I am about to upgrate from 17.10 to 18.04 but I'm afraid to lose all my Gnome desktop preferences in the process (always been using Unity until 17.10).  I made many changes through "Gnome Tweak tool" and I would like to backup all the current config so I can restore it in my new installation (the same question applies for a fresh   At the same time, I'd like to know if there's a similar way to backup all other configuration for Gnome in general (Nautilus, etc.)  Any info would really help, thank you in advance...
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The problem:  I have two machines, both with Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 up-to-date, and both with installed the latest CrossOver Linux(1) to run MS Office 2007 on it. I know, it's a proprietary program, but the problem is more general and affect Wine too. Please do not stop reading.   Both machines have a spanish keyboard working well most of the time (showing sometime a  but I think it's unrelated). The problem is that on one of them there is a set of program running under Crossover Wine affected by a  on some program, notably MS Office Word (there is also ).   Disabling IBus in Language Support -> Change Keyboard input method and unsetting XMODIFIERS works on one machine but not on the other (!).    So it must be some strange setting doing the difference...  The question  Is it possible to dump all the gsetting/dconf/whatever configuration database(2) in a readable file so that I can check differences with diff -u?   I know that   gsettings list-recursively org.freedesktop.ibus.general   works, but I am quite puzzled that   gsettings list-recursively org.freedesktop   gives the error   No such schema 'org.freedesktop'   ...so it seems that I can't dump all of the registry in one go. Any hint?     Footnotes:   (1) This is a version of Wine with added technical support and fixes to run some program better. A lot of the improvement percolates on free Wine, so I think is a good part of the Ubuntu ecosystem; nevertheless I do not add the link to avoid being accused of publicity ;-)  (2) Can we call it what it really is --- a registry like the infamous windows one?
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I recently shifted to Ubuntu 17.10. After enabling ubuntu-dock extension from Gnome-Tweak-Tools, I found no specific settings for customizing the Ubuntu-Dock in gnome-settings or gnome-control-center. A temporary hack i found for accessing the dock settings was changing XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable from terminal and then launching gnome-control-center from there.  XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=ubuntu:GNOME gnome-control-center   I wanted to know if there is some permanent way to get Ubuntu-Dock-Settings in gnome-control-center
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I no longer want Unity, and I want to switch to Gnome, I read  that you have to install gnome-session-fallback package.  To do this, however, when running:  sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback   I've got this output:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Package gnome-session-fallback is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it:   gnome-session-flashback  E: Package 'gnome-session-fallback' has no installation candidate   So does this mean that I should install gnome-session-flashback instead of gnome-session-fallback to get Gnome? Also as I want to get the latest version of Gnome, which would be Gnome 3 and not 2, is this the correct package to install?    OS Information:  Description:    Ubuntu 15.04 Release:    15.04
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I'm using Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.1 and want to resize the icons in the dash. Therefore I wanted to edit the file /usr/share/gnome-shell/themes/gnome-shell.css  This file does not exist, but rather the file "gnome-shell.css.save", which I can't open. Any ideas?  And is this even the right file to change the icon size? I am not talking about the desktop icons, but the icons the the dash.  I know there have been lots of similar questions, but I googled all night and couldnt find the right answer.  Thanks a lot.
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I am using Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 for the moment and I am asking myself if – through the future upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 – my Ubuntu GNOME will be exactly the same as the official main flavor, since it will adopt GNOME again, or if there will be two different flavors with GNOME.  What do you think?
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^^^^ Will Ubuntu GNOME upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04, or will support discontinue when 18.04 is released?? Just want to know what's better to run right now so I can upgrade and not have to reinstall later(I intend to see this transition through)-- GNOME installed correctly on vanilla Ubuntu, or Ubuntu GNOME?
