GNOME Desktop

A modern, opinionated desktop environment, providing good visual consistency at the cost of resource usage

I have an interesting relationship with GNOME. On the one hand, I hate the increasing difficulty in theming it, and am annoyed that it takes a substantial amount of extensions to make my system look the way I want. That being said, it’s definitely the most modern-feeling Linux desktop out there, and brings a lot of things that can be essential on mobile systems, like touchpad gestures and touchscreen support.

Resources

• GNOME Website
• Arch Wiki GNOME Page
• Arch Wiki GNOME “Tips and Tricks”

Tips and Tricks

Enabling Fractional Scaling

To enable fractional scaling on GNOME under wayland, first enable the experimental fractional scaling feature by running:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"

Then, open Settings > Devices > Displays, and set the display scale.