Icons in Gnome shell

Another small extension that give you some control on your gnome-shell. 

 IconManager (maybe this name is not adequate) lets you to manage icons that will appear in your top panel. It can be useful when you want to move Tomboy or gnote icon and remove at the same time icons for bluetooth, a11y (accessibility), display, network manager.

Get repository:

git clone https://MrTheodor@github.com/MrTheodor/gnome-shell-ext-icon-manager.git

and follow the instruction in INSTALL file.


How to use?

1. run dconf-editor
Press Alt+F2, type dconf-editor

2. Find settings
org/gnome/shell/extensions/icon-manager

3. Edit key
* top-bar: put icons that you want to remove from top-bar or move from tray bar

4. To accept changes you need to restart gnome-shell
Alt+F2, type r

Repository: 
https://github.com/MrTheodor/gnome-shell-ext-icon-manager 

Skype and Gnome-Shell

I am fascinated by new Gnome 3. Not only let's say foreground is interesting but also what is behind. The whole concept of desktop, application oriented GUI, also gnome-shell seems to be very useful. Everything looks very easy.

One of nice feature is to set global presence of user. I think that this idea came up firstly with Ubuntu or previous version of GNOME. In fact I have never used it until now. When you switch your presence to Busy, whole system instantly will stop bothering you with some notification. 

Signal about presence  is emitted by SessionManager via DBus mechanism. This is another smart idea in GNOME. Of course programs need to watch for this signal. Empathy (or telepathy), Pidgin are prepared to observe presence signal. To be completely happy I have to force Skype to observe presence signal.

Cause extensions for Gnome-shell are written in JavaScript language (yes, it is the same JavaScript which is used by web developers) so writing new one is not so difficult. This short extension for gnome-shell, link presence signals from SessionManager with Skype.

How to install?

Simply download extension:

git clone https://github.com/MrTheodor/gnome-shell-ext-SkypeNotification.git


mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions 


cp -r gnome-shell-ext-SkypeNotification/SkypeNotification@krajniak.info ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions 

next restart gnome-shell by pressing Alt+F2 and typing r
Reposistory for plugin: https://github.com/MrTheodor/gnome-shell-ext-SkypeNotification