What are your must-have extensions?

• gnome-shell-pano

  21 853 7.1 TypeScript

  Next-gen Clipboard Manager for Gnome Shell

Reading the comments I've discovered Pano Clipboard Manager and I'm blown away. I've been using Clipboard indicator for years because it's the only one I could find, but man Pano it's just on another level.

• gnome-shell-extension-ddterm

  9 271 9.9 JavaScript

  Another drop down terminal extension for GNOME Shell. With tabs. Works on Wayland natively (by ddterm)

  

ddterm

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• blur-my-shell

  137 1,382 9.2 JavaScript

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

Blur my Shell

• GPaste

  5 741 7.0 C

  Clipboard management system

Gpaste extension

• gnome-shell-extension-pip-on-top

  1 48 3.8 JavaScript

  Makes "Picture-in-Picture" windows stay on top (even on Wayland session). Compatible with Firefox and Clapper media player.

PiP on top

• Vitals

  63 1,243 8.5 JavaScript

  A glimpse into your computer's temperature, voltage, fan speed, memory usage and CPU load.

Pano and Vitals would be mine.

• argos

  14 1,633 1.7 JavaScript

  Create GNOME Shell extensions in seconds

I'm really surprised no one mentioned Argos

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• gnome-display-brightness-ddcutil

  6 241 6.6 JavaScript

  Display brightness slider for gnome shell using ddcutil backend

https://github.com/daitj/gnome-display-brightness-ddcutil – I have 3 external monitors and sometimes prefer to work quite late, so the ability to reduce the brightness of all my displays with a single slider is very cool

• gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

  157 1,098 7.2 JavaScript

  Adds KStatusNotifierItem support to the Shell

  

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/ – it's literally must have (and IMO should be preinstalled by all user-friendly distros) since some major apps cannot work without it.

• gnome-clipboard-history

  25 383 6.8 JavaScript

  Gnome Clipboard History is a clipboard manager Gnome extension that saves what you've copied into an easily accessible, searchable history panel.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4839/clipboard-history/ – it's a 10x boost to my productivity since my daily job is copying snippets of code from StackOverflow /s

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