Tutorial: Recreating ZorinOS Pro layouts on the Core version (Deprecated, check this instead)

by @HowToRush on Telegram

Note: How to recreate Pro Lite layouts might or might not come soon!

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Windows 11-Like Layout

The Win11-Like layout is really easy to recreate. Simply move the Items in the taskbar to "Monitor center", then disable the "Left Box", and install ArcMenu from extensions.gnome.org using your favourite web-browser Set the Win11 Layout using Dconf-editor

Here are some images to follow:

Open Taskbar settings

Make sure that "Left box", "Activities button"(optional) and "Taskbar" are set to "Monitor Center"

old method for Menu (ArcMenu, not recommended)

Install the ArcMenu Gnome extension from here (Make sure the browser extension is running!)

Note : Select the “Eleven” layout under ArcMenu > Layouts > Modern

Warning : ZorinOS already has the dependencies of this extension pre-installed, Other distributions might not.

New method for Menu (recommended):

Open the Software Center

Search for "dconf-editor" and install it

in Dconf-editor, go to org → Gnome → shell → extensions → zorin-menu → layout

then set "ALL" to "APP_GRID" and hit enter

Congratulations, the setup should work just fine now!

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MacOS-Like layout

This one, is REALLY easy

Simply install the extension using this command:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-zorin-dash -y

Or alternatively click this link:

apt://gnome-shell-extension-zorin-dash

Then logout, and log back in, and enable the "Zorin Dash" extension from the GNOME Extensions App just like here:

If you also want the clock on the right, and the "Activities" button removed, install that extension like this and logout+login etc again

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-zorin-hide-activities-move-clock -y

or again, click this link:

apt://gnome-shell-extension-zorin-hide-activities-move-clock

That's it for the MacOS layout

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Ubuntu-like layout

VERY easy, simply install the "Zorin Dash" Extension as seen before on the MacOS layout (look here), and follow these settings:

"Links" is "Left"
"Panelmodus" is "Panel mode"

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Windows-Classic layout

First, choose the Windows-List layout within Zorin-appearance

Next, Install Dconf-editor from the software center

then navigate to org → Gnome → shell → extensions → zorin-menu → layout in dconf-editor

Change "ALL" to "APPS_ONLY"

You're done, Enjoy!

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Screenshots

MacOS-Like Layout on ZorinOS 16 Core

Ubuntu-like layout on ZorinOS 16 Core

Windows-11-Like layout on ZorinOS 16 Core

Windows-Classic layout on ZorinOS 16 Core

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Update

I'm currently working on putting all of this customization work into a Script, which can be run at any time to switch layouts
I'm lazy lol