Hi guys,
new to Manjaro. I worked with Linux Mint Cinnamon so far. Switching to Manjaro because I really like it. Now after a fresh install the Desktop looks different than from the live-CD. The dock (?) / dash dock (?) is on the bottom and only active when I click Activities. Feel pretty stupid, because can’t even find the settings to adjust this. I want it leftsided, transparent, smaller,…
Settings / Layouts / Manjaro Legacy → Reload Desktop doesn’t change anything
seems to be stuck in Gnome default
Just open “Tweaks” and check if the theme is available and select it.
Appearance > themes >
applications: matcha-sea
shell: matcha-sea
That should set the theme.
As for layout. Manjaro is currently on Gnome 40 and not all extensions work equaly smooth. Stock Gnome 40 is pretty good though and I think dash to panel and dash to dock work (even if it’s with some bugs), haven’t tried.
You should have an extensions application where you can turn on/off some default extensions. Maybe that helps.
Thanks DenisV!
Did the settings as you suggested. It changes something. But the dash or dock (whats it called?) is still on the bottom and only through Activities available. So it still is not the desktop I had on the live-CD.
Dash to dock is only up to 3.38 - gives out an error
Also tried other matcha themes - no dark ones work. maybe something is completely wrong here?!
So I downloaded the xfce version now. After days of constant problems gnome and me did not become friends. Now I will get to know xfce and see if that can become my new home. Unfortunately the normal version did not boot so I downloaded the minimal version. But surely I can add all the software I need. xfce is blasingly fast so far and did not crash once. Just don’t like the looks too much so I will go and try to tweak it - but that’s probably not a topic for the gnome-thread.
Thank you guys for the help!