I found the GUI version of the GNOME3 configuration but I'm interested in accessing the settings in a raw file and editing them. For example, hide menu bar, hide the bottom task bar, turn off screen save etc... in a file rather than the built in tool.
Anyone know where I can find the file to edit?
At first you have to know that Gnome3 uses the dconf-System to save the program settings. The dconf-System is based on a binary database, so how to change the settings?
At first you have to install the dconf-tools package:
apt-get install dconf-tools
Then you can run the editor:
dconf-editor
Or you can use the command gsettings to modify the settings:
gesettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences \ default-folder-viewer 'list-view'
This example changes the view of nautilus to list by default.
You can write your own shell-script based on the gsettings command, which is an approach to your problem.
Gnome also starts a lot of programs automatically and you can modify this as well by editing the following file:
~/.config/autostart/*.desktop
I hope this helps :-)
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I use Mx-Linux btw.
I tried many ways to make sure that octave was using black background and white text instead of the default setting, but no what what I tried I wasn't able to change the editor configuration(I was able to easily change the command prompt to "dark mode").
So I downloaded this(https://github.com/SergioSoldado/octave-color-scheme) and after unzipping I found that I should move the file qt-settings(without any extension) to a folder
/home/richard/.config/octave/qt-settings/
But when I opened .config, there was no folder named qt-settings thus I created one and I moved the qt-settings file which was in the Octave-color-scheme-master folder(from github). But this didn't work. Nothing changed. What should I do to make octave dark.
You can install kvantum manager and install a theme. It'll show up in octave.
I'm using Sublime Text 3083.
When I load a file with several thousand lines and try to edit it, it gets amazingly un-responsive to the point that adding/removing even one character takes it seconds.
I have > 20 packages installed and I need a way to disable all of them at once, to check if this issue is package related or o not.
I've searched around and I know that you can disable packages one by one but that's not good when lots of packages are installed. According to this post in the sublime forum, there is no way to do this but the post is rather old (and also not an official statement)
So, is there a way to do this? Perhaps with a package or a --no-packages flag or some other trick?
BTW: for the sake of completeness, after applying the solution I found that there were two packages responsible for the lag: GitGutter and WordHighlight.
The best thing I can think of is to keep a list of the package names that you can copy and paste into your preferences file in the "ignored packages" section. If you have any sort of linter or code intel that might be the culprit if it's several thousand lines.
"ignored_packages":
[
"SublimeCodeIntel",
"Vintage"
]
Another thing to try would be to just make a copy of your Packages/Users/Package Control.sublime-settings file, then edit the original and delete all the listed packages there and restart ST3. Definitely make that copy first in case it screws up.
Gabriel reports he ultimately solved the issue by copying the list of installed packages out of the Packages/Users/Package Control.sublime-settings file and paste them into the ignored_packages section of his preferences file.
Packages can be simply disabled as follows
Press Ctrl+Shift+P to open Command Palette
Type disable, select Package Control: Disable Package
This will give the list of all the Installed Packages, click on the one which you want to disable.
That's it. And you can enable disabled package anytime, just type enable in step:2.
From the many posts on how to change emacs' default font, it seems as though emacs 24 should have an option called "set default font" under Menu --> Options. As you can see from the image below, I'm given no such option. (The only option related to fonts is "Set default font".) I've tried adding various scripts to my .emacs file which are intended to change the global font, yet the default persists.
I've downloaded and installed Inconsolata via sudo apt-get install fonts-inconsolata (ttf-inconsolata no longer works) and I've also run sudo fc-cache. Given the usual answers don't seem to be working, I'm lost on what to do next...
At this point, I'm suspecting if I need to make a shell-level (or possibly system-level) change in settings in order to enable font selection on emacs (i.e., similar to ensuring that my XTERM color settings were 256 color in order to get Zenburn to work; am a Linux newbie if it isn't obvious - just trying to brainstorm here).
Version info, if helpful: I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.1 (Xubuntu), emacs 24.3.1 and am launching via "emacs -nw" from the default Xubuntu shell.
Here's what I see when I go to the Menu and then select Options (i.e., pressing "F10", then "o"):
The simple answer is that Emacs can't change the font of the terminal. It can only set the colour (and possibly adding bold and underline properties). This is true for all console mode programs. You need to run Emacs in GUI mode to enable full font selection.
I recently updated my Eclipse to the latest release 3.5 and since then I have a very annoying problem with c&p using the shortcuts.
