A collection of Debian/GNOME3 extension and tweaks I find very useful

extensions.md

Gnome Shell Extensions

• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/
• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/484/workspace-grid/
• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/150/message-notifier/
• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/118/no-topleft-hot-corner/
• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/112/remove-accesibility/
• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/214/pidgin-conversation-integration/
• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/67/dash-click-fix/

howto_titlebar.md

Change the height of the windows title bar

• Open /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml
• Search for title_vertical_pad
• Change its values; There are multiple title_vertical_pad settings, for e.g. maximized windows, modal windows and "small" windows.

Use titleheight2zero.sh to set all title_vertical_pad values to zero.

packages.md

Software

• Chrome https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
• DVD playback http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs#DVD_Playback
• Compile sugar http://humitos.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/compile-sugar-on-debian-testing-wheezy/
• dev: git gitg git-svn subversion build-essential debhelper fakeroot
• base: openjdk-7-jdk vim gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 devede
• system: nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-xconfig
• games:
• minecraft https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/minecraft.jar
• steam http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24711 (see also steam_debian.md)

Config

• sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

steam_debian.md

Install Steam

Source: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24711

So after a while of searching for the simplest way to do this I think I have found it.

• If on a 64bit machine enable multiarch

  sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update

• Make an empty folder, download this script to that folder, and make it executable.

  mkdir ~/steaminstall/ cd ~/steaminstall/ wget https://gist.github.com/grindars/4231563/raw/80d36cc7739fb1f101d7e043c5e92101118d98b2/steam_bootstrap.sh chmod +x steam_bootstrap.sh

• Run the script as normal user (not as root because it installs everything to your home folder and makes an alias in .bashrc that launches it correctly.)

  ./steam_bootstrap.sh

• Let the script do it's thing

• Now before you run steam you need to install the i386 package that provides libgl.so.1 and matches your graphics card. If on a 64bit system:

  sudo apt-get install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

(This is just for nvida. If you find a package that matches your card just leave a comment below. If on 32bit (untested):

sudo apt-get install libgl1-nvidia-glx

• Run steam, let it download the client, and you should then be presented with the login screen.
• Enjoy!

titleheight2zero.sh

#!/bin/bash

sudo cp /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml.bak
sudo sed -i "/title_vertical_pad/s/value=\"[0-9]\{1,2\}\"/value=\"0\"/g" /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml