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Some very useful Gnome 3 tips for Linux users.

  1. Use the Gnome favorites bar
  2. Use a blue light filter for Gnome
  3. Set GTK 3.0 theme with command line

Gnome 3 context menu.
Gnome 3 context menu.

Use the Gnome favorites bar

To add applications to the favorites bar on the left of the screen in Gnome 3, just right click on any application icon in the applications menu and select add to favorites. Then the program will be easily accessible in the future. I am not sure if this works in the Unity desktop, I have been able to just drag and drop icons to the left side iconbar in Unity, so that is even easier than this tip. But this was a good find anyway, I am really starting to like Gnome 3, I just wish the sidebar behaved more like Unity, although the Gnome 3 alternative is out of your way and if you shrink the fonts slightly, then it makes the top bar slimmer and gives you a little more desktop real estate.

To remove an application from the sidebar, just right-click it and remove it from favorites.

I am using the Gnome 3 desktop on Fedora Core 15, the Ubuntu Unity desktop is similar to this in most respects and as I have said over and over again it is a step away from the older Gnome 2 desktop environment.

Use a blue light filter for Gnome

Use the night-light option in the Gnome Settings dialog to enable a warmer screen at night, this will help prevent sleeplessness due to the blue light emitted from your screen.

Gnome 3 Night Light option for better sleep.
Gnome 3 Night Light option for better sleep.

Just turn the option on and then set schedule for the warmer screen colors.

How to get a panel on both monitors with Gnome Shell 3.6.
https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/how-to-get-a-panel-on-both-monitors-with-gnome-shell-3-6/.

Set GTK 3.0 theme with command line

To set the desktop theme with the command line, use gsettings.

4.4 Thu Oct 10 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme Human

This will set the GTK theme to the Ubuntu Human theme. This is a nice and fast way to set a new GTK theme for Gnome Shell.

Set the Gnome Shell icon theme the same way, this works perfectly in current Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 18.04.

4.4 Thu Oct 10 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme Human

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