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vlast777

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Registered: 2015-02-10

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Show username in top bar GNOME 3

Hey there,

is there any possibility to show the username of the currently logged in user in the upper right corner in the top bar (pretty much like you can enable it in Ubuntus Unity and in OS X' Aqua).

There is a shell extension, but it doesn't seem to work for an up-to-date GNOME shell version.

If anyone got any other Idea I would highly appreciate it.

EDIT: I have enabled this feature in dconf, but still not working. I also set my full name via chfn.

Last edited by vlast777 (2016-09-21 09:21:53)

jethronsun7

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Re: Show username in top bar GNOME 3

I am confused, do you mean show sth in the Gnome shell? IF so, checkout zsh + oh-my-zsh, plenty of features and themes

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Re: Show username in top bar GNOME 3

In early gnome-shell versions there used to be user-menu that displayed username by default, until they merged it to the top-right corner menu with network, audio etc.

With current shell version, you'd need an extension to display the username on top bar. I think any dconf values would only effect the user-section on the top-right-corner-menu.

There is a shell extension, but it doesn't seem to work for an up-to-date GNOME shell version.

Just how out-of-date is the extension (can you provide a link)? On some cases you can just bump the shell version in metadata.xml, and the extension may work just fine.

vlast777

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Registered: 2015-02-10

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Re: Show username in top bar GNOME 3

I mean like in this Picture (I know, this is Unity, but I think basically it should be possible for Gnome 3 too).
And there is an Option in the dconf editor to enable this and I did it.

I want it like the upper one, but mine is looking like the bottom one.

Last edited by vlast777 (2016-09-22 20:54:11)