The GNOME Project released GNOME 45.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series, addressing various bugs or regressions and updating language translations.
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GNOME 44.7 is here for users who are still using the GNOME 44 desktop environment series and promises to optimize application search in the GNOME Shell, whose performance was improved thanks to the devs addressing a performance degradation caused by a …
GNOME 45.2 is here more than five weeks after GNOME 45.1 and improves the GNOME Shell component by optimizing application search, improving high-contrast styling, and adding support for a “version-name” field in extension metainfo as GNOME Shell extens…
Have multiple monitors connected to your Ubuntu 22.04 machine? There’s now an indicator to dim all or individual monitor screen brightness with sliders. You can dim external monitor brightness with either physical buttons or ddcutil utility. However, an indicator applet in system tray can be more effective, and here’s one for Ubuntu 22.04 with default […]
After releasing GNOME 45.1 last month as the first point release to the latest GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series, the GNOME Project also published today updates for two important components, GNOME Shell and Mutter.
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Your apps do NOT have window border and shadow in Ubuntu 23.10? Here are the quick workarounds for the applications based on Qt UI toolkit. In Linux Desktop, applications are built with different UI toolkit. While, GNOME, Cinnamon, and XFCE use GTK3/4, KDE and LxQt use Qt for their applications. Ubuntu by default uses GNOME […]
This is a beginner’s guide shows how to set custom keyboard shortcut to tile windows in Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur. Ubuntu 23.10 introduced enhanced tiling window support with a new system extension. With it, user can easily arrange all opened windows side by side by either mouse dragging or keyboard shortcuts. The extension supports both […]
As you can imagine, most of the changes to the GNOME 45 release candidate are in the GNOME Shell component. Learn more here.
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GNOME developers are “rethinking” the Activities button that appears by default in GNOME Shell’s Top bar. Feedback shows that the word “Activities” doesn’t mean a great deal to users (and…
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Pano, a next-gen clipboard manager for GNOME Shell, has been updated with some major improvements. Check them out here.
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GNOME devs want to make it easier to monitor and control background apps in GNOME Shell. So to this end, they’re exploring a new ‘Background Apps’ feature in the Quick…
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GNOME Shell’s ‘Activities’ button is iconic, but could the space it takes be put to better use? One GNOME extension developer thinks so, and this is how…
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Last year GNOME developers landed a grant from the German government to help fund work on adapting GNOME Shell to mobile devices. Though much of that effort is in (active)…
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A new ‘window focus’ animation for GNOME Shell is available to test. GNOME designers are currently exploring a different way to indicate ‘focus’ in GNOME Shell. One idea is to remove the app icon, name, and menu that appears in …
Shiny OS is a new distro designed to take Gnome-Shell to the next level. Check out what features it delivers in a stunning desktop.
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GNOME Shell on mobile received a sophisticated 2D navigation gesture system similar to what Android and iOS offer. Learn more here.
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Shell Configurator is a GNOME extension that lets you access and adjust advanced settings for GNOME Shell, including animation speed and OSD position.
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ET, Phone GNOME – work to bring GNOME Shell to mobile devices gets a boost thanks to a grant from the German Ministry of Education. Demos n’ details inside!
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Ubuntu 22.04 reverts back to a light GNOME Shell theme by default, having switched to a dark one in Ubuntu 21.04. We explain why this revert makes sense.
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GNOME Shell’s unique panel corners are being retired after more than a decade of decorating peoples desktops. If you don’t use a vanilla GNOME session you might not know what these are. Many downstreams, including Ubuntu, patch out this sub…