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Ubuntu 20.04 - Gnome behaving like Unity aka "Saving private screen space"
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#!/bin/bash | |
# Upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04/20.04 you quickly realize that Gnome didn't really | |
# got better for the past 10 years. Yep Gnome 3 got released in 2011. | |
# The amount of screen space wasted is so real. Multi-monitor is so bad. | |
# Install and tweak extensions to behave like Unity, which had: | |
# (1) consistent UI | |
# (2) multi-monitor management | |
# (3) stable code | |
# This should be default packages | |
sudo apt install gnome-tweaks | |
sudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions | |
# Packing web browser extensions with external APT dependencies (-_-'), required for Firefox too | |
# You will get a cryptic error otherwise: | |
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/1034688/url-extensions-gnome-org-for-managing-gnome-extensions-not-working-in-any-browse | |
xdg-open https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnome-shell-integration/ | |
sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell | |
# Saving private screen space | |
xdg-open https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1287/unite/ | |
# Multi-monitors hero | |
xdg-open https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/921/multi-monitors-add-on/ | |
# This should be default settings | |
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-apps-at-top true | |
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock multi-monitor true | |
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock isolate-monitors true |
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