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#gnome #linux #desktop
00:00 Intro
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01:54 Extensions and GNOME Tweaks
04:35 Advanced Power Options
06:08 Making the File manager a LOT more powerful
06:19 Hidden Files, and typing in the pathbar
06:59 Change the default compressed folder format
07:28 Get some file templates to create new documents faster
08:16 Manipulate images from the right click menu
08:50 Get Nextcloud or OwnCloud options in the right click menu
09:20 Access your recent folders from your Nautilus tab
09:31 Use custom folder icons
09:59 Get quick file previews by pressing spacebar
10:38 Various cool tips and tweaks for GNOME
10:45 Change how much you increase or decrease the volume by
11:19 Restore "classic" scrollbars that are always visible
11:44 Use a solid color or a gradient as a wallpaper
12:37 Get larger resize handles for your windows
13:03 Get a permanent "Log out" option in the menu
13:36 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
13:41 Alt+F2 to run quick commands
13:55 ' + Tab to switch between windows of the same app
14:13 Take screenshots or screen recordings faster
14:49 Quickly Shut down your computer
14:57 Open the apps grid and set up your workspaces super fast
15:19 Open the Notifications panel and use it with the keyboard
15:31 Add a Show Desktop shortcut
15:52 Easily resize windows from anywhere
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Advanced power settings: org - GNOME - settings-daemon - Plugins - power in dconf-editor.
Nautilus
Control + H: displays hidden files and folders
Control + L: lets you type in the path bar
ORG, GNOME, NAUTILUS, PREFERENCES, check "always use location entry" to make that permanent.
You can also decide to change the format to compress files: ORG, GNOME, NAUTILUS, COMPRESSION.
In your /home folder, you have a Templates folder. Everything you put in there will show up in a right click, new Document menu.
Install from the package nautilus-image-converter, and then completely quit nautilus by typing nautilus-q in a terminal, to get right click options to resize or rotate images.
If you use nextcloud, install the nextcloud-client-nautilus package, restart Nautilus.
If you need to quickly access your recent locations, right click the back or forward button.
If you want to change a specific folder's icon, right click the folder, hit properties, click on the folder's icon, and fetch the image you want to use.
You can also install gnome-sushi to get a "press spacebar to preview file" utility, like macOS quicklook
If you want to adjust your volume by smaller, or bigger steps, head over to ORG GNOME SETTINGS DAEMON PLUGINS MEDIA KEYS, you can find an option named "volume-step".
To disable overlay scrollbars, head over to ORG GNOME DESKTOP INTERFACE and disable overlay-scrolling.
If you don't like having an image as your wallpaper, and prefer a color or a gradient, you can go to ORG GNOME DESKTOP BACKGROUND, and set picture-uri to none
Then in the same folder, in primary-color, enter the hexadecimal value for your color.
And if you want a gradient, also set the secondary color to the one you want, and enable the color shading type horizontal or vertical option.
You can expand the resizeable handle size, by going to ORG GNOME MUTTER, and changing the draggable border width value.
You can have the option to logout always visible by going to ORG GNOME SHELL, and turning on always-show-log-out
Alt + F2: pressing this allows you to run a quick command.
Alt + the key immediately above tab: switch between windows of the same app
ALT + printscreen: capture the current focused window
SHIFT + printscreen captures the whole screen.
Control + alt + shift + r: open this interface in video recording mode.
Control + Alt + delete: open the power off dialog
Super x2 : open the apps grid
Super +ToM: open the notifications panel
Super + middle mouse button: resize a window

[@TheLinuxEXP]

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[@JoaoAntonio-dt3rl]

One of the simplest things that people doesn't seem to know about gnome is that you can hold Ctrl to open multiple instances of the same app or various apps without closing the overview.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah, that's also super useful!!

