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After installing Debian 13 with GNOME, I've noticed that the Firefox ESR launcher doesn't have the option to open a window in a private mode. How to add that option to the launcher's context (right-...
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I am using Debian 13, Trixie with Mate. works pretty well with the exception, that the Arduino IDE version 1.18.19 fails to show the menu bar. yes, I'm aware there are newer version of the IDE, I don'...
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I'm using KDE on last debian and i get a lot of problem with the menu. I was using the kdemenu to organise the start menu, but i get a lot of trouble : Some .desktop shows in the start menu but not in ...
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I am a noobie running a Hyper-V instance of Kali Linux and have switched my default terminal editor to Ghostty. Doing so has broken the desktop and panel shortcuts I have, but only the ones that run ...
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I am working on a multi-level menu and I want to implement the ability for sub menus and sub-sub menus to return to the previous menu or go directly back to the main menu. Please see below... [Menu] 1 ...
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I use Kwrite for looking at code. Sometimes I want to test the result of removing a line and Kwrite had a very useful menu option : "Toggle comment" (before there were 2 lines in that menu, &...
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My AppMenu panel plugin (global applications menu) on XFCE4 desktop has an excessive amount of left padding, and the menus are cut off: I'm running XFCE4 in Termux-X11 on Android. Based on this ...
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Using kmenuedit on a KDE-Plasma 6.2.4 - KDE-FrameWorks 6.9.0 DeskTop in openSUSE Tumbleweed: I have added a sub-menu entry (QT Tools) under the menu entry Development and cut from the Development ...
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I don't know how exactly to describe it verbally, but I just mean the white triangular arrows in this example image: In an icon theme that I'm trying to use they either don't exist or are the exact ...
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I have ran the following command to setup my Favorite Applications menu: gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "[ \ 'docker-desktop.desktop', \ 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', \ '...
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I'm using XFCE and I'm trying to change the properties on a panel icon. However, the option for properties on that icon is greyed out. For some reason it's only for that icon, the other icons are fine....
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Menu and its submenus in single file bash script with a back to root menu for each. My issue is that the show_root_menu call sometimes just jump to the upper menu instead of the root. Bash-installer-...
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I'm trying to create a menu in bash but I don't want to press ENTER when selecting the option number. The code I'm trying to use: #!/bin/bash PS3="Select a character:" select character in ...
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I am using arch linux and a basic cpp custom window manager. However, every time I right click to open the context menu it just flickers and dissapears. I cannot use it at all. I also cannot use top ...
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I know there are programs which make a TUI (like dialog, whiptail) which allow selections in bash. However, I want a simple, nice, completely CLI menu (may not be simple to implement though). Note: ...
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When nano is running, in the bottom appears the menu options based on ^#, for example ^O ^X etc .. Each one represents ctrl + o ctrl + x respectively Reason of this post: when a new linux user - ...
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The goal here is to dynamically construct a menu from an available variable file In this example I use ansible.builtin.pause module but I'm not sure this is the best way variable file: vars.yml --- ...
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I'm running fluxbox without any DE. For some reason I lost the ability to raise the desktop and window frame context menus with the right mouse button. I found that fluxbox did not place a "...
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I have somehow the opposite problem of the proponent of this question: why-are-my-application-desktop-files-not-showing-up-in-linux-application-menu in my case I have an application showing in the ...
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Does any DE have a 'Share menu' which allows sending files to and via installed applications like email clients, messengers, etc. (similar to MacOS and Android)? And in particular, is it possible to ...
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I'm learning Bash and I am trying to solve an exercise. The exercise consists of selecting the first and last names, from a menu list. However, if the name is not in the list then set manual input. ...
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I spent time installing Signal through the command line yesterday. I run Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon. Without realizing I needed to log out and back in to get Signal to show a shortcut in the start ...
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I'm setting up a Debian system, with LXDE as the Desktop Environment (really, I'm just remastering a Raspberry Pi OS image). I have an application that ships with a .desktop file. Cool! Unfortunately ...
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Environment: uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux dpkg -s lxde Maintainer: Debian LXDE Maintainers <[email protected]....
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I am having a menu based script which calls for an additional shell script. The challenge is that, after the additional shell script is finished, instead of returning to the main menu, it exits ...
