material-shell
A modern desktop interface for Linux. Improve your user experience and get rid of the anarchy of traditional desktop workflows. Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone. (by material-shell)
gnome-gesture-improvements
Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11 (by harshadgavali)
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| 46 | 7 | |
| 7,225 | 308 | |
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| 5.4 | 2.2 | |
| 4 months ago | 26 days ago | |
| TypeScript | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
material-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of material-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
I really want https://material-shell.com/ for MacOS
it was perfect for using a single monitor
kinda like a deterministic alt+tab, you set up the layout of "workspaces" and they're always in the same place
I keep getting annoyed at alt+tab because I accidentally clicked on another window and now the order is messed up
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Kera Desktop: A brand-new desktop environment in the development
I'm confused. How does that work? Is it like a GNOME extension or something; similar to how Material Shell works?
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Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian
check this gnome plugin https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell
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How many of you use your gnu/linux distro without much customization?
I don't know too much about that. You can achieve a lot with gnome extensions. And if you'd like to build your own and see what's possible, check out the source code of Material Shell
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I'm a tiling WM user but the concept of the scrolling window managers were new to me. This idea might be experimental but using it was fun. If you want to try it, CardBoard is a good start. I had fun using it for a couple of days and thought it's good to share it with you too.
Website: https://material-shell.com/
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do any tiling extensions work on Gnome 44?
Material Shell has Gnome 44 support: https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell/releases/tag/44
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An easy-to-learn Linux Window Manager
But you might want to try out Gnome first, with one of the many tiling extensions, or perhaps Material Shell for a Tiling like WM experience
- What is the best tilling window manager?
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Considering Switching from Pop_OS!
Has anyone used Material Shell? It looks like it will do the tiling for me.
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Can't install Gnome Shell Extensions
Hi, I'm working on Ubuntu 22.04.1 with Gnome 42.5. I used to be able to install shell extensions just fine with the Chrome extension. However (I think since (un)installing the Material Shell Extension), I can't install any extension anymore, not via the Chrome extension, not via the terminal (`gnome-extensions install -f ...`). In the browser, the switch is available and clickable, but nothing simply happens. Via the terminal, no feedback at all is given. When going over the [source code](https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell) of the material shell, it seems that it tampers with some extensions and God knows what else... Via `dconf` I had to enable the allowance of extensions (`disable-user-extensions`), also something Material Shell probably did. I uninstalled Material Shell according to the docs, but of course, not everything is undone...
gnome-gesture-improvements
Posts with mentions or reviews of gnome-gesture-improvements.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-17.
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How does Linux suck SO BAD at touchpad gestures?
https://github.com/harshadgavali/gnome-gesture-improvements (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4245/gesture-improvements/)
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any fix for xwayland fractional scaling blurriness?
prob not what u want but check out the Gesture Improvements extension. There is a daemon that can be installed to get it working in X11. Tried it once and it works really well, unsure if there are trade offs though.
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Is it possible to get more gestures in wayland? I know you can use touchegg in X.
Maybe try the Gesture Improvements extension.
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What features is Gnome missing according to you
Actually harshadgavali/gnome-gesture-improvements extension should work just fine for most. I forked and modified it to suit my needs adhadse/gnome-gesture-improvements to add four finger top-down gesture for app navigation and four finger right-left for workspace navigation leaving three-finger gestures for gnome overview and app-switching.
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Kinetic/inertial scrolling + browser navigation
Also, I installed this, not sure if that brings any help: https://github.com/harshadgavali/gnome-gesture-improvements
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Finally! MacOS/Windows like touchpad zoom gesture on all Chromium Browsers!
Download this: https://github.com/harshadgavali/gnome-gesture-improvements/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
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Extensions development: Can I have auto-completion for GJS imports in my IDE?
You can copy index.d.ts from this extension (this uses more things from gnome-shell, so adds more things to index.d.ts)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing material-shell and gnome-gesture-improvements you can also consider the following projects:
PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
searchprovider-for-browser-tabs - Browser tab search provider for GNOME
titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme
wayland-explorer - Easily browse and read Wayland protocols documentation
i3-gnome - Use i3wm/i3-gaps with GNOME Session infrastructure.
gnome-shell-minimize-to-tray - Minimize any app to tray
forge - Forge - Tiling and Window Manager for Gnome-Shell [Moved to: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge]
gnome-shell-screenshot - Gnome Shell extension for making and uploading screenshots
Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 37 [Moved to: https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-37-Post-Install-Guide]
web-gesture-events - A library that brings high-level asynchronous gesture events to the web by extending the standard addEventListener interface. ☝🏾📱
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
material-shell vs PaperWM
gnome-gesture-improvements vs searchprovider-for-browser-tabs
material-shell vs titus-awesome
gnome-gesture-improvements vs wayland-explorer
material-shell vs i3-gnome
gnome-gesture-improvements vs gnome-shell-minimize-to-tray
material-shell vs forge
gnome-gesture-improvements vs gnome-shell-screenshot
material-shell vs Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide
gnome-gesture-improvements vs web-gesture-events
material-shell vs i3
gnome-gesture-improvements vs Visual Studio Code