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Controlling a GNOME Shell or Cinnamon Extension using D-Bus

In this post, I demonstrate how you can add D-Bus support to a GNOME Shell or Cinnamon extension and allow a command line utility to control the operating characteristics of the extension via a command line utility.

Changing the Activities Button in GNOME Shell 3.2

This post describes a number of ways to modify the GNOME 3.2 Shell Activities Button by means of a GNOME Shell extension. Four working examples are provided.

Custom Tooltips for GNOME Shell Panel Launchers

This post demonstrates how to write you own code to handle tooltips in the GNOME Shell.

Updating GNOME Shell Extensions To Work With GNOME 3.2

This post discusses how to update a GNOME 3.2 Shell extension to work with GNOME 3.2.

Fedora 16 GPT, GRUB2 and BIOS Boot Partition

This post discusses the requirement for a GPT BIOS Boot Partition by GRUB2 in order to boot a BIOS-based system.