[@dhunter383]

Or, better yet, just install / activate the "Launch new instance" extension to make launching a new instance the default behavior - particularly useful for those of us who mostly launch applications via keyboard via Super and starting typing. :)

[@m0r73n]

Middle mouse button does this as well.

[@JoaoAntonio-dt3rl]

@@m0r73n yes! I forgot about it since I am always using a trackpad and Ctrl feels more logical than the three finger tap middle click emulation.

[@SteveMacSticky]

I didn't know that

[@Uchiha_Madara1224]

Hey Nick you forget to mention these - 1. Super + Mouse Scroll Up/Down OR Super+Alt+Left/Right Arrow Key to switch workspace 2. Super+Alt+Shift+Left/Right Arrow Key to move current active application to other workspace 3. Scrolling mouse wheel over the quick setting to increase/decrease volume without opening the quick setting panel

[@Christmaswreath]

That last one is amazing tho

[@abahatar]

Maybe, now that you talk about dconf, you could use the instruction "dconf reset -f / " to reset all the configurations and customations to defaults. Nice video by the way

[@cluesagi]

Here's another one: the first 9 items in your dock are hotkeyed to Super + 1~9. So if Firefox is the first thing in your dock, Super + 1 to open.

[@linus.]

Finer volume control also works by holding down SHIFT + pressing media keys.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Oh cool!!

[@lukasbandarra]

duuuuuude!

[@markwootton7414]

Thank you! I've been wanting to do that for ages. You've just save me a trip into dconf.

[@Crackalacking_Z]

I'd also advise people to check out the default keyboard shortcuts (Settings / Keyboard), a lot of functionality baked into GNOME is hidden there.

[@tomsmansvards]

My favorite secret combination is "ctrl + s" in Nautilus - it allows to select, for example, all files in a folder with certain name/type (e.g. "*.odt" will select all odt documents in the folder). And thanks for these tips - the resizing with super + middle mouse button left my mouth open because I had no idea... :O

[@Beryesa.]

You can also change it to super + rmb in Gnome tweaks, a little more comfortable to use

[@jpmyers6950]

After years of distro hopping I use Fedora with Gnome. I have not used these tweek apps and look forward to it. This video is like Christmas morning, I'll be watching it a few more times. Thanks Nick.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Glad it helps 😁

[@SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

I am still sort of distro hopping, but I think I have found my distributions in either Fedora (Red Hat/Yellow Dog based) or Manjaro (Arch based), and while I like KDE Plasma a lot, especially for Konqi and Katie, I ultimately prefer and use GNOME as my desktop environment.

[@thejoneseys]

I've been using gnome for years and even I didn't know about some of these 😁 Thanks for sharing these gems 👍🏻

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Awesome!

[@ZEMRALEX]

I found extention "Just Perfection", you can change animation speed, icons sizes in alt tab, and more gnome settings, that are not available in gnome-tweaks

[@fd8373]

Man I love your videos, you are part of the reason I switched to Linux

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks a lot 😁 Glad I could help!

[@RipCityBassWorks]

Gnome has been pretty refined in recent years. The only extension I use at this point is Dash to Panel as I started with Windows and could never get used to the default Gnome layout.

[@moumnalmunawy1806]

We need one for KDE too

[@TheLinuxEXP]

It's planned !

[@overlordmarkus]

@@TheLinuxEXP 5 hour video on basic KDE customization incoming.

[@vaisakhkm783]

@@overlordmarkus are you kidding me? i will not be amazed even if it is more than 50 hours

[@RodrigoDAgostino]

Your content is getting better and better! You definitely did the right thing by choosing this as your full-time job :) Keep up the good work, mate!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thank you 😊

[@jasonblankenship4418]

Did you refer to Nick as “Mate” in a video about Gnome ?

[@RodrigoDAgostino]

@@jasonblankenship4418 that was a good attempt, but MATE distributions do make use of GNOME, so everything would be in line ;P

[@genblob]

Without a doubt one of the most useful gnome videos on youtube. I wish I knew about same app alt-tabbing sooner. Also you shedding light on dconf should defiantly put the gnome isn't customizable myth to rest.

