Hello there,
Is there a simple way to use Manjaro Gnome with vanilla style? Without the need to uninstall packages and extensions manually?
I tried manjaro-gnome-vanilla, but didn’t change anything. I don’t know if I am doing something wrong.
Thanks in advance.
I would think that using Manjaro Layout Switcher, setting to Gnome layout - then set the default Gnome theme in settings.
There was a point in time where mutter was compiled with Manjaro colors - thus it was required to replace mutter with the Gnome default - but I don’t know if that is necessary today.
Hi @MW_J97,
There doesn’t seem to be a package with that name in the AUR. However, there does seem to be one in the extra repository:
$ pamac search vanilla gnome
manjaro-gnome-vanilla 0.5-2 extra
Tool to remove all Manjaro GNOME extra stuff
[...]
So it should be installable with:
pamac install manjaro-gnome-vanilla
Note, however, I don’t think it’ll have any effect on your current user.
Thanks for replying.
I used the layout method, but didn’t change a lot. It just disables few extensions without uninstalling them or changing theme. So, still I need to change the theme and uninstall extensions.
Hi,
Thanks for replying.
Sorry, my fault, I meant this package not AUR. I’ll fix this on the main post.
I tried it and gave me nothing, it’s installed well, but didn’t work at all. It finishes its work and after restart, I have the same settings.
Like I said:
I suspect only a new user, free of customisations…
What does that mean?
Try having it installed and then creating a new user to test it with.
You can the choose to keep it and move your documents, music, video’s, etc. to the new account, or stick with you current profile and account.
That’s the simplest way I know of…
So, it’ll work with a new user not the current one?
I think so. I might be wrong, I use Plasma so can’t be sure, but it does make sense to me.
I had the same little headache; I set everything according to my tastes and after a reboot, the settings went back to the original.
But I did the same as linux-aarhus said, I learnt about “Layout Switcher” and, in the “Layout Tab”, I changed it from Manjaro to Gnome then, in the Settings Tab, I just let “Gnome Extensions - Wayland” toggled on. After reboot, voilà, it worked, my personal settings were kept!
So, what does it change after doing those steps?
Just a few tweaks, on my side…
I have four gnome extensions to achieve my “Perfect Desktop” and how it behaves. They are “Dash to Dock” for transparent dock, “Hide Cursor” it automatically hides my mouse cursor, “Hide Top Bar” to hide it just in the Desktop View, it is shown in Overview Mode (by hit Super Key) and “Just Perfection” to disable those little workspace thumbnails and other minimal tweaks like hide the “On Screen Display” preventing to show the volume and bright bars.
There are more minimal tweaks but those are my favorite ones. Well I usually change my mind, so those tweaks work now, but in the future it can be changed. The reasons could be myself, Distro, Gnome… new paths and decisions and among other things. I’m a highly adaptive person because in my opinion I believe that “Perfect = End” and I wouldn’t like to be perfect otherwise there will be no more room for Evolution. Evolution doesn’t like Perfection. Sorry I rambled a little bit 
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
Using layout and changing it to Gnome uninstall some extensions, themes or anything? Or just disabling them?
I think that, in Manjaro Layout, it prevents you from making some changes, because it will override those little changes on the next reboot. It was happening to me until I switched from Manjaro to Gnome Layout. I didn’t uninstall anything.
I am a Plasma user - so my experience is flawed from the beginning.
I tested a Gnome minimal and with a minimal edition there is not much to change - besides the extra themes - it appear pretty much vanilla - at least for what I could see.
The package manjaro-gnome-vanilla seems to reset your user to vanilla gnome settings.