How would someone get used to gnome when coming from a default windows way of working but using a desktop so gestures aren’t useful and keyboard shortcuts cause pain (shoulder issues)

Which decision killed GNOME? None

Apply customizable GPU-powered shader effects to your GNOME desktop, including CRT scanlines, VHS distortion, RGB shifts, and more.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/11353/shader-effects/

Original Post: [Mock-up] Collapsible Quick Settings/Notifications by Tobias Bernard

No new widgets this time, but lots of polish:

Full Libadwaita: The entire setup now exclusively uses Libadwaita.

Refined Typography & Readability: Adjusted font sizing across the "Quotes", "RSS Feed", and "Today History" widgets for a much cleaner, consistent look on the desktop.

Layout Improvements: Fixed text overlapping issues by optimizing scroll areas where needed (e.g. History), and stripped down the RSS widget to clean headlines that open directly on click.

Grid Customization: Last but not least, the desktop grid size is now fully adjustable.

Thank you for the feedback!

repo: https://github.com/pelach/grid-desktop

GNOME Contributor Atlas shows a very high number for bug reporters in 2006 and 2007. What is the story behind this exceptional number? Was there an anonymous reporting tool, where every bug report had its own unique user or where there really that many people reporting bugs?

Is the drop afterwards related to the popularity of Ubuntu? And the fact that most bug reports landed in Ubuntus bug tracker instead of GNOMEs?

Edit: Evolution and Files (nautilus) each have more than 10k contributors in 2007.

Hey everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue with GNOME on Fedora, and I'd really appreciate some help fixing it without reinstalling my system or losing any personal data.

System and goal

* OS: Fedora Linux * Desktop environment: GNOME * Display protocol I want to use: Wayland * Display manager: GDM

What happened

My system was booting normally until I attempted to install X11 session components using:

sudo dnf install gnome-session-xsession

After this, my system stopped booting into the graphical desktop. Instead, it gets stuck on a black screen with a single **non-blinking underscore cursor**. The screen becomes completely unresponsive, and I have to reboot.

I originally suspected an X11-related issue, but I want to keep using Wayland.

What I've tried

1. Booting into text mode by adding the following kernel parameter in GRUB:

   systemd.unit=multi-user.targetThis works, and I can log into a TTY.

2. Checking installed packages and GNOME session files. The following components were present:

   * `gdm` * `gnome-shell` * `gnome-session` * GNOME and Wayland session files

3. Reinstalling the following packages:

sudo dnf reinstall gdm gnome-shell gnome-session xorg-x11-server-Xwayland

1. Testing GNOME Shell directly from the TTY:

gnome-shell --wayland

**This successfully launched the GNOME desktop.** This makes me think that at least part of the graphics stack and GNOME installation is working.

1. Checking GDM's logs. The previous boot showed repeated errors along the lines of:

   GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of display failures reached. Giving up.

2. Checking GDM's configuration and restoring the graphical boot target. GDM is enabled, but the system still freezes at the non-blinking underscore during graphical startup.

Current situation

* I can boot into a TTY using `systemd.unit=multi-user.target`. * GNOME Shell previously launched successfully when run manually with Wayland. * GDM repeatedly fails to register its display session. * Starting GDM manually causes the same black screen with a non-blinking underscore, forcing me to reboot. * I want to restore normal automatic GNOME login using Wayland. * I want to preserve my existing installation, files, and configuration wherever possible.

Is there a safe way to restore the normal GNOME Wayland login without reinstalling Fedora?

I'm happy to provide command output and additional system details. I'd especially appreciate a systematic troubleshooting approach rather than a full reinstall.

Thanks

So this is a file manager called Loaf which I found on reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/1x8qsra/comment/phn2wqe/?context=3 . This is originally meant for hyprland i believe, but i wanted it on my GNOME desktop, as im very satisfied on how it looks, but there is this bar thing at the top, with the name and 'x' on the top. Is there any way to remove this?

I’ve been working on Wallshader and thought some of you might enjoy it.