[@fjadron]

Nice video . A cool trick that no one know is the middle mousebutton copy just mark any text and midle click where u want it pasted ,its wery good trick for all the text guides copy pasting commands

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah, I use that one all the time, it's so useful!!

[@TazerXI]

One thing I will say about the extensions app: When you search for extensions, you are likely to see two options. 'extensions' and 'extensions manager'. You want manager, as that gives you the ability to add extensions inside the app. Iirc, manager has a blue icon, whereas just extensions has a green one. Also idk if this is a me bug, but it didn't add an icon to the app menu, and I had to run it using the "flatpak run" command in the terminal. I couldn't seem to add the .desktop file either so idk

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah, extension manager is much better!

[@TazerXI]

@@TheLinuxEXP Yea, they are the same thing, just one gives you the ability to add extensions in the app over just managing it. Also GNOME tweaks really should be in the mains settings. Why do I need this other app to show maximise/minimise, or open windows centred (the only way to open new windows).

[@darsparx]

I wish they'd just combine extensions with Mgr. It should just be the standard since it's much better than the vanilla extensions app. Heck I wish there was a theme manager integrated in tweaks Ala what KDE does so you don't have to dig forever to find the perfect theme. (and as a extension of libadwaita stop breaking themes and plug-ins)

[@TazerXI]

@@darsparx extensions manager basically is the combined one. Which does make me wonder why "extensions" still exists As for the tweaks thing, having a theme store in tweaks may not work with the changes to libadwaita.

[@darsparx]

@@TazerXI still.... It's dumb they make it so hard to change things or have so many different apps for the same thing XD

[@murovideo530]

I've been using GNOME for a year now and I never knew about the Templates folder lol. It always bugged me how I couldn't easily create a simple txt file by just right clicking inside Nautilus so thank you for this video!

[@kingb2k00]

Switched from Windows 10 to Fedora last week thanks to you. My HP 250 G5 couldn't handle Windows anymore and watching a few of your videos just made me realise that, I can still put my 7yr old Celeron laptop to good use by installing Linux on it. I really love Gnome and all I can say is, Windows can go to hell... Fedora is snappy and loads within 30 seconds of powering up unlike Windows, the software store is really great, the terminal commands aren't that difficult to learn and the customisability is just mind blowing. My only issues is my speakers are very faint and for some reason the screen recording function is not showing up for me and the ctrl+alt+shift-R shortcut is also not working. Idk maybe I should reinstall it or something. Thanks Nick for your videos, it really helps me a lot.

[@mechaform]

This is an incredibly useful collection of Gnome tips. Thanks.

[@akatsukilevi]

Add the system monitor as a shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+Esc. It's a really darn lifesaver Also not sure if it's default or I added and forgot it, but Shift+F12 brings up a new terminal instance, really helpful if you do a lot of coding

[@paulg3336]

You must have added it , it doesn't work for me. However, you can use Ctrl + Alt + T to open as many terminal instances as you want , in Gnome (Ubuntu)

[@Sjoerd1993]

@@paulg3336 Ctrl Alt T is not a standard Gnome shortcut, I always add it myself with Fedora. I guess Ubuntu adds it by default.

[@radieschen79]

Yeaph, I added system monitor to cntrl+alt+x, its like good old task manager in windows.

[@akatsukilevi]

@@paulg3336 Yeah, I'm on Fedora so must have added and forgot Useful nonetheless!

[@paulg3336]

@@Sjoerd1993 Yes , it has always been the shortcut for terminal in Ubuntu as well as the flavours

[@BUDA20]

Dock to Panel + Arc Menu + Tray icons

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Nice combo!

[@voodooyam]

I dont use gnome but you Nick are now like a gnome ninja!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Hahah yeah, I've learned a lot!

