Official Gnome Extensions site now live

Well we finally have a place to go for gnome extensions
https://extensions.gnome.org/

For me, it's useless. After a week of struggling to use Gnome Shell I gave up.  It's simply not fit for the business desktop.  Just try running Virtualbox with Dual Screens and you'll see what I mean. Task oriented computing is for mobile phones -- not the desktop.

All the gnome extensions you'll need...

Again, webupd8.org comes to the rescue.  The single biggest tweak you can do when moving to gnome 3 is to add the webupd8 ppa which contains loads of gnome extensions:

Enter the following in the terminal and then browse using synaptic (assuming you've already installed synaptic):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update

Add Minimize/Maximize buttons back to gnome shell

Don't ask me how or why (long frutstrating story) but today I had to 'upgrade' to Ubuntu 11.10.

Since I hate Unity I opted to use Gnome Shell instead, esp., because of the extensions.

Since I'm having to hack the living hell out of my desktop I'll be posting all of the tweaks I found.

First tip after installing gnome shell -- add the minimize and maximize buttons back.

From WebUpD8:

As you probably know, Gnome Shell has removed the minimize and maximize buttonsand the windows now only have a close button, but just as it was when the window controls to the left, you can change this.

When Gnome 3.0 will be released, you should be able to add back the minimize and maximize buttons from the "GNOME Plumbing" panel in the Control Center or using "gsettings" (command line tool). Until then, if you use Gnome Shell in Ubuntu 10.10, you can set it to use "minimize, maximize, close" buttons using the following command:

gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/button_layout ":minimize,maximize,close"

And then reload GNOME Shell (press ALT + F2 and type "r" or log out and log back in).