GNOME Tweaks
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GNOME Tweaks is a tool for changing advanced options that are not exposed in the GNOME desktop's default Settings app. It adjusts items such as fonts and scaling factor, window title bar buttons, items shown in the top bar, startup applications, keyboard and mouse behavior, and GTK themes through a GUI; internally, it changes gsettings/dconf keys. It used to handle GNOME Shell extension management as well, but this function has been split off into a separate Extensions app.
Install
# install gnome tweaks utility
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-tweaks
# create the extensions directory
mkdir /.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions -p
# output the gnome shell version
gnome-shell --version