Gnome tips for ultrawide oled monitor¶
This is based in Ubuntu 24.04
Prevent burn in issues¶
Pure black theme¶
Here we must search for gnome-shell and gtk/3/4 themes.
We can find some themes here. Some of them provide both gnome-shell and gtk themes
https://www.pling.com/browse?cat=366&ord=latest
Ir order to install them we need to install the gnome-tweaks package and the User Themes extension
gnome-extensions-app
https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/15c16hx/anyone_have_a_matte_black_theme/
Gnome shell themes¶
The gnome shell themes change the appearance of the GNOME Shell interface, including the top bar, system menus, notifications, and the overview screen.
The system themes are installed in /usr/share/themes/NAME-OF-THEME/gnome-shell and they can be installed by the user in the ./themes/NAME-OF-THEME/gnome-shell directory
Gtk/3/4 themes¶
They change the appearance of GTK applications, including window decorations, buttons, sliders, and other UI elements.
The system themes are installed in
- /usr/share/themes/NAME-OF-THEME/gtk-3.0
- /usr/share/themes/NAME-OF-THEME/gtk-4.0
And they can be installed by de user
- GTK3: ~/.themes/NAME-OF-THEME/gtk-3.0
- GTK4: ~/.themes/NAME-OF-THEME/gtk-4.0
Full black desktop background¶
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options 'none'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color '#000000'
Other option is to use some pure black wallpapers combined with the "Wallpaper slideshow" gnome-shell extension
Auto hide the dock¶
We can enable autohide in the dock via settings - Ubuntu Desktop - Dock and enable "Auto-hide the Dock"
Dont show desktop icons¶
Go to settings > Ubuntu Desktop and disable Desktop icons
Auto hide the top bar¶
We can hide the top back installing the "Hide Top Bar" gnome-shell extension
Other applications¶
- Chrome and firefox
- VSCODE
Choose the dark high contrast theme
Organize windows¶
We can use Ubuntu tiling asistant installing the gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant package
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3733/tiling-assistant/ https://github.com/Leleat/Tiling-Assistant
There are other similar tools like Linux Powertoys https://github.com/domferr/Linux-PowerToys