Save and restore your GNOME Shell desktop active running application windows and their positions across multiple workspaces using an automated command line script. Synopsis: To save your session, press Alt+F2 or on a terminal: >session save To restore your session,…
Category: Linux Desktop
Thunderbird: Highlight row on focus
I use the keyboard a lot. For many years now, Thunderbird’s default theme (probably inherited from the desktop, which does the same thing on many dialogues) has had a little quirk that is slightly less conducive to keyboard use: It…
GNOME session save and restore
A newer version of this script is now available. This script is used to save and restore a desktop session. Why this script? Some desktop managers do offer some session management features. Under GNOME it may be possible to run…
Prevent GNOME screensaver during full-screen Flash videos
While movie players (such as VLC) prevent the GNOME screensaver from activating during movie playback, playing Flash videos does not affect the screensaver, which means having to move the mouse occasionally, or turning off the screensaver while watching YouTube videos…
Dual-monitor + TV
In the current GNOME shell, Xinerama, the feature that supports more than 2 adjacent displays, is broken. With my nVidia card, the native Nouveau driver doesn’t even detect the 3rd output. The proprietary nVidia driver detects 3 outputs, but cannot…
Nautilus open-with / mime-type associations
Using the native GNOME file manager Nautilus, you can double-click on a file to open it with its default application. If you don’t like that, are not sure what the default application is, or want to modify it, then you…
Customizing the GNOME Shell menu
The GNOME Shell (GNOME 3) menu, is customized using the alacarte application. Install this application if you wish to edit the menu. If you want to know more about how the menu works in order to write a script to…