GNOME Shell 3.78

This is my customized GNOME 3.38 with a lot of customization!

Features

• Customized application grid + dash
• Rounded on-screen keyboard
• Transparent app folder (on application grid)
• Hidden panel items arrow (Made on JS code, to re-enable revert the code change or use a GNOME extension)

Most changes are implemented in data/theme/gnome-shell-sass/widgets.

Get and install

Critical: This project CAN'T be built on GNOME 4x compatible OSes due to dependency conflicts. Tested on Debian 11 with GNOME 3.38.5 (higher a little bit than this project).

1.Clone this repository using git (you can choose another color here, but it's now outdated) to your computer.

2.Install build tools & dependencies:

• Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint... (apt-based distributions)

 $ sudo apt build-dep gnome-shell && sudo apt install meson ninja-build

• Fedora, RedHat... (rpm-based distros)
  

 $ sudo dnf build-dep gnome-shell && sudo dnf install meson ninja-build

Tip: save packages the package manager install to remove them later, in case needed.

3.Build and install:

$ meson build --prefix=/usr
$ sudo ninja -C build install

4. Log out then log in back to see changes. You may need to reboot.

Try GNOME 3.78's theme without installing

Note: On GNOME 40+ environment you will get a bad dash if you use this project.

Try to use SCSS program to compile gnome-shell.scss from data/theme. Then install it as a shell theme.

My GNOME is broken!

There are ways to fix: enter a TTY session or to another DE then open Terminal first:

1. Reinstall the shell using your system package manager (the easiest way)
2. Build vanila GNOME Shell:

• Get GNOME Shell source code in https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-shell/ (requires wget/curl) or use system's default package manager.
• Extract your downloaded package.
• Build GNOME Shell again like when you build this project.

If somehow you can't go to TTY* session, boot a live usb then chroot your local OS and do the fix.

If the problem still there, there may be problem(s) on your system, maybe broken packages etc.

More things to do!

• Go to this js/ui/panel.js line 436 and change "Activities" text to "Overview" if you'd like to (keep "")
• Still js/ui/panel.js, but go to line 233-234, uncomment these lines if you want to have top panel arrows back.

Re-compile + install GNOME to apply the changes.

Screenshots

License

GNOME Shell is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.