Recently, we tried to understand why creating a hotspot would not work in Fedora 25 with Gnome 3.
Starting the control panel from the GUI (the launcher, or the power cog) did not provide us with the debug messages needed to understand what was going on.
So we needed the command to use that would start the control panel from a a terminal window
For Ubuntu 14.04 and newer, which by default are deployed with Unity, we used:
unity-control-center;
For Ubuntu 13.10 and older versions, which were deployed with Gnome 2, we used:
Recently, we set up an Ubuntu Server in a Gnome Boxes virtual machine. We wanted to perform an ssh connection into it to make administration easier. In the properties of the VM that are visible from the GUI, there was no option to edit the network cards and set up…
To empty the cache of gnome tracker3, you can follow the steps below: Open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T. Type the following command to stop the tracker daemon: tracker3 daemon -t; Type the following command to clear the tracker database: tracker reset --filesystem; This command…
Recently, I ran into an interesting issue while working on my Ubuntu system. After installing FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), my GNOME desktop environment stopped loading, leaving me at a blank screen or stuck in a loop with no graphical interface. If you find yourself in a similar situation, don't worry.…
