I revised my list of the best Linux weather apps recently, but I know most people prefer to use panel applets to glean current conditions and future forecast data. There’s no drought in weather extensions […]
Ubuntu 26.10 offers a new way to tile your apps, with a layout picker sliding in from the top of the screen when you move a window. This “dropzone” concept for quick tiling will be […]
Wallpapi is an Omarchy-inspired wallpaper switcher for GNOME desktops that offers a slicker. When installed, it lets you “browse a folder of wallpapers as a full-screen carousel of parallelogram cards”. As you page through available […]
You can now give the Ubuntu desktop a ‘Liquid Glass’ makeover using a new GNOME Shell extension that was written with ‘significant’ help from AI. Its developer, Ryosuke Watanabe, said they loved the look of […]
Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type in a collapsible icon, e.g. images in one stack, […]
You can bring Ubuntu’s clock, calendar and weather app icons to life with the Dynamic Calendar, Clocks and Weather Icons [Reborn] GNOME Shell extension – which has been updated with new icon styles. The extension […]
If you remember that desktop picture widget for GNOME I wrote about last year, but found it a bit too basic for your personalisation preferences, you weren’t alone. Another user felt it could lacked enough […]
An updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension to put now playing track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with animated flourishes, is out. If you’re prone some desk-side crooning, […]
Dropbeat is a new riff on an old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of […]
Mosaic brings automatic tiling to GNOME Shell, but without asking you to use it permanently. Turn it on when you want windows to arrange themselves, turn it off when you want floating windows back. The […]
The Desktop Icons NG (aka DING) GNOME Shell extension Ubuntu uses to put icons on your literal desktop, has been busy – it finished its port to GTK4, patched memory leaks and improved a few […]
Night Light Scheduler is a new GNOME Shell extension that lets you control how warm your screen is throughout the evening (or day). GNOME’s built-in Night Light feature offers a customisable daily schedule, and lets […]
Dynamic Music Pill, the blingy GNOME Shell extension that adds now playing track info, media controls and even real-time lyrics to your desktop, has gained some new options. “Like what?”, you ask… If you don’t […]
Quick Lofi is a GNOME Shell extension that puts a lofi radio player in your top bar. If you’ve ever opened a new browser tab to load a “lofi beats to study to” stream on YouTube […]
A clutch of new features are available in Dynamic Music Pill, the slick now playing and media controller extension for GNOME Shell. The “big” new addition is lyrics support. When you listen to a track […]
Pigeon Email Notifier is a GNOME Shell extension that does one thing: show a desktop notification when new mail arrives in your Gmail, Microsoft Outlook or IMAP webmail account. If you don’t want to leave a […]
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with two new extensions installed and active by default, both adding new search capabilities to the GNOME Shell Overview. The first new extension is Web Search Provider. This lets you initiate […]
Add animated media controls to your GNOME panel or dock with Dynamic Music Pill, a slick GNOME Shell extension showing album art, waveforms and track info.