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)
forge
Forge - Tiling and Window Manager for Gnome-Shell [Moved to: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge] (by jmmaranan)
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| material-shell | forge | |
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| 46 | 12 | |
| 7,225 | 300 | |
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| 5.4 | 7.8 | |
| 4 months ago | 12 months ago | |
| TypeScript | JavaScript | |
| 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.
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...
forge
Posts with mentions or reviews of forge.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
- Popshell on Fedora 38
- do any tiling extensions work on Gnome 44?
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My First Rice on Fedora with Catppuccin + Forge :D
i used force extension for that, since it supports gnome 43 and modified colors to make sure it looks good with catppuccin
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What tiling window manager are you using and why?
For gnome autotiling you can look at forge or pop-shell.
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Pop_OS! window tiling on EndeavourOS
There is another alternative: Forge
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Pop OS Tiling on Gnome?
On github
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dragging a window near to top edge reveals the snap layouts; that would be a really really nice tiling for GNOME!!!
For tiling i'm using with: Forge. https://github.com/jmmaranan/forge
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Forge: By far the best tiling extention for the Gnome desktop
I tested the Forge extention https://github.com/jmmaranan/forge in Gnome 3.36 on Linux mint.
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Awesome GNOME-Shell extensions you did not know about...
I didn't know about Forge until it appears in a recent comment on this sub, this extension implements a fully featured tiling wm into Gnome.
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is Pop-shell the only option for tiling wm in gnome?
Try: Forge
What are some alternatives?
When comparing material-shell and forge you can also consider the following projects:
PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
Tiling-Assistant - An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.
titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme
bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension - GNOME shell extension that syncs your desktop & lock screen wallpaper to Microsoft Bing's Image of the Day.
i3-gnome - Use i3wm/i3-gaps with GNOME Session infrastructure.
unite-shell - Unite is an extension that makes GNOME Shell look like Ubuntu Unity Shell.
gnome-gesture-improvements - Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11
shell - Pop!_OS Shell
Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 37 [Moved to: https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-37-Post-Install-Guide]
emoji-selector-for-gnome - This extension provide a popup menu with some emojis ; clicking on an emoji copies it to the clipboard.
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
diodon - Aiming to be the best integrated clipboard manager for the Unity desktop
material-shell vs PaperWM
forge vs Tiling-Assistant
material-shell vs titus-awesome
forge vs bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension
material-shell vs i3-gnome
forge vs unite-shell
material-shell vs gnome-gesture-improvements
forge vs shell
material-shell vs Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide
forge vs emoji-selector-for-gnome
material-shell vs i3
forge vs diodon