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Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 20:52

How To Prevent Ubuntu Files from "Jumping Down" the Dash when Accessing Disk Partitions

Did you find Ubuntu Files (also known as Nautilus File Manager) behave inconveniently when you access a disk volume or a flash drive? Yes, when accessing volumes, Files icon is inactive in the Ubuntu Dash (left panel) even though Files window is active and then the user must move the pointer down to hard disk drive icon. To us, this behavior is confusing and forcing user to frequently make unnecessary movements up and down or even worse scrolling down on it if he/she has a lot of pinned icons for daily work. Yes, this happened to us a lot for years. Fortunately, this is just an issue of configuration and we can fix this easily by simple explanation below.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:16

Useful 10 GNOME Extensions for Ubuntu 24.04

This is once again our listing of ten useful GNOME Shell Extensions (from here will be called Extensions) for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat." We include in this listing extensions after we tested them first, among them are, Custom Command Menu and Dash To Panel, to give you a glimpse of how useful they are to our daily computing life with Ubuntu. They represent visual, productivity and repeatability improvements to your benefits. We hope this will enrich your user experience with Ubuntu a lot. Now let's start practicing!

(Ubuntu 24.04 shows Extension Manager application with Search page opens)

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 15:55

Getting Started to Use GNOME Shell Extensions on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you in a simple way how to install, remove and configure GNOME Shell Extensions (GSEs) on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". We present you here both ways of managing them by Firefox web browser as well as by Extension Manager so you can find which one easier for you. We also give you some recommended extensions such as Clipboard History below so you can practice. Now let's start reading!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, August 8, 2022 at 21:25

Useful 10 GNOME Extensions for Ubuntu 22.04

This is our recommended ten useful GNOME shell extensions for Ubuntu 22.04. It lists out just work ones of them, like, Dash to Panel, and also how to install them via the brand new application, namely, Extension Manager. Here we go.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, September 16, 2019 at 19:00

Internet Speed Indicator for GNOME 3.34

I love to know whether my internet access is being used or not on desktop so I always use speed indicator on my top panel. Usually I use NetSpeed by hedayaty but when reviewing GNOME 3.34, it failed to work, so I tested Simple net speed by bijignome and it worked. It shows both upload and download speed just like NetSpeed. I'm using it now and it's nice. If you don't know how to install it, simply follow this guide. Happy working!

This article is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, April 12, 2019 at 22:47

The Beauty of Dash to Dock Extension on GNOME 3.32

(GNOME with vertical panel on right side and in red color)

You may find many articles on the net guiding you to install Dash To Dock extension on GNOME. But there are very few ones to speak more about experimenting with it. This article explores the features of this one Extension to show you possibilities it can give to your GNOME 3 desktop environment. You can enable click to raise/minimize window, change the icon size, color the dock or make it transparent, make the dock to mimic Unity Launcher, reposition it to any edge of your screen, etc. You will find my experiments below, like, make everything looks larger to help friends with vision impairments, using GNOME 3.32 desktop on GNU/Linux. Finally, happy tweaking!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 11:39

How To Uninstall GNOME Shell Extensions

On GNOME 3.32, we cannot simply remove an Extension right from the Tweak Tool anymore. In that case, you will find some Extensions not working but you cannot uninstall them. In order to uninstall them, you can either visit E.G.O. website, or manually deleting the extensions folders.

(Tweak Tool showing list of installed Extensions on GNOME 3.32)

Instructions below showing both ways and you can follow either way you like. Happy tweaking!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 17:04

Useful Extensions for GNOME 3.32

(GNOME 3.32 "Taipei" desktop environment with Applications Menu on top and Dash to Dock on bottom and Desktop Icons in the middle of screen)

Now, after you've got GNOME 3.32, its time to hunt Shell Extensions once again. Here I present you my choices of Extensions working for the 3.32 which are useful and productive. For example, you may notice that some extension such as NetSpeed didn't work yet on the 3.32, and you will find the replacement to be Simple Net Speed here. You can use Desktop Icons and Dash to Dock to have traditional working environment, use Drop Down Terminal if you often run command at any time, and a pair of Applications Menu and Places Status Indicator to make your screen behaves like GNOME2. It's still so many Extensions available out there but I hope this simplified list works for you. Enjoy GNOME 3.32!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 23:26

Bring Back Tray Icons on GNOME 3.32

(Telegram, StarDict, Shutter, Pidgin, Transmission, and Tomboy tray icons running on GNOME 3.32 "Taipei")

Telegram Desktop, Shutter Screenshot Tool, and Tomboy Notes are examples of apps with tray icons. By default, GNOME 3.32 does not show them at its top panel system tray. This may greatly reduce your productivity. To show them once again, you can install TopIcons Plus extension and they will show. Special to Telegram, you need to install Ubuntu AppIndicator extension as well. Alternatively, if you wish you can use KStatusNotifierItem instead.

