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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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Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS - Installing nvidia & cuda installs gnome as well

I have a GPU server which requires cuda for example for machine learning tasks. unfortunately, as soon as I install the NVIDIA drivers and cuda, apparently a variant of gnome is installed as well. This gnome variant can almost do nothing, the shell…
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Having a Secure / Copy Protected DESKTOP Environment in Cent OS Linux

We have a VPS / Bare-metal server rented on a data-center and we access them over internet through user ID and password. It is running CentOS 7. That is direct access and there's no VPN in between. We access GNOME desktop environment directly…
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Accessing KRB5CCNAME from /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default on RHEL8

I would like to run a script after a user login. This script, using his kerberos tickets, will mount an SMB share. Under RedHat 7 I could simply call the script from /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default and it would run fine. It would even preserve the…
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Logged into Ubuntu as domain user, asks for first local user password on admin tasks

I have an odd issue that happens on all of the Ubuntu machines I join to my Samba4 domain. When installing, I create a user named user and then use that user to get the domain going. Everything goes smoothly after domain join, and I can login with…
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CentOS 7 w/ GUI GNOME login for standard users bounces back to login screen

CentOS 7 machine is unable to sign in standard users via GNOME, but root account works just fine. Steps to recreate the issue. Select user account and input password and login (user account is part of wheel group) Background image is displayed but…
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Installing gnome on Linode with Ubuntu 9.10 x64 - remote VNC/RDP

I'm a self confessed Linux newbie, having lived and worked mostly within the Windows world for most of my life. I'm making the effort to try moving my virtual host from a Windows box to a Linode instance to try and better learn Linux, and one of the…
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Skip printing dialog on Debian

If you are running a ticket application on desktops, how would you limit the users to make any change to the printing job configuration? Ticket application is an electron app. Currently it launches the printing dialog as any other application would.…
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Autostart Firefox on CentOS 6 kiosk system with Gnome Display Manager + Openmotif Window Manager

I am in process of creating kiosk system on CentOS 6.9 minimal install with Gnome Display Manager (gdm) and Openmotif Window Manager (mwm) and Firefox web browser. I have connected gdm to mwm by installing xorg-x11-xinit-session packet and creating…
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How activate the GNOME ENVIOREMENT in SLES 11 SP4?

i am trying to run the gnome envirioment in an SLES 11 SP4 instance, i do the following: First i install the package: zypper -n install -t pattern x11 gnome And make the next changes: In window manager script vi /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager at…
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ssh -N steals keystrokes

When I run an ssh session purely for tunnelling purposes, I start it like this: ssh -N -L 5432:localhost:5432 user@host & However, when I do so, about every second keystroke in the terminal where I've done this doesn't work. Other windows are…
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When SELinux is set to enforcing, startx will not bring up the user GUI

I have a machine (CentOS) that is using SELinux that must be set to enforcing (in MLS mode), I want to be able to go into the gui to show the system works in a gui setting for people who don't use a terminal. When I type in startx (after it hangs…
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CentOS 7 w/Gnome hangs on boot after Nvidia driver installation?

there is a lot of information available on these topics separately, but I haven't been able to find an answer to what I feel is a really common situation. I have 2 Nvidia GTX 1080s in a server with CentOS 7 and Gnome desktop. The GPUs are going to…
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Convert $no_proxy to gsettings ignore-hosts

In order to use Chrome in Ubuntu and have it respect some hosts in $no_proxy, I need to set those comma-separated values with gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts where is formatted like ['localhost',…
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PackageKit version issue after upgrading from fc21 -> fc22 -> fc23

I'm trying to build a package using jhbuild, and when I run sysdeps --install, it runs through and tries to install things using PackageKit. When it does this, it shows for example, llvm-devel;3.5.0-6.fc21;x86_64;updates, but I'm no longer on fc21…
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Impossible to Switch User in CentOS

We have a CentOS 6.7 server installed with Gnome 2.28.2 that is not allowing users to switch sessions. Users can log in and click on the "Switch User" option on the menu (or "Lock Screen"). The lock screen is displayed with the options to Switch…
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