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Elementary OS is a fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS. General support for Elementary OS is off-topic. Please use https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/ instead. Use this tag for programming questions specific to Elementary OS.

Elementary OS is a fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_OS:

elementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It is the flagship distribution to showcase the Pantheon desktop environment.

Design Philosophy

Human Interface Guidelines of the elementary OS project focus on immediate usability with a gentle learning curve, rather than full-fledged customization. The three core rules the developers set for themselves were "concision", "avoid configuration" and "minimal documentation".

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os.environ.get return None, but echo works properly

I have issue with "os.environ.get" command. I exported my variable using: export MYVAR="123" Then i used: echo "$MYVAR" And it returned my value. But when i am doing in python print(os.environ.get('MYVAR')) It returns None. For…
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Cant open two terminal windows in elementary

I am currently using Elementary OS. Some while back I could open up more than one terminal just by "Win+T" but now I just cant. The first terminal opens up without a hitch. However the second one just does not show up no matter what I do. Anyone…
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Simple dialog box with icon, text and two buttons in VALA on Linux (elementary OS)

For the last two days I'm trying to figure out how to achieve a standard dialogbox layout with icon on the left, a text on the right and two buttons below in Vala on linux (elementaryOS JUNO). Couldn't also find any template for this. Here is my…
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Having challenges trying to login my Elementary OS password

I have been trying to login to my PC. It keeps looping. Whenever I type the password and try to log in, it accepts it, brings up a blank screen and then returns to the login screen Have tried using Ctrl+Alt+F1 to log in from there but still not…
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E: The repository 'http://dl.bintray.com/aluxian/deb stable Release' does not have a Release file

I am on Elementary OS 5.1, and due to some third party repository the above error started popping up in my AppCenter. I searched for some ways to remove repositories and found that all repositories can be found in /etc/apt/sources.list . But I…
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How to determine swipe direction from gtk gesture swipe signal

I'm trying to implement touch support for elementaryOS' applications menu. Unfortunately this means working on a dying language like Vala. Nonetheless I am working my way through very little documentation regarding GTK3's touch gestures support. So…
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Remove mesa make other dependencies uninstalled

I just run these 2 commands sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates And now it uninstall everything on my PC. I'm using elementary os 5.0 Juno btw. how to fix this please?
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GTK allow open files with new vala application

I'm developing a media player with Vala and I want to be able to open audio files with this application (once it is installed). In .descktop files I added the following MIME types to indicate which files can open (they are the same MIME types than…
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Relatives routes in cmake installed Vala app

I'm making an app for elementary OS using Vala. I use a .glade file to define the interface and I load it in the app with: this.builder = new Gtk.Builder (); builder.add_from_file ("src/filename.glade"); It obviously only works when I run the…
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Elementary OS - LibreOffice/OpenOffice conflict, Dpkg error (unmet dependencies) - stuck in a loop

I have been looking at multiple pages for a few hours now but still no luck in solving this. I installed OpenOffice then tried to install LibreOffice-Draw through the app-center but encountered a problem (the file didn't install and kept cutting…
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Docker on Linux - Empty mounted volumes

I'm trying to get my docker setup to work on my linux machine (it works fine on OSX). I can't for the life of me get the volumes to mount properly on the linux box. I'm on Elementary OS 0.4 Loki (64-bit) docker version Client: Version: …
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AngularJS installation (official tutorial)

so I am trying to learn AngularJS , I am following the official turorial , when I run sudo npm install I get this answer root@gaith-HP-15-Notebook-PC:/angular-phonecat# sudo npm install npm WARN cannot run in wd angular-phonecat@0.0.0 bower…
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Selenium on Elementary OS not working with Firefox

I've got a problem with Selenium on my system. For some reason, it wont launch a Firefox browser window. Here are the steps that I have gone though. Downloaded Selenium via pip Downloaded the Marionette (gecko) driver Added the directory of the…
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Vim line numbers and comments green instead of gray (tmux - solarized)

The default colors of vim in the terminal (tmux) still do not match those of gvim. I am using the pantheon terminal in elementary OS freya. This in combination with the solarized theme: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized When I do "echo $TERM" in…
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Cannot start dropbox due to "pantheon-filechooser-module" error

I cannot solve the issue. When I start dropbox, I get an error: Starting Dropbox...Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pantheon-filechooser-module" Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked Aborted (core dumped) I searched for a solution in the…
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