I have been using Portmaster (Win10) for a while now after seeing it here. I love it. I feel I can keep a better eye on naughty software's network activities now.
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.
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. :)
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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)
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!
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.
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 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).
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)
@@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.
5:15 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).
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
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.
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 :-)
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!!
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.
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!).
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 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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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!"
@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.
@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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I do not understand why in Nautilus path does not work like in other file managers... so when I click on a block in the path, it moves me there, but when I click in an empty place it just allows me to edit, path. Hope this will work that way.
5:17 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 😂
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.
are there mouse shortcuts like super+left click or middle click for stuff like pinning apps to be always on top or changing the window transparency? that's some very useful stuff i use a lot in other DEs and windows through altsnap. Having a semitransparent always-on-top window is very useful when i need to work one window and read from another at the same time don't want to/can't use tiling
I used Gnome with extensions a few years ago. A Gnome update came through and many of the extensions stopped working. I launched into a completely blank desktop. That was the last time I used Gnome as a daily driver.
What is the best way(s) to cycle through local wallpapers hourly in Linux? And separately, is there a way to do the same on multiple monitors? Basically a Dual Monitor Tools alternative.
Hey Nick ... go to the beach mate! ... take advantage of the warm weather. It's coming into Spring out here in Australia and from Sydney upwards that means our 9 months of swimming begins, lol... but you guys get snow and go to the alps in about 3 hours right? that would be cool...
Just Perfection in Gnome Extensions is as it claims, just perfection. Its like the swiss army knife and has the vast majority of UX tweaks any normal user should require.
Take control of your network connection: safing.io/portmaster
Your sponsor segways sound exatly like the ones at LTT...
I have been using Portmaster (Win10) for a while now after seeing it here. I love it. I feel I can keep a better eye on naughty software's network activities now.
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.
Yeah, that's also super useful!!
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. :)
Middle mouse button does this as well.
@@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.
I didn't know that
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
That last one is amazing tho
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
Ah yeah, good call!!
You can also dump your config to use as a backup and load it if necessary.
Sounds like a go to command for the IT admins out there...
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.
Thanks for teaching me something 8 month old comment :)
That hint is great! Thank you for sharing.
I'd also advise people to check out the default keyboard shortcuts (Settings / Keyboard), a lot of functionality baked into GNOME is hidden there.
Finer volume control also works by holding down SHIFT + pressing media keys.
Oh cool!!
duuuuuude!
Thank you! I've been wanting to do that for ages. You've just save me a trip into dconf.
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.
Glad it helps 😁
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.
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
You can also change it to super + rmb in Gnome tweaks, a little more comfortable to use
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
I've been using gnome for years and even I didn't know about some of these 😁 Thanks for sharing these gems 👍🏻
Awesome!
Man I love your videos, you are part of the reason I switched to Linux
Thanks a lot 😁 Glad I could help!
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.
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!
Thank you 😊
Did you refer to Nick as “Mate” in a video about Gnome ?
@@jasonblankenship4418 that was a good attempt, but MATE distributions do make use of GNOME, so everything would be in line ;P
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.
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.
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
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)
@@paulg3336 Ctrl Alt T is not a standard Gnome shortcut, I always add it myself with Fedora. I guess Ubuntu adds it by default.
Yeaph, I added system monitor to cntrl+alt+x, its like good old task manager in windows.
@@paulg3336 Yeah, I'm on Fedora so must have added and forgot
Useful nonetheless!
@@Sjoerd1993 Yes , it has always been the shortcut for terminal in Ubuntu as well as the flavours
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!
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.
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
Yeah, extension manager is much better!
@@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).
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)
@@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.
@@TazerXI still.... It's dumb they make it so hard to change things or have so many different apps for the same thing XD
5:15
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).
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
Yeah, I use that one all the time, it's so useful!!
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.
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 :-)
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!!
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.
All great tips, thanks!
Thanks!
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!).
We need one for KDE too
It's planned !
@@TheLinuxEXP 5 hour video on basic KDE customization incoming.
@@overlordmarkus are you kidding me?
i will not be amazed even if it is more than 50 hours
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
Maybe Ubuntu changed this, but super+left/right tiles windows on Ubuntu. What shortcuts tile windows on vanilla Gnome?
@@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.
Most of these keybinds are distro controlled. Not including the "Custom".
However, they're really cool keybinds to think about.
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!
You dont believe how much you will help me with all this tips! Thank you! Now I love Linux even more!
Awesome Vid, i really like Gnome and ive even learnt plenty from this video, keep up the good work! :)
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
It's always good to tweak your gnome (make sure he is not carrying any weapons first)
9:13 it works for Mega too
This is an incredibly useful collection of Gnome tips. Thanks.
