Hi everyone, it's finally here!

I just released the first public version of Popcorn. I've been posting updates on it's development lately but it's finally time for you guys to try it out.

Please report any issues and features you want to see added before the official debut in Flathub (I'll get to that once the next version is released)

As always, please note that no AI was used to code or design my apps.

Thanks as always for your support and I hope you enjoy it!

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what do you think guys about this liquid glass effect?

Demo video for PR #976 https://github.com/aunetx/blur-my-shell/pull/976

NOTE: The feature of Blur my shell shown in the video is in heavy development, it is not stable for daily use yet. If anyone is interested, feel free to checkout PR #976 and give it a try (give your report as well)

I want to showcase a new refactor for Blur my shell which bring a unified blur implementation which bring the powerful customization power of static blur pipeline to dynamic blur (that means customizable texture effects and alternative blur implementation such as the Liqiud Glass), in addition to having rounded corner built-in without using third party library.

And yes, OSD is also included. I forgot to record that in.

If anyone is interested, please give it a try!

It's truly addictive to spend your whole day customizing the interface and discovering new things to do every day 🙂

These are all the GNOME extensions I have installed 😅 1. Ambed Fly: A small animated fly that wanders around the desktop and reacts to the mouse and moving windows. 2. ArcMenu: A customizable alternative application menu for GNOME. 3. Blur my Shell: Adds blur effects to the GNOME interface, panels, and overview. 4. Burn My Windows: Adds animated effects when opening and closing windows. 5. Compiz alike magic lamp effect: Adds the classic magic lamp animation when minimizing windows. 6. Compiz windows effect: Adds additional visual effects and animations to windows. 7. Dash to Dock: Turns the GNOME application dash into a customizable dock. 8. Desktop Icons NG (DING): Displays files, folders, and other icons directly on the desktop. 9. Gnome 4x UI Improvements: Provides various improvements and customization options for the GNOME interface. 10. Stopwatch: A simple stopwatch for measuring elapsed time. 11. User Themes: Allows you to install and use custom GNOME Shell themes. 12. Vitals: Displays system information such as CPU, RAM, temperature, network, and battery status

Hi all, I am busy developing a extension to show a window preview of the open apps. My current problem is that each time I hover on a open app the popup shows as well as the app icon tooltip. My question is, ho can I prevent the tooltip from displaying while my popup is open?

extensions.gnome.org nor the Extensions Manager app have a way to filter the Gnome version... Searching for an extension or trying to find new ones seems useless because all the results show unsupported :(

Even sorting by updated in Extension Manager shows a bunch of unsupported extensions

I’ve been using Matugen to generate dynamic colors from my wallpaper, and I wanted the whole GNOME desktop to re-theme immediately after changing the wallpaper.

The problem is that GNOME Shell normally needs a logout to reliably pick up theme changes, while GTK applications generally need to be restarted before they notice updated styling.

I didn’t want to keep logging out or restarting everything, so I started experimenting with "gsettings" toggles. Surprisingly, I found a combination that lets me force all three to refresh while the session is running.

1. GNOME Shell — reapply the theme without logging out

I found that clearing the User Themes extension's theme name and immediately setting it back causes GNOME Shell to re-parse the theme:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name ''

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name 'Your-Custom-Theme'

The Shell refreshes almost immediately without ending the session.

1. GTK3 — force open applications to redraw

I then tried the same idea with GTK3.

Normally, changing the CSS/theme files doesn't make already-running GTK3 applications pick up the changes. But toggling "gtk-theme" away from the current theme and back seems to force GTK3 to reload the styling:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Adwaita'

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Your-Custom-Theme'

This works on my setup without restarting the applications.

1. GTK4 / Libadwaita — the interesting one

GTK4 was where the simple theme-switch trick stopped working.

For GTK4/Libadwaita applications, my generated CSS lives in:

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

Changing that file doesn't seem to make already-running applications reload it just by changing "gtk-theme".

While testing light/dark palettes, however, I noticed that changing GNOME's system color-scheme caused the running GTK4 applications to re-read their CSS.

So I ended up using:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-light'

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'

That causes the GTK4/Libadwaita applications on my system to update their styling without restarting them.

