r/gnome

XFCE peca de ser demasiado clásico, Gnome de ser demasiado vanguardista. Un entorno intermedio estaría demasiado bien.

Panel on Dhruva now supported overflow app icons on panel like windows 11 and tray for small size extension applets

So you can use more extension applets without any worry overflow menu will handle own so you always get good looking layout

will push this update tomorrow on github after some tweaking

I love Dash2Dock Lite, but Icedman is always a week or two before updates. I randomly ran pacman for the first time in weeks, not realizing GNOME had a major update. I told it to fix it in DeepSeek Harness. I was only missing my dock for about an hour.

With https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/work_items/8294 merged , and with Gnome 51 adding support for ext-background-effect-v1 why can't we use css to add blur to GTK4 apps yet ?

Been working on this for a while. It puts an equalizer in the top bar, and clicking it opens a card with the cover, a seek bar and controls. It works with any MPRIS player: Spotify, Firefox, mpv, Flatpak stuff, whatever.

The bars can be swapped for an actual spectrum analyzer that reacts to the audio (works on PipeWire). That's the part I'm most happy with tbh.

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You can also put it inside Quick Settings instead of having its own button. Supports GNOME 45 to 51.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10736/now-playing-card/
https://github.com/epogonii/nowplaying-card

Feedback and bug reports welcome.

Dock Blur Effect: Added background blur to the dock with smooth animations and zero lag

Dual Blur Modes:

Dynamic Blur:- Real time adaptive blur that stays buttery smooth during system use

Static Blur:- Includes 5 built presets with adjustable blur intensity also supports setting custom images/banners with an interactive position slider and live preview

Dedicated Blur Preferences:- Added intuitive controls in settings to customize blur intensity pick presets or configure custom banner alignment

Music Pill Visual Enhancements:- Integrated background blur beneath the Dhruva music pill for a cleaner unified aesthetic

Independent Dock Mode Shortcut:- Added a customizable hotkey to quickly toggle "Independent Dock Mode" on the fly

Links & Download

GitHub Release: https://github.com/NarkAgni/dhruva/releases/tag/v3.0

Repository: https://github.com/NarkAgni/dhruva

One of many changes in GNOME 51 also includes changes to Loupe, our Image Viewer. It now shows more image information such as:
・Creator
・Copyright
・Equipment used (e.g. camera lens)
・Color profile

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-video-game-wallpaper-oRppIKq

Hey everyone,

I've had this problem for years: icons in my Downloads folder, logos lost in old project directories, SVGs dumped on the desktop "just for now". Every time I needed a specific file, I ended up digging through folders or downloading it again.

There are apps made exactly for this on Windows and Mac, but I've never found one on Linux, at least not one that's native, local and open source. So I made Pigoune.

>Platform for Icons and Graphics Organized, Unified, Native and Elegant

It's a pretty simple idea. You drop your images in (SVG, PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, ICO, single files or whole folders), and Pigoune keeps a copy in its library. Your original files are left alone. From there you can sort things into collections, add tags and favorites, and note where an asset comes from, who made it and under which license. That last part has saved me a few times when I needed to credit something.

When you need a file, you search for it and drag it straight into whatever app you're using. You can also copy it to the clipboard or export it.

A few other things:

• No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Everything stays on your machine.
• The library is just a regular folder, so it's easy to back up or move to another computer.
• Duplicates are detected on import.
• There's a trash and Ctrl+Z, because I delete things by mistake.
• It follows GNOME's design: dark mode, keyboard navigation, screen reader support, works in small windows.

And as a little bonus: it works perfectly for organizing an entire wallpaper collection too! In fact, I'll be adding some cool related features soon.

It's written in Rust with GTK4 and libadwaita, and licensed GPLv3.

I want to be honest about one thing: I'm a sysadmin, not an app developer, and I wrote this with a lot of help from AI tools. I know some people won't like that, and I get it. I've done my best to keep it clean and documented, and I use it every day, but if anyone who knows Rust or GTK well feels like looking at the code, I'd really appreciate it.

I chose to ship it as a Flatpak mainly for the sandbox. Being a sysadmin, I like knowing exactly what an app can and can't touch, and I wanted the same for Pigoune. Its Flatpak has zero permissions: no access to your files, no network, nothing. You can check it yourself in Flatseal.

It's not on Flathub yet, so for now you can grab the .flatpak from the releases page and install it with:

flatpak install --user pigoune-*.flatpak

(It won't update by itself, you'll need to install new releases manually.)

https://github.com/Gor3pig/Pigoune

Any feedback is welcome, bugs, ideas, translations. And if there's already an app that does this and I completely missed it, please tell me!

Hello, still get confuse with highlighted Tab after years of using gnome. Is it possible to inverse them by any means ? Thanks !

