gala
Gala Window Manager for elementary OS and Pantheon (by elementary)
files
File browser designed for elementary OS (by elementary)
| gala | files | |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | 17 | |
| 270 | 314 | |
| 1.9% | 1.6% | |
| 9.2 | 9.3 | |
| 4 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Vala | Vala | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gala
Posts with mentions or reviews of gala.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-23.
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Look who's there
Or with some manual compiling of things: https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-Wayland
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Auto tiling
As you can see here, here, here and here some work was done long ago to introduce different tiling options but this feature was never top priority for head dev.
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Layout differencies eOS 5.1.7 vs. eOS 7
it was broken here https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1304/commits. I'm too lazy to revert that code but it's possible to fix the gtk2 dimm bug (which possibly also fixes the rest too)
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Multitask view issues eOS7
Report this issue on GitHub, please https://github.com/elementary/gala/issues
- Rounded window corners in pantheon??
- Gala 7.0.1 Released
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Elementary OS 7
[2] https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-W...
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Can one write pantheon extensions (like for gnome-shell)?
For hiding applications from overview, or showing only windows of the focused app you would need to patch gala, the window manager. It is written mostly in vala, and uses libmutter (the same lib for gnome-shell's window management) underneath. Apparently it has a "plugin" system, but I'm not versed enough that those plugins have to be there at compile time or can be separately compiled. Here's the code: https://github.com/elementary/gala
- Does anybody know if the Pantheon desktop has fullscreen unredirection?
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What exactly would a port to Wayland entail?
There’s a link to a wiki on that project board with that info :) https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-Wayland
files
Posts with mentions or reviews of files.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.
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How to have column view like macOS finder ?
This feature is rarely seen in Linux file managers. I would recommend the CLI file manager ranger. If you need a GUI tool, you should have a look at pantheon files, the file manager of ElementaryOS.
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What software do you miss from Windows & macOS?
There's Pantheon Files, but it doesn't come anywere close to having as many features as MacOS's file manager. It's a pity that the Dolphin Miller plugin was discontinued. :c
- pantheon desktop single click
- hey guys, is there anyway to have a navigation system organized by columns like macos file manager?
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How to implement FilechooserNative?
I think that on elementary OS the Files app is already used as a base for the native file chooser. You could follow it as an example. All its code is on GitHub: https://github.com/elementary/files Specifically check out the filechooser-portal directory.
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What do you think about app devs leaving the elementary platform?
I very like Elementary but I can't use it because of one bug: https://github.com/elementary/files/issues/1884 It is really important for me.
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Bug in Files App
Please read subreddit rules! Issue reports are offtopic in this subreddit. Please report issues on GitHub https://github.com/elementary/files
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Can't reorder bookmark items in Files
There is already a PR waiting to solve this bug. I hope they release an update soon.
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Fellow linux users, if you can have one thing from other operating systems in linux, what would it be?
ElementaryOS file browser has that https://github.com/elementary/files
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little bug at open file dialog on eos6
thanks!, is reported https://github.com/elementary/files/issues/1929
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gala and files you can also consider the following projects:
photos - Photo viewer and organizer designed for elementary OS
rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
elementaryos-firefox-theme - This theme for Firefox supports all the window buttons layouts from Tweaks and it blends into the elementary OS user interface.
ostree - Operating system and container binary deployment and upgrades
mail - Mail app designed for elementary OS
AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat
music - Music player and library designed for elementary OS
catts - Catts is a calmer alt + tab task switcher for elementary OS 6 (Odin).
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
gotham - Gotham: Force Dark Mode in Non-Curated Flatpak Apps on elementary OS
Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/