Getting to g-know Gnome
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2018
- As requested, I did a walk-through on Gnome just discussing how to use it, and how you can make it your own. I've never done a basic feature overview for it before since I've just always used it...
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I'm new do Linux, my main PC is still on windows, but I love getting my butt kicked and trying to get things working on Linux. It's really nice having the freedom to do anything and the way you want, learning in the process.
Yeah! And the best part is you can install as many distros as you want on as many machines as you want for free! 😁
I got so addicted to dynamic workpaces that I can't use other DEs anymore. I feel much more productive in app development with it, in a workspace a browser and devtools, another workspace for the code itself, another for the terminal for debugging stuff and at the bottom, the usual telegram, spotify and other non-related crap. It feels nice because the trash doesn't clutter my "overview" when I need to switch between apps in the same workspace.
That's some really good points on some practical use! I guess I'm just an alt-tabber haha Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!
Yeah, I was also an alt-tabber myself haha. Windows really blocked me for a long time, but I started to notice that using a taskbar I was constantly clicking the wrong app or kept searching for the damn icon. And when I alt-tabbed, if I miss, well... gonna have to cicle through the alt-tab again. The overview in GNOME was just a keypress away and it always display the window content, I don't remember ever missing those hahaha, really got spoiled. Thanks for the video!
I'm doing mostly office productivity stuff and I'm doing the same thing-always grouping similar programs in same workspaces and then if necessary, alt-tabbing between max 2 or 3 programs. It's so hard-wired now that it's a shame to admit. GNOME Shell's killer feature for me too.
It's the same with translations, writing exams or material, etc. Having music playing on one screen, image searches on another, and below that your material, in both the editing mode and the student view... Gorgeous!
and you can move quickly between them using ctrl+cmd up/down.
I like this video. I may give Gnome another try. I haven't used it on a daily driver in a long time. This was a great tutorial on using Gnome.
Thanks Bobby! More or a walkthrough maybe, there's a lot more little things that I didn't cover, but this was already a long video lol Definitely worth trying out. Also, 3.30 coming out soon promises much lower resource usage and faster performance.
great video, youtube lacks this kind of videos about DEs. Usually, UA-camrs making videos about some updates of DE, not a complete review, like you did, so thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Excellent video! Thanks!! Are you still using Manjaro gnome?
Before this video, I just couldn't get keen on Gnome. Although a bunch of extensions don't work, most of the really cool one's you've shown do. Thanks for another really coot tutorial.
One of the biggest things that made me fall in love with Gnome 3/Shell is the power of extensions. They make it completely modular. You can literally make your Gnome desktop into whatever you desire. One extra kickass extension not mentioned in the vid is Drop Down Terminal. Extremely useful for those quick commands.
I do actually make use of Workspaces. I have my mail client permanently maximised on a separate workspace. If I ever play around in a VM I also set that up fullscreen in its own workspace.
Extensions are indeed awesome, and I made a video specifically on Gnome Extensions a while back :)
Have you tried KDE?
Haha, thanks man! :) Got a bit of a fright!
Appreciate it!
GNOME is the only DE that feels polished and professional to me. Especially with Pop or Adapta theming. I'll keep using GNOME until they really screw something up.
Pop!_OS is my favorite GNOME out of the box currently.
Agreed, although I also like KDE very much. But I've been using Gnome for so long that it flows very well for me :)
During the last 20 years I switched to KDE and then returned back to Gnome 4 times. Despite there are several very useful applications for KDE (and always they were better for KDE than for Gnome), the DE itself does not look solid snd complete.
I had not realize that you don't save time using the "places" shortcut on Gnome. Am using on KDE and i have just taken it out and place the dolphin file manager there instead. Lovely one less package on my system.
I saw Manjaro show up once as your video progressed. If that is what you use could you answer a question? In Mint and Ubuntu flavors my printer is found easily. Does Manjaro make it easy? I would like to try Manjaro Gnome but I do want the printer to work.
Hi Glen. Yes I use Manjaro. No problems with printers for me. I have a Brother laserjet and a Canon inkjet, both MFP's, and I added them both as network printers.
Productivity wise I highly recommend Easystroke. Can't live on the desktop without mouse gestures that I draw with the right mouse click.
On Windows I use StrokesPlus which does the same.
Nice tutorial btw!
Thanks! And thanks for the tip, I’ll have to check that out!
@@Doriandotslash You're welcome Dorian! Here is my config: snag.gy/hfmIUN.jpg
Also in the Preference Tab I suggest you select Method to show gestures to None, to avoid weird screen artifacts which I get (maybe it's because of my nvidia driver... dunno).
And for the Behavior I'm using the Right Moue Button because it come more in handy than the middle click.
But you can go wild and record any action you like. I have more on Windows which is my main OS. There are enough for me on Linux.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Enjoy :)
Regarding the Social Media accounts in the Settings: I know people on Linux are generally suspicious about online social accounts being always connected but personally I have the Google account set up in the Settings. The calendar thingy in the top bar pulls all the Google Calendar stuff that I keep and shows notifications like upcoming appointments, tasks and birthdays. This way I don't need to open a browser or Evolution, I'll just click on the date and quickly see what's up the next days. Really handy.
These can definitely be handy. I personally don’t have a use for it since I can access my calendar from my phone or on the web so I just choose not to link it.
If Gnome 3 ran a lot smoother on lower-end hardware I'd use it, for now I'm sticking with MATE/Gnome 2. Great video!
Yes Mate is very close and still very Gnome-ish :) A very good Gnome 2 fork. Gnome 3 is one of the more resource-intensive distros along with KDE. Thanks for the comment!
