Gnome

Install

Manjaro / Arch

Refer to pacman.md#Package groups for how to easily select packages from this package group

sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-control-center

Configure

See login-managers.md#GDM how to configure keyboard layout for GDM
(Permanently) disabling Desktop Screen Lock in GNOME

Extensions

Arch wiki: Gnome/Extensions
In Arch the gnome-shell-extensions package is already installed as a dependency of gnome-shell

cli tool

(in Arch/Manjaro)

List extensions:

gnome-extensions list
gnome-extensions list --details

Ubuntu / Debian:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-prefs

gsettings / dconf

Gconf, Dconf, Gsettings and the relationship between them

Backup gsettings:

gsettings list-recursively | sort > ~/backups/gsettings/gsettings.bak
cd ~/backups/gsettings/; gsettings list-recursively | sort > gsettings.bak
git add gsettings.bak; git commit -m'Checkin'

See available keybord shortcuts:

grep keybindings ~/backups/gsettings/gsettings.bak

Indicators

Guillotine

Github

Guillotine is a gnome extension designed for efficiently carrying out executions of commands from a customizable menu. Simply speaking: it is a highly customizable menu that enables you to launch commands and toggle services.

Argos

Github

Create GNOME Shell extensions in seconds

Unfortunatly unclear future of project

Old i3 hacks

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

Remove bottom panel for i3

gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout toplevel-id-list
gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.layout toplevel-id-list "['top-panel']"

Allow gnome-control center settings in gnome-i3 session

sudo sed 's/^OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;$/OnlyShowIn=GNOME;i3;/' -i /usr/share/applications/*.desktop
sudo sed 's/^OnlyShowIn=GNOME;$/OnlyShowIn=GNOME;i3;/' -i /usr/share/applications/*.desktop