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I am using ubuntu 15.04 now. For a while I used Gnome as my desktop, but now I changed it back to Ubuntu. After the change, the desktop is fine, but the login GUI isn't back; it's still in Gnome now.  For Gnome login GUI I mean the black GUI with a gray box in the middle and there's a gear icon(settings of the desktop, and the options are: metacity, Gnome, System default, and Ubuntu) and some text(I cant remember that).  And the Ubuntu login GUI should be like several users appear on the left and the selected one with the text box for you to enter the password.  It is so confusing because when I lock the computer using  Win  +  L , or  Ctrl  +  Alt  +  L , the GUI is ubuntu's.  Please tell me how to fix this. Thanks.
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I usually load a new version for every release to keep my OS fresh while preserving the last version on another partition as backup. I also employ a lot of custom key mappings.  I've figured out how to transfer the majority of my configuration across systems so far but I can't figure out where the custom keyboard shortcut mappings are stored.  Does anybody know where gnome puts these? Are there separate user config (i.e., ~/) and system config (i.e. /etc) files?
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I tested out Unity 5, and of course, it broke things, so I tried downgrading by    sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:unity-team/staging   It removed Unity completely.    apt-get install unity   seemed to work, but the login screen now offers only Gnome.  How do I get back to Unity 4?
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I just installed ubuntu gnome 17.04.  I'm trying to install this theme:    It says just extract the theme into the .themes folder and use the tweak tool to select the gtk and shell themes.  So here's what I have:  ole@mkIV:~$ pwd /home/ole ole@mkIV:~$ ls .themes Gnome-OSX-2.6   I then reboot and attempt to find the new themes.  However they do not show up even though I have User Themes turned on under extensions.  Any ideas on how to fix this?
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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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The big dock on the left. In other versions you could escape Unity Launcher by going to GNOME, what now? GNOME tweaks is not showing it as an extension, even though it looks a lot like Dash to Dock.    I see autohide options in settings, but no way to completely remove it and use the GNOME default.  Edit: I'm not looking for vanilla GNOME, but simply to hide the dock.
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I've been looking all over the configuration menus and googling all over the web for how to configure keyboard shortcuts for Copy and Paste in the Unity window manager.  Is there some hidden place somewhere to configure this?  In Gnome Desktop on Lucid, I had it configured so that using the Ubuntu system keyboard/mouse, I could use Win+C/Win+V to copy and paste everywhere on the Gnome desktop, including in Firefox and gnome terminal; then when I moved the mouse to my Mac desktop*, the same keystrokes would copy and paste.  I would really like to keep this consistency.  Ctrl+C is obviously inappropriate as the "copy" key in any sort of terminal program.  (Any Ctrl characters, actually.)  * I am doing this by running Synergy server on Ubuntu, and the Synergy client on a Macbook.
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Is there any way I can run the Unity dashboard (or something similar, like Bolt for Gnome 3) in Gnome Fallback?
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I did a fresh install of trusty 14.04, but a lot of icons are missing. I installed from DVD which was painfully slow and I hope to avoid repeating the process, especially since I started customizing stuff.  Here's my settings window:    I've tried:  sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-control-center sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-settings-daemon-schemas   None of which changed anything.  Any idea? I wanna edit preferences and none of them are in System Settings, neither in Unity Dash.
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Today I saw an article about extensions for GNOME Shell, so it got me thinking a couple of questions that may apply to many users in Unity:   Will the GNOME Shell extensions be compatible with Unity? Can I install them directly to Unity from the  website? In case 2 is NO, is there a similar idea for Unity in the works?
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I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 and am missing the Ubuntu Dock settings, i.e. in gnome-control-center the dock settings are blank:    I think I might be missing the "ubuntu-dock" package, but can't find this anywhere in the software centre.  Also the gnome-control-center was completely missing after the update, and I had to install this separately - not sure if this is related.  I think this is different from  because changing the type of GNOME session doesn't fix the problem. If I go for GNOME* I get no Dock settings section at all, and if I got for Ubuntu* I get the blank Dock settings section described above.  Output of apt-cache policy gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock:  rob@rob-pc:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 0.7   Version table:      0.7 500         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages