I’m back to GNOME after years away. What extensions do you use that’s compatible with the version of GNOME that’s in the Arch repo?

  • Sir Aramis@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m on Arch with Linux 6.3.8 and GNOME 44.2

    All the ones I’m using right now are:

    • AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support
    • Blur my Shell
    • Dash to Dock
    • Overview background
    • Pano clipboard manager
    • Material You Color Theming
    • Night Theme Switcher
    • Rounded Window Corners
    • Transparent Window Moving

    I’m using Material You color theming to get colors from my dark and light wallpapers, but you can also use Gradience with adw-gtk3 for a more manual approach.

    • eric@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m definitely going to be digging into this list. Bookmarked.

  • EccTMEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The five extensions I need to enjoy GNOME are:

    • Just Perfection - allows you to tweak visibility and sizing for most aspects of GNOME.
    • Blur My Shell - shows your wallpaper along with a nice adjustable level of blur instead of the default grey that appears behind the activities and app menu overlays.
    • Tiling Assistant - greatly expands the window snapping and tiling options available, even has custom layout options.
    • Arch Update - an App Indicator that lets you know if you have updates available. Configurable to use whatever check frequency and package management commands you want.
    • Ubuntu’s AppIndicator support extension - because GNOME doesn’t believe in tray icons, and I use some things that disagree, like Steam and ckb-next.
  • domsch@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Only AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support. Mostly because wine apps and games tend to open a floating systray if it isn’t there. Other than that, i’m down to no other extensions. I found that most other stuff i changed/added either sounded nice or looked nice in screenshots but did nothing for me in day to day use. Don’t get me wrong. Blur my Shell, Burn my Windows or Dash to Dock all look great. I just found that, after the initial wow factor, they don’t do much for me. The effect wears of quickly and then i don’t notice wether they are there or not.

  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    • Workspace Switch Wraparound

    • Clipboard Indicator

    • Date Menu Formatter

    • AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support

    • Auto Move Windows

    • User Themes

    • windowNavigator

    • Workspace Indicator