No, gnome 3 is not so smooth on high end desktops either..
It runs fine on my ryzen 7. No hitches to speak of.
It's very smooth on my system, and it's not very high end. It's also a laptop...
Allthough I have had problems using "gah-nome" without gpu accelleration. The animations can bork themselves then. I would recommend checking your drivers if that happens.
What's this gorgeous theme? Sorry if you mentioned it in the video, I must've missed it.
Theme from Manjaro Gnome. Must warn you, GNOME is quite laggy on Manjaro (because of this theme and other tweakings, I guess), vanilla gnome or gnome on ubuntu is much much smoother.
Found a link to a position in the video where themes are shown: 18:36
Probably I was wrong about manjaro, but it looks very similar to it.
how do you combine teh tabs bar and the bar with te close and maximize into one? I hate loosing vertical space for it
in the browser
got it, disable title bar at firefox>open menu>customize
Hows the security (Network)= Firewall, iptables, macchanger, Network Manager (Manual ip address schemes), disabling ipv6 etc??
You can do all those same things regardless of what desktop environment you use.
@@Doriandotslash Sorry i should of asked cuzz it kind of looks like sandboxing in the ZEN type of way where if you take a look at QubesOS how hardware is also sandboxed I was wondering about that as well
No this is just a desktop environment that you can install in any OS. Qubes is a whole other thing, I’ve been using it for a while as well. It’s interesting...
Excited for the upcoming 3.30 version? Supposedly, it'll recieve a huge performance patch
Oh yeah! Just waiting to get my hands on it... Not sure who will come out with it first... Ubuntu is supposed to release it with 18.10, but we'll see. I'm hoping the Arch world pushes it out first.
Arch will surely ;) Though Fedora loves Gnome the most, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets it first
Tested, not a "huge" performance at all. Well i did not get any diffrences.
Aw, shame. Well, let's hope it'll catch up to KDE's magic of recourse management
Interesting Muhammed. What did you run it on? Did you compile it yourself?
I used a gnome desktop in a vm. But I might end up switching to Linux earlier than I planned due to Microsoft warning people and the fact I have to pay for something I can do on Linux for free.
i love gnome3
Ditto :D
It also uses all my RAM.
I agree. Desktop icons are evil
(I'm a Cinnamon guy, BTW)
Yeah it can be heavy on the RAM. Not meant for older hardware... Cinnamon is a great desktop too.
This is manjaro right? Vanilla gnome doesn’t work right. The tweaks is broken... if you minimise it and then reopen, it will open in a small window. That’s irritating all the time. KDE with all those bugs > Gnome 3
Yes it's Manjaro with Gnome 3.28. I've never had the issue of a restored window being small... What distro is that happening on for you? I'm currently using KDE on 3 different Debian-based distros. Using Buster repos for 2 of them and have the latest KDE 5.13 running great!
DorianDotSlash No it’s not distro related.. just the Tweaks app. I’ve seen this happen also in one of the videos of InfinitelyGalactic’s video about Gnome recently.
Hmm I’ll have to try to find that. That’s strange
You're not using the breeze theme in libre office?!
No, I tried several different themes. Some of them I really didn't like because they were all the same color and were harder to tell apart. Is that what you use?
Yep, imo it looks modern and neat, though i can see your point as there are no colors in the breeze theme
Yeah, the no-colors makes it hard for me since at work I use Windows with MS Office so I rely on looking for icons sometimes. The colors help.
Ubuntu doesn't have Gnome Tweak application by default, so you have to install it manually.
Correct. Many distros include tweaks, but Ubuntu doesn’t.
And that's very odd :-)
I think they just like their theme so much they don’t want people to be able to change it 😁
Ah, the freedom of Linux World!
Now in our distro b**ch! :-)
G-knowme
Gah-gnome ;)
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lol, it was actually b-a if I remember correcty. And yes I had an original NES and was playing it in1986 when it first came out.
You have forgotten the very important top left hot corner!
Very true! Although for the longest time I always disabled that :D
@@Doriandotslash How did you replace top left hot corner in Gnome when disabling it? Do you use Gnome extension for this? Which one?
@@awutub Yes it's an extension called "No TopLeft Hot Corner".
Xfce+adwaita+xfdashboard
+screen tearing
@@HarryUnchained yes i suffered from that also for some time, until I found a fix for my intel gpu:
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#Tearing
I was about to test Manjaro Gnome, and then, BOOM! No more desktop icons. That's a no go for me. They could have a default of no icons, sure, fine. But REMOVE the option to have desktop icons? That the hell were they thinking? Gnome gnome gnome.... (KDE has the Desktop and the Folder View)
Yes I’m not sure why they felt they needed to block the ability to do this with tweak tools. For me, everything I need is on my panel, and documents are in the appropriate documents folder. Never was a fan of desktop icons myself 😋
DorianDotSlash The reason why the option is not there anymore is more fundamental. They opted to remove the code from nautilus for handling the desktop. Reasons were that that code was old, difficult to maintain and actually in the way for cleaning up stuff. Therefore, it is not a matter of blocking the option: the possibility is plain gone. Ubuntu, wanting to maintain the active desktop, kept an older version of nautilus to keep the functionality. The future for desktop icons, for those who want these, will be through a gnome extension.
So Ubuntu is forking Nautilus to keep the feature then? That’s interesting, thanks for the info!
Do you guys reckon the lads at Budgie will fork Nautilus as well?
Certainly Ubuntu devs are not forking. They are just keeping an older version around as a stopgap measure to keep the active desktop, until they can do something else: await/contribute to a good extension, drop the active desktop, switch to nemo, who knows...