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Nope this is the app overview, I mean the worskspace overview! My bad :sweat_smile: you can't type-search in worskspace overview. At least on the build I tried!

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Workspace overview is only the opened tabs, why do you need search on that ?

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Just because that's how I'm used to search for apps and things I need in Zorin. I love having the worskspace overview and search function integrated because I always have lot of apps running so I freequently use the worskspace overview. From there, I just start typing what I need and the search function does its job. And to me that's awesome :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: in Pop_os I can't do that unfortunately unless I disable the cosmic extension.

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So it is possible after all :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I wonder when ZorinOS will have an upgrade module what POP!_os has for upgrading without losing your data, apps and config.

This is often asked about.

Today i installed KDE on my external test drive because i wanted to try out KDE + Sweet KDE theme. I still need to configure KDE because it has so many options. So i switched back to gnome for other stuff and now it looks quite cool haha.

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People who updated the system with those updates from above might run into a issue with the "show applications" menu. It will look the same again as Pop! OS 21.04.

To fix that issue open terminal and write

sudo wget -O /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/pop-cosmic@system76.com/applications.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pop-os/cosmic/8628c618072bdabca00ad3f279d038da95bbdc67/applications.js

After installation log off and login again and it's fixed.

I switched to Pop! OS a few days ago and I am surprised with the stability...
It uses kernel 5.16 which is a plus for me..
They made the "show applications" menu bigger as well:

Personally speaking, I am impressed with what they have done. Another great thing is that they have Snap removed by default which makes the OS bloat-free. Canonical should learn from them..

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LoL the design is better what was before or i am wrong?
What version is it? 21.10 or 20.04?

21.10...Design is better, yes but you should note that I am using Gruvbox theme and not the default.

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Something like that? Very good a colours not a strong and not lighting. Good for eyes and code designer who using a terminal mostly in jobb.

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That's why I like it...Most dark themes are too dark and light themes are good but not very appealing to me anymore.

From this guide this is possible your theme.

The gruvbox i saw have 5 stars.

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Nope that isn't mine...Though it looks cool. I have a reddit account with 0 posts..Might as well delete it.

I don't have reddit but if you can share shortly tutorial or links how to do that will be good point. I bet in Zorin also can do that the same "UBUNTU" distribution. Interesting the iso 21.10 only 2.5GB it is a 50% lower from Zorin ISO.

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Its really easy actually, but I don't know how it looks like in XFCE but since it uses gtk3 so I presume that it should work fine:
Download Gruvbox theme:

extract the compressed folder

create a ~/.themes folder if it doesn't exist already in your home directory.

put the extracted theme folder in ~/.themes folder

Here is the Gruvbox icon theme for XFCE but I use Tela brown icons

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One new things what i found on pop is this.

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Yeah this feature was included in the same update as the one which included kernel 5.16. I even came to know about Pop!_OS Chat.

When I installing a newer version ZORIN the place where put a Gruvbox is
/usr/share/themes/ in xfce but i wondering how to copy if i cannot?
Something not going properly.
Here is example copy
cd /usr/share/themes
sudo cp /pathtodownloadedtheme/yourtheme.tar.gz /usr/share/themes
gruvbox
but how unpacl that is zip