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What does your desktop look like? (share.jackgreenearth.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Here's mine. No inspiration at all taken from a certain California based company's OS ;p

I use:

  • Manjaro OS
  • GNOME desktop
  • WhiteSur icon theme (with a few icons changed in the desktop file)
  • WhiteSur GTK and shell theme
  • Bing wallpaper
  • net speed simplified
  • Logo Menu
  • Show Desktop
  • Top Bar Organiser (to move the time to the right)
  • Overview background

I apologise if I missed anything.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You use both light and dark mode? And what's arc menu?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, so Gnome has an extension called Night Theme Switcher which automatically changes your background, icons, theme, cursor etc. based on a user-defined day/night schedule. It works great.

Arc Menu is another extension which gives Gnome a standard start menu (since it doesn't come with one by default) in the top lefthand corner. It also comes with a KRunner-like app launcher that pops up in the middle of the screen instead of using the default Gnome Overview UI.

Both these extensions make Gnome feel a little more natural for desktop use, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

One of the great things I like about GNOME is how much you can customise it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I find this comment really funny, because while gnome is very customisable compared to the desktop environments in macos and Windows, compared to the majority of DEs/WMs in Linux, it's not very customisable at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yep Behold KDE and XFCE.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, the customization might not be as extensive as Plasma, but you can certainly add a ton of extra functionality with extensions.