unite-shell vs soft-brightness

unite-shell

Unite is an extension that makes GNOME Shell look like Ubuntu Unity Shell. (by hardpixel)

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soft-brightness

Gnome-shell extension to manage your display brightness via an alpha overlay (instead of the backlight). (by F-i-f)

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unite-shell		soft-brightness
	Project
7	Mentions	2
887	Stars	116
2.0%	Growth	-
7.6	Activity	0.0
25 days ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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unite-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of unite-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-09.

Hide the topbar while window is maximised?
1 project | /r/gnome | 3 May 2023

There's a GitHub issue for that: https://github.com/hardpixel/unite-shell/issues/324
Unite Extension Crashes Gnome Shell 43
1 project | /r/gnome | 16 Dec 2022

Maybe file an issue in GitHub repo so the developer can fix it.
Entusiastas de Linux do r/brasil, uni-vos!!! Qual seu Setup? Distribuição? Desktop environment?
2 projects | /r/brasil | 9 Sep 2022
Is it possible to remove the window title bars?
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 2 Feb 2022

This and this may be helpful
pixel-saver VS unite-shell - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 4 Dec 2021

the best alternative to pixelsaver, but so ugly to use.
Unity DE on fedora?
2 projects | /r/Fedora | 24 Nov 2021
Controversial: I think that pop os would have been the perfect distro, if GNOME wasn’t the default DE.
2 projects | /r/pop_os | 10 Jul 2021

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soft-brightness

Posts with mentions or reviews of soft-brightness. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-18.

Soft Brightness is gone for the time being with the release of Gnome42. Is there a replacement that allows me to not burn my retinas on my old displays?
1 project | /r/gnome | 10 May 2022
Complete noob here, uhhh where is the brightness slider? (Fedora 35)
2 projects | /r/Fedora | 18 Nov 2021

Assuming you're using Gnome, there is for example https://github.com/F-i-f/soft-brightness but note that this will probably just send darker pixels to the screen and not reduce the backlight brightness. Which means your screen will use more power than necessary and picture quality will probably be worse.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing unite-shell and soft-brightness you can also consider the following projects:

gnome-shell-extension-ddterm - Another drop down terminal extension for GNOME Shell. With tabs. Works on Wayland natively

ddcutil - Control monitor settings using DDC/CI and USB

forge - Forge - Tiling and Window Manager for Gnome-Shell [Moved to: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge]

gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect - KDE Connect implementation for GNOME

pixel-saver - Pixel Saver is designed to save pixel by fusing activity bar and title bar in a natural way.

blur-my-shell - Extension that adds a blur look to different parts of the GNOME Shell, including the top panel, dash and overview

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.

Burn-My-Windows - 🔥 Disintegrate your windows with style.

improved-osk-gnome-ext - Improved On Screen Keyboard for Gnome Shell

argos - Create GNOME Shell extensions in seconds

gnome-shell-extension-freon - Shows CPU temperature, disk temperature, video card temperature (NVIDIA/Catalyst/Bumblebee&NVIDIA), voltage and fan RPM

gnome-shell-user-stylesheet - GNOME Shell extension: custom style sheet applied to the shell.