The result

I now chain all three operations in my Matugen post-processing hook:

Generate colors

↓

Update GTK/Shell CSS

↓

Refresh GNOME Shell

↓

Refresh GTK3

↓

Toggle color scheme → refresh GTK4/Libadwaita

There is a small visual flicker because the settings are being changed twice, and obviously this is more of a workaround than a proper solution.

But it means I can change my wallpaper and have the Shell + GTK3 + GTK4/Libadwaita styling update while everything is still open, without logging out or manually restarting applications.

I wish GNOME/GTK had a proper IPC/API for telling the running desktop and applications to reload their CSS. Until then, this has been working well for me.

Has anyone found a cleaner/native way to trigger these reloads?

I've tried to replicate the several windows juggling workflow on Gnome. Tiling extensions somehow broke my working session, don't want to deal with it anymore. I am using no extensions at all.

This setup is touchpad friendly and possibly it lets you have more windows at the same time than tiling. Managing them can be a bit longer and tiresome, though. But Gnome is a full-size polished DE.

A few things done:

For focus on hover:

focus-mode = sloppy

auto-raise = true

auto-raise-delay = 0

focus-change-on-pointer-rest = false

For shortcuts:

1: Changed caps lock to super via Tweaks

1. Super + f for maximizing (it is called changing of state in settings)

2. Changed alt + f8 shortcut to Super + R (to resize via dragging touchpad)

3. Dragging window from any position by super + cursos movement

I'm not a Windows fan, and I've been slowly falling away from Apple too. I started using Linux at the beginning of the year with Omarchy. Things were a little shaky, but I liked it. From there I moved to straight-up Arch, before realizing I was playing on hard mode. 😅

After a bunch of research (and way too much time watching Linux videos YouTube), I made the switch to Debian/GNOME looking for some stability. It's been a genuinely enjoyable experience, and I'm really stoked with where I landed.

Anyway, just happy to be here finally. That's all 😁

Is this just gonna happen to every app im gonna download??, Only been like steam games only please help why does this happen

So I have a few windows that I want on all workspaces. For those I select "always on visible workspace"

However, that pulls them to the front every time I switch workspaces.

In ms windows, the windows that are set to appear on all desktops remember their z-order on each desktop.

Is it possible to do this in fedora44+gnome50?

I used to have 10 to 15 extensions and now just down to four.
I don't need these extensions, I can live without them.
I have to use just perfection because GNOME shows that stupid accessibility button on the panel if 1. I use font scaling from GNOME tweaks. They should have provided an option to hide it in the settings.

Video player, music player, graphics apps, office apps, etc etc

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a small GNOME Shell extension called eNet Speed.

It started as a simple way to see my network speed directly on the desktop, but I also added graphs and usage statistics so you can look back at your network activity over time.

What it does

• 📤 Shows current download/upload speed
• 📈 Provides network activity graphs
• 📅 Daily/weekly usage statistics
• 📆 Monthly statistics
• 🗓️ Yearly statistics
• ⚡ Lightweight and designed to stay out of the way
• 🖥️ Integrates directly with GNOME Shell
• 🐧 Supports GNOME 45–50
• 🔓 Fully open source

The historical stats are particularly useful if you want to see how your network usage changes over time instead of only looking at the current speed.

Try it out:

GNOME Extensions:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10716/enet-speed/

Source code:
https://github.com/meharehsaan/enet-speed

If you use GNOME, I'd love for you to give it a try. Feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions are very welcome!

Spent the last month running Ubuntu full-time on my ThinkPad as a creator. Here’s the quick breakdown:

• Deep Sleep: Closing the lid triggers actual suspend-to-RAM—completely fixed Windows Modern Standby battery drain.
• UI & Gestures: 1-to-1 GNOME gestures in tablet mode feel incredible on a 2-in-1.
• Software Stack: Logseq, GIMP, and Audacity handled scriptwriting, thumbnails, and audio smoothly.
• Gaming: Steam Proton ran ~90% of my library out of the box.
• Friction: Free DaVinci Resolve requires FFmpeg scripts to transcode H.264 MP4 footage due to licensing.

Put together a video review with B-roll testing the workflow if anyone wants to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ci_2rxbfwU

I haven't been able to find any solutions or discussion online that seemed relevant so I thought I'd ask here. Any information or solutions you have would be helpful.

This is GNOME 50 on Arch.