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. :)
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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)
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 :-)
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!
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Man you have very nice wallpapers :D Are they random from the web ? Or do you have a specific website for wallpapers? Let's be honest Gnome 42 with these wallpapers is looking very good. (Btw the video is great.)
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...
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
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 wanted to ask for a similar hidden tips & tricks video for Plasma, but then I remembered - Plasma hides nothing, all the options are in the system settings app. 🤦😁👌
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 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.
That make me really want to give a try to gnome again, or dig deeper in KDE shortcuts🤣 I still have an issue with the way you connect Bluetooth devices thought
Gnome is becoming the new macOS desktop for Linux devices, which is absolutely a great thing! KDE is making changes but there some things that require gnome's stability!
Yeah.... I don't get the reason there needs to be three extra apps(THAT AREN'T PRE-INSTALLED) to make these changes. Like most of tweaks could go under a appearance tab with better descriptions of where to put stuff.... I always forget where to put themes and it really just needs a manager that integrates with pling to keep them up to date. Like there shouldn't need to be this many apps. Just make them packages that integrate with settings and make it sane with where the settings are. Gnome really needs a few usability reviews and stop doing things so weird with it......
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.
