I disabled all my extensions while trying to debug random logouts while I was away from the computer, and realized I didn't miss them. (Turns out the issue was a faulty hard drive)
Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
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Re: Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
#32You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use. Most Linux users abhor what Gnome has become.
> You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use.
Possibly, but that’s not what GP wanted to know.
Re: Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
#33You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use. Most Linux users abhor what Gnome has become.
Did that almost a month ago.
Re: Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
#34Clipboard history, Pop! Shell, and workspace scroller (scroll across the top bar to quickly go through workspaces), on NixOS. I also set up dconf options so I always have 10 workspaces, not just one more than the number currently being used, which is a pretty bad default imo. Muscle memory works much better when you can quickly go to the workspace you associate with some program of your workflow, say, Win+8 for a mus…
I worked this way for many years, having 8 workspaces in a 2x4 grid for a long time where each workspace was "dedicated" to something. However, I have grown to really like gnome shell's dynamic workspaces. I find that I have to multi-task on a lot of different things throughout the day, and often am getting interrupted before completing tasks. Each task gets its own workspace, and everything tied to that task (termin…
I really like this way of working, I have a hard limit of workspaces of 1, mainly because I want all of my stuff in one place. I should really try having multiple workspaces for tasks one day...
Re: Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
#35You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use. Most Linux users abhor what Gnome has become.
e.g. NixOS survey from last year. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983 has Gnome as highest with 259, followed by Plasma at 201. Though, prob'ly NixOS survey population isn't a good representation of wider Linux users. (xmonad got 108 on the same poll). Here's this poll from r/fedora from last year. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/z5pt2z/what_is_your... which has Gnome at 2.4k to KDE's…
Here is another statistic from Arch: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=budg...
Re: Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
#36Remove alt tab delay: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2741/remove-alttab-de... Removes the 150ms delay on alt tab that remains even with animations are disabled. Not sure why there is a delay in the first place.
There's likely a delay so that you can use Alt-Tab to quickly go back to your last window without the pop-up showing. I use AltTab on macOS like this, which has a configurable delay.
Re: Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
#37I disabled all my extensions while trying to debug random logouts while I was away from the computer, and realized I didn't miss them. (Turns out the issue was a faulty hard drive)
The only one I use is a system tray because some applications, like Steam, stick an icon in it to manage them.
When you have an application upgrade in the background, you can no longer access by launching the icon since it doesn't relate to the running application anymore.
If it's not a laptop that would have Steam then I don't need any extensions either.
Re: Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
#38I'm currently on Ubuntu
- PopOS! Shell - Tiling window WM for Gnome
- Clipboard history
- Dash to dock (macos style dock instead of dash bar)
- OpenWeather
Re: Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use?
#39- Alphabetical App Grid (I don't see how this is not a default thing)
- Blur my shell
- Clipboard Indicator
- Sound output device chooser
- Windows is ready Notification Remover
- Ubuntu AppIndicators (this comes with Ubuntu)
And to make it usable I also purged everything that has anything to do with snaps.