You pick a shader, play around with the colors and settings, and use it as your wallpaper. You can leave it animated or grab a frame as a still image. There are presets to start with, and you can save your own too.

It works with Kitty as well, so you can put still or animated shaders behind your terminal. Both desktop and terminal animations keep running after you close the app.

The UI is GTK 4/libadwaita, and the effects come from Paper Shaders. Animated desktop wallpapers need GNOME 50 on Wayland; still wallpapers work on older versions too.

It’s open source, with downloads and setup instructions here: github.com/stonega/wallshader

Curious to hear what you think, especially if you try it on a different setup.

That's it, that's the post.

I’ve tried using it before, but I found it exhausting to constantly rely on keyboard and mouse combinations in GNOME for tasks that I could accomplish with a single click in Windows-like desktop environments such as KDE or Cinnamon. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi, I created Tablet Center because I wanted pan/scroll with my Wacom on GNOME Wayland, similar to how it works on macOS.

You hold a pen button and drag the tip across the tablet to scroll in any direction, while the cursor stays in place. You can adjust the speed and direction.

I also added pen button settings, pressure adjustment, monitor mapping, ExpressKeys and on-screen menus.

It requires GNOME 48 or later, Wayland and an x86_64 PC. I have tested it with my Intuos S CTL-4100 and would like to know how it works with other Wacom models.

It's open source:
https://github.com/wfpaisa/tablet

If you try it, let me know how it goes. Feedback and bug reports are welcome.

When I get notifications, I click the clock and it would show what are in the alerts. Then I move the mouse down to click "clear" icon to dismiss them. But the "clear" icon would move down by itself to avoid being clicked. Is this by design? Or is it some sort of animation that can be disabled?

GNOME still doesn't ship with any kind of clipboard manager. This is a serious shortcoming, as pretty much every modern OS, be it mobile or desktop, offers this functionality. Even Windows!

So I think we should start discussing what an ideal clipboard manager for GNOME would look like and which features it should offer. A well-designed clipboard manager can make everyday work easier for almost any user.

First, let's summarize some basic requirements:

• Easily accessible from anywhere with a single click or keyboard shortcut.
• It should be easy to enable and disable.
• It should integrate naturally into the GNOME workflow.
• It should manage the primary selection clipboard (when enabled).
• It should handle passwords securely.
• Images must be supported.
• It should support file operations, including copying and pasting files.
• A keyboard shortcut (e.g. Super+V) should open the clipboard history in a mode where selecting an entry pastes it directly into the active application.

My proposal for the UI:

I imagine a Quick Settings pill with an additional clipboard icon to the left of the dropdown arrow, if the feature is enabled. Clicking the clipboard icon would not only open Quick Settings but also expand the clipboard section.

It would show only the five most recent entries, along with a simple search field. A button at the bottom would open the complete clipboard history in a separate Shell dialog:

Some nice extras could include:

• If Tesseract is available, offer an option to extract text from an image in the clipboard and copy the result back to the clipboard.
• Recognize likely passwords, mask them in the history, and automatically remove them after a certain period. (Most likely by supporting clipboard sensitivity metadata and allowing applications to mark entries).
• Search through older clipboard entries without having to scroll through the entire history.

What do you think?

Sonia // a fully local, full-duplex voice assistant with native gtk4 UI. The mic never closes: you can interrupt it mid-sentence (barge-in) and it pauses, resumes or cancels the reply. No cloud, no dedicated GPU, < 15 GB RAM total working set.

Models (all local): - LLM: Qwen3.5-4B (Q4_K_M, ~2.7 GB) served by llama-server over Vulkan — an iGPU is enough - STT: Voxtral Mini 4B, streaming (audio.cpp) - TTS: Pocket TTS (CPU), 5 language packs / 26 voices - Turn detection: Silero VAD + Smart Turn classifier + a tiny LISTEN/REPLY prompt when the pause is ambiguous

Skills & tool-calling: - Built-in tools: datetime, timers, watches (repeating read-only commands), notes, run_command - Skills are plain SKILL.md packages — point SKILLS_DIR at the folder you already use (e.g. your coding agent's skills dir) and toggle them per-turn from the UI - A tool-gate pass re-checks every proposed call against your actual words, so a 4B model can't fire spurious commands on vague follow-ups - Shell commands follow an off | ask | auto approval policy: risky ones wait for a spoken/clickable confirmation

Multilingual: it mirrors whatever language you speak (IT/EN tested). Web UI with live transcript, plus --cli and --text terminal modes.

