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Hey r/gnome! Linux users are stuck between heavy Chromium clones (that eat 2GB+ of RAM) and browsers that feel poorly integrated with the desktop. I wanted a daily driver that feels native on GNOME, respects privacy, and actually works well on NVIDIA + Wayland. So I built TakeWeb - a browser written in Rust using WebKitGTK 6 and GTK4/libadwaita. What makes it different: Memory: I built a custom MemoryManager that suspends background tabs, clears WebKit memory caches, and forces JS garbage collection. In my tests, 10 tabs use ~610MB PSS (compared to Chrome's 2240MB or Firefox's 1790MB). Hardware Tuning: WebKitGTK notoriously drops to 20-30 FPS on NVIDIA proprietary drivers under Wayland (GNOME Mutter bug). TakeWeb detects this and routes the window through the Xwayland bridge, restoring stable 60+ FPS. Privacy: It randomizes Canvas/WebGL fingerprints, masks WebRTC, and passes the EFF Cover Your Tracks test with a "strong protection" rating. Zero telemetry. Vertical Tabs & Workflow: A native collapsible sidebar with tab groups, duplicate tab counter, bookmarks, reading list, and Split View (F3) to view two pages side-by-side. Offline Translations: Full-page and text translations run 100% locally via Mozilla Bergamot (WASM). No text is ever sent to external cloud APIs; language models download once to your machine. Native Ad & Tracker Blocking: Filtering runs at the WebKit engine level before page parsing starts (no extension overhead), and tracking parameters like utm_*, fbclid, and gclid are stripped automatically when copying links or navigating. I'm releasing this as a Beta (v0.1.0). Some things are still WIP (like Flatpak packaging and extensions), but the core is stable. If you want to try it, the source code, build instructions, and prebuilt packages (.deb, AppImage) are here: https://github.com/dezaetterg/take-web I'd love to hear your feedback, especially from Intel/AMD GPU users! submitted by /u/Demidq [link] [comments]

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Is there a built-in way or do I need an app/extension? I have the latest version submitted by /u/Correct-Injury-7360 [link] [comments]

Hey! I'm currently using Zorin OS with GNOME 46. I've installed the HyperGNOME extension for window tiling, but I'm wondering if there are any better alternatives. Thx for your help submitted by /u/Wenix0602 [link] [comments]

I wanted my Android phone as a second monitor on Linux. Most tools I tried mirrored the screen into a browser tab or only worked over USB, so I built my own over the last few months Repo: https://github.com/saharshbaiju/tandem It's free and open source. If you try it, tell me how the lag feels on your setup and what breaks. If you like it, star the repo ⭐ and share it with someone who'd use a second screen. It helps more people find it. submitted by /u/titansb-_- [link] [comments]

I wanted my Android phone as a second monitor on Linux. Most tools I tried mirrored the screen into a browser tab or only worked over USB, so I built my own over the last few months. Check it out here: https://saharshbaiju.github.io/tandem/ Repo: https://github.com/saharshbaiju/tandem It's free and open source. If you try it, tell me how the lag feels on your setup and what breaks. If you like it, star the repo ⭐ and share it with someone who'd use a second screen. It helps more people find it. submitted by /u/titansb-_- [link] [comments]

I wanted my Android phone as a second monitor on Linux. Most tools I tried mirrored the screen into a browser tab or only worked over USB, so I built my own over the last few months. Tandem adds a real virtual monitor to your desktop. The GPU encodes it as H.264 and the phone decodes it in hardware, so you drag windows onto the phone like any other screen. - About 30 ms of lag over USB tethering, 30 to 60 ms over Wi-Fi (you barely notice it in use) - Hyprland and GNOME on Wayland, with one-command install on Arch, Ubuntu and Fedora - Encrypted, paired with a QR code Check it out here: https://saharshbaiju.github.io/tandem/ Repo: https://github.com/saharshbaiju/tandem It's free and open source. If you try it, tell me how the lag feels on your setup and what breaks. If you like it, star the repo ⭐ and share it with someone who'd use a second screen. It helps more people find it. submitted by /u/titansb-_- [link] [comments]

