gnome-shell-tweaks.md

How to customise your gnome shell appearance

Cannot enable gnome shell extensions

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/368306/cannot-re-renable-gnome-extensions

Screen tearing in gnome shell (tested on ver. 3.34)

You must enable intel TearFree option in xorg conf file. Then install the extension below:
https://github.com/kazysmaster/gnome-shell-extension-disable-unredirect

Change shortcuts for switching workspace

If you want to use Win+1/2/3 to move between workspaces, first clear these shortcuts.
Gnome shell uses them to switch between open applications.

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keybindings switch-to-application-1 []
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keybindings switch-to-application-2 []
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keybindings switch-to-application-3 []
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keybindings switch-to-application-4 []

Change the top bar font

You need the User themes extension installed.

1. Create and edit a new gnome shell theme:

mkdir -p ~/.themes/ModMyTheme/gnome-shell; nano ~/.themes/ModMyTheme/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css

2. Add the following lines in css file, to change font:

@import url("resource:///org/gnome/theme/gnome-shell.css");

stage {
    font-family: Roboto Condensed;
    font-size: 15px;
}

3. Launch Gnome Tweaks and apply the new shell theme.

Interesting gnome shell extensions

1. Time++ - todo manager
   https://github.com/zagortenay333/timepp__gnome
2. Unite - Removes titlebars on maximized windows, shows title in gnome top bar, with close/maximise buttons
   https://github.com/hardpixel/unite-shell
3. Gtile - A window tiling extension for Gnome
   https://github.com/gTile
4. Remove Audio Device Selection Dialog
   https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1482/remove-audio-device-selection-dialog/
   For Remove Audio Device Selection Dialog, do the below to make it remember the headphones:

    sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa

Find and comment out the following line (#):

    load-module module-switch-on-port-available

Now restart PulseAudio

    pulseaudio -k

5. Dash to dock
   https://micheleg.github.io/dash-to-dock/
6. Disable workspace switch notification
   https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/959/disable-workspace-switcher-popup/
7. Clock override - change top bar clock date/time format
   https://github.com/stuartlangridge/gnome-shell-clock-override
8. Simple task bar - icons of running applications on Gnome shell's top bar
   https://github.com/fthx/simple-task-bar
   To make the icons grayscale, edit the file extension.js, in the for loop below this comment // create all normal windows icons and buttons:

gedit ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/simple-task-bar\@fthx/extension.js

	        let iconEffect = new Clutter.DesaturateEffect();
                // box.add_effect(iconEffect);
                box.icon.add_effect(iconEffect);

Change Gnome shell's top bar font, colour

To change the colour or font of the Gnome shell top bar, run the below:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/themes/custom/gnome-shell/
nano ~/.local/share/themes/custom/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css

Add the following text to the file, customise as needed:

@import url("resource:///org/gnome/theme/gnome-shell.css");

stage {
    font-family: "Roboto Mono", Sans-Serif;
    font-size: 11pt;
}

#panel {
/*
background-color: #140f03;
*/

background-gradient-direction: vertical;
background-gradient-start: #1c1b1b;
background-gradient-end: #0e0e0e;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);