https://miek.nl/tags/desktop/ Recent content in Desktop on Miek Gieben Hugo en-us © Copyright 2007-2024 Miek Gieben Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:50:00 +0000 https://miek.nl/2013/june/03/make-gnome3-usable/ Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:50:00 +0000 https://miek.nl/2013/june/03/make-gnome3-usable/ <p>GNOME3 in the default install is unusable, not as bad as Unity, but bad. Luckily with some <strike>minor</strike> tweaking it can be made to work quite nicely.</p> <p>These are some assorted notes on how I got stuff working the way I like.</p> <p>From a fresh Ubuntu install, install GNOME3:</p> <pre><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment </code></pre> <p>Then:</p> <ol> <li> <p>Normal focus mode:</p> <pre><code> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode 'sloppy' gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences auto-raise false </code></pre> </li> <li> <p>Extensions:</p>