I have a new arch install with Gnome Window Manager and Cinnamon. I created ~/.xinitrc with the command start cinnamon, and restarted the computer.   Now the system boots into the login screen for Gnome and Cinnamon, but there is no command line shell available in the GUIs, and I'm unable to boot the computer into command line mode either.
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My xorg session is on tty1 and if I want to issue a command from tty (because I cannot do it from xorg session for some reasons), I press Ctrl+Alt+F2, for example, and type a command. But I cannot start graphical applications from any tty except first since there is no xorg session in it. Then I am curious how can I switch to tty1 where xorg session is running and back to the session?
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Currently using ubuntu 15.10 on azure and installed the gnome and vnc4server latest version on ubuntu. Please find log file below:  Current VNC client screen:    $ cat .vnc/myhost1\:1.log    --cut-- VNCSConnST:  Server default pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565 VNCSConnST:  Client pixel format depth 8 (8bpp) colour-map Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x20000c specified for    0x20000b (I        nitialization error). Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name    'org.gnome.ze        itgeist.Engine': no such name amdxdg-su: no graphical method available for invoking '/usr/bin/amdcccle' as 'root'  $ cat .vnc/xstartup unset SESSION_MANAGER  [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] &amp;&amp; exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] &amp;&amp; xrdb $HOME/.Xresources  vncconfig -iconic &amp;  gnome-panel &amp; gnome-settings-daemon &amp; metacity &amp; nautilus -n &amp; gnome-terminal &amp;   How to get 24bit color with wide screen (Now I getting square screen in vnc client)
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How do I get a gnome-terminal window to open from a crontab?  I have tried this:      * * * * * /usr/bin/gnome-terminal       * * * * * source /home/user_name/.bashrc ; /usr/bin/gnome-terminal      * * * * * source /home/user_name/.profile ; /usr/bin/gnome-terminal      * * * * * source /home/user_name/.bashrc ; /home/user_name/bin/opengnometerminal.sh   None of these seem to work.
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I'm using Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.  I've written a simple script     #!/bin/bash    #test    notify-send "text" "other text" -i dialog-warning   to notify me when it's executed. In order to run the script at the startup I've tried the following procedures. Both of them didn't work.  First using init.d directory        Made a simple bash script prova.sh and made it bootable with chmod command.    Copied to /etc/init.d/ directory.   Made a soft link to /etc/rc0.d/ directory.      Second using crontab        Executed the command crontab -e.   Added the following lines to the file:   @reboot /home/user/prova.sh   Executed the command update-rc.d cron defaults      Any advice?
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I just upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. My workflow is to connect from Windows using VcXsrv to Ubuntu (ssh with X tunneling), starting a xterm on Ubuntu. Inside the xterm I am typing gnome-terminal to get a gnome-terminal. Since the upgrade this is not working anymore. I am getting $ gnome-terminal   # Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.   # Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Fehler beim Aufruf von StartServiceByName für org.gnome.Terminal: Zeitüberschreitung wurde erreicht    or when starting with English locale $ LANG=en_US.utf8 gnome-terminal   # Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.   # Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached  I am not always getting the first line, but I am always gettint the timeout error. Digging more into the issue I found out  sudo gnome-terminal works gnome-terminal works when run in a xterm when locally logged in on the PC when I am also logged in locally on the PC then gnome-terminal in the remote session's xterm opens a gnome-terminal on the local session on the PC (still getting the first error line about registering with accessibility bus) when I am also logged in over rdp (Windows network connection) then a gnome-terminal in the ssh session opens a gnome-terminal in the xrdp session when I login over rdp (Windows network connection), logoff there, then gnome-terminal can open a gnome-terminal  What can I do to get gnome-terminal in a remote session's xterm to work?
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I just jumped into a command line virtual console using Ctrl-Alt-F1, and i would now like to return to the gui. startx gives me something along the lines of 'this server is already active for display 0' if ...etc. it gives me a command to remove /tmp/.X0lock if that isn't the case...I could just restart the machine, but i'm worried i might mess something up.
