> I can't describe everything. I haven't looked at everything. But window decorations show up small. I'd really just like everything to be set to stock GNOME defaults from upstream, no tampering.
Trisquel has no GNOME flavor, and does not customize GNOME's settings, AFAIK. Maybe there is a broken/missing package? What package(s) did you install in order to install GNOME? In any case, ubuntu-gnome-desktop is GNOME with Ubuntu customizations, not stock GNOME, so it's not what you want.