Edit : Thanks to all, did it with Chatgpt and your help. I posted the discussion directly into it and it came back with a solution. So far it's working ! Here is the solution in case someone want to do it to, and thanks again !

nano ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css

tabbar tab:not(:selected) {
background-color: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 8%, transparent);
}

tabbar tab:selected {
background-color: transparent;
}

I made a little launcher extension for GNOME, inspired by macOS Spotlight. After posting it here some days ago, and receiving some feedback, I've updated it. It opens a little search bar in the middle of the screen, floating on top of everything else. Type to search. Works on GNOME 48, 50, and 51.

Note: It was forked from another extension (made by Avimanyu Rimal). The original seems AI-assisted, but my changes on top of it were not vibe-coded. The text of this post was not generated with AI. Very little of the original code architecture was used as-is; it was heavily refactored and reorganized.

Apps: Type part or all of the name of an app - depending on how fuzzy (new feature) the matching setting is, you can omit some characters in between; for example, on "loose", typing "vsc" will bring up "Visual Studio Code."

Files: Type part or all of a file name/path. Same fuzziness rule. Important - this does not create a separate indexer. It uses GNOME's Tracker, which is already always running. So you don't have to worry about system resource usage.

Calculator: Type a math expression, like 4 + 3 * 8 (it follows order of operations)

URL (new): Type a URL/website, like https://example.com, example.com, localhost:3000, 192.168.1.1; Only some domains are recognized if you don't type https://, since the .something kind of naming is used for both files and websites - like .zip, .com, etc.

Web: Search the web directly by pressing Super + Space rather than having to open a browser first. Shown when not very many other things (apps, files, calculator, etc) match what you typed. Defaults to Google, but you can set it to anything you like (put %s where the query would go): for example https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s, or to disable AI overviews: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=web (the &udm=web is the important part).

Commands (new): When the first word you type is a program installed on your PATH (for example htop, git status, ls -la), a "Run in background" result appears and runs the line in the background; press Shift + Enter to run it in your default terminal window instead.

Ways to open it:

- Ctrl + Super + Space (configurable)
- lightning-search from the terminal (new - note this will not work if you installed from extensions.gnome.org), for example from a custom .desktop file/button/advanced keybinding
- Click the little search icon in the top bar (you can disable that if you don't like it though)

Visuals:
- Subtly scales in/out when opening it and closing it
- Matches your GNOME Shell theme colors (except for selected row highlight)
- You can customize the selected row highlight color (and text color) in extension settings
- You can change the icon size and input placeholder
- Works with Blur My Shell Popup Blur (as shown in the screenshot)

How to configure it:
Open the Extension Manager, find "Lightning Search", and click the gear icon.

Bug fixes in this version:
- Typing and deleting very fast doesn't cause stale results anymore
- The launcher correctly opens on the focused (last-clicked) monitor (earlier it would only open on the primary monitor)
- File search immediately responds to newly-created and newly-deleted files

The reason it exists, despite alternatives:

Why not just use the app grid/search that comes with GNOME? It pushes away your entire desktop into those tiny boxes to render the launcher full screen. Not everyone wants that. Also, it's sometimes slow or laggy to open. This extension is fast, because it's more minimal.

Why not Rofi? Unfortunately Rofi doesn't work on GNOME Wayland - it requires wlroots, which GNOME explicitly said they will not implement.

Why not Ulauncher? It requires more styling to feel at home on GNOME (doesn't sync with your GNOME Shell theme), and has some glitches and misalignments. Also it doesn't have fuzzy file search.

Why not Search Light? The styling and alignment are a bit off. It doesn't respect your shell theme very well. Also it's finicky on GNOME 50+ (especially 51) - you CAN try to edit the metadata and there are some forks but it won't always actually work.

Why not Vicinae? It doesn't look like your GNOME setup (ignores GTK/shell theme) so you have to theme it separately to match, and it's generally not as nicely integrated with GNOME, since it's designed to be cross-platform. And the font keeps resetting to the default. Additionally, for some reason it uses adwaita or fallback (often blurry) icons for apps rather than your selected icon theme, and text is blurry on GNOME 50/51.

Link: https://github.com/mihierkansal/lightning-search-gnome (published to extensions.gnome.org; in review)

Added blur to the Dhruva dock and honestly it makes the whole thing look so much better

It runs smooth with zero lag and the animation blends perfectly with the blur

There are 2 modes to choose from

Dynamic:- does live blur in real time and it stays buttery smooth

Static:- comes with 5 preset images that get applied as Dhruva's background You can adjust the blur on them however you like Want your own image instead? No problem you can add a custom photo too just like setting up a banner There's a slider to pick the exact part of the photo you want adjust the position and hit apply

And with this blur the Dhruva music pill looks even more gorgeous than before