I installed Bazzite on my “gaming laptop” yesterday and opted for the GNOME variant. I was wondering if any seasoned GNOMErs have any advice for using it.
A problem that I have is that GNOME doesn’t tell me how many and which windows are open. The indicators for open windows are on the dock at the bottom and the dock is only visible if I press the Mod key which shows the activities overview. Any tips for making the state of windows more apparent?
There are for sure extensions for your need, just look trough the shitty extentions webpage.
Dash-to-Dock is probably the best solution for this
I am liking the look of dash to panel a lot more but I will try both.
I use dash to panel. I do recommend it.
actually I didn’t mention it only because I wasn’t sure it had the same indicators.
swipe up with 3 fingers on the touchpad
arcmenu offers a lot of customization for the start menu. you get many different presets and then can further customize the presets.
but my gnome is already heavily customized by zorin out of the box
Go easy on gnome extentions they sometimes slow down performance and do weird visual bugs
Yeah I’m not gonna install many.
I had to enhance my experience with extensions. And I usually delay updates because the extensions I use haven’t even been updated yet.
There are times I take matter into my own hands and fork some of the extensions I use.
But developing and debugging extensions suck because GJS and LookingGlass (DevTool analogue) can’t even keep resources from being nullified between prompts. My guess is that since GJS was programmed in C, they can’t afford to do proper Garbage Collection.
So my advice? Just pick something else.
Just pick something else.
I’m not too keen on this. Over the last three months or so I have been mulling over the window management situation because I have been feeling dissatisfied by the current setup. I like Niri a lot. It works great with both mouse and keyboard. I have grown to really dislike the stacking window management of both GNOME and KDE. Unfortunately, setting up something like Niri absolutely sucks even with something like DMS or Noctalia. Like no one knows how to consistently theme gtk and qt apps. But GNOME and KDE take care of that and much more which is more improtant to me. I don’t have that many windows open at any point so the pain of stacking window management is not a big deal.
Things are looking a lot more normal now. I will keep experimenting further.
For some reason mpv looks like this when maximised and it’s great. Doesn’t distract from the movie and you can still see the time and such. Of course the top bar disappears if you go fullscreen.