Eagerly braiding something like this for KDE!! This was a great video!
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.
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!
You're welcome!
Im new to Linux and you are helping me really much! Great videos! Always great.
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!
Out of curiosity, which file browser did you use before Nautilus then?
@@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.
I've been using gnome for years and this video blew my mind more than once. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
@@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!
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!
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.
glad to see so many of these "hidden" settings be built into the gui now. gnome is slowly but surely upgrading their customisation system
I knew about dconf, but super + drag to drag the current window blew my mind 🤯
It's so useful!!
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.
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
This video deserves so many more views! Great work!
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.
your videos are always really nice to throw on in the background while I do other things. great stuff man :)
You have just changed my life with nautilus-image-converter. Thank you!
You're welcome!
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.
We've added more support for gestures in X11 and there will be 1 to 1 soon.
@@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.
Might be worth adding that the dconf editor comes preinstalled on Elementary OS from my memory...
Oh that's cool as well!
Very informative video. Thank you Nick!
Dock to Panel + Arc Menu + Tray icons
Nice combo!
Great video. I've been a gnome user for years and didn't know about half of these. Thank you!
You're welcome! Glad it helped!
11:44 damn, had no idea you can do gradient from dconf in Gnome, really love gradient backgrounds
As someone new to Linux and GNOME, thank you for this!
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.
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!"
@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.
@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.
Imo, KDE's extensions are weaker since they dont follow a common design
@@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.
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
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.
Extremely insightful, thanks a lot! 🙌
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
you really showed some options I never knew.. Thanks 👍
My favourite extension is pop shell, it brings tiling to gnome and not having to drag windows around really is such an improvement.
It's really good!
Can you assign a shortcut key for that?
@@anon_y_mousse yes
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.
I don't see the mention of nautilus scripts, which allows you to extend the file manager functionality.
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.
15:00 You can directly jump to applications without seeing the overview using Super+A
Awesome video, super helpful!
I do not understand why in Nautilus path does not work like in other file managers... so when I click on a block in the path, it moves me there, but when I click in an empty place it just allows me to edit, path. Hope this will work that way.
Great video! Thank you!
No views?? this is an outrage!
Man. Great content. Thanks a lot. It's very helpful 👍🏼
Thank you! I learned a couple of very handy tricks I didn't know.
This is a game changer make no mistake. Thanks Nick!
5:17 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 😂
Very useful video, didn't know about Extension Manager. More videos like these would be appreciated.
Wow, this video makes me super-happy to be a Gnome user 👍👍 Awesome video!
Thanks!
Thanks very much Nick! Awesome video - I didn't know about the dconf editor. 🙂
Its super powerful!
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.
Okay nick You're gonna make us love gnome
are there mouse shortcuts like super+left click or middle click for stuff like pinning apps to be always on top or changing the window transparency? that's some very useful stuff i use a lot in other DEs and windows through altsnap. Having a semitransparent always-on-top window is very useful when i need to work one window and read from another at the same time don't want to/can't use tiling
Awesome! Thank you
They should add the option for dash to be always visible and resized.
So much great info!
I used Gnome with extensions a few years ago. A Gnome update came through and many of the extensions stopped working. I launched into a completely blank desktop. That was the last time I used Gnome as a daily driver.
Used fedora for a few years now. A lot here I never knew about. Like the typable navigation bar, always wanted it. Thanks!
14:16 yes you can screen record, but NO AUDIO is available. :(
What is the best way(s) to cycle through local wallpapers hourly in Linux? And separately, is there a way to do the same on multiple monitors? Basically a Dual Monitor Tools alternative.
Hey Nick ... go to the beach mate! ... take advantage of the warm weather. It's coming into Spring out here in Australia and from Sydney upwards that means our 9 months of swimming begins, lol... but you guys get snow and go to the alps in about 3 hours right? that would be cool...
From where I live, the Alps are like a 15h drive 🤣
The most useful gnome video I've ever seen
Thanks!
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!!
Just Perfection in Gnome Extensions is as it claims, just perfection. Its like the swiss army knife and has the vast majority of UX tweaks any normal user should require.
It's an amazing extension!
I add Windows-like shortcuts to gnome for screenshot, clipboard manager and kgx
Yeah, might as well use what you already know!
you can imagine how excited I was when gnome 42 added interactive screen shots
now all they need is a graphical clipboard manager and emojis menu, and I finally have everything I lost from moving to Linux 2 years now
also, thanks Nick, it's nice to know you actually reply to comments, I'm a super fan
100% worth video !
Clipboard Indicator extension and install nautilus-admin to get right click option to open as root.
One of the best video you've ever made 😍
Some pretty nice tips, thanks.