Questions tagged [settings]
Settings are options in a program that allow you to configure the program to suit your needs.
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Ubuntu 17.10 and later: can't change the input switching shortcut to alt+shift
When I try to set the default combo for switching to different language layouts in my keyboard from Shift+Super+Space to Alt+Shift I can't.
I used to have this combo since Ubuntu 14 and even before ...
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How to set keyboard repeat delay and speed in Ubuntu Gnome 16.10?
In previous versions I could tweak the keyboard repeat delay and speed by going to Settings → Keyboard → Typing. Now in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 (with GNOME 3.20.2) that panel seems to be missing.
How can I ...
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Turn off error sound on Ubuntu 18.04
How do I turn off the Ubuntu error sound (especially on the terminal) in Ubuntu 18.04?
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How do I change the cursor and its size?
I have recently created an Ubuntu 12.04 partition on my Windows 7 laptop. When installing it, I switched to "high contrast" mode, which has rather large cursors (by large I mean about twice as large ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 change sound output device issue
I recently updated my Ubuntu 19 to 20.04 and started experiencing strange issue: when I open sound settings and switch "output device" while my headphones are plugged in - sound goes out of headphones ...
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How to turn on Night Light Blue Light filter in Ubuntu 20.04
The Night Light filter, also known as Blue Light filter or Color Temperature filter, is a bit hard to find in Ubuntu 20.04. The Night Light tab is now in shown in the title bar, next to the Displays ...
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How do I disable the blinking cursor in gnome-terminal?
I could have sworn that there was once a setting for this in the gnome-terminal "Profile".
And then in some version of Ubuntu, that setting disappeared, and I had to use System ➜ Preferences ➜ ...
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System Settings icons missing in 14.04
I did a fresh install of trusty 14.04, but a lot of icons are missing.
I installed from DVD which was painfully slow and I hope to avoid repeating the process, especially since I started customizing ...
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How do I make my synclient settings stick?
The default setting for synaptics touchpads includes a paste functionality mapped to the upper right corner of the touchpad. I can disable this behavior by running the command
synclient ...
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Which programs use the new "Online Accounts"?
In Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 it's possible to configure a Google Online Account. I'm able to configure this program to get access to Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Chat.
But which programs use this data? ...
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Saving monitor settings?
Is there a way to save my monitor settings? I have an external monitor at work, but each morning i have to plug it in, rearrange the windows from being side by side to being on top of each other. Can ...
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Where are shell/terminal settings stored? [duplicate]
I updated my Ubuntu but it crashed during installation and I was not able to recover it (my hard drive crashed). I changed my hard drive and re-install ubuntu
I saved all my important docs (bookmark, ...
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Creating a Git repo at / (root) for tracking settings?
So I use Git mostly for development purposes, but I just realized that I could use it for storing versions of the settings files I have on my Ubuntu installation.
My proposed setup is:
git init a ...
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How to make custom refresh rate stay saved?
I'm testing out 14.04 on a partition to see if I want to use it as my main desktop for when it's fully released, but I've encountered some problems.
I have a 144Hz monitor, so in the the Nvidia X ...
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Settings window does not open in Ubuntu 22.04
I've been an ubuntu user for the last 5 years, I newly upgrade from 20.1 to 22.04 and my settings aren't working, I tried to install the gnome-control-center but the terminal reply me with the ...
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How to prevent automatic change of the audio device?
My Ubuntu 17.10 is connected via HDMI with my TV. HDMI ist the audio device I want always to use. Sometimes when the TV is turned off, Ubuntu switches the audio device tho semething else. When I turn ...
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How do I turn off "show mouse" when I press Ctrl?
I've searched everywhere in the system settings but I still can't find it.
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How to stop reordering of the same kind multiple preview windows in task switching?
When using task switching in the default graphical mode of Ubuntu 12.04, if they are multiple windows of the same kind, eg. multiple Terminal windows, you can see them all together and select which ...
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where is theme settings in ubuntu 18.04?
I have just upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04. My installed theme was Flatabulous. My desktop looks really weird.
I can not find theme settings in System Settings.
Have is it been removed? How am I ...
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Missing network settings in KDE
I installed the KDE desktop environment using apt install kde-plasma-desktop. The problem is that I don't have network settings in System Settings:
(source: kde.org)
Of course, I'm missing this from ...
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7z "ultra" settings for zip format
7z "ultra" settings for .7z format are:
7z a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on
What are the "ultra" settings for .zip format (using 7z)?
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Firefox: open downloaded files with system default application [duplicate]
When I download a file with firefox, it always asks me with what program I want to open it with, even when that type of file is recognized by the system, and I can double click on it in Nautilus and ...
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Is it possible to close vlc to system tray?
I have recently installed vlc remote in my phone and I can't use it unless vlc is opened so I was wondering if it is possible to always keep VLC opened like skype and utorrent in windows,
Thanks in ...
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How to disable alert sounds on Ubuntu 20.04
This question is similar to:
Disable alert sounds on Ubuntu 20.04
In Ubuntu 18.04, one could disable alert sounds directly in the settings. In Ubuntu 20.04, in the settings you can change the alert ...
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change default printing settings
Is there any way to change the default printing settings in the dialog box?
For instance, I would like the paper format to be always A4. Now it always appears as US letter by default and I have to ...
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Unable to understand what jdk location is
I have java installed correctly for sure.
aaa@ubuntu:~$ whereis java
java: /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/X11/java /usr/local/java /usr/share/java
aaa@ubuntu:~$ whereis javac
javac: /usr/bin/javac /usr/bin/...
