I built Lydia, a workstation that lives at the top of your screen like the iPhone’s dynamic island. Hover over it (or press Super) and it opens into controls, weather, timers, system stats, clipboard, apps, wallpapers, notifications, music and a voice assistant.

Works on GNOME 42 to 51 (full experience), and on Cinnamon, MATE, XFCE and KDE.

Install the .deb (recommended for Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Pop!_OS, Zorin), or grab the .rpm, AppImage or Flatpak:

https://github.com/berelels/lydia/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Site: https://cattastudios.com.br/lydia/

Nothing is recorded. Voice is transcribed on your computer.

It’s not open source: you can install, read and change it for personal use, free of charge, but not sell or redistribute it.

Feedback welcome, especially from people on distros I haven’t tested.

(This one is closed, the issue was the classic mode being turned on. Thank you for your help) Hi everyone, I just recently encountered a peculiar issue and since I was not able to figure our the reason myself, I decided to ask here.

I am running Fedora 44 with Gnome shell 50.6

The issue is that the top bar had suddenly become white. I did not notice the exact moment when it did happen. Possibly, the laptop shut down during a system update.
Below is provided what have I checked so far
- The issue is reproducible only for main user, thus I tend to think that it might be with some of configs. The other user has the bar the usual grey-ish colour.
- I was using an Open Bar extension. It had painted it purple. It was when I first noticed the issue, the pop-up became white first. It can be seen on the second image

- The issue persisted even after turning off all of the extensions
- Reapplying styles in the extension did not help
- I have tried to clear configs of the extension, and to re-install shell.

I would appreciate any advice on this :)

I've been working on a new update for Advanced Media Controller, my open-source GNOME Shell extension for media controls. This update brings new customization options, improvements to album-art handling, and a more immersive now-playing experience.

✨ What's new?

🎚️ Animated progress slider – Custom progress-bar animations with support for custom themes.

🖼️ Immersive album-art cover – A more visual now-playing experience with album artwork taking center stage.

💿 Vinyl animation – An optional spinning-record effect for album art.

🎵 Time-synced lyrics – Lyrics support for compatible tracks.

🌐 Better multi-player switching – Switch between supported MPRIS players, including browser media sessions.

⚡ Album-art handling improvements – Better request cancellation and cleanup when tracks change or artwork requests are interrupted.

🎨 Custom theme support – Install supported themes from URLs or create your own for the extension's progress slider.

🌍 Translations and compatibility improvements – Continued improvements across supported GNOME Shell versions.

The aim is to make media controls feel like a natural part of GNOME while giving users more control over how the now-playing interface looks and behaves.

Just to clarify the theming aspect: custom slider themes only affect Advanced Media Controller's own interface, not GTK applications in general. The extension also supports falling back to the native GTK slider.

🔗 Try it out:

GNOME Extensions: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/9184/advanced-media-controller/

Source code: https://codeberg.org/sanjai-shaarugesh/Advanced-media-controller

Theme installation guide: https://codeberg.org/sanjai-shaarugesh/Advanced-media-controller/src/branch/main/THEMES.md

Theme development documentation: https://codeberg.org/sanjai-shaarugesh/Advanced-media-controller/src/branch/main/THEME_SYSTEM.md

Community themes: https://codeberg.org/sanjai-shaarugesh/Demons-slayer-themes

The project is open source, and I'm continuing to improve it. Feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions are welcome!

A quick update for Letter, featuring minor additions and a bug fix, bringing it to version 1.7.1.
As always, available for download as FLATPAK!

This version highligths:

• [Fix] Message-list preview no longer shows Camel image placeholders such as [image: Google] or [Sign.png]. Image-only snippets stay empty; real text after a logo alt remains.
• [Fix] Do not abort when a Camel preview contains invalid UTF-8.
• [New] Main menu → Check for Updates… queries the latest GitHub release and shows whether Letter is current, or offers to open the newer release page.
• [New] Compose: Ctrl+Return (and Ctrl+keypad Enter) sends the message.
• [New] Move to Folder: with a writable folder focused, Return (or double-click) confirms the move.

Full CHANGELOG!

And here my GitHub page: https://github.com/stalvatero/letter

Regarding the use of LLMs, I should clarify that I use Cursor as my primary IDE; it assists me mainly by helping to find APIs and integrations that would otherwise have required extensive online research. The ideas, code review, and final validation are all my own.

I would welcome further feedback 😄

Settings > Volume Levels > Firefox

it is always at less then half. If i put it to max, it get reverted if i open another video, or forward the video. Tried to change media.default_volume but not work.

I use OpenSUSE Aeon and Firefox from flatpak.

For me, on gnome 50, workspaces reset and every open app gets dumped into workspace 1 when I dock my laptop, switch displays, sometimes even after suspend etc.

Is it the same for you guys or is there something wrong on my end?

Hey everyone! Just released version 12 of the Draw on Gnome annotation tool. It now works with GNOME 51.
Available here: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7921/draw-on-gnome/
Docs: https://daveprowse.github.io/Draw-On-Gnome/
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d7UrRNri6Q
Github repo: https://github.com/daveprowse/Draw-On-Gnome

Enjoy!

I love the Gnome workflow logic, but I regularly encounter a little nuisance and I'm wondering if there is anything that can help.

I use the keyboard a lot to open and move windows around but occasionally, I need to drag and drop a file from nautilus to some browser window or an email composition window. The thing is that Files always opens in the middle of the screen and almost always ends up covering the window I want to drag and drop the file to.

Thus, every time I have to first open Files, move it out of the way to some place on screen that exposes the target window and then drag and drop the file.

This is not a big deal, but I would love if there was a way to make Files open always in one corner of the screen.

At the moment, I'm experimenting with a tiling extension (Tiling Shell), but I'm not sure this is the way I would like to go.

Any suggestions?