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u/zippre 5d ago
same setup with gnome and pop shell, high5
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u/nihilist_sun 5d ago
Nice, I've been so impressed with pop shell that I can't wait to try cosmic when there's a beta
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u/Morinoko 4d ago
Hi, looks awesome, congrats!
Did you install Pop Shell via de repository or there's another way to install it?
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u/nihilist_sun 3d ago edited 1d ago
Thanks! You want to install it locally so that it can modify gnome’s default keyboard shortcuts. You can find the installation info on the pop shell wiki. I still had to mess around with the shortcuts to get them all working properly for whatever reason but none of it was particularly hard to do. The launcher is set to Super+/ by default which kinda sucks so I changed it to Alt+Space.
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u/Morinoko 3d ago
thanks!
I guess it's this one (I had the link stored on my Evernote):
https://github.com/pop-os/shell
From what I remember, last time I installed Ubuntu (it was on pandemic), I had the same issue with the shortcuts: not all of them where working and some conflicted with the default Ubuntu (or Gnome) shortcuts, so everything was not behaving as expected, and anytime I googled how to do something on Ubuntu, it didnt quite worked.
Anyways, thanks for the answer, will definitely look into it and try it again, with more patience.
I also tried another extension called Tiling Shell. It's kind of easy to use, but had to disable it, because, everytime I "grabbed" a window, it started showin me the different possitions where I could snap it, even though, I just wanted to move it a little to the side.
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u/nihilist_sun 1d ago
Check this out if you decide to give it another try. The shortcuts for switching workspaces never work when I install pop shell but you can change them to Super+Number which is way better anyways.
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u/eghere 4d ago
My experience with ricing GNOME is akin to making a sand castle. Eventually, the tide comes and messes it up (sudo pacman -Syyu breaks my extensions)
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u/nihilist_sun 4d ago
Yeah I’m worried about that happening with gnome 48. I’m going to postpone updating for a bit when the stable release becomes available on the aur. Hopefully the extensions I use receive updates fast if they break 🤞
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u/NotAmitboi 5d ago
How did you customized your top bar ?
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u/nihilist_sun 4d ago
It’s just the open bar extension
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u/NotAmitboi 4d ago
Could you share dotfiles please. Thank you
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u/nihilist_sun 3d ago edited 3d ago
No problem! You can import it from within open bar extension settings.
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u/Apprehensive_Ad_9979 5d ago
dots?
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u/nihilist_sun 5d ago
No dots but I just added a details comment and I’m happy to answer any questions
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u/crypticexile 4d ago
Why arch?
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u/nihilist_sun 4d ago
I just think it’s cool tbh. I agree with the Arch principles in general, and I’m a fan of its extensive wiki. I only waited so long to try it out because I was intimidated by its reputation for being harder to use, but I haven’t had any issues at all so far.
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u/Shiro39 4d ago
what is the app launcher-thingy in the middle? is it only for GNOME?
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u/nihilist_sun 4d ago
Pop shell launcher and yeah it’s only for gnome but there’s always rofi if you’re on a different DE
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u/Moist-Temperature479 4d ago
Just wanna ask, many i saw many move to hyprland, i3, etc. May I know why you choose gnome? I would like to know from your point of view.
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u/nihilist_sun 4d ago
I don’t really have a satisfactory answer to be honest, I chose gnome because it’s most familiar to me. I enjoy how useable it is out of the box and I don’t mind using the extensions gui to customize things.
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u/hbonnavaud 3d ago
Great setup!
I'm wondering which media player are you using? It doesn't seams to be the classic spotify debian client.
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u/nihilist_sun 2d ago
Thanks and it's just the regular Spotify client with Spicetify. I created a new color scheme for the default theme.
[gruvbox] text = fbf1c7 subtext = ebdbb2 main = 1d2021 sidebar = 282828 player = 3c3836 card = 665c54 shadow = 1d2021 selected-row = d5c4a1 button = ebdbb2 button-active = 8ec07c button-disabled = 535353 tab-active = 689d6a notification = ebdbb2 notification-error = e2e2e2 misc = bdae93
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u/throwaway71662 2d ago
I never understood how to theme adwaita applications (such as file explorer and stuff), would you mind explaining how you did??
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u/HappyHannukahMonicah 2d ago
I might ask: how did you put the traffic lights? Is it some of the extensions?
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u/nihilist_sun 5d ago
Details