gnome-control-center - Man Page

gnome-control-center [OPTION...] [PANEL] [ARG...]

gnome-control-center is a graphical user interface to configure various aspects of GNOME​.

When run without arguments, the shell displays the overview, which shows all available configuration panels​. The overview allows to open individual panels by clicking on them​. It also has a search entry to find panels by searching keywords​.

It is also possible to specify a panel name as commandline argument to go directly to that panel​. Individual panels may accept further arguments to specify which tab to open (for multi-tabbed panels) or which item to display (for panels with lists)​.

Note that gnome-control-center is not meant to expose each and every setting that is available​. The settings that can be found here represent what is considered useful and commonly needed options​. For more exotic or uncommon options, you can look at gnome-tweak-tool or the gsettings commandline utility​.

The following panel names can be specified:

applications

The applications panel lets you configure application permissions and default applications​.

background

The background panel lets you set your desktop background​.

bluetooth

The bluetooth panel lets you configure your computer's Bluetooth adapter, and pair the computer with Bluetooth keyboards, phones, etc​.

color

The color panel can calibrate monitors, web cams and printers for accurate color reproduction​.

display

The display panel configures the resolution and arrangement of monitors and laptop panels​. Note that monitors can be rearranged by drag-and-drop, and you can change which monitor is your main display by dragging the black bar​.

keyboard

The keyboard panel can change how the keyboard reacts to key presses and lets you change keyboard shortcuts or create custom shortcuts​.

You can open this panel on a specific tab by passing typing or shortcuts as extra argument​.

mouse

The mouse panel can change how mice and touchpads react to user input​.

multitasking

The multitasking panel lets you configure desktop features such as hot corners and workspaces​.

network

The network panel provides a view of available network devices (wired, wireless or mobile) and their current configuration​. It also provides a way to create new VPN connections and configure proxy settings​.

You can open this panel on a specific dialog by passing create-wifi, connect-hidden-wifi, connect-3g, connect-8021x-wifi or show-device as extra argument​. The last three parameters require an additional extra argument for the network object in the form /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0​.

notifications

The notifications panel provides a way to control the display of notifications​.

online-accounts

The online-accounts panel shows your configured online accounts and lets you add or remove accounts​.

power

The power panel shows the fill level of batteries and can configure what happens when the computer is idle or runs out of battery​.

printers

The printers panel shows all known printers and their status​. It is possible to inspect queued print jobs and add new printers​.

Some operations in this panel require privileges​.

privacy

The privacy panel allows to control visible file usage history, temporary files, and name​.

search

The search panel controls the results visible in the overview, and the files and folders to be indexed​.

sharing

The sharing panel contains settings that control what is shared over the network​.

sound

The sound panel shows all known sound devices and their configuration, including volume and balance settings​.

system

The system panel contains settings for the system, such as date and time, language and region, users, and about this computer​.

universal-access

The universal-access panel contains settings for accessible technologies such as the screen reader, magnifier, screen keyboard and AccessX options​.

wacom

the wacom panel shows connected Wacom graphics tablets and lets you calibrate and configure such devices​.

wellbeing

The wellbeing panel allows you to configure usage limits and breaks​.

wifi

The wifi panel lets you configure your Wi-Fi connections​.

wwan

The wwan panel lets you configure your mobile broadband connections​.

-?,  --help

Prints a short help text and exits​.

--version

Prints the program version and exits​.

-v,  --verbose

Enables verbose mode​.

-l,  --list

Lists the available panels and exits​.

-s term, --search term

Sets the following search term​.

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise​.

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