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GNOME is a full-featured, user-friendly desktop environment for Unix operating systems, based entirely on free software.

Gnome stands for GNU Object Model Environment.

The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.

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How to get the GNOME version?

Is there an authoritative way to get the GNOME version, as long as I have a working GNOME desktop (any version) running? Several of these suggestions don't work on my system, either because the executables and/or packages simply don't exist or the…
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GNOME - How to remove app launchers from the activities menu

I want to know if there is a way to remove application launchers in GNOME's activities menu: I also want to know If I can make folders (or groups) like the existing utilities folder in the picture: After I install applications they always install…
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How to REALLY, COMPLETELY disable Gnome tracker?

Disabling the resource-hogging, data-copying Gnome tracker daemons is much harder than it ought to be. I'm running a recent installation of (stable) Debian 11.2 with Gnome. One suggestion I found was to edit all /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-*.desktop…
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How do I tell GNOME to reread my ~/.profile

GNOME reads ~/.profile upon login. When I change something in .profile (for example LC_MESSAGES) I want gnome to reread the .profile file without logging out and back in. In bash I can tell bash to source .profile. How can I do that for the running…
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How to run a script during Gnome log out

I would like to run a script to rsync my home directory to another machine whenever I log out of Gnome. There is a way to hook into the Gnome logout process?
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Official tools to save/restore gnome settings

Is there an official tool that can save and restore gnome-specific settings ? I know several applications uses ~/.config, I don't care about them, just settings for gnome, e.g panel applets, keyboard shortcuts, and other application uses gconf.…
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How to change what Alt+F2 calls in GNOME?

I saw something that made me salivate and I want it to be the program that is run when I do Alt-F2.
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Gnome Software "Additional Multimedia Codecs Required" message unclosable

I get a notification that says "Additional Multimedia Codecs Required" from Gnome Software, if I try to close it, it reappears, if I kill gnome-software, it just restarts instantly and displays the same message, I can't really uninstall Gnome,…
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Cannot re-renable gnome extensions

I have disabled all gnome extensions with Gnome Tweak Tool by clicking on the switch that appear on top of all extensions list to disable all of them in one click. Now everything is disabled and the switch on top is also disappeared. I tried…
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How to disable Gnome Ctrl-Shift-E Emoji popup

I am using IntelliJ on Pop_OS. Ctrl-Shift-E is bringing up the Recent Locations popup in the IDE usually. Since I use Pop_OS it seems that an emoji autocomplete popup of GNOME is overriding this Keystroke in the whole OS. I'd love to deactivate it…
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Remove unlock option from gnome control center

I want to remove that unlock button from the top so a normal users allowed to add a printer from gnome control center. I have added the user to the lp group and it works from the cups web administration page. How can enable any user to access that…
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How to fully lock the GNOME-panel?

I know I can lock elements on GNOME-panel that prevent users to move the element on the GNOME-panel, but how can I fully lock the GNOME-panel? I mean I need a locking mechanism, that will prevent accidentally removing of elements, like ex.: the user…
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How to clear history from "Run Command" / Alt + F2 on gnome

How to remove the history from the Run a command window that opens up on Alt + F2 on CentOS 6 and above?
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How can I make the GNOME Shell Activities Bar small all the time?

When I have no apps running, or I'm in the activities screen in GNOME shell, the activities bar is maybe 20px high. When I am running an application, this expands to 70px, possibly to fit the 64x64 application icon it uses for the application. Can I…
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GNOME terminal double click delimiters

In the string filename1, filename2 I want to double click filename1, and have it not copy the comma. I tried to follow the instructions in this post, but it did not work for me. Specifically, I tried: $ pid=$(dconf read…
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