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My File, Edit... Menus are gone from the Dolphin file manager. For the life of me I cant figure out how to get it back. Thank you.
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I tried gsettings reset org.gnome.shell app-picker-layout and rebooting to see if that helped, but it didn't. I can't reorder the items (e.g. drag and drop) in neither favourites or the menu itself. I ...
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I have an old Dell Latitude D430, and I want to install a lightweight Desktop Environment. I have installed Mint 19.3, with Mate, and everything seemed ok. To make things lighter, I wanted to switch ...
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I have the below script: while true; do echo "# Available tests:" PS3="Please select which test must be performed [1-9]: " options=("CPU Stress Test (local)" "...
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I have installed Unity. I can use it from directory. But, I want to use it from menu bar. Look at my below image But the application is right there. How to solve it?
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So I created a menu so I could control my VPN app without having to enter commands again and again. However, I'd like to be able to select eg number 7, press enter, then enter a command manually ...
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So I have an Ubuntu bionic with mate desktop and I'm trying to remove the restart/logout options from the menu. At the moment I'm using the Brisk menu but could switch to anything else. I already ...
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every time I click on show application my Kali crashes and goes to the main screen after a few minutes, the application extension (top left corner) that I downloaded afterward seems to be working fine,...
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Distro: Fedora 32. I tried Application Style module: But it only has "Application style" and "Window decorations". I guess there should be a Widget Style module in the list as well?...
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I just wanted to design a bash script based on below menu approach. The problem here is after selecting C option and followed by next menus not executing. Is there alternative approach so this menu ...
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I'm using Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" Cinnamon in French. The taskbar menu has many programs already existing on fresh install, and I wanted to rename one of then, let's say the driver manager (French ...
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As most keyboard these days come with no Menu-key it would be nice to set a key to the operation of the right mouse button. So far I still have to select text. How could I get the board key act like ...
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I have created a .desktop file for a program I use frequently. When I left click the .desktop file, it runs the program. I would like to have an "exit/close" option when I right click the file. How ...
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I have HP da-0077tx laptop pre-installed with DOS but I installed cracked version of Windows 10. Now I recently installed Elementary OS (dual boot). After installing Elementary OS due to some reasons, ...
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I updated recently to fedora 31 and lost menu bar in gnome-terminal. I can enable menu bar for a single terminal session by right mouse press->enable menu bar. But there is no option to enable it ...
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I am refactoring a script that displays a text menu similar to this: Select a mounted BTRFS device on your local machine to backup to. 1) 123456789abc-def012345-6789abcdef012 (/) 2) 123456789abc-...
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I have noticed that XFCE4 has an option to launch firefox in incognito mode: This firefox was installed from the Arch Linux repository. Can I do the same for a custom launcher for Firefox Nightly ...
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I've got a simple bash menu script that works almost perfect. But for some reason, if I don't exit out of the script using the "Exit" option OR by using CTRL+C BEFORE I close my terminal window, then ...
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I'm using Linux Mint 18.3 (Xfce 4.12) and have a launcher that seemingly can't be removed (any way I can think of; highlighted in the image below): After updating a VPN client, there are two entries. ...
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The usual way of accessing the applications menu in Openbox is by right clicking on an empty spot of your Openbox desktop or by binding a key to the ShowMenu-action in the rc.xml file. I would like ...
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I am actually making a menu for my official server. I made it through bash scripting on AIX. The problem i am facing is that when script is running, user can scroll up and see history of all commands ...
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I have an SSD and an HDD. I've created separate partitions for Linux on the HDD (SWAP,boot and the storage), but I installed it on the the SSD on "Device for boot loader installation". I want to know ...
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Ideally, I'm looking for a generic solution for Linux / Ubuntu, but my minimum requirement is something that will work in Ubuntu MATE 16. I'm writing a script that takes a newly-installed Ubuntu ...
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I've been using byobu for ~4 years at this point and I do not remember this behavior before. If I press F1 (this always happens by accident actually, with the exception of initial setup I never want ...
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I have written this menu that calls forth several scripts. One of this script is dbus-monitor --system so it displays live traffic over dbus. but when I want to exit this I normally do Ctrl+C, but ...
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