Unleash the shortcuts on a Debian installation with Gnome desktop by unlocking it

20 Mar

2015

Johan van de Merwe

Posted in Software

How to put your shortcuts on a Debian Gnome desktop by unlocking it.

If you have the Gnome (desktop) installed in a for example a Debian Linux installation you can unlock the desktop doing the following.

Gnome Tweak Tool

Install the gnome tweak tool with the Synaptic Package Manager.

Advanced Settings

After installation you select the Advanced settings from the System Tools > Preferences menu.

[/picture] Unlock the Gnome desktop in Debian [/picture]

Unlock the Gnome desktop

Finally you select from the Desktop options "Have file manager handle the desktop" and set it to on.

After this you are able to put any shortcut on the desktop.

Johan van de Merwe

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