Use this tag to ask questions about gnome-control-center - a graphical user interface to configure various aspects of GNOME.
Questions tagged [gnome-control-center]
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Why is there an 'About me' panel?
When I go to System -> Preferences -> About me, I am able to give all sorts of informations, like my name, my e-mail address, an avatar, et cætera.
What is it made for?
Agmenor
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How to add access controls to Accessibility Options?
We are having issues in our labs where students set the magnifier and a few other settings intentionally to make the system almost unusable. I was thinking about controlling this activity, but disabling it will not solve that issue because there…
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gnome-control-center segmentation faults when launched
For some weeks now, maybe since upgrading to 21.04 (maybe earlier, not sure), gnome-control-center has been segfaulting every time I try to run it, right at start up. The gnome-control-center package version is 1:3.38.5-1ubuntu1.
Things I've…
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Why doesn't Preferred Applications include an image application?
You can use "Preferred Applications" to set your media player, web browser, etc, but why does it not provide an option for images?
You can use Ubuntu Tweak to set the image viewer for all of the different image types, but it would be nice to have it…
idbrii
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I installed gnome-control-center from command line. It is saying 'Unable to init: could not connect: connection refused'
I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 on Windows 10. I installed gnome-control-center from command line. It is saying 'Unable to init: could not connect: connection refused' . Wanted to change the colors of text and background of bash console from command…
Usha
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Can't open system settings in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I'm getting this error when I try to start system settings (in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) from command line using gnome-control-center -v:
(gnome-control-center:19769): user-accounts-cc-panel-ERROR **: 16:58:37.061: failed to read pwquality configuration:…
TomSu
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How can I completely reinstall gnome-control-center and reset default settings?
I'm quite new to Linux so I please bear with me.
The problem I'm having is that I have accidentally removed a system setting panel from gnome-control-center, using the Main Menu app. I thought it would remove the icon from my applications, but it…
RyanZA_
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