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triplesquarednine

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Registered: 2011-04-12

Posts: 630

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

@triplesquarednine Does your nautilus desktop start automatically? Or do you have to start nautilus for the desktop to appear?

@uh8myzen Cool, thanks for the info... By the way, You can probably get back most of your Gnome 2 functionality using the way that triplesquarednine did (see his post above). You can disable the gnome panel, that way you can place AWN at the top of your screen like you were doing in Gnome 2, and still use/try the Gnome 3 shell (the dashboard, or whatever you'd like to call it). It's be exactly as you were in Gnome 2 except you'll have the additional Gnome Shell dashboard (that is if AWN still runs in Gnome 3). Or you can use Compiz in fallback mode. I imagine it allow you to have the exact same setup as you did before! Oh, and check out the gnome-tweak-tool for Gnome 3.

Nautilus can start automatically, however if i do that, it behaves a bit strangely, i think it has to do with the fact that i am usually executing Nautilus using "easystroke" - gesture recognition software.  So, i (for now) am just starting it, whenever i first need to use nautilus.  I will fix this, but i have been more focused on learning all of the new backend frameworks in G3...

About disabling gnome-panel....  I am going to write a guide, that some users (even people who prefer minimal DEs) are probably going to want to check out - especially, if they would like to hack on the gnome 3 stack - to make G3 into an "agnostic desktop environment" or a very lite DE.

It turns out that if you hack on gsettings - like recompiling it's schemas and changing around both gsettings/dconf settings - Gnome3 can be trimmed down at much as you like - in an elegant way, that doesn't feel like a dirty hack, and doesn't require recompiling G3 or possibly causing breakage on future updates -  there are also some real advantages to using gsettings on your system over using gconf, or tools like it in other DEs. gsettings is a binary format, and one of the best features that it provides - it basically uses no context switches, at access time. so when launching apps, or anytime something is referenced from gsettings, there is no extra overhead - which means your schedulers, can be much more efficient. in these kinds of situations...

My system no longer runs gnome-panel at all, all of the universal access stuff is gone, etc. basically, i have rid myself of anything in the G3 stack that i didn't want. updates won't cause me problems either, as all that is required is recompiling the schemas again, and moving /usr/bin/gnome-panel out of my PATH:  When my system starts up, there are no errors in any of my log files - which there had been when using GDM, or my dirty gnome-panel dconf-hack. It's perfectly clean now

i start gnome3 from the commandline using startx - it boots MUCH faster than gnome2, or gnome-shell/gnome3 defaults. I don't have to start it this way, but I prefer it.

Last edited by triplesquarednine (2011-05-07 17:32:30)

arcc

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From: ger

Registered: 2011-05-02

Posts: 47

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Clean
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/7499/20110505gnomeshellclean.png

aaah, love this wallpaper. used it for years.

amadar

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Registered: 2011-04-15

Posts: 147

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

@triplesquarednine Cool, can't wait for your guide! Are you gunna post it in the Wiki?

uh8myzen

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From: Eastern Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2011-03-21

Posts: 22

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

@triplesquarednine Does your nautilus desktop start automatically? Or do you have to start nautilus for the desktop to appear?

@uh8myzen Cool, thanks for the info... By the way, You can probably get back most of your Gnome 2 functionality using the way that triplesquarednine did (see his post above). You can disable the gnome panel, that way you can place AWN at the top of your screen like you were doing in Gnome 2, and still use/try the Gnome 3 shell (the dashboard, or whatever you'd like to call it). It's be exactly as you were in Gnome 2 except you'll have the additional Gnome Shell dashboard (that is if AWN still runs in Gnome 3). Or you can use Compiz in fallback mode. I imagine it allow you to have the exact same setup as you did before! Oh, and check out the gnome-tweak-tool for Gnome 3.

Hey thanks, I might just give that a try after I fiddle around with the basic for a while... I'm gonna try and master it before moving on.

