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GNOME is a popular desktop environment for Linux, Solaris and other UNIX operating systems.

GNOME is a popular desktop environment for Linux, Solaris and other UNIX operating systems.

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How do you implement a login warning banner in Gnome 3?

This question documents how we used to inflict the mandatory login banners required on our Linux machines at work. Unfortunately, this procedure is no longer effective with Gnome 3 in Fedora 15 & 16. Gnome 3 seems to ignore the banner_message…
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disabling screensaver on Linux

I all, i have need to disable screensaver for Gnome and KDE graphic environment on more server with RHEL4 and RHEL5. Is there a way to do it at boot time or any other solution? thank you very much. Max
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Restrict user access in Linux

I am given a task to configure a RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Gnome PC such that a specific user - say USER1 will have very limited desktop access. The requirements include: Access to all of the desktop menus (Application, Places, System) and icons…
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Can not reconnect to NX session

I'm no NX expert. My NXServer (NOMachine) has two running (GNOME) sessions and I can not reconnect to them ? Even if I stop/start the nxserver daemon, the nxssh sessions are still there. nxserver --shutdown also fails Before I do a hard kill, I…
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Debugging WebDAV using gvfs

gvfs (gnome virtual file system) felt the need to reimplement some of the common filesystems. I'm trying to get people onto our WebDAV shares, but I'm getting pretty cryptic errors. What I'd like to do is setup gvfs to use a proxy, so I can use…
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How does gnome system monitor calculates the amount of used memory?

How does gnome system monitor calculates the amount of used memory? I tend to trust the values displayed by the system monitor because are consistent and do agree with the amount of ram used when running a test an application. However when I compare…
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Installing rsvg lib on second install of Python

I have two installs of python on my RHEL server, one at version 2.4.x (which is the general install by RHEL, updated using yum) and a 2.6.x version that I use for Django as well as just everyday scripting (installed from source). I'd like to get the…
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CentOS desktop startx no screen found on VPS

I installed Gnome/KDE/XFCE,... on CentOS 7 on a VPS yum groupinstall "Server with GUI" yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" or yum groupinstall "Server with GUI" yum groupinstall "Xfce" But when I run startx I get the following result for all…
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Create "Default keyring" from command line on CentOS 7

I have a CentOS 7.4 machine that I need to start in kiosk mode. There is a touch screen attached to that machine and on boot, google chrome must start in full screen and load a certain web page. What I did so far was the following: installed google…
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Do I need X + gnome?

I'm trying to reduce the size of a few solaris installations I have. These are headless T1000 machines running solaris 10. Serving as oracle, apache and jboss servers, is there really any reason to have X Windows and gnome installed? Am I likely to…
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Gnome-Boxes "fails to start" images

Using Gnome-Boxes on Ubuntu 18.04 I consistently get an error when attempting to boot any disk image. Can anyone interpret this for me? I am unable to make heads or tales from the troubleshooting log: Broker URL: qemu+unix:///session Domain:…
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cyrus-sasl-lib issue on CentOS 5.3 (while installing GUI)

I am attempting to install gnome on a CentOS 5.3 Server install so that I can speed up the process that I am working on. I ran a yum groupinstall for the x window system and gnome but I keep getting the following error. Package cyrus-sasl-plain…
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Ubuntu Karmic ignores .xinitrc

I've upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 recently, and I can't get it to load my ~/.xinitrc when I log into Gnome.
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gnome -- create symlinks when mounting a file system

I'm not 100% sure where the problem is... udev or gnome or ... Backstory: I have an "IronKey". I have a udev rule that allows my IronKey to plug into my machine. After I've plugged it in, I go to the gnome desktop, select "Places" / "IronKey" ,…
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gnome-terminal - I have no name

Environment: OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS x64 HW: VM on vSphere with 2vCPU and 2GB Memory Default GNOME desktop installation with gnome-session-flashback 3.8.0. Connected to AD domain using Samba and winbind (see files below). Issue: Login etc. is…
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