[@ShinyEmeraldGames]

This video is so useful. After having used Mac for many years and I always missed the option to quickly view a file by hitting the space bar. I recently switched from Manjaro to Fedora and I was really surprised that gnome-sushi is installed on Fedora by default. Thanks for showcasing that, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed :-)

[@itayvandel]

You have just changed my life with nautilus-image-converter. Thank you!

[@Aemulatius]

Super+T=open terminal Super+B=open browser Super+F=open filemanager Super+E=open emailclient Super+Q=close window Super+H=hide/restore window Shift+ Super+left/right=move window to left/right monitor Ctrl+ Super+left/right=move window to left/right desktop Super+up=toggle fullscreen mode (hides topbar) Super+left/right=go to desktop on left/right Alt+tab=switch between apps on current desktop Super+tab=switch between apps on all desktops Alt+’=switch between windows of same app Custom: Super+pgup=volume up Super+pgdown=volume down Super+F1=pause/play Super+F2=previous track Super+F3=next track Screenlock=mute Super+C=copy Super+X=paste Super+W=close tab Super+delete=xkill Super+L=lockscreen Ctrl+Super+delete=shutdown

[@aheendwhz1]

Maybe Ubuntu changed this, but super+left/right tiles windows on Ubuntu. What shortcuts tile windows on vanilla Gnome?

[@Ironpants57]

@@aheendwhz1 Fedora is pretty much vanilla, so try it out in a Virtual Machine. You'll figure out things faster that way instead of waiting for a youtube response.

[@Ironpants57]

Most of these keybinds are distro controlled. Not including the "Custom". However, they're really cool keybinds to think about.

[@frittex]

glad to see so many of these "hidden" settings be built into the gui now. gnome is slowly but surely upgrading their customisation system

[@Jacksaur_]

I'd love a video like this for KDE Plasma too, if possible! The problem with being so powerful and offering so many features and tweaks to users, is that it means things can easily be buried or forgotten about. I had no idea it had Samba share options built into the File browser properties until they mentioned fixing it in the last progress report! But there's also so many other useful things, like the .hidden file, hovering over Hex codes in Konsole will show a preview of the colour, Alt+Click creates multiple cursors in Kate/KWrite, the bredth of tools and useful scripts in the KWin Scripts section, the ability to set a different profile for Dolphin's Built-In Terminal, or the fact that Dolphin's top bar is entirely customizable. You can drag and drop any of its components on or off, including adding a Refresh button if you want (That one's for you, Linus!).

[@Masqueey]

I knew about dconf, but super + drag to drag the current window blew my mind 🤯

[@TheLinuxEXP]

It's so useful!!

[@davidhusicka8440]

I've been using this so much since I switched to Linux. It's such a pain that Windows doesn't have it wherever I have to use it.

[@ravener83]

Wow that templates folder is amazing, I currently use MATE and I also had a Templates folder and had absolutely no idea what it was there for, that's super useful to know.

[@Cobinja]

DConf is actually just the backend that is used for GSettings. Developers can also use their own backend, e.g. one using json for storage

[@monkeyofwar6818]

This is the best video I've seen on this channel. You clearly thought about the newbies/windows ppl who convert to GNOME. Good job and keep it up my frenchie friend.

[@wclifton968gameplaystutorials]

Might be worth adding that the dconf editor comes preinstalled on Elementary OS from my memory...

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Oh that's cool as well!

[@lesboy]

your videos are always really nice to throw on in the background while I do other things. great stuff man :)

[@kevingary7018]

I never knew GNOME Files, formerly known as Nautilus, was so versatile. The gnome extension Forge allows you to tile two apps side by side on your monitor, so you can work simultaneously without excessive mouse clicking to see the apps you are working from.

[@martingeue4586]

Im new to Linux and you are helping me really much! Great videos! Always great.

