UNITY-CONTROL-CENT(1)

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💖 UNITY-CONTROL-CENT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for unity-control-center, from the User Commands section of the manual. Yes, the page title is literally UNITY-CONTROL-CENT(1) — they abbreviated it, not me. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

unity-control-center — configure Unity settings. That's the whole vibe. It's your settings app, basically. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

so it's options, then optionally a panel name, then optionally some extra args for that panel. stacked. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

unity-control-center is a graphical user interface — yes, an actual GUI, with windows and buttons and everything — for configuring various aspects of Unity. 🖥️✨

When you run it with no arguments at all, the shell pops up the overview, which shows you all the available configuration panels. From the overview you can click on any individual panel to open it. There's also a search entry so you can find panels by searching for keywords. it's giving "find your settings by vibe". 🔍💖

You can also just hand it a panel name as a commandline argument to go straight to that panel. iconic shortcut behavior. And individual panels may accept further arguments, to specify which tab to open (for the multi-tabbed ones) or which item to display (for panels with lists). so specific. so efficient. 😌

okay so important heads-up: unity-control-center is not meant to expose each and every setting that is available. The settings in here are the ones considered useful and commonly needed. So if you want the more exotic or uncommon options, go look at gnome-tweak-tool or the gsettings commandline utility. that's the deep-lore territory, iykyk. 🙈

🦋 PANELS 🦋

Here are the panel names you can specify, bestie. memorise your faves. ⭐

  • background — The background panel lets you set your desktop background. aesthetic customization, we love her. 🖼️
  • 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. true-color slay. 🌈
  • datetime — The datetime panel lets you set the timezone and time format.

Some operations in this panel affect all user accounts on the computer and require privileges. so, power move energy. 🔥

  • 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. 🖱️✨
  • info — The info panel shows a general overview of the system configuration. It also lets you change the default applications for various tasks and the handling of removable media. 🧚
  • 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. 🐭
  • 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. 🌐
  • 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. 🖨️

  • region — The region panel contains regional settings such as the display language, formatting for times, dates, numbers, and input sources.

You can open this panel on a specific tab by passing language, formats, layouts or system as extra argument. 🌍

  • screen — The screen panel contains settings that control the screen brightness and screen lock behavior. 🔆
  • sound — The sound panel shows all known sound devices and their configuration, including volume and balance settings.

You can open this panel on a specific tab by passing output, input, hardware, effects or applications as extra argument. 🔊

  • universal-access — The universal-access panel contains settings for accessible technologies such as the screen reader, magnifier, screen keyboard and AccessX options. 🫶
  • user-accounts — The user-accounts panel shows all user accounts that exist on the computer and allows to change them in some ways, such as changing the user name, password or permissions. It also allows to create or remove accounts.

Some operations in this panel require privileges. 👑

  • wacom — the wacom panel shows connected Wacom graphics tablets and lets you calibrate and configure such devices. (yes she's lowercase, she's chill like that) 🖊️

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -?, --help — Prints a short help text and exits. the classic. 😌
  • --version — Prints the program version and exits. 🏷️
  • -v, --verbose — Enables verbose mode. chatty mode activated fr fr. 🗣️
  • -o, --overview — Opens the overview. the whole menu of panels. 🍓

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. no cap, that's the rule. ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 mwah. go configure something. 🎀

this one's from the Ubuntu gang, and the page is UNITY-CONTROL-CENT(1) — yeah the footer just says Ubuntu and we're rolling with it. much love, go touch some settings. 💅✨🦋

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