Questions tagged [gnome-documents]

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Folders showing lock icon

Whenever I open my documents, all the folders in it are displayed with a lock icon. Therefore, I cannot delete any file or folder in it. I tried changing the root access using sudo chmod user:directory/ but it fails. I am not able to delete or…
Saket
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How do I open PDFs from gnome-shell in evince?

When I press the super key and search for a pdf (or a LibreOffice document) and then click it to open, it opens in gnome-documents. Which while I'm sure is well intentioned is very frustrating, as it's a piece of incomplete software. When I click…
labarna
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How does gnome-documents depends on libreoffice?

I want to install gnome-documents on Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. It's a pretty bare installation and I'm taking care of what is being installed. When trying to get it through apt I see the long list of dependencies includes the whole libreoffice suite: ~$…
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I was using Ubuntu and suddenly a Problem arose with the "Documents" Folder

When I Click on "Documents", I get the following message Unable to find the requested file. Please check the spelling and try again. Unhandled error message: Error when getting information for file '/home/bbloggsbott/Documents': No such file or…
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Gnome Documents unable to open documents!

I have an almost default install of Gnome Documents 3.6.2 on Gnome Shell 3.6.2 on Ubuntu 13.04. When I open Gnome Documents, it opens the window with "New" and "Recent" documents showing. By clicking on any document, it just shows 'loading'. What is…
deshmukh
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Touchscreen scroll issue 2in1 Convertible Document viewer

When I use Document Viewer in tablet mode, moving the Document with one finger on the screen works at first. Then at some point (randomly), this is no longer so. When I try to move the content, it just behaves as if right-click the screen (shows…
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What is include.txt and exclude.txt in my Downloads folder?

My Downloads folder has two files that I'm not sure what they are there for: "include.txt" and "exclude.txt." "include.txt' only shows "sources/boot.wim." "exclude.txt" only shows "sources/." Does anyone know why these are there and what uses them?…
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