With classic Gnome, if one had two monitors, one could set up "separate X sessions" for each monitor.  In this configuration, each monitor had a separate user login session and application windows were captive to the X session they were launched from.  Is something similar possible with Gnome 3?  If so, how do you go about setting it up?
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Since modern PCs can use two screens at the same time I wonder if it is possible to plug in two keyboards and mouses as well to have the two screens run two (more or less) independent X-sessions at once?
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I find this beyond frustrating.  I have two extra screens on my laptop at work. I take my laptop and go home, with no extra screens connected. I come back, dock the laptop, and the windows need to be rearranged again.  Is there a way to get windows (or a utility) to keep track of the overall screen configuration (#, size, resolution), and remember where windows were placed, so when the screen configuration matches again, it puts applications BACK where they were?
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I love the window snap feature of the Gnome 3 shell. However, it only allows you to maximize windows or to snap to the left or right half of the screen. Is there a way to snap to quarters of the screen? Maybe some shell extension I'm unaware of?
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I recently switched to a new PC at work, one with two (identical, Dell 23") monitors. I'm running Linux Mint 15 64bit / Cinnamon. Is there a way to set it up in such a way that, instead of both monitors sharing the same huge workspace, they are on separate smaller ones? E.g. left monitor on workspace 1, right monitor on workspace 2, and I could switch either monitor to workspace 3 if needed?  Failing that, is there a way to duplicate the bottom panel onto the second monitor? Currently it is only displayed on the left one.
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I'm trying to figure out how to launch a GUI application as another user that's logged in interactively, in that user's graphical session.  For example, say I have two users, foo and bar. Both are logged in, but the current interactive user is foo. I'd like to launch Calculator.app as user "bar", so that when I fast user switch to bar, I find the Calculator window is open in bar's session.  Here's what I've tried that doesn't work:  sudo -u bar /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator   This launches Calculator.app as bar, but the window opens in foo's graphical session.  sudo -u bar osascript -e "tell application \"Calculator\" to activate"   Same effect.  sudo -u bar open "/Applications/Calculator.app"   Launches Calculator as foo, not bar.  launchctl asuser [uid of bar] [any of the above commands]   Same effect.  Is there any way to accomplish this? I'm willing to entertain all manner of possible solutions, including bash scripting, AppleScript, writing a Core Foundation or Cocoa program, and so on. In my situation, any program or script could execute as any user, including root.  Note: I'm aware that it's possible using remote Apple Events, but I can't use that since in the situation I'm trying to do this I have no guarantee that "Remote Apple Events" will be enabled in Sharing preferences.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I have dual monitors and I want to span my current window so that it appears as one giant window on both monitors. Does anyone know how to do this natively in Windows?
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Is there such a thing?  I don't want multiple separate desktops, what I'd like to be able to do is split my main desktop into two areas so that an application in one when maximized won't take up the "Full" physical screen, but its portion of it.  I would like to be able to keep some apps maximized, but still view others off to the side with a single monitor.  Ideas?
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Is there a way to fake a dual monitor for testing.    I have only one monitor and I have to make an application that is suitable for two monitors.  The second monitor screen should appear as a window on my primary monitor.
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Default ui for Ubuntu 14.04 being Unity, want to switch to Gnome.  Can't find usual way to switch at login screen as mentioned here.
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I tried installing gnome 3 , but it broke Unity and I had to reinstall Natty from scratch.  Does anyone know if there is a way to install Gnome 3 without breaking Unity?
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I'm trying out XFCE on Arch Linux, and for some reason the Lock Screen option in the session menu doesn't do anything.  Neither does running xflock4 at the command line (it exits 0 with no output).  xfce4-session is running.  Do I need to install a screensaver package or something?
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I've accidentally attached to a 2nd GNU screen session from within an existing screen session and cannot detach or issue commands to the inner screen. I remember figuring out how to do that before but completely forgot and would like to keep it as reference.  One way is to detach the inner screen by doing screen -dr from shell, but what is the key combination to do that from within screen itself?
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Using Linux you can connect multiple keyboards, monitors etc. and use one CPU with multiple users, each logged in to their own home environment.  See what I mean here:   Is there any way to achieve the same on OS X?  Clarification: All viewers seem to understand this question as: remote logon, or remote X.  This is NOT the question.  I hope the following diagram will clarify:  |-------| |single | |MAC OS | |box    | |-------|   |_Monitor1__keyb1__Mouse1__user1   |   |   |_Monitor2__keyb2__Mouse2__user2   Remark: It seems X11 is available on OS X. I haven't seen any practical examples yet. Remote X seems possible using X11. Not sure at all about multiseat capability with additional mouse and keyb..  Perhaps this may be 'a' way to go?
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Is there a way to get ubuntu gnome 3.14 on ubuntu 14.04 ??  Thank you in advance
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I have 3 monitors attached to my 8800GTS, which can only use 2 at a time. I use 3 different setups:   single screen (1) dual screen (1+2) single screen + TV out (1+3)   having to click screen resolution and select different screens etc is a bit of a pain, and to get round this I used to have an autohotkey script that opened up the NVIDIA control panel and select a different profile. However in W7, for some reason everytime I select a new profile it seems to mess up all the settings/not work at all.  I was wondering - does windows7 have any built in commands for selecting monitor 1+2, or 1+3 and just 1?   I'd love to have 3 shortcuts on my start menu like I used to!
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So i installed Ubuntu 18.10 fresh install and i did have the normal new login screen of ubuntu gdm3. Ive been downloading gnome themes and i noticed after i did everything(idk if its from installing new themes) when locking the computer i still get the normal lock screen  And when i slide it up i get the stamdart login screen:   Lock screen  Login screen    But now it gets weird when i click on "Log in as another user" i get a new different type of log in screen, which comes when booting into ubuntu after the logo loading screen too(on this login screen the tap-to-click also doesnt work!):   2nd login screen    EDIT: Im sorry i forgot to add a question  - What is this(is this normal?) and how to set it back to default?  Added theme:  Named "flat remix"   I would be happy for your help Thanks Best Regards!
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I am looking for a clean and fast method to force GNOME in Ubuntu 14.04 to switch between active apps only on the current workspace when pressing the shortcut alt + tab.