I've been working on a modern interpretation of BeOS. However, unlike other "themes," this one is built predominantly using CSS to follow GNOME's guidelines. It's a Wayland-first design with a complete complement of assets, icons, wallpapers, and install and uninstall scripts.
It's a work in progress, but 85% complete.
You can find it here: https://github.com/infamous-pattern/NewBe
Hello, all. A little while back, I revived one of my favorite GNOME extensions Dynamic Calendar, Clocks and Weather Icons. My intention is to keep it working for as long as I can.
Over the last year or so, I've added some themes and bug fixes with the community's help. I just added a digital clock feature that shows GNOME Clock's icon as a flip-style, retro digital clock. If you're interested in trying it out, check out this issue which contains a link to the testing branch for this feature. Currently, the time-format (12/24h mode) follows the user's setting in GNOME settings.
I'm posting this here because there's not an easy way to make users aware of the changes and updates made to the extension. If anyone knows a better place to put a changelog, I'd love to know.
I recently made a Macos Tahoe Clone kinda extension with liquid glass in dock, calendar menu, osd and notifications.
Quick settings layout and design changed also with Liquid glass, mimicking Macos Tahoe
I realized that I use tilling windows manager a lot, (When I'm not on Gnome)
I always put inner gap to separate windows on a workspace, that feels great.
And I put this idea into my app launcher, this is pretty fast. Linux and windows ver is made with Tauri. (MacOS ver is pure native swift) and core in rust (btw).
Repo: https://github.com/kunkka19xx/look
Not only app launching but also finding, copying, ... with files, folders, we have built-in commands like pomodoro, todo,... and you can also search web results.
This was tested on Gnome, sway, (arch, nixos, ubuntu)
If you're looking for a new app launcher, this is free and always open-source, community driven (we got many interesting ideas from many great guys) launcher.
Thank you, we'd love to hear your feedback :)
I just found out that GNOME 50.4 has a sdr-native color mode, but for some reason it's not exposed in GNOME Settings.
I had to use gdctl
I'm running Fedora 44 GNOME on an ASUS Vivobook S14 with the 14" 2880×1800 120Hz OLED panel (SDC 0x419d). It's a wide-gamut / DCI-P3 panel.
I switched it to sdr-native, rebooted, and it actually stayed enabled.
I wasn't even aware this existed until now. Kind of weird that GNOME Settings doesn't give you an option for it and you have to dig into gdctl.
Anyone else using sdr-native on a wide-gamut OLED?
Projeto pessoal criado para trazer a experiência de “Circular para Pesquisar” do Android para o ambiente de desktop GNOME. Código aberto sob a Licença MIT.
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/dznass-cmd/lupa-ocr-extension 📦 Extensão GNOME:
Feito com ❤️ para a comunidade GNOME
I am using linux from scratch and gnome 48. My desktop boots successfully but the "Pin to dash" option is hidden from every app in the app grid ( i.e right click menu ).
I have installed minimal gnome 48 components i.e shell, session etc....
I have already checked the StartupWMClass and it matches but "Pin to dash" option is hidden from right click menu.
Do I need to install gnome-menus package ?
Gemini AI says -> Focus on getting dconf talking over the D-Bus session bus, and the vanilla upstream code will magically reveal the "Pin to Dash" button exactly as intended!
How to solve this issue?
I've been working on a Windows XP mode for Simple Taskbar and it's finally at a point where I wanted to show it.
The goal was to go a bit further than just an XP colour scheme, so the mode changes the taskbar, Start button, window buttons, notification area and parts of Quick Settings to make everything feel like it belongs together.
Here's a video of it running on GNOME.
If you spot anything that doesn't quite look or feel like XP, let me know. I've probably spent too long looking at old XP screenshots to notice anymore.
GNOME Extensions: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10448/simple-taskbar/
Does anyone know if it's possible to set a video as the lock screen background in Ubuntu (GNOME)? I've tried with videos and artificial intelligence, but I haven't had any success.
Hey everyone!
I recently switched from Windows to Linux. One thing I really missed was the Windows Snipping Tool: press Super + Shift + S, drag a box, release, and have the region instantly copied to the clipboard without any extre clicks.
