GNOME-CONTROL-CENT(1)

🎀 GNOME-CONTROL-CENT(1) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the gnome-control-center page — it's the User Commands corner of the GNOME-CONTROL-CENT(1) manual, and yes we're doing this together, grab a snack 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

gnome-control-center — the icon that configures your GNOME settings, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

gnome-control-center is the graphical user interface for configuring, like, various aspects of GNOME. That's the whole vibe. ✨

When you run it with no arguments, the shell shows you the overview, which displays every available configuration panel. The overview is literally the main character — you open individual panels by clicking on them, and there's a search entry so you can find panels by searching keywords. iykyk 🔍

You can also throw a panel name at it as a commandline argument to jump directly to that panel. And individual panels may accept further arguments to pick which tab to open (for the multi-tabbed ones) or which item to display (for panels with lists). Obsessed with the specificity tbh 🫶

heads up bestie 💀 — gnome-control-center is not meant to expose each and every setting that exists. What lives here is what's considered useful and commonly needed. For the exotic / uncommon stuff, go look at gnome-tweak-tool or the gsettings commandline utility. Choose your fighter.

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👑 PANELS 👑

These are the panel names you can specify, bestie — full list, no skips:

• applications — the applications panel, where you configure application permissions and default applications. 🎀
• background — the background panel, where you set your desktop background. (aesthetic priorities ✨)
• bluetooth — the bluetooth panel: 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. it's giving professional 💚
• 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 changes 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 changes 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 gives you a view of available network devices (wired, wireless or mobile) and their current configuration. It also gives you 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 is a way to control the display of notifications. (yes we're all silencing them, don't @ me 💀)
• 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 configures what happens when the computer is idle or runs out of battery. 🔋
• printers — the printers panel shows all known printers and their status. You can inspect queued print jobs and add new printers.
  • > Some operations in this panel require privileges. 🫶
• privacy — the privacy panel lets you 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. 💜 iconic, honestly
• wacom — the wacom panel shows connected Wacom graphics tablets and lets you calibrate and configure such devices.
• wellbeing — the wellbeing panel lets you configure usage limits and breaks. (touch grass feature 🌱)
• wifi — the wifi panel lets you configure your Wi-Fi connections. 📶
• wwan — the wwan panel lets you configure your mobile broadband connections.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -?, --help — prints a short help text and exits. the classic "what does anything do" move 🫶
• --version — prints the program version and exits.
• -v, --verbose — enables verbose mode. it will talk, and we love that for it 🗣️
• -l, --list — lists the available panels and exits. very demure, very mindful ✨
• -s term, --search term — sets the following search term. 🔍

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⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. no notes, periodt 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• gsettings(1)

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and that's the page, bestie 🧚‍♀️💖 this gorgeous little manpage comes to you from GNOME (that's the source, and it's also the name stamped on GNOME-CONTROL-CENT(1) at the bottom) — mwah, go forth and configure ✨🎀🦋