On GNOME Tweak Tool, you can configure TopIcons Plus so the group of icons show right on left side of GNOME's system tray. The formula is Tray horizontal alignment=Right and Tray offset=4 like picture below.

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Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 11:29

GNOME 3 + McMojave Theme Pack

(GNOME 3.30 customized with McMojave theme pack)

Last time I applied Mojave theme on KDE Plasma and this time I want to apply similar thing onto GNOME 3. I use Fedora 29 as the basis, however, you can do it on any other GNU/Linux distro. As the composition, I use here McMojave as both Shell and GTK3 themes, and then Mojave-CT icon theme, plus two additional GSEs namely Desktop Icons and Dash to Dock. Don't worry even if you have no experience in desktop tweaking, as I have published GNOME customization preparations article before this tutorial. Go ahead, have fun, and enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, December 17, 2018 at 20:25

Bring Back Desktop Icons on GNOME 3.30

If you use GNOME 3.30 or later, you may find that 'icons on desktop' feature does not exist anymore. You cannot add anything to your personal Desktop folder like you usually did. Fortunately, thanks to csoriano, this removed feature can be added back by installing Desktop Icons extension. You will find this extension useful if you use latest GNOME on Fedora, Arch, openSUSE, and Ubuntu if the Nautilus version is over 3.26. This article shows how it looks from openSUSE Tumbleweed GNOME. Try it and enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, August 31, 2018 at 14:35

Backup and Restore GNOME Shell Extensions

It's surprisingly easy. You just need to copy .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ folder of your $HOME directory. To restore, just paste the /extensions/ directory back. This tutorial explains with pictures how to do it. This tutorial is based on GNOME 3.28 over Ubuntu 18.04 LTS but you will find it's applicable to another GNOME systems as well. Enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 22:20

Recommended GNOME Shell Extensions for Ubuntu 18.04

Continuing tradition, here's my list of nice GNOME Shell Extensions for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. They are Extensions (handy extensions enable/disable switcher), AlternateTab (remove grouping in Alt+Tab), NetSpeed (show internet speed) Focusli (innovative focus-while-working tool), and 7 more. Happy installing and be more productive!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, March 30, 2018 at 13:48

Show Full Clock on Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04

Do you want to see clock in full with seconds and year? Do you not have it at Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04? Do you have another GNU/Linux distro (GNOME 3.26+) with same problem? What you need to do is to install Datetime Format extension and a little setting. This extension is an awesome improvement by Dan-K to control GNOME top panel's clock as you wish. The instruction do set it is explained below.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 14:36

How To Install Manually/Offline GNOME Shell Extension

You can manually (offline) install GNOME Shell Extension (GSE) without re-downloading the file every time. What you need are only 3 points: knowing the installation folder path, restarting the Shell, and enabling GSE via the Tweaks. This is very useful if you often run Ubuntu LiveCD for example so you just install the saved GSE files, or, share those GSE files to your fellow GNOME friends. Interesting, no? Now enjoy it!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 20:34

Recommended GNOME Shell Extensions for Ubuntu 17.10

This is a list of GNOME Shell Extensions (GSE) that are very useful for Ubuntu 17.10 users. Among them are NetSpeed (to show up/down speed), Dash to Panel (to combine all panels into single bottom panel), Datetime Format (to show complete day-date-clock at top panel), even EasyScreenCast (to record your desktop activity to video), and more. They are handy for many user's daily/repeating tasks, easy to install, and user-friendly to operate. Finally, I hope this recommendation article is useful for you. Enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, October 16, 2017 at 21:40

Install GNOME Shell Extensions on Ubuntu 17.10

Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" is using GNOME but we cannot install GNOME Shell Extensions (GSE) from GNOME website by default. This happens because Artful doesn't ship with special feature "to connect" between the Extensions Repo and the Desktop. This short tutorial shows you how to install that feature and then install any GSE you love as you wish. Enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 16:45

List of Productive GNOME Shell Extensions for Daily Usage

In this article I listed my favorite GNOME Shell Extensions (GSE) that I, myself, had ever used. GSE in GNOME is similar with Addons in Firefox, they add and extend desktop functionality with many features. I listed here GSE for screen recording, proxy, network indicator, and some more.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 16:40

Sticky Notes View: GNOME Shell Extension

Sticky Notes View by Dreamsorcerer is a GNOME Shell extension to place notes on your overview mode. You view/hide it by clicking its icon on the left-vertical panel.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 18:00

Appkeys: GNOME Shell Extension

Do you like the Unity Launcher's Super+<Number> shortcut key behavior? If so, then AppKeys by franziskus extension is the alternative for it in GNOME Shell. AppKeys allows you to use Super+<Number> combination to run left-vertical launcher icon in GNOME Shell. If you like that Unity behavior, then you will like this AppKeys approach in GNOME.