How To Install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
on CentOS 8.
What is gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
This GNOME Shell extension enables keyboard selection of windows and workspaces in overlay mode, by pressing the Alt and Ctrl key respectively.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator.
Install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
Install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/metadata.json
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/stylesheet.css
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-windowsNavigator
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.