Kali 2 + GNOME 3.10 = Customizations, Solutions & Tweaks

[g0tmi1k]

With the release of Kali 2 there is are many more visual alterations. Some people like to try and make their install their own by customizing it to their taste, while others may want to try to restore the Kali 1.0 interface.
This thread is to try and help all of these people.


Table of Contents

• Alt + Tab & Grouping
• Dock & Intelligent Autohide
• Extensions & Taskbars/Toolbars
• Change Super key Button & Activity Overview
• GNOME Terminal & Open Tabs
• Screen Shield & Lock screen
• Freezing/Slowness
• (Bonus) Other customization
• Vertical Menu

Quick / TL;DR
It will never be the exact same as Kali 1.x (GNOME 3.4). Below will apply some settings/tweaks to restore some features (e.g. alt+tab, taskbar etc).

curl -s http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=nNFZcHWk | tr -d '\15\32' | bash

Overview
Kali 1 used GNOME 3.04 (Top), Kali 2 uses GNOME 3.10 (Bottom). A comparison of the two different interfaces can be seen below:

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By using various 'extensions' to GNOME, as well as settings tweaks, the overall feel of GNOME can be altered to give a different (hopefully for the 'better') experiences
Full disclosure: I still use XFCE rather than GNOME. For more information, see here.



More resources & tweaks
If you like this and want more, check out the following:

• Offensive-security.com/kali-linux/top-10-post-install-tips/
• github.com/g0tmi1k/os-scripts/kali.sh
• XFCE
• Common Tool Issues Differences Between v1.0 and v2.0

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