Hi guys, recently got my hands on an old chromebook and it already had coreboot on it, so changed to Arch Gnome for my preference of rolling releases and the touch capability. Since the chromebook was a 2 in 1, it had both a touchscreen monitor and was able to fold to tablet mode. Did not find any similar extensions so I vibe coded one. If its useful for a use case on your end then great! Just wanted to share as well since I've been using it for some time and its something that makes daily driving linux touch devices better imho. Details are available on github. submitted by /u/cyronscript [link] [comments]

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Last month I made a post asking help mapping apps. Thanks to everyone who sent shortcuts and JustPerfection for reviewing it. It's now available for everyone to download. you can install it here how it works: The app's own menu. If the app exports its menu over d-bus (GTK apps, and KDE/Qt apps with dbusmenu), the bar shows that exact menu A shortcut menu. If the app exports nothing, the extension loads a menu built from that app's documented keyboard shortcuts. Clicking an item sends the key combo to the window. This is how Electron apps (VS Code, Discord, Obsidian) get menus on Wayland. 290 apps are covered. A generic menu. If the app is in neither group, you still get a basic File / Edit / Go / Window / System menu with common actions: copy, paste, undo, close window, snap left or right, screenshots, switch workspace, lock screen. The app-name menu adds New Window and Quit. Works on GNOME 48 to 51 If your app is missing, create an issue at https://github.com/Unmade760/orbit-global-menu/issues with the keyboard mappings. and if you want to support it, a star on GitHub or a rating on EGO helps! :) submitted by /u/unmade7 [link] [comments]

Hey everyone! I've installed Bazaar as a system-wide Flatpak (--system). I can see my already-installed user-level Flatpak apps, but when I try to install a new app, Bazaar doesn't ask me which installation I want to use and doesn't let me install it as --user. submitted by /u/Due-Fault5064 [link] [comments]

I wanted GNOME’s shutdown dialog to show exactly how many seconds were left, so I vibecoded an extension for it. Pressing the Power button a second time also confirms shutdown. It’s for Ubuntu 24.04 with GNOME Shell 46, on X11 or Wayland. The Power key needs to use XKB keycode 124. The install script checks compatibility and handles setup; you’ll need to log out and back in afterward. Code and installation steps: GitHub Feedback and bug reports are welcome. submitted by /u/DisDoh [link] [comments]

Disclaimer: not a commercial product. I'm mostly posting this to find out if I'm the only dumbfuck who wants these metrics right in the Ubuntu taskbar :D I've been a dev for 15+ years and never had the time or nerves to build something like this, so yeah, most of it was written by Claude. I just kept telling it what bugged me. Several times a day I SSH into one of my 10+ servers just to check on deploys, tests and CI, and whether they're done yet. Now it's one glance at the panel. No Hetzner console, no Beszel, no monitoring tabs just to see CPU, RAM, disk or which app is stuck. From the menu I can open an SSH tunnel to a containerized Mongo or Postgres DB (Mongo opens straight in Compass, the rest copies the connection string). I can also copy an app's config as .env, diff staging vs prod, and see all apps with their domains, TLS certs and whether each site responds. Most of the time it just shuts up: grey icon until something breaks, deploys or runs in CI. If something stays red for a minute, I get a notification. Next to it there's a small Claude Code one: working or waiting, how much of the 5h limit is left, and how much CPU/RAM it's eating. It's read-only (except a restart behind a confirm dialog, and the tunnels), and tokens stay in the GNOME keyring. Right now it's built around my setup (GNOME 46 on X11, Hetzner + Beszel + dokku, GitHub Actions). If there's interest, I'd turn it into a proper package (extensions.gnome.org or .deb) with a settings page and support for other stacks (Prometheus, Coolify, Docker, GitLab CI…). So lmk: would you actually use it? what's your stack? or am I reinventing the wheel? Roast it! submitted by /u/wassupkayak [link] [comments]

