JADDOG

I’ve been using Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 for a little over  2 months now. I’ve learned a few things that have made my daily workflow a little easier, thought I’d share.

1. the alt key switches the Suspend menu item to “Power Off”
I infrequently need it, but the alternative was to logout and power off from the login screen or to add a gnome-shell-extension.

2. gnome-tweak-tool
There’s a couple settings in there that I was glad to be able to tweak

3. Drag to top of the screen to maximize.
I keep a couple things maximized, It’s nice to just drag the window to the top of the screen and have it maximize.

4. gsettings
I haven’t had too much need for this yet, but understanding it is relevant to writing extensions.

5. gnome-shell-extensions-dock
yum install gnome-shell-extensions-dock
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dock position left
alt-f2
r
enter

6. wrote a gnome-shell-extension

Part of my team at work is in Pune, India and our company also pass lots of times around in utc. The Fedora 14 Clock applet that listed what time it was in other timezones was helpful. So I set out last week to put something together in gnome 3 that would serve the same purpose.

In the process I also found some code to add apps to the top panel and decided to post the little bit of code I put together here: https://github.com/radez/gnome-shell-extensions

Here’s what my “clocks” extension looks like. It’s not much but it suits my needs. I need to plug into gsettings as some point so that Pune and UTC arn’t hard coded.