In an editor (xml, jsp, doesn't matter which one) I try to copy something and paste it somewhere else, nothing happens. When I cut out something and put it somewhere else I sometimes get something else (like a messed up part of my previous selection) or just some whitespaces. This gets even worse when I change lines in between.
First I thought that my keyboard is probably broken but it works just fine in other programs. Then I tried using the context menus' c&p and there it works. Yesterday I managed to get at least an error message when I tried to copy a file in the navigator from one project to another (the message was just "error using copy...bla". no details).
Does anyone else have this problem, or know how to solve it?
I am running on Kubuntu 9.04, and have quite some plugins installed (but only from the Galileo Updates Site), like Birt, Mylin, WST, or Subversive.
For my problem, I had to go to Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Typing, and uncheck "Update imports"
This must be related to the key mapping, since those shortcuts are defined according to context.
(Column "When", in Preferences / General / Keys)
Check if those shortcuts do not work for any editor (do they work for Java editor?)
If they work for some editor, not for other, then some plugin settings must have re-affected them to another command.
This is caused by various X clipboard managers doing weird things with the clipboard. (bug report).
In XFCE the clipman applet was rolled in XFCE 4.8, and will be the source of these problems.
To fix this in XFCE - kill xfce4-settings-helper. You will need to use Settings Manager -> Session and Startup -> Session to kill it, as otherwise it may restart automatically.
To prevent this starting next time, you will need to remove it from your startup/login programs in Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart.
Problem was solved with newer Eclipse releases. I think >= 3.6. Depending on your distribution there may be a (back)port of this (not on my Xubuntu 11.04) within the repositories.
So a tarball installation of Eclipse 4.0 works perfectly for me. Cut&Paste works and I am lucky that my plugins are compatible to 4.0.
Unfortunately Sublime Text has the same problems.
I read somewhere that in KDE maybe Klipper / "Klipper on the panel" conflicts with eclipse copy action.
It's a tool for clipboard history. Try to remove that! It may solve your problem :-/
For me the xfce4-settings-helper killing worked.
Workaround:
You can cut&paste from the compare view. So simply compare the un-copyable file (e.g., local history) with a different version and Control-C what you need there.
In the *.java editor page, right click and select open in text editor. Past your snippet there. Your Snippet will show in the *.java page'
I use Eclipse Kepler for PHP development. It's dumb I know.
None of the solutions suggested here has solved this source of frustration.
I can confirm the copy function works whether shortcut keys are bound or not. As I can copy from eclipse and paste into any other application. Except eclipse.
My solution. Accidental discovery: Eclipse Kepler will allow you to paste outside the php open and close tags and allow you to click and drag the highlighted block of content into into position.
Acceptable solution for small bits of code. Horribly crippling for larger development environments.
For Xming, this resolved the problem for me. In XLaunch uncheck Clipboard (clipboard manager) in the "Specify parameter settings" GUI form.
If I'm running gnome-terminal with multiple tabs open, is it possible to switch the profile of a given tab at the bash prompt, with instant effect, and without altering the profile of the other tabs?
I understand how to use gconftool or gconftool-2 to change elements of a profile (such as the background), but I don't know how to actually switch the profile for a specific tab or window.
Any advice is appreciated.
It does not answer your question in particular, but since it might help others, I leave it here regardless.
If there was a way to change the current profile, you could have different profiles for each tab.
You can list all existing profiles using:
gconftool-2 --all-dirs /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles
You can get the current profile using:
gconftool-2 --get /apps/gnome-terminal/global/default_profile
And you can set a new default profile (solarized-light in this case) using:
gconftool-2 --set --type string /apps/gnome-terminal/global/default_profile solarized-light
I think you can do this through gconf-editor which maintains the settings for everything in gnome. See the gconf-editor manual and section on gnome-terminal.
From the terminal, you can make changes with gconftool-2
I'm working on something similar, I think it could help you
to use gnome-terminal --help
which will show you some commands you can use to open terminal with certain profiles
you will need to figure out how to write the line at prompt to open with the tabs and profiles you want ....once you have the hard part figured out you can add the line to your
bashrc
Run nano ~/.bashrc to open up the bash configuration file, which gets run every time you open a terminal. Then add the line to the bottom save and close.
Even though the question is about GNOME Terminal and the command line, it's worth knowing that MATE Terminal (a GNOME Terminal fork) allows profile switching via a simple keyboard shortcut.