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I am extremely proud of this. Have been spending the past few months working on this when I can. IMO its one of the best non-cli rippers on Linux. I started out with some code but found cursor to be extremely helpful and fun to use. I don't consider this slop; it's a tool that's very intentional and I use this exclusively first and foremost. If anyone is looking for a CD ripper try it out and let me know what you think! submitted by /u/joeygnosis [link] [comments]

A couple of weeks ago I posted a proposal for a default GNOME clipboard manager. Thanks for all the comments! Back then it was mostly a concept, so I built it. The video shows what it does today. The clipboard is built as a GNOME Quick Setting, so it's very convenient to switch on and off. When you copy something, the top-bar icon blinks. Clicking the icon opens Quick Settings with the clipboard already expanded. Super+V opens your history right at the text cursor: type to filter, press Enter, and it's inserted into the app. Passwords are masked, never saved and removed after a while. Images and files work too, and so does the primary selection if you want it. If you use Drop to Shell, the same icon opens Glean in the side pane, which stays open while you work. One catch: GNOME already uses Super+V for the notification list, and GNOME wins that conflict. To use it for Glean, move GNOME's shortcut first: gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keybindings toggle-message-tray "['<Super>m']" The code is here: https://gitlab.com/gunwald/glean Please give me feedback! EDIT: You can install it with: curl -LO https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/gunwald%2Fglean/packages/generic/glean/main/glean@gunwald.gitlab.com.shell-extension.zip gnome-extensions install --force glean@gunwald.gitlab.com.shell-extension.zipcurl -LO https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/gunwald%2Fglean/packages/generic/glean/main/glean@gunwald.gitlab.com.shell-extension.zip gnome-extensions install --force glean@gunwald.gitlab.com.shell-extension.zip Will take quite some time till it might be available on extensions.gnome.org submitted by /u/adiuto [link] [comments]

Hey everyone! Currently, there are no window-rounding extensions working on GNOME 51. I built Rounded Window Corners Native to get proper rounded corners without the legacy hacks. Unlike older ones, it doesn't patch any shell methods so it won't break your overview, workspace switching, or tiling extensions. It uses a shader effect per window to match libadwaita exactly on non-native apps (GTK3, Qt, Electron, Java, and all). It is also finally compatible with Blur My Shell with their latest release. I'm keeping it simple for now to perfectly mirror native libadwaita, but I'm planning to add more configuration options in future updates. Links: GNOME Extensions: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10809/rounded-window-corners-native/ GitHub: https://github.com/ztrahmet/rounded-window-corners submitted by /u/Not_Modified_304 [link] [comments]

Hello, im on debian 13, gnome 48.7. I installed yesterday the new version of blur my shell (v.77) and its doesn't work anymore. However, the extension shows no error message—nothing at all—and it is definitely enabled. I’ve restarted my system and logged out and back in many times, but it hasn’t made any difference. Please help! https://preview.redd.it/8688397z19zh1.png?width=922&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b6d7ff6a36898657a2c693294deccb62a47f2cf https://preview.redd.it/xk2ll97z19zh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=f803b0b51b14f3da1143034b7b6bd72e5dcceb07 https://preview.redd.it/4599e97z19zh1.png?width=762&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e3bb2bd49a39857fed7f35d542a57165962dfa4 https://preview.redd.it/u2alv97z19zh1.png?width=762&format=png&auto=webp&s=6578204eaf61bcac8ca7bdabb701fd6d014117f0 https://preview.redd.it/r7fm897z19zh1.png?width=762&format=png&auto=webp&s=957e2ace8d56e901ca79953c4438ffd4ccf307ff submitted by /u/Folono26 [link] [comments]

