Posts Tagged ‘dconf editor’
How to exclude mouse pointer by default for screenshots made with gnome-screenshot on Linux
Gnome-Screenshot is the default tool to take screenshots on Ubuntu and Mint and brings a great deal of functionality. While it also has the ability to exclude the mouse pointer for screenshots if you use the graphical interface, you won’t find this feature if you want to take them from the command line – the only option to exclude them there is to set the option as default which is possible with dconf-editor.
If dconf-editor isn’t installed on your system yet, install it by entering the following into a terminal:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Afterwards you can change the default behaviour of pointer inclusion with
dconf write /org/gnome/gnome-screenshot/include-pointer false
If you want to revert things, just set it to true again:
dconf write /org/gnome/gnome-screenshot/include-pointer true
Next time you open the GUI or take a screenshot via PrtScr or the terminal, the mouse pointer won’t be included on the screenshot.
Mint Cinnamon: Change main menu label
The Cinnamon desktop’s menu text is changeable through dconf Editor which you can find by entering the name into the menu’s search bar (don’t confuse it with gconf Editor, that’s something else, even though it looks nearly the same). Browse the directory tree on the left for org > cinnamon and search for the menu-text item on the right pane.
By clicking onto the field’s value (Menu) it is selected and you can enter your own text into it. Remember that the main menu pops up at the center of the name label by default, so don’t choose too long texts, otherwise it’ll look awkward:
