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GUI stands for Graphical User Interface. An Ubuntu Desktop system includes a desktop environment (such as Unity), display manager, and many graphical applications, providing a GUI for many components of the operating system. A GUI is in contrast to a command line interface (CLI)

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Cannot move window because the title bar is above the screen

Sometimes I open a new window in a program (such as a new notebook in Mathematica), and the title bar of the window appears above the screen, so I cannot drag the window around. What can I do when this happens? Is there a command I can use in the…
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How do I boot to a command line interface instead of a GUI?

Hi I have ubuntu server 10.04 installed and I also installed the following: su aptitude install xorg xfce4 aptitude install aptitude install gedit aptitude install gnome-terminal Now when I restart the system it…
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Can't move links on Desktop

I drag-dropped some links from the Chrome Browser onto the Desktop. But now when I try to move them they create a file rather than being moved. 1 2 3 Could someone tell me how to fix this. (And maybe why it is happening)
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Can't login to GUI with my Valid password

I have ubuntu server 12.10 and installed ubuntu-desktop to access it via GUI and changed the default runlevel to 5. Now I get the GUI login screen with my username (display name) but when i enter my password the screen just flicks and comes back to…
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What is Ubuntu's top bar called?

Mac osx and Ubuntu have the same type of bar at the top of the screen. What I mean is that it is dynamic, when you launch an application, you can reach its setting by using that top bar, file view and so on is not implemented in the application…
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All menu items greyed out in Golly. How to diagnose the problem?

I tried installing Golly from the package manager. Everything seems to work fine, except that almost all the menu options are greyed out, disabled and unclickable. I tried with the latest version from Sourceforge and have the same issue. Only the…
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Detecting dark mode

Is there a setting that can be read / polled to determine if the global Ubuntu dark mode is enabled or not by the user. I’m writing an app and would like to honour the user’s preference for my UI.
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How to get the internal names of GUI programs?

I want to find out what is the internal name of a graphical program. I know that ps aux or top can be used, but is there a way to find out without console, using the mouse? Maybe an app I can start and then click on a window to see it's application…
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Need an interface for a gui shell script more powerful than zenity

I want to write shell script file that has a GUI with multiple input boxes for user entry. I already tried zenity. Any ideas or advice would be appreciated.
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How to open file in GUI mode with terminal?

I could not find the section as you can open the file in a graphics mode, that is such a file 1.txt terminal displays the contents but I would love to see it with the gedit or another text editor?
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is there any gui for ELF file ( probably using readelf)?

looking for a good gui for reading elf files. I know about readelf which is only command line
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How can I launch a GUI application in a fullscreen window without a complete desktop environment?

Is it possible to open a GUI application in a single fullscreen window from the terminal without all the other aspects of a desktop environment? For example, Firefox.
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Remove an application from "Show Applications"

Just migrated from Windows. I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. One of the reasons why I migrated was the lure of being able to customize everything about the GUI. Recently I was looking at some image files and installed Image Magick. It's now showing on "Show…
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Startup with GUI on Ubuntu 16.04

when i start ubuntu i get the command line, even if I run commands like sudo service lightdm restart and sudo systemctl start lightdm how can i return to have the desktop at startup?
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I can't see any icons in the dash

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 but I'm not able to see any icons in the dash, however applications are still being launched properly. Any suggestions to get back the icons??
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