1. show the date beside the time
shell: gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true
2. autostart some applications: gnome-session-properties
3. extract archives in nautilus from the context menu
shell: yum install file-roller-nautilus
4. a menu with some shortcuts to my favorite applications see: gnome3: gnome-shell-extension additional menu (here in the blog 🙂
5. extension to disable the IM, the accessiblity icon and the alternative menu
shell: yum install gnome-shell-extension-noim gnome-shell-extension-remove-accessibility-icon gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu
6. extension to move the gnote icon to upper panel:
http://www.fpmurphy.com/gnome-shell-extensions/gnote.tar.gz
7. extension to show the cpu and network usage:
https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet
important: to disable some informations you can comment out eg “swap: Swap.instance” in the main() function from extension.js (~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/system-monitor\@paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com/extension.js)
8. extension to copy the favorite tab to the upper main panel, you can find it here: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html
after you extract the archive you can find the extension
Panel_Favorites@rmy.pobox.com
additional hints:
- refresh gnome 3 without closeing all applications
alt+f2: r