Showing posts with label shell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shell. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
How To Get Chrome To Support Installing GNOME Shell Extensions From The GNOME Extensions Repository
How To Get Chrome To Support Installing GNOME Shell Extensions From The GNOME Extensions Repository
[Quick tip for GNOME Shell users] By default, users are able to install GNOME Shell extensions from extensions.gnome.org only by using Firefox or Epiphany (Web) browsers.
Until GNOME Software will be able to install and update GNOME Shell extensions, Google Chrome / Chromium users are a bit left out, at least as far as the default experience goes.
However, there is an easy way of installing GNOME Shell extensions using Chrome: with the help of a Chrome extension and a native connector that provides integration with GNOME Shell and its extensions repository, extensions.gnome.org.
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| extensions.gnome.org integration for Google Chrome |
For Ubuntu, this Chrome integration for GNOME Shell is available in a PPA, as a package called "chrome-gnome-shell", which includes the native GS-Chrome connector. The browser extension should be installed automatically upon installing this package and running Google Chrome / Chromium.
In my test, using the "chrome-gnome-shell" package brought support for installing extensions from extensions.gnome.org (and accessing their preferences), not only to Google Chrome and Chromium, but also to Vivaldi browser. Unfortunately, I it doesnt seem to work with Opera.
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| extensions.gnome.org Chrome integration also works with Vivaldi |
The "GNOME Shell integration for Chrome" Ubuntu PPA is only available for Ubuntu 14.04. Add the PPA and install it using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ne0sight/chrome-gnome-shell
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shellFor Ubuntu (GNOME) versions newer than 14.04, you can download the deb from HERE and install it manually. I tested it under Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 (with GNOME Shell 3.18) and I didnt encounter any issues. The package might also work in Debian, but I didnt test it.
Once installed, restart Chromium / Google Chrome and you should be able to install extensions from https://extensions.gnome.org (just like with Firefox and Epiphany, you need to use GNOME Shell to be able to install extensions).
For other Linux distributions, check out the GNOME Shell integration for Chrome wiki installation page.
Available link for download
Friday, April 7, 2017
How To Easily Create AppFolders In GNOME Shell Using GNOME AppFolders Manager Or GNOME Software
How To Easily Create AppFolders In GNOME Shell Using GNOME AppFolders Manager Or GNOME Software
By default, the GNOME (Shell) overview displays applications in two views: "all", where all the applications are listed in alphabetic order, and "frequent", in which the frequently used applications are displayed.
GNOME Shell supports grouping applications in app folders, and there are two such predefined folders, "Utilities" and "Sundry". Some might not know how to create custom app folders, so here are two ways of achieving this.
Create and edit GNOME Shell app folders with GNOME AppFolders Manager
GNOME AppFolders Manager is a tool to create and edit app folders in GNOME Shell.
The application is fairly easy to use - in the left section, you can create, delete or edit app folders, while in the right section you can add (or remove) applications to app folders.
Once youve added the applications you want to an app folder, click the save button. Thats it! Heres a custom GNOME application folder I created using GNOME AppFolders Manager:
To install GNOME AppFolders Manager in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04, 15.10 or 15.04 (the app requires GNOME 3.12+, while Ubuntu 14.04 uses GNOME 3.10), you can use the main WebUpd8 PPA. Add the PPA and install the app using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-appfolders-managerArch Linux users can install GNOME AppFolders Manager via AUR.
For other Linux distributions, see the application installation page.
Report any bugs you may find @ GitHub.
Add applications to app folders using GNOME Software
Note that in my test, the instructions below did not work in Ubuntu 16.04 with GNOME 3.18 and GNOME Software 3.20 (no error was displayed, the appfolder simply wasnt created). It didnt work in Fedora 24 with GNOME 3.20 either, but it did work in Fedora 22 with GNOME 3.16.
Also, GNOME Software is not available in the official repositories for Ubuntu versions older than 16.04. So for Ubuntu and for GNOME versions in which this functionality is broken, use GNOME AppFolders Manager.
Also, GNOME Software is not available in the official repositories for Ubuntu versions older than 16.04. So for Ubuntu and for GNOME versions in which this functionality is broken, use GNOME AppFolders Manager.
If youre using GNOME Software, you can easily add applications to app folders and create new app folders. To do this, launch GNOME Software, switch to the "Installed" tab and click the select button (top right):
Then, select the applications you want to add to a folder and click "Add to Folder":
And finally, simply select the app folder you want to add the applications to, or click "+" to add a new app folder, and click "Add":
In the same way, you can also remove or move applications from app folders.
Heres the result:
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