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GNOME Shell is the core user interface of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3.

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Transparency/brightness of inactive/unfocused windows in GNOME Shell

Is it possible to make inactive windows (i.e., windows without focus) less opaque, more transparent, less bright or somehow shaded in GNOME Shell? I'd like to have stronger visual feedback on which window is currently active / focused.
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ClutterShaderEffect with gnome extension

The purpose of my project is to implement a shader and attach it on stage. I want a whole screen deformation using JS gnome extension system. (I did it in C and recompile gnome but I would like to use a technology without any compilation…
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Replacing Gnomes virtual keyboard with Onboard -> Hide/Show via DBus doesn't work

I'm using Gnome on a tablet as a daily driver. The integrated virtual keyboard doesn't serve as a replacement for a real keyboard, but I need exactly that. Thus I want to replace it with Onboard, and started to write an extension for Gnome Shell.…
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Set Notification Icon in Gnome Shell >= 3.16 (Custom Extension)

I've forked a Gnome Shell Extension, as I want to modify it to fit my personal preferences. I want to send a notification each time an event occurs. Sending the notification itself is fairly easy with Main.notify(summary, text). However, I just…
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How to edit borders and separators in GNOME shell theme?

I'm making a GNOME (3.16) shell theme and already made the necessary changes. However, the separators in the popup menu (a.k.a. aggregate menu) are still in the same color. I can't find the code in gnome-shell.css to change the size and color of the…
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Draw on background of Gnome Shell panel

I want to visualize some data on the background of the Gnome Shell top panel, behind all of the other elements. Like in this mockup: https://i.stack.imgur.com/tv1aH.jpg Playing around with other extensions and reading through the St API docs [2] I…
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How to get rid of `border-bottom` style in GNOME panel's button

I want to make new gnome-shell theme which now the theming is lack of documentation yet. Please look on the image below, I want to get rid of the border-bottom (likely). And I tried in several ways and just change other element, not the one I…
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Gnome-shell panel shadow

I would like to add a shadow to gnome-shell panel in default theme. I've edited "/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css" and succesfully removed background color (atl+f2 + r to apply). I've also added a box-shadow property like this: #panel { …
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How to get the gnome icon name from a folder path in a Cinnamon applet

I created a "Places" Cinnamon applet (a drop down list filled with folders). And I would like to get the gnome icon name of a specific folder path. For instance, I would like to get the gnome icon name from the music folder "/home/USER/Music" which…
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Converting javascript object which contains nothing to a string

I am writing an extension for the gnome-shell. The javascript extension spawns a sql query and captures the output on standard output. In cases where the sql query evaluates to 0 tuples/records my extension is crashing. Below is the code…
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Where can I find more docs about looking glass of gnome-shell?

Based on the intrduction at gnome.org , looking glass is really appealing(to me who wants to learn to comstomize my desktop by learning coding) http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/LookingGlass But as I searched, not much documetations about looking…
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Gnome shell extensions: stdout from GLib.IOChannel

So I'm making a Gnome Shell extension. And I want to be able to run some command. (The command is actually "synclient -m 100", but that is off topic) So, what I have done so far is s=GLib.spawn_async_with_pipes(null, ["synclient","-m","100"], null,…
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Hacking the GNOME 3 shells application Dock

I saw this cool photo for a gnome 3 theme as you can see the application "dock" displays somewhat differently then is norm. This theme no longer appears this way, the dock is in its usual place. So my question is how can I hack the shell to make…
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Gnome extensions not working after upgrading to gnome-shell 44.2

After upgrading to gnome-shell 44.2, none of the extensions are working. When I open gnome-extensions-app, it shows: I am unable to enable any of the extensions. If I browse to https://extensions.gnome.org/local/, it lets me flip the toggles for…
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St.TextureCache overflowing St.Bin in gnome-shell JS

I'm trying to make a gnome-shell extension where I need to load an image from an URL / URI. I can do that with St.TextureCache and that works great. I then try to put it in an St.Bin container, but the texture overflows the container (as shown in…
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