While GNOME’s built-in screenshot utility is great, I wanted a faster, no-friction experience. So I built the QuickSnap extension
Features / Info:
I would love to get some real user feedback! If you try it out, let me know what you think or if you run into any issues.
Get it here:https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10651/quicksnap/
This version is in beta and relies on my other project I named pantheon (the control panel) (working on making it standalone TerraFirma to release to you guys) but please look at where it is now and give me feedback thank you !
I wanted Android's Digital Wellbeing on my Linux desktop — per-app daily time limits that actually lock you out when time's up. Nothing open-source did this. ActivityWatch tracks time beautifully but won't enforce limits. GNOME 48's built-in panel shows a total screen time number but has no per-app lockouts, no Focus timer, no weekly history navigation.
So I built ScreenGuard.
What it does:
Focus Mode: Warning and app block
History on Dashboard (Interactive)
Privacy:
All data stays in a local SQLite database (~/.local/share/screenguard/usage.db). Zero cloud. Zero telemetry. Zero accounts.
Links:
Would love feedback — especially from X11 users on KDE, XFCE, and tiling WM setups.
I created this theme as a side project
its a collection of extensions and the work of our amazing open-source community
What does it do ?
its a one-command run to install extensions and the theme files and a clean one-command uninstall
Features:
-It's a makeover for the gnome interface.
-Fully Dynamic blur with so much edits and work arounds to not make ur gpu/cpu suffer.
-all accent colors integrated with gnome native 9 colors so no inconsistency.
-Patched Custom OSD extension to get Minimalist pill-shaped volume/brightness OSD.
-Patched Custom Open Bar to make it consistent and fix it bugs.
-Optional translucent app windows for GTK4 + Electron apps, adjustable.
O-ptional GDM login screen theming with blur and matching ur current wallpaper.
-Optional Icons/cursors.
-Rounded-corner clipping fixed for the dynamic blur.
-a ton of css modification and fixes
Multi-monitor fixes like (and only installed if u have multiple monitors):
-there is an error with blurmyshell with the topbar bg.. fixed by refeash it values after 5sec when u login. u might see if it u pay close attention
-the login screen always on the primary monitor
finally..
i mainly used ai to create this theme but im 9 years front-end developer and 15 years into linux now. so i think ik what im doing
started this project as a gift for my gf who just started using linux
and i thought i share it with u guys
im gonna stop maintaining this theme when microsoft release an open-source version of windows (so.. never)
note that in the screenshots the blur is bugged is doesnt look like this on live but idk why its always bugged in the screenshots
and there is a lot i did it cant be all shown in a screenshot
try it out on ur pc its a 1 command uninstall :D
tested on CachyOS
Hey everyone,
I’m currently experimenting with window tiling setups on GNOME 50. I used to look at Forge, but since it doesn't seem to work out-of-the-box for GNOME 50 right now, I've been daily-driving O-Tiling, and overall I really like it (especially the Aura Focus Borders).
However, I’ve run into a frustrating visual bug involving web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) and Client-Side Decorations (CSD).
Here is my setup:
Using O-Tiling for auto-tiling.
Using Rounded Window Corners Reborn to force a nice, modern rounded look globally (I have it set to a radius of 18 or 22).
The Issue:
When I set a high corner radius, all native apps and GTK windows respect it beautifully. But for browsers, there is a distinct visual gap between the browser's actual clipped corner and O-Tiling's Aura border. It feels like the browser's boundary or O-Tiling's border tracking for browsers is hardcoded or maxing out around 14px, causing the border to float away from the actual corner curves.
Has anyone else run into this CSD mismatch between Rounded Window Corners and O-Tiling's Aura borders? Is there a known workaround, CSS tweak, or setting adjustment to make browsers respect higher radiuses with O-Tiling, or am I missing something? Or is there a new app or new extension that has the same features as o-tiling?
Thanks in advance!
Recently, I saw this picture of an old GNOME 2 version and felt in love with the appearance. It looks so clean and minimalistic. There already built-in extensions to achieve the general design (Place Status Indicator, App Menu and Window List), but how can I change the colors, especially the bottom bar (Window List)? Its default color is the default black and I really don't know how to change the colors of that bar. I copied the gnome-shell file to change some of the colors but there's no way to change the bottom bar.
