Install the Desktop icons extension from the GNOME Extension website. After you install the Desktop icons extension, such functionality will be available. By default, the Debian 10 desktop is empty and you cannot add any icons, create folders or links here. Speaking about extensions, I believe many of you will find useful the Desktop icons extension. Just do not make a Christmas tree from your system. You can use it to install the GNOME Shell extensions right from the browser. Do that.Īfter the installation, open the page of any GNOME Shell extension and you will see the on/off button. Then, go to the GNOME Extension website and you will be offered to install the GNOME Shell integration add-on. To that end, make sure you have the chrome-gnome-shell package installed: But it is better to configure direct installation from the GNOME website as there are more extensions. You can access some GNOME Extensions through the Software Center. But it can be improved and changed to an unrecognizable state with GNOME extensions. GNOME is a minimal and limited in functionality desktop. Now, accessing the terminal is only a matter of pressing these three keys - Ctrl+Alt+T. Name it Open Terminal and type gnome-terminal as a command. Similarly, to how you set xkill shortcut, add a new shortcut in Settings → Devices → Keyboard → Add new shortcut. I also advise setting the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut to open the Terminal Emulator. Now, whenever some application misbehaves, you can quickly kill it with Ctrl+Alt+Esc. Type xkill in the name and command and set Ctrl+Alt+Esc as a shortcut. To enable this shortcut, open the Settings → Devices → Keyboard → Add new shortcut. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Esc will turn your cursor into a cross and when you click with it in on any application, it will be killed: When some application is not responding, you can kill it with the Ctrl+Alt+Esc shortcut. But it never happened to me and I believe the performance improvement is worth taking the risk especially if you use a slow hard drive. You will also see the warning that there is a small risk of losing data if your computer experiences a power outage. Open the Disks application → Select the drive where you have your Debian 10 system installed → Open the Drive Settings from the Disks menu → in the Write cache tab, enable Drive Cache. Usually, the program waits until the data is written to the disk before it goes to the next step. Enable Drive CacheĪnother way to gain some performance boost for your system is to enable Drive cache. Reboot and your Debian 10 will boot without the 5 seconds delay. To enable UFW in Debian 10, you need to install it: But it was very slow and was mostly unresponsive on my Debian 10 installation. You can also try to run GUFW, which is a graphical interface of ufw and it makes all these operations easier. I usually recommend using UFW as it is the simplest firewall on Linux and yet it is sufficient for most users. So, I won’t go into this discussion again. I have already talked about why I believe it is better to have a firewall on Linux. For example, I showed in one of my previous posts how you can use VLC to extract frames from a video. It usually supports more video formats and it is also more configurable and powerful than GNOME Videos app. To be sure you will be able to play any video format, I recommend installing VLC. Sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer rar unrar libavcodec-extra gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-vaapi To find out what display server you are running, use this command: I need these apps and to make them work I switched to Xorg by selecting System X11 default in the login screen: For example, in my Debian 10 review, I showed that Synaptic, SimpleScreenRecorder, and Color picker do not work with Wayland. It has many performance benefits but it is still relatively new and some apps do not work in Wayland. Wayland is the default display server in Debian. Just search for them on the Software Center. Now, you will have access to almost all popular programs on Linux. To add contrib and non-free repositories, activate them in Software and Updates application:Īnd reload the information about the available repositories: For example, Dropbox, some codes, Nvidia drivers and many others. Add contrib and non-free repositoriesĬontrib and non-free repositories include many useful packages that are not available in the Debian default repositories. If everything works fine, you will now receive all the updates from the local mirror and the security updates from the main server.
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