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I chose an Openbox DE at the time of login and the system took ages to load the DE. So I switched to CLI (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and rebooted my system (but I wanted to logout from the GUI and not restart the whole system).   My question is, can I issue some command at CLI to log me out from the GUI so that I can select different DE. (I don't want to restart my system every-time DE hangs.)    $ DISPLAY=:0 gnome-session-quit --force  ** (gnome-session-quit:3144): WARNING **: Failed to call logout: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
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I've reading about about the Cinnamon Desktop through this Q&amp;A:  Also I've been reading these theming questions:     I'm trying to understand downloading &amp; installing themes.  I see that I can download GTK2 &amp; GTK3 but I'm unsure I understand the differences. I see there are themes such as Unity Themes, Gnome-Shell themes from websites such as  How do I apply these themes to Cinnamon?  I'm new to Cinnamon so a beginners guide would be very useful.
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GNOME Terminal shows up in several places:   launchers which start terminal commands the Launch Terminal keyboard shortcut the menu items added by nautilus-open-terminal   Does each of these explicitly specify GNOME Terminal, or is there some centralized setting they reference?  I have checked for:   A setting in System Settings ▸ System Info ▸ Default Applications An analog of  or  An environment variable containing gnome-terminal. This one actually looks hopeful:  $ env | grep gnome-terminal COLORTERM=gnome-terminal   but I'm not sure where to go with it.   If such a setting exists, my goal is to change it to use a different terminal emulator by default.
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I found a lot of people figuring out why instruction similar to this :   Put X to your ~/.bashrc and you can do Y    don't work.  It always turns out that Mac OS X's bash's startup files (or Mac's Bash itself) doesn't source ~/.bashrc file, either in the login shell, or in a shell spawned from window system - like Terminal app in Mac OS X)  Why is this, when all other Unix-like systems with Bash I've worked with before have done this?  PS:  I found what Bash itself says about startup files (which could be helpful) :     When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a   non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and   executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.   After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login,   and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from   the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may   be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.   Source :
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I tried to install gnome-shell on Ubuntu 16.04 and when configuring I choose gdm as my default desktop but after I reboot I didn't see the login screen , only the black screen with Ubuntu  logo and the red dots, so I have reinstall Ubuntu again.  My question How can I install gnome-shell on Ubuntu 16.04?
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I have read that there is a new Gnome-2 like interface called Cinnamon produced by the Linux Mint developers.  Is this available for Ubuntu users - and if so how do I install it?
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When booting to the graphical desktop fails we sometimes are recommended to boot into a "root shell" or to boot in "recovery mode".  How do I do that?
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I'm using Linux Mint. My login shell (cat /etc/passwd | grep myUserName) is bash.  After I start my graphical desktop environment and run a terminal emulator from it, I can see that .bash_profile is not sourced (environment vars that are exported in it are unset). But if I log in from a text console (ctrl+alt+F1) or manually run bash -l from the terminal emulator, .bash_profile works fine.  Am I wrong when I think that .bash_profile should be sourced when X starts and all export'ed vars should be available in the terminal, running from X?  P.S. Placing everything in .bashrc and sourcing it from .bash_profile is not good idea (): environment stuff should be sourced only once.
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According to the answer to  on Ask Ubuntu, GNOME Terminal is a type of non-login shell. As pointed out in the excellent book, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 6th Edition:  an interactive non-login shell executes commands in the ~/.bashrc file. The default ~/.bashrc file calls /etc/bashrc.  As a result, /etc/profile won't be processed in a non-login shell. However, I found that I have appended the java home path to the PATH variable and, when I use GNOME Terminal and issue the command java, everything goes fine. Also, the value of the PATH variable is the same as the value I defined in /etc/profile. In view of the above-mentioned facts, there is a conflict, what’s wrong with my understanding?
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The problem I had was to get the .bashrc and .bash_profile and/or .profile scripts to execute by default when using the native Gnome terminal application.  I found a number of references which told me in order to get these to "run" you needed to have an interactive session with login but none of the threads I found explained how to do this with the native terminal application.  So my question is how do you get the .bashrc and .bash_profile scripts to run on Centos every time you use the Terminal Application on the Gnome desktop?
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After booting to the GUI in 12.04, I attempt to move to the virtual terminal (or shell, or tty) via Ctrl-Alt-F1 (F1 through F6), and the screen remains blank. I have tried all 6 tty instances and the results are the same. Ctrl-alt-F7 brings me back to the GUI without a problem. Any thoughts?