What to after installing Ubuntu Gnome 17.04.
Due to a known bug with this version of network manager, Gnome can't connect to wifi networks:
sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
Append:
[device] wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
And restart:
sudo service network-manager restart
The Gnome software centre is lacking many important packages. Install the synaptic package manager instead:
sudo apt install synaptic
- chromium
- thunderbird
- libreoffice
Make sure that the Gnome shell integration plugin is enabled in Chromium.
Links
Useful extensions (see below):
- Dash to Dock
- System Monitor
Dash to Dock shows the favorite apps panel as a dockable panel.
Preferred options:
- Position and size: Intelligent autohide: on
- Appearance: opacity: on
You can access the options from the Installed extensions web page or with gnome-shell-extension-prefs.
Present the System Monitor information in the top panel.
How to install:
Download the zip file from Github and extract. In that directory:
sudo apt install build-essential gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 make install killall -3 gnome-shell # restarts gnome shell
- psensor: temperature sensors and alerts; add to startup applications and configure alerts
- clipit: clipboard manager
To prepare the box for some python and node development:
sudo apt install fish vim git python-pip python-dev build-essential python-django python-mysqldb libmysqlclient-dev virtualenvwrapper python3-dev python3-pip sudo chsh -s /usr/bin/fish sudo pip install virtualfish wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.1/install.sh | bash cd ~/.config/fish git clone git://github.com/passcod/nvm-fish-wrapper.git nvm-wrapper vi config.fish
See also more about the config file.