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Display X applications from virtual terminals

3 May 2012, 5:35 pm

Here is a script that can help you set the proper envirionment to start a gnome-shell from one of the terminals. #!/bin/bash – #=============================================================================== # # FILE: xenv.sh # # USAGE: ./xenv.sh # # DESCRIPTION: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging # # # OPTIONS: — # REQUIREMENTS: — # BUGS: — # NOTES: — # AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), [...]

Filed under Fedora, Gnome. Tagged amit agarwal, David Siegel, Desktop environment, Gnome, gnomeshell, List of Ubuntu releases, Operating system, Pgrep, ubuntu

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Set gnome-shell to start in fallback mode without GUI.

26 January 2012, 6:35 pm

If you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where the shell does not come up. What to do in that case. You can set the shell to start in fallback mode, [...]

Filed under Fedora, Gnome. Tagged Cinnamon, Desktop environment, Gnome, gnome shell, Graphic Subsystems, Linux, Linux Mint, Operating Systems, ubuntu, Unity

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Screenshot of Gnome3 with awn

25 August 2011, 2:17 pm

Here is another screenshot of my laptop desktop with Gnome 3 and AWN (Avant window Navigator) running. Looks beautiful, isn’t it? By the way, with this setup I have the old style menu also just that instead of on the top it is on the bottom just like old RH9 Related articles Gnome 3 shell [...]