. To install it: # […]
I cannot login Ubuntu Precise desktop
I cannot login desktop in Ubuntu Precise. It told me following errors: Could not write bytes: Broken Pipe… Check Battery Satte Actually, I tried many ways to solve this problem. It seems that something wrong with my lightdm software so, at last, I use gdm software to replace lightdm to kill this problem. Just install […]
Good Cinnamon theme for Fedora 21 Linux?
Any suggestion on good theme configuration for Fedora 21 Linux? My favorite combination of Window borders, Icons, Controls, Mouse Pointer and Desktop is as follows. All packages and themes are from Fedora repository or the Cinnamon repository. Remember to set the cursor theme for QT application like Google Chrome following: https://www.systutorials.com/4068/configuring-mouse-cursor-style-for-qt-applications-in-gnome-mate-desktop/ For this configuration, the […]
How to display chinese character in lxterminal
Do you know how to display chinese character in lxterminal? I tried to install lxterminal on my workstation and it seems display Chinese characters well: FYI, my Linux system is Fedora 21. The lxterminal version: $ rpm -q lxterminal lxterminal-0.1.11-10.fc21.x86_64 Not sure what’s the reason why it does not work for you. You may check […]
How to force ibus to restart in Gnome 3?
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 GDM login screen?
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 Win key to Ctrl on Linux?
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”: Answered by Eric Z Ma.
How to rearrange Alt, Ctrl and Win keys on Linux: Win as Alt and Ctrl/Alt as Ctrl
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 […]
How to turn the space bar to another ctrl key?
How to turn the space bar to another ctrl key? It will be dam useful especially for Emacs users and also useful for normal usage like for tab changing in Chrome or Gnome terminal. You may try 2 tools in userspace: Space2Ctrl: https://github.com/r0adrunner/Space2Ctrl xcape: https://github.com/alols/xcape Note that the limitation of these solutions: the space will […]
How to make Alt-Tab switch among windows instead of applications in Gnome 3?
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
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 of gnome-shell for gnome3?
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 […]
How to change the fonts used in Gnome 3?
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 […]
