Creating an Application Launcher for GNOME 3 in Ubuntu
Run Intellij, then go to Tools > Create Desktop Entry.
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How to start GNOME Wayland session from command line/tty? [closed]
A working solution per Jonas Ådahl a mutter developer: Usually what I do is switch to a VT and run: dbus-run-session — gnome-shell –display-server –wayland
How can I copy the selection to the clipboard automatically in the GNOME terminal?
It’s possible. sudo apt-get install parcellite Then in the settings, check “use primary” and “synchronize clipboards”. It works.
How to start writing Gnome Shell extensions
GNOME Shell uses GJS, not Seed. There are some differences among both of them, and it might explain why you are having problems. With GOBject Introspection you can read the documentation for the original library and adapt the signature of every method/function to the language you are using. In your particular case, for files, networking, … Read more
Integrate Emacs copy/paste with System copy/paste
I had the same problem. I added this to my .emacs file: (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) (setq interprogram-paste-function ‘x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value) Now Ctrl-C and Ctrl-v between Emacs and other applications work fine. Source: Ubuntu Forums
How to mount from command line like the Nautilus does? [closed]
What you are looking for is gio mount (it recently replaced gvfs-mount, which replaced gnome-mount). There is a man page here or you can just type gio help mount for the details The basic usage is: gio mount –list –detail to get a list of mounted and mountable volumes gio mount [-u] <volume> to [un]mount … Read more
Material to learn GObject and Glib [closed]
Start with Glib, its quite easy and well described here: Glib Reference Manual GObject is mostly a lot of boilerplate code to achieve object orientation. Try out the “maman bar” examples found in the GObject Reference Manual For me, GStreamer took the most time to understand. The documentation is good but there is alot to … Read more
Gnome-terminal – How to Copy selection to clipboard automatically?
it’s possible. sudo apt-get install parcellite then in the settings check “use primary” and “synchronize clipboards”. it works.
How do I get the active window on Gnome Wayland?
The two previous answers are outdated, this is the current state of querying appnames and titles of windows in (Gnome) Wayland. A Gnome-specific JavaScript API which can be accessed over DBus The wlr-foreign-toplevel-management Wayland protocol (unfortunately not implemented by Gnome) The Gnome-specific API will likely break between Gnome versions, but it works. It is heavily … Read more
Alt key shortcuts not working on gnome terminal with Vim
The problem There are two ways for a terminal emulator to send an Alt key (usually called a Meta key as actual terminals didn’t have Alt). It can either send 8 bit characters and set the high bit when Alt is used, or it can use escape sequences, sending Alt-a as <Esc>a. Vim expects to … Read more