The first, Drop Down Terminal, enables a terminal window to drop down from the top panel by pressing a certain key the default is the key above Tab on my keyboard, that's the tilde (~) character. Drop Down Terminalįellow writer Scott Nesbitt recommended the next two extensions. The Sound Input and Output Device Chooser extension adds a list of your sound devices to the System Menu so you can quickly select which one you want to use. For example, my laptop has internal speakers and sometimes I use a wireless Bluetooth speaker. Your system may have more than one audio device for input and output. 7. Uptime Indicator shows system uptime when it's clicked, it shows the date and time the system was started.6. Load Average indicates Linux load averages taken over three time intervals.5. Harddisk LED shows a small hard drive icon with input/output (I/O) activity.The next three extensions provide basic system information to the top panel. I find that setting it to eight makes better use of my screen by eliminating the empty columns on either side of the icons when I launch the Applications view. If you're using a wide-screen display, you can use the More columns in applications menu extension to increase the columns. The Applications view is set by default to six columns of icons, probably because GNOME needs to accommodate a wide array of displays. You can also check the weather in other geographic locations using Weather's Places menu.Īpplications Menu 4. You can access local weather conditions from the top panel's drop-down menu. GNOME Weather displays the weather conditions and forecast for your current location. It shows your configured world clocks (not including your local time), so you can quickly check the time in other parts of the world. You can access the World Clocks section in the top panel's drop-down menu by clicking the system clock. For example, if you regularly work with colleagues in another time zone, you can set up a clock for their location. You can configure clocks for different geographic locations. GNOME Clocks is an application that includes a world clock, alarm, stopwatch, and timer. Now that you know how to add and enable extensions, here are some good ones to try. Use the Extension Settings button to enable, disable, or configure the extensions you have installed. You have to press to return from the menu instead of hitting again.View of extensions available in the package manager Add-ons section. The icon for Brisk menu has to be copied as start-here-symbolic in /usr/share/icons//places/symbolic This may be neccesary for different sizes: /usr/share/icons//places/ If you want to use a custom icon you have to copy the chosen icon into the theme's folder as start-here. The displayed icon is determined by the used theme. You can enable the dark theme mode or remove the label text. Use dconf-editor to change property settings under -menu. The Brisk menu is not installed by default. By default this menu is activated by pressing the key so this may be the choice of a GNOME Shell user. This menu originated in the Solus project provides an additional search bar. Main Menu:Ĭondensed classic menu with only the distribution logo (provided by the theme) visible. The classic GNOME 2-like applications menu split into "Applications", "Places" and "System" submenus. You can choose between different menu variations: Menu Bar:
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