{"id":7745,"date":"2018-05-12T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2019-01-26T15:51:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T15:51:32","slug":"replace-left-panel-dock-launcher-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/replace-left-panel-dock-launcher-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Replace Left Panel with Mac OS Style Dock Launcher in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For those who want to change the look and feel of the left panel “Ubuntu Dock<\/b>” in Ubuntu 18.04, Dash to Dock<\/b> is a Gnome extension that replaces left panel with Mac OS style Dock application launcher.<\/p>\n

Dash to Dock is a popular Gnome extension that Ubuntu Dock (the default left panel) is forked from. With it, you can get Ubuntu 18.04 desktop looks like:<\/p>\n

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You can now install the extension from Ubuntu Software<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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1.<\/b> First time to install a Gnome extension? Then you need to install an add-on for your web browser:<\/p>\n

click install add-on for Google Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi<\/a><\/p>\n

click install add-on for Firefox<\/a><\/p>\n

click install add-on for Opera<\/a><\/p>\n

Then open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>) and run command to install native connector get the add-ons to work.<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell<\/pre>\n
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2.<\/b> Then go to Dash to Dock extension page<\/a> in your browser, and turn on the toggle to install it.<\/p>\n
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The left panel changes to dock launcher once you installed the extension.<\/p>\n
To change its appearance, right-click on Show Applications icon<\/b> or use Gnome Tweak Tool to go to the settings.<\/p>\n
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For those who want to change the look and feel of the left panel “Ubuntu Dock” in Ubuntu 18.04, Dash to Dock is a Gnome extension that replaces left panel with Mac OS style Dock application launcher. Dash to Dock is a popular Gnome extension that Ubuntu Dock (the default left panel) is forked from. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1579,1539,1527],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-dash-to-panel","tag-dock","tag-ubuntu-18-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}