Left side floating dock missing in Kali Linux and Tweak is not working [closed] - linux

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For the past few days in my kali linux machine, the home screen is appearing entirely blank. All the files that were save there is not showing and the floating dock is not appearing like before when i move my cursor to the left. I searched stackexchange and saw that I have to modify some settings in tweak. But I cannot change a thing is tweak. Here is how it appears.
and this is how the extension region of Tweak appears.
Please help, what to do. As I am having a lot of problems due to the dock missing from the side, and all the desktop icons removed. (though i can access them via files).

In the tweaks program, turn the following extensions on: Dash to dock, Desktop icons.
Dash to dock is the left sidebar.
Desktop icons extension shows the files on the desktop.

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I am running the latest version of GNOME and Wayland on my Manjaro computer. When I connect my second monitor and extend my display, one screen flickers and the mouse icon leaves a trail, with a black background. However, I can still open applications and drag them to the second screen, which works fine. Mirror mode for two screens works great. What could be causing this issue and how can I fix it?
After trying some more things, it seems everything except the background is working, the bottom bar is working, when i press super key it will take me to menu where I can move.
When I try to screenshot the buggy monitor it just screenshots the normal background. (The background picture)
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Ok so I know it's a weird case but hang in here with me.
So the thing is I've got an very old laptop running ubuntu 14.04 server without any desktop aka shell only. BUT the laptop also has a touch screen so we want to be able to use the "mouse"/touchscreen/touchpad to select text inside the terminal and/or click/copy/paste/cut/etc. It's part of art project with some students and also one of the tasks is to run as less as possible. So running a desktop in the background is not really an option. My question is:
Is there a way to start the Ubuntu terminal as UI application in fullscreen without the actual desktop in the background but giving the functionality of an mouse cursor.
(If someone knows a even better solution for adding a mouse without starting the desktop its appreciated)
Try this: create a ~/.xinitrc with content : exec gnome-terminal, then run startx
Or another solution is to stay in tty and install gpm for mouse control

Mouse cursor flickering and disappearing Ubuntu 16.04 [closed]

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I installed Ubuntu 16.04 yesterday and since then I have a problem with the mouse cursor.
It starts randomly disappearing and flickering a lot mostly when you try to close the window.
I have searched for a solution on Google and here but didn't find anything.
I had the same problem some time back when using ubuntu 14 version. You can fix it manually by going to Open System Settings > Displays. In the Displays window, you will see an Unknown monitor. Click it and disable it.
If you have 2 built in display in red and green color.. Disabling the green built in display will solve the issue.

Invoke shell script by double clicking desktop (linux, ubuntu) [closed]

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I would like to replicate a feature from a program i used to use in windows. stardock fences allowed me to hide all of the icons (i wanted to) on my desktop by double clicking, and then reveal them by double clicking again.
I believe something along these lines:
gconftool-2 /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop --type bool --set false
from this page (ubuntu forums)
, is what I am looking to do. my question then becomes:
How do I invoke a shell script by double clicking on the EMPTY desktop?
Yes, I know I can use an icon instead. I want the desktop. I don't even have any icons I have to have on the desktop... Oh well. I would think it's possible and I would like to learn how. The feature itself is not the most important, but when I came to the question of HOW and had no answer - that's a problem ;)

Linux box with only one application which is fullscreen [closed]

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Sorry for the rather broad question, but I'm just looking for some leads here to get started on this...
Let's say I have a CentOS machine running the X Windows System. I'd like to have the machine only display a single application (let's say Mozilla Firefox) and have that application full screen at all times. Is there a more suitable distro to do this with than CentOS?
I hope I've given enough information here about what I want to do.
Thanks!
I think you are looking for kiosk mode, you can achieve this by various kiosk based linux based iso distribution like http://sanickiosk.wikidot.com/ (Sanickiosk) and WebKiosk
(http://www.binaryemotions.com/).
Even you can customize ubuntu to run only firefox in full screen mode (http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-Up-Ubuntu-as-a-Kiosk-Web-Appliance/?ALLSTEPS).
Thanks & Regards,
Alok Thaker
I'm really not sure if this is the proper place, but the disto for this type of use hardly matters, its really up to personal preference and how hard you find it to set up. In my limited expirence you can just add the command to launch the app, typically with a geometry option (with firefox you can specify the -width and -height flags), and then that X session will end when the program ends.

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