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How to decrease space between indicators in GNOME Shell?

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I am using Gnome Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. I have noticed that padding between two indicators are too much in shell, which I would like to decrease it.

Check the app-indicators with too much space in between

I tried using shell extension available but it didn't worked.
Then, I edited gnome-shell.css & decreased padding but surprisingly it didn't worked either.

Please help me in decreasing padding between two indicators in shell.
Thanks.

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answered 1 Year ago alliulet · Accepted Answer

As with some Gnome extensions, installing doesn't work if the extension says it does not support that version of Gnome - even if it does work. So to install it:

Download the extension from the extension homepage:
https://bitbucket.org/mathematicalcoffee/status-area-horizontal-spacing-gnome-shell-extension/downloads/gnome3.8_status-area-horizontal-spacing@mathematical.coffee.gmail.com.zip

Extract the [email protected] folder to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/

Run gedit ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/metadata.json, and edit the shell-version to include 3.10:
```
   "shell-version": [

    "3.4", 

    "3.6", 

    "3.8",

    "3.10"

  ], 
```

Enable the extension from Gnome Tweak Tool. This method works with quite alot of extensions, but does not always work. You may need to restart the shell with Alt+F2+r

You can also modify the theme to have a different spacing - this can be done by finding the theme's directory (e.g. /usr/share/themes/ZukitwoGreen/gnome-shell, ~/.local/share/themes/ZukitwoGreen/gnome-shell), and editing the gnome-shell.css file to have a different hpadding (you can use find and replace) - e.g. mine is:

-natural-hpadding: 4px;

-minimum-hpadding: 4px;

I think this is also available as a option under the 'Elegance colours' customizable theme.