[@JahidulIslam]

1. Type admin:// on nautilus location bar and you are prompt with a root password to open nautilus as root. 2. You can directly go to locations using admin:///your-location. 3. Ctrl+shift+I for invert selection. 4. Also check create link option from preference.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

All great tips, thanks!

[@xucongzhan9151]

Great vid with a lot of very useful tips! 👏 I've been using Gnome since 3.22 (that comes with Fedora 25) and would consider myself a semi-guru, yet this vid offers a couple of tricks that I wasn't aware of. Thanks!

[@kuhluhOG]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="315">5:15</a> 1. The easy(-ish) navigation is because of dconf-editor, not because of dconf itself. Write another frontend for the Windows Registry (although I am not sure if you can do that easily) and you get the same thing. 2. The main pain point of the Windows Registry is that's a binary database which gets used for system configuration which breaks itself surprisingly often. While I am not sure about the last part, the rest still applies to dconf. And while trying to test something for 3, it seems like dconf database breaking is way more common than I would have though. 3. The Windows Registry gets often used by programs as a general-purpose database, which is slow and even one main cause for its breakages. So, while writing this comment, I tested if you can do the same by saving a picture in dconf and reading it out again (and saving it as a file). It worked (I used C for this).

[@KuruGDI]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="317">5:17</a> Boy that ways close. I almost grabbed my Arch branded pitchfork and would have suggested that you rename the channel to _The Windows Experiment_ 😂 At that point I would have recommended to dress up as devil when you advocate for non-free software - just as Richard Stallman suggested 😂

[@RandyHanley]

This video deserves so many more views! Great work!

[@silas184]

Super,super useful, changing the size of my scrollbar on this dell laptop in dconf editor transforms my user experience!! Well done Nick, never seen this sort of info anywhere else!!

[@nIcOlICK]

I am glad that on KDE Plasma, to change settings where the equivalent in Gnome needs an extra app (extension, tweaks, dconf), I can just use the settings app.

[@MyReviews_karkan]

But "gnome is more stable than plasma. Plasma is full of bugs". Keep adding extensions (because gnome is bare-bones out of the box ), then things will start breaking

[@innerpeace4975]

Very informative video. Thank you Nick!

[@radekcrlik5060]

Oh, I've always knew I have some Templates directory in my home but never really had a clue what is it for! Thanks for the tip. It even works in Nemo file manager.

[@goddrago]

You dont believe how much you will help me with all this tips! Thank you! Now I love Linux even more!

[@akPasta]

Thank you so much for this video and your work in general. Wish there had been such content some years ago when I started with Linux

[@wileysneak]

No views?? this is an outrage!

[@ilyayy]

Extremely insightful, thanks a lot! 🙌

[@luckyowl10]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="704">11:44</a> damn, had no idea you can do gradient from dconf in Gnome, really love gradient backgrounds

[@uzairhaider1016]

you really showed some options I never knew.. Thanks 👍

[@mister_aanderson]

Awesome video, super helpful!

[@Autotrope]

Pretty cool, thanks! One of your videos about how to use dash to panel and dash to dock is what convinced me to try moving to gnome from xfce for a long time. I gotta say it looks polished so far.

[@nikodunk]

Great video. I've been a gnome user for years and didn't know about half of these. Thank you!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

You're welcome! Glad it helped!

[@paulg3336]

It's always good to tweak your gnome (make sure he is not carrying any weapons first) <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="553">9:13</a> it works for Mega too

[@Scout339th]

Eagerly braiding something like this for KDE!! This was a great video!

[@cjuk81]

Awesome Vid, i really like Gnome and ive even learnt plenty from this video, keep up the good work! :)

Man. Great content. Thanks a lot. It's very helpful 👍🏼

[@pebh]

Great video! Thank you!

[@papanito4802]

I don't see the mention of nautilus scripts, which allows you to extend the file manager functionality.

[@rasaskitchen]

Very useful video, didn't know about Extension Manager. More videos like these would be appreciated.

