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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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VNCServer will not start after editing /etc/sysconfig/vncservers

I'm running CentOS5.6 and am attempting to configure VNC. I edited /etc/sysconfig/vncservers to read as follows: VNCSERVERS="2:paul 3:sid" VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 800x600" VNCSERVERARGS[3]="-geometry 800x600" When I try to start or stop…
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Installing a GUI on Ubuntu server 11.04

I am looking at the possibility of installing a GUI on my Ubuntu 11.04 Server. The reasons are many. What I am wondering is whether I should go GNOME or something like XFCE. What are the differences? I have heard XFCE is lighter than GNOME,…
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EC2 SLES Instance - Problems with Yast and other pre-installed apps

I am Linux newbie, I managed (it was a bit of an ordeal) to get a VNC server (TightVNC) running on a SLES 11 SP1 EC2 instance. Monitor manager on the VNC xstartup file is gnome (it took me a while to figure that out). Now I can connect to the…
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Prevent sleep mode/shutdown on CentOS 5.6

I have a question about the best practice with a home linux box. I recently install CentOS 5.6 on a machine I had lying around, and now I am using it by sshing into it from another machine. All that works fine, but the machine is turning off in the…
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Missing Ram, memory leak?

I'm running OpenSuse 11 on an HP proliant server with 8G of RAM, occasionally the gnome desktop [whatever is current version] After a while it will just run out of RAM, there will be like 6 or 700k left available and all the running services don't…
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'Singleton' application - or let the user only launch one instance of a program at the time

I'm running a few linux desktops; mainly for kids (yeah, trying to teach them the right OS at early stage) (running Ubuntu 10.10, Gnome) The problem is that they found very funny to make their workstations (actually, old 512 Mb pentium 4) by…
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Clean installation of RHEL 5.5 claims package "desktops" is missing

I'm a student worker in the CS department of my university, so please forgive me for any unprofessional descriptions. Simplified explanations are appreciated. I recently replaced some bad graphics cards in a few public workstations. The machines are…
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Set custom mount point and mount options for USB stick

I have an USB stick which contains private stuff like the SSH key. I want to mount this stick to my own home directory with 0700 permissions. Currently I do this with this line in /etc/fstab: LABEL=KAYSTICK /home/k/.kaystick auto…
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set an expiration for ssh cache?

I use ssh to connect to a remote site (from ubuntu desktop to debian server). When I first connect a dialog pops up (probably from gnome or seahorse) asking for the passphrase, but from then on it connects with no dialog. That's fine, but I would…
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Fedora 13 loads without GUI after installing Gnome Environment

I have had a Fedora box that serves as a development box, it started with Fedora Core 6 and has been upgraded over a few years and now has Fedora 13. After Fedora 9 I switched to mode 3 or text-only mode since then I have become familiar with the…
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Kill Ubuntu Gnome?

I have an ubuntu server which I installed ubuntu-dekstop upon. Then i started the Gnome Desktop with "startx" command. I wonder: how do I kill Gnome so I can go back to only CLI? how do i disable Gnome form starting when Ubuntu server starts?
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How to update to gonme 2.3 in CentOs 5.4?

This is my only simple innocent quest. Gnome 2.3 seems to be absent from CentOs repos and gnome devs say it would be one royal pain in the a$$ if i tried to build it from source. any suggestions ?
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Cannot run gnome-session

I'm having issues running an X Windows session on a RHEL5 64-bit server - whenever I execute the command "gnome-session &", the process goes into the background but nothing happens. I have Exceed installed on my Windows machine which is running…
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Is there way to have some dconf settings stay local to the machine, while others are synced?

Situation I’m using Linux Mint, and am syncing my profile between two machines, using unison-gtk. Those machines have some key differences. One of them being that it’s a laptop, that should go to standby after 15 minutes, while the other one is a…
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gnome is not working properly

My device is installed with Archlinux x86_64 Kernel: 6.1.4-arch1-1 DE: GNOME 43.2 wayland I also installed fcitx5 input method and other common software. But every time I start the device, I can't start using it immediately, for example, when I open…
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