GNOME Desktop Environment

Topics: Desktop environment

GNOME is a desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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Tweaks

Make sure new windows go to the top:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-new-windows 'smart'

Enable extra keyboard layouts, including EURkey:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources true

Enable trackball scrolling with a special mouse button:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.trackball scroll-wheel-emulation-button 11

Turn Caps Lock into Ctrl (and Ctrl into Hyper):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options \[\'ctrl:hyper_capscontrol\'\]

Refresh the icon cache

If icons for applications installed via Flatpak don’t get displayed, these commands tend to solve the issue:

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/icons/hicolor/
sudo gtk4-update-icon-cache -f /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/icons/hicolor/