Gnome3 Tweaks & Solutions -- F15 -THESE ARE FOR F15 and may not work with F16

[ashokharnal]

My view is that if so much tweak-solutions need to be learnt then only an expert can learn them. For a common man it would be advisable that GNOME itself provides a simple alternative to switch to the familiar Desktop and get on with the business on hand rather than first learn something new before one can get on further.

[zerin]

Personally I feel gnome 3 is very usable overall. From Day 1. Customizing is just what makes it "yours" is all. I've been working with it since it came out and the small tweaks here and there are incremental, I don't need "all" the tweaks, simply the ones that matter to me. Gnome Shell (for me), required no new learning, everything just felt natural.

[pilotferdi]

Originally Posted by zerin

I heard on another forum there is a setting in dconf editor to turn it off, but i could never find such thing, since they never mentioned where it was.

I didn't have too much time to research the issue, and thus I cannot give you a complete answer. Here is a hint: Since the dynamic motion happens when you use the composite form, I guess you can modify the properties you're looking for in the Gnome 3 theme you're using. If you use the default theme (Adwaita), the file to change is
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml.
You need to
1. Be VERY careful when you change the file, else your G3 desktop becomes unusable in composite mode. I suggest you make a backup copy of the original before trying changes.
2. Make changes as root. The changes will apply to all users.

I'll come back with more information once I have some time to do more research.

Good luck!

[fpmurphy]

To turn off tiling, set desktop->gnome->shell->windows->edge_tiling to false and restart GS.

You can use gconf-editor to set it.

[zerin]

Thanks man! that worked perfectly and was exactly what i was looking for. I was going about it the wrong way looking in dconf-editor, but once i installed gconf-editor, the option was there!

[yasen101]

In order to restore the Compress option in the Nautilus context menu:

yum install file-roller-nautilus

[SchneiderIS]

Originally Posted by ashokharnal

My view is that if so much tweak-solutions need to be learnt then only an expert can learn them. For a common man it would be advisable that GNOME itself provides a simple alternative to switch to the familiar Desktop and get on with the business on hand rather than first learn something new before one can get on further.

I am in complete agreement. Gnome 3, to me, is a complete step back. The simple things that allow you to have the interface you are used to or even just to make it usable is missing. I have been trying to hack away for hours to just simply change the height of the title strip and still have no success. My install, a clean one, doesn't have the "Appearances" options anywhere which should be a UI 101.

To be honest, I wish I could just go back to F14 and be done with it. This change to F16 has sucked three weekends out of my life sofar.

[Dan]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=274611

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=272559

Or, LXDE is an excellent choice.


The bottom line is, we can either curse the darkness ... or flip on the (other) lights

[SchneiderIS]

Thanks for the suggestion Dan. I like the looks of it but unfortunately I have not been able to get it to work. All I get is the same old ugly Gnome 3.

[Dan]

Hmmmm.

Which one? I gave three options. Whoops! Never mind. Just caught your post on the Cinnamon thread. Driver issues are buggers!

[SchneiderIS]

Cinnamon.

The bigger effort right now is to install the open source ati driver.

[mcojettech737]

It would be really nice if there was an easy way to change Icon " Font Size"

[Dutchy]

I was browsing the Gnome extensions site and stumbled upon this nifty Advanced Volume Mixer extension.

[droidhacker]

Ok, I'm one of those who initially REALLY HATED gnome-shell. Since then, however, I've managed to get it into working order.

PERFECT working order, such that it absolutely satisfies my needs.

I'm not going to go into the WHOLE setup to make it they way I like it, since obviously, everybody will like it different.

The final piece of the puzzle for me was in getting a properly functioning BOTTOM PANEL. Frippery Bottom Panel is a great extension, but there are a couple of problems with it. (1) it is themed in a blinding manner inconsistent with the upper panel, (2) it only goes on the FIRST MONITOR, not the second, and contains all the windows for BOTH.

I present a fixed bottom panel PAIR!

The theme is toned down to be more consistent with the upper panel, a duplicate panel is created on the second monitor, and each bottom panel only has an application list applicable to THAT monitor.

I have ONLY tested this with gnome 3.4 on F17. Take the two extensions and drop them in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/, be certain to disable or uninstall FRIPPERY BOTTOM PANEL (don't know what would happen with both installed, probably bad things...), and activate both of these extensions in the usual way (advanced settings --> extensions).

Update:
Much better now.
There were some significant inefficiencies in the previous version with respect to tracking windows across multiple monitors, and it was restricted specifically to two monitors.

This new one is just the "extension.js" file (extract from attachment), which you can drop into Frippery Bottom Panel.

Install frippery bottom panel, then place this modified extension.js into ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Bottom_Panel@rmy.pobox.com/
** if you prefer the more subdued styling, also replace the stylesheet.css with the one attached.

Once it is in place, restart gnome-shell (alt-f2, "r").

This will create a bottom panel on EACH monitor that you have, however many that happens to be (including just one).

Hopefully, Ron Yorston (the author of the gnome "Frippery" extensions) will include these changes as an update -- I have been communicating with him.

[Dutchy]

I've found some more nice extension.
Among them are the Maximus extension (which removes the top bar of a windows when it is maximized) and the Window options extention (which adds some generic options to the app menu).