How To Install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
on CentOS 7.
What is gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
Many applications, such as chat clients, downloaders, and some media players, are meant to run long-term in the background even after you close their window. These applications remain accessible by adding an icon to the GNOME Shell Legacy Tray. However, the Legacy Tray is hidden until you push your mouse into the lower-left of the screen and click on the small tab that appears. TopIcons Plus brings all icons back to the top panel, so that it’s easier to keep track of apps running in the background. You also get some options to control the look and feel leave the icons in full color, or dynamically convert them to grayscale, etc.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus.
Install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
Install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.