Sometimes people post multiple questions at once like so:

- https://askubuntu.com/questions/79812/customizing-gnome-shell-in-11-10

This is unfortunate because each one of those would be great standalone questions that would show up in searches better, etc.

I was mulling if splitting it up and reposting the rest as CW would be a good idea but that's quite invasive to the original question, so I just asked here.