Customize GNOME Desktop in Ubuntu 17.10

Brief: Some basic and some interesting GNOME customization tips to get more out of your Ubuntu 17.10 desktop.

When I last wrote about things to do after installing Ubuntu 17.10, I didn’t focus a lot on customizing GNOME. It’s because tweaking GNOME is a vast topic and it deserves an article of its own. And hence here I am with some basic and some interesting GNOME tips.

While I have written this article focusing on Ubuntu 17.10, I am sure that most of these tweaks are applicable to any Linux distribution using GNOME desktop.

Before you see how to customize GNOME, you should first get acquainted with this desktop environment.

Get Familiar with GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10

Most of the points in this section are obvious ones. I still included them so that it helps you if you are entirely new to GNOME desktop.

The Activities gives you a quick glance at various (graphical) applications running on your system. You can also search for applications, files or switch to other workspaces from here. You can access Activities either by pressing the Super key or clicking on the Activities option that is always displayed in the top left corner.

Application Display

You can see all the applications installed on your system using the Show Applications option at the bottom of the launcher. This is similar to Launchpad in macOS.

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You can also search for applications if you cannot see them. If the application is not installed, it may even show the option to install from Software Center.

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