How to Customize your GNOME Shell Look Like MacOS Monterey

Hi everyone. In this video I’am going to show you How to Customize Your GNOME Shell look Like macOS monterey. This customize using Arch Linux with GNOME Shell 41 series.

You can apply this customize on most popular linux distributions with GNOME Shell 41 as default desktop, such as: such as : Ubuntu, Manjaro Linux GNOME edition, Arch Linux with GNOME Desktop, Endeavour OS GNOME,Gentoo with GNOME Desktop, Feren OS GNOME Edition, Fedora KDE Workstation and OpenSUSE Leap GNOME edition.

Download resource file for this setup :
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CHAPTERS OF THIS VIDEO
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Intro – 00:00
Final Result – 00:08
Installing GTK theme, icon, fonts and cursors – 02:46
Installing and configuring GNOME extensions – 05:32
Installing and configuring Fildem Global Menu – 08:18
Export Configuration and enable GNOME extensions – 10:58
Applying Theme, font, icons, cursors and wallpapers – 12:25
Fix Fildem Global menu support GNOME 41 – 14:17
Installing cerebro launcher – 15:36
Installing Firefox-appmenu and whitesur firefox theme – 17:24
Installing and configuring mutter_rounded – 19:56
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More About Customizing Linux Desktop
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[linuxscoop]

The pling website is up. you can download resources for this video customization here :

[techmodderaryan]

Hello, just watched this amazing video, I'm proud to say that I'm the creator of "Logo Menu" extension, feels great to watch someone use something I worked on.

[dmnddog]

I'm posting this just to save some people time. Without a working global menu for the latest version of Gnome, these instructions are obsolete. Fildem stopped support at Gnome 41, and Fildem-v2 stopped at Gnome 42. Trying to use this extension with Gnome 43 and 44 results in some apps being able to display the global menu, but not all functions working. In other apps, the global menu is completely ignored.

Other extensions shown in the video also don't work in Gnome 43 and 44 such as App Grid Tweaks and Floating Dock. Floating Dock can be replaced with Dash To Dock, which works fine. Frankly, App Grid Tweaks is not necessary.

[rikugo]

This is the first Mac-like customization I’ve seen that actually feels better than the real thing in some ways. I only hope that Gnome 42+ won’t kill customization, or if it does that something like Pop Shell will be a viable alternative for those of us who prefer the style of Gnome to KDE…

[denieltonn]

Great customize tutorial! Also, mutter-rounded can make you reach another level of customization making window bottom corners rounded!

[marzukzarir]

One of the best tutorial on linux customizing...thank you ❤️

[lucamosca_]

Make Ubuntu (or an ubuntu distro) like this out-of-the box and see how many will install it :)

[proctoscopefilms]

Heads up to anyone looking for the best macOS clone until Cutefish DE is ready for daily use: this is the best one. Don't even try the KDE version. Yes, the global menu in KDE is better, but the rest of the desktop is buggy to the point of unusability once you're done. Hopefully it won't be long until Cutefish implements workspaces and more settings.

[justsidd]

Great Tutorial. Congrats on 100K Subs!!!!

[JonJoshChua]

Did you include in the video how to make the trackpad gestures work as shown in the Final Result's section?

[israeldefranca]

Nice in the first step show the configuration to make this build work nicely. Congratzzzz

[omkarshipurkar]

where is the GNOME monterary file couldn't find it??

[andrey.]

Gnome_Monterey. Where did you get this folder from ??

[adib]

all extensions dead on gnome-shell 42, btw you do nice job, I enjoyed your customization

[mr.nobody]

Congratulations in advance for 100k Subs

[_renzy_]

I just want those circle dots for quit, minimize and maximize buttons without changing anything else... is there anyway ?

[karanmathew]

Cool. Just loved it. You just gained a subscriber. Can you please make a video on the same theme for ubuntu?

[prabhatbhatia]

hey!! how do i get the current window name in the top bar on gnome 45 fedora 39. pls help!

[remynisce]

How did Fildem.Hud and fildem hud desktop end up in Gnome-Monterey folder?? This is one baffles me, I can't proceed further. As I can't find those two.

[ed_artorias]

Great as always. I managed to get this working on Fedora 36 (GNOME 42), except for App Grid Tweaks and Cerebro.
But I have a question, I believe I followed everything correctly, yet I don't know how you make the status bar buttons at @1:03 work. Is it related to Cerebro? I do have Fildem Global Menu and HUD working fine (or so it seems, they do open and I tried them on LibreOffice working fine), and I noticed the text is actually added through Unite config file that you provided. But how do you actually make them work? Right now i just have them on the status bar but they're plain text, not clickable. Did i miss something?