Installing Mint Gnome-Shell Extension on Fedora 16

Get the MGSE sources from github

git clone https://github.com/linuxmint/MGSE.git

Install the extension

for each desired extension:

• install the content of

<extension_dir>/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

to

~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

• copy the content of

<extension_dir>/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

to

/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

e.g.:

$ cp -r MGSE/mgse-alttab/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/alttab\@linuxmint.com ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
$ sudo cp -r MGSE/mgse-alttab/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/linuxmint.mgse.alttab.gschema.xml  /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

Restart gnome-shell

$ gnome-shell --replace

Interesting extensions

• mgse-bottompanel: add a bottom panel with desktop switcher
• mgse-menu: add a applications menu to the bottom panel
• mgse-windowlist: add a task selector to the bottom panel
• mgse-shutdownmenu: add a shutdown entry to the status menu
• mgse-notifications: add a notification space to the top bar