[@thedeemon]

Thank you! I learned a couple of very handy tricks I didn't know.

[@FengLengshun]

Yeah, Gnome's pretty customizeable. Small customization with extensions is super easy, and it has a lot of tweaks that you can do. The problem is that they are not very accessible and often breaks between updates. Like, some of the things that's confusing to a newcomer, such as minimize/maximize button, really could have been exposed in the Settings menu. A lot of the stuff in Dconf editor and gnome-tweaks really could be, and I'm glad that some seems to be getting integrated -- there really should just be an Advanced tab in Settings to expose the tweaks a la KDE systemsettings. That said, the last time I dealt with a Gnome update, it was annoying waiting for the extensions to update (plus there's always some that doesn't). Gnome is such a weird dichotomy of having great customizability and fighting against its own customizability, it's like the ultimate Tsundere Desktop Environment -- I can practically hear the "I-it's not like I want you to theme and customize me or something, baka!"

[@xucongzhan9151]

@Xspire Yeah and it works out pretty well with both hands on the keyboard, focusing on keyboard-driven tasks, like coding or writing scripts. However, it's much less ideal and less productive when you introduce a mouse. My point is you don't *need* to sacrifice another workflow type to justify the one you promote. They can co-exist in harmony with little effort. I feel like Gnome's deliberately making the other type harder, and that's completely unnecessary IMHO.

[@FengLengshun]

@Xspire It's a decent idea, but just like you do not set "Open With Single Click" by default, you want to have people gradually learn it and allow people to adapt it to their particular workflow. For example, for me, I'm the type that sometimes have to urgently do stuff, and so I appreciate that on KDE I could tailor it to my habit when I have to rush stuff out. It's a lot of the papercuts that prevented me from staying with Gnome, and then adapting Gnome's intended workflow for me on KDE where I can tailor it to be _just right_ , ironically enough.

[@rusty9060]

Imo, KDE's extensions are weaker since they dont follow a common design

[@FengLengshun]

@@rusty9060 They also don't break every other versions or require you waiting at least month to make sure everything's updated (if they're updated). Also, you need less of them to tailor the experience to what you want -- see how much Feren OS manage to accomplish with very little.

[@experimental0000]

That was a damn good gollum impression

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Hahaha it's the only one I know how to do 😅

[@illya3859]

My favourite extension is pop shell, it brings tiling to gnome and not having to drag windows around really is such an improvement.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

It's really good!

[@anon_y_mousse]

Can you assign a shortcut key for that?

[@IMaiaPT]

@@anon_y_mousse yes

[@aliexmuzkillme]

They should add the option for dash to be always visible and resized.

[@dsouzadrian]

Awesome Video, keep learning something new about Gnome everyday. I'm curious to how you got separators in Nautilus, have been looking for a way to do this but all I found was to add a bookmark and rename it with a bunch of dashes. Your's looked really sleek.

[@FLABrowncoat]

As someone new to Linux and GNOME, thank you for this!

[@user-go1oe4xn3r]

Awesome! Thank you

[@sprtwlf9314]

So much great info!

[@adnanalam6201]

Okay nick You're gonna make us love gnome

[@Chris.Wiley.]

Thanks very much Nick! Awesome video - I didn't know about the dconf editor. 🙂

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Its super powerful!

[@sajidifti]

I like some stuffs of Gnome and some stuffs of KDE Plasma. I never been fully satisfied by either. I think I need Knome. 🤣

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Hahah yeah, the best of both worlds!

[@examancer]

I've been using gnome for years and this video blew my mind more than once. Thanks.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Glad you liked it!

[@radieschen79]

@@TheLinuxEXP Same for me, never heard of dconf before! This video really was one of the most helpful I've watched in months! Thanks so much for it!

[@theodoros_1234]

I just switched to GNOME to give it a shot again after being on KDE for a couple years. This video came out at just the right time. Thanks, Nick!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

You're welcome!

