vertical-overview VS gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures

I happily used vanilla GNOME in the past for many years. Unfortunately they've been making some questionable changes recently, and now I need to use extensions to undo those changes... Essential extensions for me are Panel Corners, and either Vertical Overview or V-Shell.

Vertical Overview — To bring back the objectively superior vertical overview that was used to have with stock GNOME.

How is this better or different than vertical overview? https://github.com/RensAlthuis/vertical-overview

Easier might be to look for existing extensions which ignore Clutter.TextDirection.* altogether, and try to recreate/improve the GNOME Shell from them. To Starte, perhaps you're interested in bringing the Vertical Overview back?, I think all dash-to-* extensions order icons from left-to-right, or have some setting to invert the order, some let you change the position of each element like dash-to-panel.

Possibly Related PR: https://github.com/RensAlthuis/vertical-overview/pull/79 (not sure)

I'm used to horizontal workspaces and even prefer them, but the Vertical Overview extension had the feature of "static background" and "hide scaling workspaces" that I really liked. So, I extracted the code responsible for those into a new extension.

I was and still am very disappointed with the overview changes. I'm someone who has happily used stock GNOME for years and years. I've always tried to avoid extensions and custom themes, as I actually like the stock experience and appreciate the design decisions the GNOME team has made. But this overview change I really just cannot agree with. It forced me to go to the vertical-overview extension, but unfortunately that isn't really the same as how it was.

I was using GNOME without extensions for years, and loved it. Unfortunately with the latest release of GNOME I've had to start using the vertical-overview extension, since they redesigned the native overview screen in a way that's objectively inferior.

The icons are kind of useful, the Vertical Overview extension I use keeps them)

Extension: https://github.com/JoseExposito/gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures

Under GNOME WL session you have gestures out of the box available on touchscreen & touchpad, even in third-party apps like Firefox where pinch-to-zoom is possible. Under GNOME X11 session you won't have those gestures and you gonna install an extension for that.

As others said, hybrid + wayland = no no, but you can bring back touchpad gestures in xorg with this extension: https://github.com/JoseExposito/gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures

PS On X11 Gnome gestures don't work, so you'll need: https://github.com/JoseExposito/gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures (if you like gestures, that is)

Gestures are disabled in Xorg session, but there is third-party extension that implements them. Also multitouch gestures are supported in Xorg.

Nvidia is a pain on Linux, with the possible exception of PopOS who did a great job on their installer. To use NVidia on Fedora, follow these two docs: 1.1 RPM-fusion for non-free software on Fedora 1.2 Setup Nvidia correctly 1.3 Run Gnome X11, Gnome on Wayland is still hit-and-miss (I went back to Intel only, so all my Wayland stuff would work). Maybe the next version of Gnome and newer drivers will fix this. 1.4 If you want gestures on X11-Gnome then you need this: JoseExposito/gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures: Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension

For X11, there is this extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4033/x11-gestures/ but before you have to install touchegg (check their github repo) idk if Manjaro have touchegg on their repos or what, Arch doesn't and i'm on my Arch desktop right now so i can't check that for you, but it's on the AUR anyway.

Go to the README at the bottom and grab the gnome extension from the store: https://github.com/JoseExposito/gnome-shell-extension-x11gestures