Hey everyone! I'm curious about GNOME's decision not to support the XDG decoration protocol on Wayland. Is this mainly a design choice, a technical limitation, or a deliberate decision to handle window decorations differently from other Wayland compositors? I've also noticed that some applications with weird window decorations, such as Spotify, seem to use correct window decorations when running through XWayland. Did GNOME support server-side decorations under X11 and later dropped it in Wayland session? I'm not criticizing GNOME I'm genuinely curious about the reason as to why they don't implement this procotol! submitted by /u/Due-Fault5064 [link] [comments]

Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.word_sys.word-sys-pdf-editor & GitHub: https://github.com/word-sys/word-sys-pdf-editor I've been working on a native Linux PDF editor built with GTK4 and Libadwaita. The goal was to have one offline tool that actually does the stuff people usually boot into a Windows VM or buy MasterPDF/Acrobat for. A lot of the recent features came directly from people opening issues on GitHub (like infinite scrolling, PEP-517 build support, and Flatpak packaging). Right now it, with v1.12 updates, supports direct text/object editing, creating and filling forms, PAdES digital signatures (including smart cards/hardware tokens via PKCS#11), permanent redaction, offline Tesseract OCR, measurement tools, and offline conversion to office formats and more. The full feature list and packages (.deb, AppImage) are on the GitHub page, so I won't paste a massive wall of text here. I want to figure out what is still rough or missing. If you have a moment to try it out from Flathub or GitHub: What breaks on your setup or with your specific PDFs? What is the one PDF feature you still miss on Linux? What is the rough/hard to use parts of this project? Bug reports, PRs, and feature requests on GitHub (or just complaining in the comments here) are all super helpful. I will continue to develop this project. Thanks! submitted by /u/word-sys [link] [comments]

¡Hola a todos! Quería compartirles una versión modificada y optimizada en la que estuve trabajando recientemente para la extensión MacOs-CC-Gnome. Primero que nada, todo el crédito y los agradecimientos van al repositorio original creado por Keyunge (enlace al repositorio original). Este proyecto es un fork de su excelente trabajo. En esta versión personalizada (enlace repositorio), me enfoqué en pulir varios detalles visuales y funcionales para mejorar la experiencia en general: ajusté la simetría de los elementos y perfeccioné el comportamiento del panel flotante y sus componentes estéticos para que se sientan mucho más integrados en el escritorio. ¿Qué hay de nuevo en esta versión? * Ajustes en profundidad a la estructura de estilo para corregir problemas de renderizado. * Más cohesión visual y proporciones simétricas en los íconos del panel. * Mejor estabilidad general en la gestión del diseño flotante. Próximamente (En camino): * Nuevas opciones avanzadas de personalización directamente desde un menú dedicado. * Optimización del rendimiento para reducir el consumo de recursos en GNOME Shell. * Más funciones interactivas inspiradas en la experiencia de diseño que muchos buscan replicar. Me encantaría escuchar sus opiniones, probarla en sus escritorios y recibir cualquier sugerencia o reporte de bugs que puedan tener. Pueden revisar el código, clonarlo o dejar sus comentarios en el repositorio de GitHub. ¡Muchas gracias por su apoyo y que disfruten personalizando! submitted by /u/Designer-Style147 [link] [comments]

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Look forward to faster screen recordings, an Auto Rotate option for screens with accelerometers, offline maps, and much more. Check out our release video! 👉️️ https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5vARny78Rv2215JwEwNh8t Full release notes 👉️️ https://release.gnome.org/51/ We spent the last 6 months polishing the experience, to make it more accessible and more user-friendly. Unlike the current tech industry, we go slow and fix things! Big thanks to our contributors and donors who made this release possible🩷️ GNOME 51 should arrive to your distribution in the coming weeks, but you can check out GNOME OS Nightly in a VM/bare metal 👉️️ https://os.gnome.org ‼️GNOME OS is still experimental, don't use it for important stuff! We also want to thank our gracious donors! Every donation matter and they allow us to be able to continue our Fellowship program, keep our infrastructure alive and support our community. Please become a friend of GNOME today! We need your support to keep going for another 29 years! https://donate.gnome.org submitted by /u/GNOME_Community [link] [comments]