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My Ubuntu Gnome setup

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I saw some customized Gnome desktops on /r/unixporn, they looked interesting and wanted to try out Gnome. I installed it on my default Ubuntu installation, messed around with extensions and themes; I liked some features that Gnome and third party extensions offered; so I jumped to Ubuntu Gnome from default Unity when 15.10 came out. Because of that, Canonical's decision to discontinue Unity development and switch back to Gnome doesn't really effects me as it would've been. But I still liked the way Unity handled user experience, for instance: tray icons; I hate the way Gnome handled those . Why it is the way it is, I don't know but fortunately users can use extensions to fix some of the serious shortcomings. Here are some extensions that I use to make my experience much more comfortable in Gnome.     > Dash to Dock     > Dynamic Panel Transparency     > Freon     > Media Player Indicator     > Pixel Saver     > Removable Drive Menu     > To
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Dealing with custom resolutions on Linux.

Recently I've got a new LCD monitor+TV. Even though It worked without a problem in Windows, Ubuntu [16.04] failed to recognize it's native 1080p resolution. I've googled around and found a way to add a custom resolution using xrandr. But it didn't really worked for me. I've spent hours trying to figure this out and thought I should write this down on somewhere how I got this monitor to work on Ubuntu. Basically what you have to do is open terminal and enter: $ cvt 1024 768 60  // horizontal-resolution vertical-resolution refresh-rate which will give you a result like this: # 1024x768 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz Modeline "1024x768_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync Copy the output after the Modeline and paste it after xrandr --newmode As an example: $ xrandr --newmode "1024x768_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync Then enter: $ xr
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New Beginning!

First of all Happy New Year for all of you who celebrates the Sinhala and Hindu New Year! Last time I wrote a  blog  post is like 3 years (or more) ago. I've been busy with my stuff and just forgot the simple fact that I have a blog. I thought it's nice to start fresh rather then resurrecting a (dead) forgotten blog. So, here it is: Dhamith's Blog (2.0). I'm not really sure what kind of things I would write here, but I'm thinking about writing my experiences that would benefit someone else. I'm not into tech that much, but I do try out new OS's, apps/software and custom roms when I have time and I'm switched to OS X (a 'Hackintosh' of course) four years ago. So I'm pretty sure that I would write about things like that, fixes for some common problems that I've faced and able to fix (so I wouldn't forget the fix and if/when I face the same problem again I'd know what to do ;) ) and my opinions on stuff et cetera... That's
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