Start Script when Gnome Starts Up

There is a specification for this purpose, and it works with any desktop environment that supports the specification (eg. KDE, GNOME2, GNOME3, …). You should put a Desktop Entry file (with .desktop extension) inside of ~/.config/autostart (for a user) or /etc/xdg/autostart (for the whole system). In the file you set the script to run (see … Read more

How do you find out which version of GTK+ is installed on Ubuntu?

This suggestion will tell you which minor version of 2.0 is installed. Different major versions will have different package names because they can co-exist on the system (in order to support applications built with older versions). Even for development files, which normally would only let you have one version on the system, you can have … Read more

How to use git with gnome-keyring integration

@marcosdsanchez’s answer is for Arch (which answers the original question) but I’m on Ubuntu. For git >= 2.11: sudo apt-get install libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret sudo make git config –global credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret For git < 2.11: sudo apt-get install libgnome-keyring-dev cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring sudo make git config –global credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring/git-credential-gnome-keyring

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