Last Updated on June 12, 2023
25. Impatience
Impatience is a simple extension which speeds up the GNOME Shell’s animation speed.
26. System monitor
As its name suggests, this extension displays system information.
With this extension, the GNOME shell status bar displays CPU usage, memory usage, and network traffic.
On our Ubuntu systems, we needed to install a few packages and then reboot.
$ $ sudo apt install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-nm-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gnome-system-monitor
Website: github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet
27. Frippery Panel Favorites
This is a small collection of useful extensions that aims to provide a user experience familiar to GNOME 2 enthusiasts.
It lets you move the clock, place a launcher for each favorite application in the panel, replace the activities button in the panel with an Applications menu, and adds a bottom panel, including a window list and workspace switcher.
Website: frippery.org/extensions
28. Removable Drive Menu
Removable Drive Menu is another recommendation from the GNOME Shell extensions.
This extension shows a status menu for rapid unmount and power off of external storage devices (such as pendrives).
GNOME Shell Extensions is a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to GNOME Shell.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions
Next page: Page 8 – No overview at start-up, Extension List, Caffeine, BlurMyShell
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Dash to Dock, Arc Menu, Section Todo List, OpenWeather
Page 2 – Internet Radio, Window-List, Custom Home Corners, Mpris Indicator Button
Page 3 – Vitals, Screenshot Tool, Net speed Simplified, Clipboard Indicator
Page 4 – Stocks-Extension, Timezone, Desktop Icons NG, GSConnect
Page 5 – Recent Items, you2ber, ddterm, Auto Move Windows
Page 6 – Places Status Indicator, Time ++, Just Perfection, Top Panel Workspace Scroll
Page 7 – Impatience, System monitor, Frippery Panel Favorites, Removable Drive Menu
Page 8 – No overview at start-up, Extension List, Caffeine, BlurMyShell
Page 9 – Burn My Windows, Coverflow Alt-Tab, Material Shell, Colosseum
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There’s quite a few here which are undiscovered gems.
Burn My Windows should be much higher. It really adds sparkle to the drab default GNOME desktop
drab?
With those extensions, Gnome will gain as much flexibility as KDE. Is this the design intention?
GNOME extensions add additional functionality and are very useful particularly as the focus on GNOME is to make the desktop as easy to use as possible and so some features the community liked were removed
My issue with extensions is that so many are abandoned. This isn’t because the project code is too hard to maintain to remain compatible with newer releases of GNOME. I speculate it’s because many of the extensions’ authors are fairly new to programming. Writing an extension is a good introduction to learning how to program. Its just these developers move on to more substantial projects.
I would love to see a group of developers take on abandoned extensions that were really popular. Too many times all the source code is effectively junked and someone new comes along, reinvents the wheel but the outcome is worse than the original.
Some people contend the simplification of GNOME was done for a target audience that doesn’t actually exist. My opinion was that many of the changes were motivated because the code base was in bad shape. It’s much easier to maintain and improve a software project if you reduce its complexity. Removing features is a start.
Burn My Windows is a super cool extension.
Thanks for not spamming this page with so many ads my vm crashes. Decent content, straight forward info. It’s appreciated.