gnome-shell-extension-freon VS gnome-shell-wsmatrix

I imagine you are using GNOME? In that case you can use the extension called freon: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/841/freon/

It would be cool to check your PC temperature, with either a gnome extension https://extensions.gnome.org like freon or install lm-sensors and logging the temperatures. as u/spxak1 said It's probably because your PC is being taxed and tries to cool down your system.

Freon is a nice Gnome Shell for this purpose, it works quite well. Make sure you check their wiki for the dependencies:

Probably. Freon, specifically, runs nvidia-smi, it wakes the device up each time it queries the temperature - if GPU temperature reporting is enabled.

I'm using Freon on Pop!_OS 21.10, and I see a number of sensors detected in my Thelio Mira. I wasn't able to find anywhere in the System76 docs about what each of these may be. The GPU, CPU cores, and disk temp sensors are obvious. I'm wondering where I can find docs or info on what "Composite", "PackageID", "Sensor 1",. "Sensor 2", and "temp1" are measuring.

You still need lm-sensors but there are multiple GUI alternatives to sensors. Simplest is probably xsensors and there are also some GNOME extensions that display data from lm-sensors, like Freon for example (I am not GNOME users so I don't have personal experience with it, but it has good reviews).

Workspace Matrix extension makes my day, every day.

I just had NixOS break in a weird way for me. Ok, it was more that Gnome 42.4 broke the wsmatrix extension, which caused Gnome to shit itself[1] on login.

It's a little bit of a double edged sword. NixOS lets me use pretty much straight upstream packages, which sometimes break due to not having thorough integration testing like a traditional distro would. On the other hand, I was able to just boot up an older configuration to get back to functional, and that let me figure out wtf was wrong.

[1]: https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix/issues/236

Implement the Workspace Matrix extension for GNOME https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix in Sway, possibly looking at Sway Overview for inspiration.

Hej, recently updated my laptop to 22.04 but after some years getting use to unity and 2 extra screens now seems i cannot find my way to have a decent wall of workspaces... i found a nice extension that works fine (https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix) but only seems to create the workspace wall on the latop screen and not on the other external screens...

Release info: https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix/releases

My main concern is a 2D grid for workspaces, with workspace previews in the workspace switcher popup. Workspace Matrix does an excellent job of adding this to GNOME.

it will assign a new font to the extension. Then you may use an icon font, such as Font Awesome, Icofont or icomoon (which also allows you to create your own!). You can then change the workspace names with dconf-editor with the characters from the font. PM me if you need any help :)

On GNOME there's a way to get native 2 dimensional workspaces, but AFAIK the only way to enable this is with an extension like workspace matrix. For ctrl+alt+arrow-like shortcuts be sure to set keybindings for switch-to-workspace-arrow and move-to-workspace-arrow in org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings. However, I had some issues with GNOME 40 like: - Changing workspaces with mouse scroll jumps to an adjacent workspace up/down (as expected). Without a device that has horizontal scroll (like a touchpad) you can't go to adjacent workspaces left/right. - There are multiple issues with the workspace thumbnails in the overview.

Ok, so, I'm using Workspace Matrix for a workspace grid.