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for questions about Budgie, a customizable and extensible desktop environment based on GNOME, on Ubuntu

Budgie is a customizable and extensible desktop environment based on GNOME, written from scratch for the Solus project. From Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu Budgie will be an official flavour.

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Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS System Tray Icons not all showing

I don't know if this has been solved or not, and I didn't see it. I'm a complete noob to Ubuntu Budgie and I have 18.04 LTS with the latest updates. I have Dropbox, Mega, and a few other things installed that are not showing in the System Tray at…
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Driver for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS that supports GTX 1050 TI graphics card

Can anyone tell me if Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS has an open source driver that supports an NVIDIA Gtx 1050 ti graphics card? My CPU is an Intel E2140.
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Broken apt, can't update libglvnd due to unmet dependencies (Nvidia)

I haven't installed any new packages recently or added any PPAs, just ran apt update. After running 'apt upgrade' Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken…
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Steam not opening - "tar: This does not look like a tar archive"

I am new to Linux and I have Ubuntu 17.04 64-bit (Budgie). I cannot open steam. It is updated to latest version. When I open it it pops up but after some time it disappears. When I try to run it from a terminal I get this output: tar: This does not…
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Can't install Ubuntu, stuck on "Updates and Other Software"

I'm stuck trying to install Ubuntu, I can use the live desktop but when I go to install it just never gets past the Updates and Other Software screen. The cursor spins and I've left it a good hour but nothing happens. I've successfully installed…
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Set fill settings for desktop background image Ubuntu budgie 17.04

I changed my background desktop image today but I cannot find any options to change it to fill or span the screen like this: Any ideas?
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Ubuntu Budgie: How to use Alt+Shift to switch keyboard layouts?

I just installed the latest version of Ubuntu Budgie and I can't get Alt+Shift to switch keyboard layouts. I write articles almost every day using English and Greek and it's pretty annoying to change the language using Super+Space. Is there a way to…
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Print Screen key not working

Upon pressing the Print Screen key, bell sound is heard, instead of taking a screenshot. I have gnome-screenshot installed on my device.
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Ubuntu 18.04 (Budgie Desktop) Video Lag (YouTube/Twitch in Chrome)

I'm seeing a lot of lag while attempting to view YouTube or Twitch videos, the sound is fine but the video stops until I move the mouse. Scrolling a web page in Chrome stable (66.0.3359.139) is laggy when using the touchscreen, two-finger scroll on…
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Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 - ‘Night Light’ flickers occasionally

Essentially, I have Night Light enabled in the panel to change my colour temperature Occasionally (every few minutes) I get a brief flicker or two where the temperature switches back to what it was when Night Light was off, and then back again. Why…
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Youtube video freezes until I move my mouse- Chrome/ium

I am Ubuntu 18.04 lts Budgie, and somehow whenever I am not moving my mouse, either on fullscreen or not, the video freezes, until I move my mouse again. It happens all the time, on Chrome and Chromium. I do have Nvidia proprietary driver…
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Unable to disable apparmor in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

I tried to open a pdf in my external HD with Evince (pdf reader), but apparmor denied. Then I tried to find Evince's profile to add a link to it in /etc/apparmor.d/disable in order to disable the profile. I used the command aa-status to find the…
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Lock screen not working

Since updating to Ubuntu 21.10 my lock screen is not working anymore. I'm using budgie desktop and pressing Super+L to lock my screen this happens in syslog: Oct 30 07:58:35 lenovo gsd-media-keys[9616]: message repeated 10 times: [ Couldn't lock…
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Is installing another desktop environment on a stock Ubuntu 20.04 install consider reasonably safe/ok. Low risk for serious issues

Currently running an up to date stock Ubuntu 20.04 desktop with Gnome. In the past I've heard it can cause some problems/issues if one installs multiple desktop environments. Not sure if that sentiment is true or if it's still true today. With…
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Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS don't install Conky Manager

I need to install Conky Manager to add themes and change settings to make my own preferences on a desktop screen. However when I type: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install conky-manager My Ubuntu says to me…
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