Tag: gnome

August 11, 2011

To have a window receive focus when you move your mouse over it in Gnome, you need to change a setting in gconf-editor. If gconf-editor is not installed, you can install it by running yum install gconf-editor as root. Run gconf-editor as the user whose mouse over behavior should be changed. Navigate to /apps/metacity/general. Change the value of the key focus_mode to mouse.

Categories: Linux

Tags: gnome

May 17, 2011

A laptop that was dist upgraded from 10.11 to 11.04 was not applying the correct Gnome themes. Changing the theme in Appearances did not fix the issue. The solution was to uninstall the gnome-accessibility-themes package and install the gnome-themes-standard package. This can be done with the commands:

sudo apt-get purge gnome-accessibility-themes
sudo apt-get install gnome-themes-standard

This blog posted is based on a forum post at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1725221&page=2

Categories: Linux

Tags: gnome, ubuntu

July 02, 2009

You can set a user avatar to show up in the login screen in KDM or GDM by putting a .face file in your home directory. The file must be a square JPEG image and must be world readable. Your home directory must also be world readable and executable.

Categories: Linux

Tags: gnome, kde

June 22, 2009

After changing my password on my Fedora 10 box, my Gnome keyring still has my old password. Gnome always prompts me for my keyring password the first time after login when I try to perform an action that requires unlocking my private key. I want the keyring to have the same password as my login. Here's what I did to reset the password:

1. cd /home/username/.gnome2/keyrings
2. rm login.keyring
3. Logout
4. Login
5. ssh to a server that uses the private key for authentication
6. Enter private key passphrase and check the box "Automatically unlock this login"

Categories: Linux

Tags: gnome