[@joaomachado9105]

that templates tip made my day xD

[@WaterShowsProd]

Been hemming and hawing about whether to switch to Linux after having been a Mac user since the late 1990s. I've learnt a lot from your videos, but always seem to come away with conflicting thoughts about which desktop and distro would be best for me. This video shows that Gnome seems to be able to provide the control and felixibility that earlier versions of Mac OS X used to offer, and beyond. This felt like a return to what personal computing was supposed to be like.

[@darXcore]

Some pretty nice tips, thanks.

[@AnanthaBharathanKurup]

Great tips, Thank you..

[@patrikeriksson8410]

Wow, this video makes me super-happy to be a Gnome user 👍👍 Awesome video!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks!

[@reichenwald-gm4qd]

Great Video

[@vaitomanocularrypage]

Hey! That's a really good video. I am using Fedora 35 for a long time and you got very good new settings for me here. Thanx!!

[@stevewillard8212]

Thanks!

[@nootums]

Gnome shushi's feature is baked into vanilla nautilus now.

[@Alex-bu9pl]

This is a game changer make no mistake. Thanks Nick!

[@hanibachi3719]

Great video

[@TerryLawrence001]

I have been using Linux off and on for 20 years and you have made my decision to make Linux my daily driver much more tangible. Thanks for the work you do! Te only reason I keep a windows machine is for my VR. I am a bit apprehensive to mess with Oculus Rift on Linux.

[@piyush2202]

I'm using Fedora on my laptop and realized the gestures (in Wayland) could use some improvements. There's an extension called Gesture Improvements which gives you additional gestures and makes the existing ones more useful. It also works for X11 users, but you have to install a daemon which is provided on the extension page which gives you 1 to 1 gesture mapping in X11. This is especially useful for Pop OS users which (in my opinion) does not implement gestures very well and defaults to X11.

[@ahoneybunn]

We've added more support for gestures in X11 and there will be 1 to 1 soon.

[@piyush2202]

@@ahoneybunn Oh wow, the architect himself! I'm a big fan of the work you guys are doing, but I've moved away from Ubuntu based operating systems recently.

[@trya2l]

100% worth video !

[@kennethrocheldecamargo]

Merci pour tes vidéos, ils sont très informatives et intéressants.

[@therealice]

Used fedora for a few years now. A lot here I never knew about. Like the typable navigation bar, always wanted it. Thanks!

[@plexyx8399]

I don't even use gnome because I don't like how extensions break with updates and how there aren't enough options but these videos are still entertaining to watch

[@zipfallen]

Pretty useful, thanks for the video!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@pierre-alexandrebleau8749]

Great video! How do you backup these tweaks in case you have to reinstall your OS?

[@tobfos]

Thanks for this video! I was going to not click on this because I thought you would only be talking about crappy, buggy extensions. Instead I find so many things I'd never seen before in this video!

[@sagmilling]

Best keyboard shortcut: In Nautilus, Alt-(up arrow) moves you to the parent folder of the folder you were viewing. Best extension: Places. Puts a drop-down launcher on the top bar that looks like a left-pane of Nautilus. Best Linux thing I taunt Windows users with: Compose key for making accented and maths characters.

[@tmaes100]

There are 2 reasons I switched to Nautilus: - the ability to search in a folder by simply typing the first letters of what I'm looking for (rare behaviour for linux file managers) - the image converter/resizer witch should be there by default I didn't know about sushi, it is perfect and fills the lack of a simple media browser in linux, now I have 3 reasons. Bref thank you vert much!

[@Chertograad]

Out of curiosity, which file browser did you use before Nautilus then?

[@tmaes100]

@@Chertograad just before, it was caja because I was in Mate (thats where I discovered the abilities of nautilus based file managers) before it, I liked PCManFM.

[@proctoscopefilms]

Legendary !