Might as well give it a shot, eh?

triplesquarednine

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Registered: 2011-04-12

Posts: 630

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

if anyone is interested, i have fixed and also remixed the logo from Gnome-Tweak-Tool.

the original logo doesn't look good if your Gtk3 theme has a colored or dark background. i edited the original, so that the logo has an Alpha channel (transparency). then i cleaned up all of the edges... - i then decided to remix it, added color, layers, filtering, etc.  the end result is pretty cool. Both the original(cleaned up by me) and my remix (pictured below)

...are available in this thread, with instructions on how to replace it;

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118490

jordan

madek

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 98

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Re: Share your Gnome desktop

may update
gnome 3
gnome shell, gtk2, gtk3: atlom
gnome shell theme lighty modify, specially the colors and height
faenza-darkest icons

a few gnome shell estensions, as "activities icon"

trusktr

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From: .earth

Registered: 2010-02-18

Posts: 907

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Re: Share your Gnome desktop

@triplesquare Nice.

@uh8myzen Might as well.

@madek Puedes subir el CSS del estilo Gnome3 ese y postear link para bajarlo???

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madek

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 98

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Re: Share your Gnome desktop

@madek Puedes subir el CSS del estilo Gnome3 ese y postear link para bajarlo???

at your orders
http://ompldr.org/vOG5hNA/gnome-shell.css
pd1: this is the gnome shell CSS, the gtk theme is atolm without any modification

pd2: please wrote in english in the official forums, i'm speak spanish as native, but the official lang in this forum is english, in other forums, as www.archlinux-es.org, the spanish is the languaje

scenox

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Registered: 2010-07-19

Posts: 63

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Gnome3 Fallback + Compiz

swapnil360

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From: Planet Earth

Registered: 2012-09-19

Posts: 7

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Here's mine. Just installed Arch and lovin' it!

https://plus.google.com/photos/11268252 … 5307215138

rasertux

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From: Florianópolis, Brazil

Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 46

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Gnome 3 + Avant-Window-Navigator

The wallpaper is Lagoa de Genipabu - Natal RN - Brazil

Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 2,486

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Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Gnome 3 + Avant-Window-Navigator

http://ompldr.org/tZmtzaQ

The wallpaper is Lagoa de Genipabu - Natal RN - Brazil

Nice lean top panel!

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rasertux

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From: Florianópolis, Brazil

Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 46

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Thanks, i used Gnome-Tweak-Tool in "Fonts - Text Scalling Factor" and reduce to 0.8.

cjohnson

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Registered: 2012-12-09

Posts: 19

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

What program are you all running that displays the ASCII Arch Logo? One screenie said it was called archie, but it wasn't on my system and I couldn't find it on pacman.

cjohnson

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Registered: 2012-12-09

Posts: 19

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

NVM. I found it in the AUR. Too quick to post.

Ekber

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From: Germany & Turkey

Registered: 2008-10-03

Posts: 25

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Gnome 3.6

olger

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Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 13

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Swapped from XFCE to Gnome, quite happy so far. Loving how integrated extensions are.

Clean

"Busy"

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blackvd

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Registered: 2012-04-07

Posts: 5

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Gnome 3.6 / MediterraneanNight / Icons - Faience-Azur / GTK+ - MediterraneanDark / Shell - Frieze

Keep switching the background even though I'm always in full screen browser mode.

http://i.imgur.com/FMa37.jpg

deutscher83

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Registered: 2013-01-08

Posts: 1

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

GNOME 3.6 | Shell , GTK+ , Window Themes - Boje-Orange | Icons - Nitrux

http://goo.gl/luaj3

Z0K4

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From: Split, Croatia

Registered: 2011-06-14

Posts: 17

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

GNOME 3.6 | Shell , GTK+ , Window Themes - Boje-Orange | Icons - Nitrux

http://goo.gl/luaj3

I love it... It looks awesome

drenninghoff

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Registered: 2012-11-28

Posts: 34

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Gnome 3 with dash to dock extension, mac inspired . Open Sans Font!

Clean:

Dirty:

Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 2,486

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Re: Share your Gnome desktop

What's your GS theme?

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drenninghoff

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Registered: 2012-11-28

Posts: 34

Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Zukitwo: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zukitwo-themes/

Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 2,486

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Re: Share your Gnome desktop

Thanks!

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If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres

elkoraco

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Registered: 2013-02-18

Posts: 140

Re: Share your Gnome desktop