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Gnome Classic is a Gnome Shell feature for users who prefer the traditional desktop metaphor. It is only available on Gnome 3 systems with certain shell extensions installed.

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I installed Dolphin successfully, its icon is in Application → System Tools and it works well. But, in Settings → Details → Default Applications there's everything else just not File Manager. Why this?...
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I'm running a CentOS 7 + GNOME Classic (Gnome 3 for some unknown reason, crashes) and I'm trying to customize the "Favorites" sub-menu, under the main "Applications" menu. ...
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I'm using my Linux only managed by root user (I know is not the best practice). The first point is, since beginning, my gdm is not showing root user on the initial list, so there is not available ...
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Good day, I installed Arch Linux with Gnome Classic as desktop environment. The problem now is that the Terminal doesn't work. When I click on the Terminal the mouse cursor indicates busy and then ...
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In Gnome 2, when an application was fullscreen, Control + Alt + Tab would let you select either the top bar or the bottom bar (AFAIK, they are also called "panels"). In Gnome 3, the same keyboard ...
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I have upgraded a Debian 7 system to Debian 8 and, among other changes, when I log in using gnome-classic, the desktop background is new. However, my gnome menus have not changed, as you can see in ...
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I have installed CentOS 7 which uses gnome classic, and am finding the hot corner extremely painfully annoying. How do I remove/disable it?
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I'd like to synchronize the configuration of my gnome panel(s) between computers and keep the configuration in Git. How can I dump / import the necessary information? I already found gconftool2 --dump ...
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I'm using Fedora 19 with Gnome Classic, and I have installed compiz, compiz-manager, ccsm and all required packages, but Compiz Fusion just doesn't work, that is it has no effect. I have tried to ...
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