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Where is the cursor speed for mouse keys configured?
I have mouse keys enabled on two computers running Ubuntu 12.04. On one of them, the cursor speed is reasonable. On the other one, even when using the same keyboard, the cursor moves unbearably slowly....
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Can't open Orca settings on Ubuntu 13.04
I use Ubuntu 13.04. I found out Orca could be enabled in Universal Access, but I cannot find its GUI based settings manager.
I can't even start its settings manager via the command orca --setup or ...
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How can I open Java's Control Panel?
How can I open Java's Control Panel to change the security settings?
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How to print using only the color cartridge?
My printer ran out of black ink, but the color cartridge still has a lot of ink. I want to print using only ink from the color cartridge. I used to be able to do this using advanced printer settings ...
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How can I set bluetooth off as default?
Whenever I turn my bluetooth off from the settings menu, it's back on after reboot. I know this has already been asked but I've tried all answers that have been provided and nothing seems to work.
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How can I set my system to suspend when inactive to a longer amount of time
I run Mythtv on some Ubuntu 11.10 based machines.
In the power settings, I can choose from a list of time periods from 5 minutes up to 1 hour for the the machine to suspend when inactive. I would ...
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How can I reset all Rhythmbox preferences and library information?
Background: I cannot figure out how to make Rhythmbox scan ONLY the folder with my music in it. I want to delete all of its settings and start over.
What do I have to do to make Rhythmbox think it's ...
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How do I switch off "continuous" mode permanently in Evince?
this is an FAQ on the website for Evince but without any answer. I searched gconf but with no luck. Even on a per document basis, Evince won't remember this setting! I want it to be off. Any help on ...
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Touchpad can't be disabled in Ubuntu 22.04
Since installing Ubuntu 22.04 I can't disable the touchpad in my settings or using the keyboard shortcut.
In the settings under Mouse & Touchpad I can enable/disable the touchpad by toggling the ...
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How can I get the band (2.4 / 5 GHz) selection back in wifi settings? (ubuntu 20.04)
I upgraded Ubuntu to 20.04 and the setting for preferred WiFi frequency has disappeared. You can see a screenshot of the drop-down menu here:
How can I get this drop down menu back?
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Where do applications typically store data?
I was wondering if there was a standard location for storing user level application data. What I mean by that is stuff like Firefox bookmarks, Skype message history/password, etc. I'm asking because I ...
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Remembering Window Positions (and preferrably sizes, too) in Ubuntu 14.04
I've just installed Ubuntu 14.04 alongside Windows and I am finding one thing to be very irritating. That is, when I open any application, it opens at the top-left of the screen.
The first thing I ...
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Kubuntu 18.04 can't set default web browser
Links in Telegram have been opening random apps (image viewer, Calibre, etc), so I checked System Settings > Applications > Default Applications > Web Browser.
Open URLs "in an application based on ...
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How to change time and date language to English?
I do not know how it comes, but my calendar(upper right corner) is in Polish. How to change this to English?
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How do I disable Touchpad corner functionalities? (e.g. copy, paste, context, right-click)
Using my touchpad on my Unity desktop I have discovered the following:
Tapping the corners of the touchpad results in:
Top-right corner: Paste command.
Top-left corner: Copy command.
Bottom-right ...
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How to disable blinking cursor in Gnome 3.8?
There is this proposed solution to disable the blinking cursor in Gnome terminal. However, it no longer seems to work for Gnome 3.8. The option /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default in Gconf does not ...
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How to fix Unity locked disabled settings?
I am not able to adjust any of the settings in Ubuntu 14.04. Everything in Unity is locked/disabled. I've tried uninstalling Unity and reinstalling it. I've tried installing xscreensaver and that did ...
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Where to store user settings for an app?
If I want my application to store a few settings, that persist when an application closes, then where should I store them?
I'm not talking anything complicated: two booleans and a string (although in ...
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Where are Chrome/Chromium preferences stored? (to force chrome uniformity in fonts) [duplicate]
I want to force Chrome fonts to be consistent on every site I visit. The Chrome preferences don't affect this at all.
I found this link which states which webkit settings to edit to accomplish this, ...
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The brightness of laptop screen cannot be adjusted with either the buttons or the slider. Edit
I have Ubuntu 17.10 installed on a MSI GT72VR laptop with a single nVidia GT1060 graphics card, grub2 as a bootand Unity as a desktop. I can't change the brightness in any way. Bright always is 100%. ...
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Ubuntu 17.10, changing input switching to alt-shift (with gnome-tweaks) creates problem in firefox
I recently installed Ubuntu 17.10, and when I tried to set my keyboard layout to change with alt+shift, I hit a well known bug. There is a workaround, using gnome-tweaks-tool which works, but then it ...
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Is Ubuntu recognizing and/or using my NVIDIA graphics card?
This is my first post here, and I'm pretty new to Ubuntu/Linux. I currently have no other OS except for Ubuntu 13.10. (I used to have Windows 7 until i got a new Tera-byte hard drive).
My current PC ...
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Disable alert sounds on Ubuntu 20.04
I cannot see where to disable alert sounds on Ubuntu 20.04.
I believe it was available under Sound Settings in older versions of Ubuntu.
"Alert sound" is there but not a corresponding volume....
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How to change the time server for the _in built_ internet time in ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
I know there are instructions for installing full NTP, but I'd rather change the default server under the default implementation. This question has come up before for 12.04 LTS, however the answer ...
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