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GNOME users what Extensions do you use? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I use the following:

  • AppIndicator/KStatusNotifierItem support(Most apps rely on trays so this is useful)
  • Clipboard Indicator(I wish Gnome natively had this but its fine Cinnamon doesnt to)
  • Desktop Logo
  • Gtile(I want a tiling window manager like thing for Gnome i heard its faster)
  • Quick Settings Audio Panel
  • GSConnect (Looks better,Integrates better with GNOME)
  • Alphabetical App Grid
  • Arch LINUX Updater
  • Removable Drive Menu

i created this cause i wonder who uses Gnome on the Fediverse without plugins and maybe Gnome Tweaks and i may find some useful extensions here
Also Cinnamon users may count aswell but idk this is primary focused on GNOME
i also like my GNOME almost stock

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

KDE Plasma user of 4 years here, I am currently giving GNOME a try with Fedora Workstation. Reading through here, I'm going to try a few new extensions, thanks a lot :)

My currently used extensions are:

  • AATWS (advanced alt-tab window switcher)
  • Clipboard Indicator
  • Vitals (system resource usage)
  • AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support
  • Caffeine
  • Launch New Instance
  • No overview at start-up
  • Places Status Indicator
  • Workspace Indicator

There's a feature I'm really missing though. On KDE Plasma 5 the clipboard manager opened a window right below your mouse on pressing Super+V. This window showed all the clipboard entries, was text-searchable and I could navigate and use/enter clipboard entries with my keyboard. Does anybody know of something like this for GNOME?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I used to use Pano for that, but it's extension page hasn't been updated since GNOME 45, so I switched to Clipboard History instead. It's not quite as pretty (just a normal popup menu, no previews) but it is actually nicer to use, in my opinion.

Both options can be bound to Super+V, that's exactly the key combo I use for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks to you I realized, Clipboard Indicator can do that too. So now I bound Super+V to show the clipboard, and I can search it with the keyboard, select entries, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There’s a feature I’m really missing though. On KDE Plasma 5 the clipboard manager opened a window right below your mouse on pressing Super+V. This window showed all the clipboard entries, was text-searchable and I could navigate and use/enter clipboard entries with my keyboard. Does anybody know of something like this for GNOME?

Same i miss this from KDE but maybe copyq?? but i dont think gnome lets you map keys without extensions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for the tipp! I tried copyq but it looks like it doesn't open after trying to set a shortcut in the app or in GNOME.

I can live without it, it's just so extremly convenient to have this. At least I know that I'm not the only one missing this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pano perhaps? It doesn't show up at the cursor but you can search in it, the keyboard works the way you would expect and it auto inserts on selection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for your input, but it seems the Pano gnome extensions page hasn't been updated for ages. I'm running GNOME 48 and the extension page shows GNOME 45 as the latest supported version.

Doesn't matter, I realized Clipboard Indicator can be called by a key combination, it just won't float in the middle or below my mouse cursor. I guess without creating my own, I'm not gonna get it any better :)