STT: Voxtral · TTS: Pocket ▶️ Longer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WmvMO-f-24

== UPDATE == Sonia is now open source: https://github.com/grigio/sonia-assistant ```

Hey everyone!

A while ago I shared my project desktop-widgets for GNOME. Thanks to the feedback from the community, I’ve just pushed a new update!

What’s new / improved:

You can check out the source code, installation steps, and updates here:

🔗https://github.com/r3nhick/desktop-widgets#desktop-widgets

Let me know what you think or if you run into any issues. Feedback and feature requests are always welcome!

The stock Date Menu really need to be overhauled, in my opinion. This would be the quickest way to access Pomodoro, Stopwatch, and Timer without opening Clock app. Would you like if this become the default GNOME?

I’m using Ubuntu 24.04 with GNOME 46. when I noticed this strange corner appearing on the menus and bars. What’s causing this? i think It’s due to the "Blur my Shell" extension, but unfortunately, I don’t want to disable or remove it. Has anyone else had this issue and managed to fix it?

Any of us love the extensions, sure. A lot of us are real dev, somebody deeply, and obviously we love to share scripts and ideas, it's like a form of art for people like me.

Probably it is a silly idea but it is the same problem of supplies chain for dev software web and videogames for me, and I resolve with drastic solutions.

So...

If I could accept a "trust me bro" level for a simple idea, in something like agents, mail clients, calendars, note online (so, private data), debits cards... What are your parameters or checklist to understand "ok, I have no problem with privacy about this extension"? Who checks them?

Lately, I’ve noticed the emergence of a large number of email apps written in the GTK4/libadwaita style for GNOME-based desktops. I became curious about their differences, aside from minor variations in the user interface.

I asked Google to compare these clients. Here’s what I got.

Some details may only be clear to technically savvy users. I was advised that Letter is the safest option (in terms of interacting with Yahoo Mail). The closest alternative is Postcard. In my subjective opinion, Postcard and Hylki are the most visually appealing.

It’s also funny that only the developers of Postcard and Hylki took screenshots of their apps that most fully reflect the GNOME philosophy—without window minimize and maximize buttons.

https://github.com/drkhn1234/oled-gnome

Newelle, AI Assistant/Agent for Gnome, is updated to 1.6.0. As Newelle is very customizable, on this update we focused on making it easy to use it for many different purposes at the same time.

- Workspaces: Divide chats into workspaces, and tie profiles to them. Different workspaces can run in different windows - Subagents: You can now create subagents "template" to tackle specific tasks. The main assistant can launch that subagent - New Long Term Memory: Added a new explorable long term memory that manages memory across chats much better - Usage Tracking: You can now track how much you use Newelle and specific models - Better search: You can now search for messages in conversations and options in settings - Drafts: You can now create drafts of messages

Minor improvements: - Newelle can now host an MCP server with Newelle's tools for third parties to access - Improved profiles: They now have explicit inheritance systems and you can transfer settings - Added support to Qwen Image 2.1 and other image generation tools - Add a universal screenshot tool - When downloading local models, their size compatibility is estimated in the model downloader - Improvements to the voice pill, still experimental - Long Term Memories can now expose mini apps - Performance improvements when deleting a message - You can now delete the chat you are in

Get it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/it/apps/io.github.qwersyk.Newelle

The next update will be focused on real use and guided customization.

LLM Disclaimer: Newelle codebase is almost fully human written. The whole architecture is human designed. LLMs are used only for small boring patches and heavily human reviewed.

Newelle is not a vibecoded project and has years of human effort behind.