Refine is an app that lets you find and tweak advanced or otherwise hidden features within GNOME. Mess about with your desktop's theme: it's cursor, icons and fonts. Then, edit the behaviour of your mouse and it's buttons! It lets you change window behaviour, and lets you optimise their functionality for your workflow. To tinker with GNOME, download Refine!

You can follow the app's author here: @TheEvilSkeleton

You can get the app on Flathub here: https://flathub.org/apps/page.tesk.Refine

#gnome #apps #flatpak

#Fedora #GNOME #Wayland - which is the default Fedora desktop.

Very clean, non-distracting and easy to use.

Successfully installed and recommended this year: Universal Blue Atomic Releases based on Fedora

Flatpak and brew all the way, always up to date and indestructable

#KDE > #aurora > https://getaurora.dev/
#gnome > #bluefin > https://projectbluefin.io/

Bluefin

The next generation cloud-native Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.

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In GNOME File Manager (Nautilus), you can invert the selection of items using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+I.

#linux #gnome

You can check whether installed extensions will be compatible with a future GNOME release by using Upgrade Assistant on GNOME extensions manager.

#linux #gnome

Get the disk usage of a folder in GNOME. In the Nautilus file manager, right-click on a folder and select Open ➝ Open With.

Now, from the list of apps, select “Disk Usage Analyzer” and click “Open”. This will open a storage analysis for that folder.

#linux #gnome

Get ready for official KDE and GNOME distributions!

https://news.itsfoss.com/kde-gnome-official-distro

#kde #gnome

KDE is Making its Own Distro, and So is GNOME

KDE and GNOME are gearing up to build their own Linux distributions. What does this mean? Let's find out!

^{Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)}

Delay the repeated insertion of the same characters on GNOME when pressing and holding a key.

Go into Settings > Accessibility, then inside the “Typing” menu, add a delay for “Repeat Keys”.

#linux #gnome

In GNOME's new text editor, you can change the case of a word without typing it again. Just select the word, right-click on it and go into “Change Case”.

#linux #gnome

GNOME 47 'Denver' released with Accent Colours and various System Enhancements https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/gnome-47-denver-released-with-accent-colours-and-various-system-enhancements/

#GNOME #Linux

GNOME considering a new default font!

https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-default-font/

#linux #gnome

Now GNOME Aims to Change the Default Font

Ready to welcome a new default font on the GNOME desktop?

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

Today we have a app developer and general fan of the GTK toolkit on the show to chat about the value of libadwaita and some of the choices that come out of the connection with #GNOME #Linux #Podcast

Video Release: https://youtu.be/i9LdipmWbsw

Audio Release: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/The-Great-Libadwaita-Debate--Gabmus-e2lmhpi

#227 The Great Libadwaita Debate | Gabmus

Recently a developer involved in GTK app development reached out to me wanting to discuss the state of the toolkit and why he is a lot more positive than I a...

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Finally, you can pick your color for GNOME setup and try VR:

https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-accent-color-vr/

#linux #gnome

Accent Color and VR Support for GNOME is Ready

Accent colors making a debut on GNOME along with future-ready VR support.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

DRM lease protocol support finally merged for GNOME Wayland - great for VR fans https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/drm-lease-protocol-support-finally-merged-for-gnome-wayland-great-for-vr-fans/

#VR #Linux #GNOME #FOSS

There's a new video player in town. 📽️

https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-showtime/

#linux #gnome

GNOME to Ditch Totem With New 'Showtime' Video Player App

It's time for a modern video player app on GNOME.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

I was sad to find a surprising lack of visual scripting apps for Linux. Apple's Shortcuts app is very powerful and can be incredibly useful. It's not like we don't have the technical ability to make something similar.

So I started working on one myself

#Linux #GNOME

New article: "Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language"

https://tesk.page/2024/06/03/libadwaita-splitting-gtk-and-design-language/

#GNOME #GTK #Libadwaita #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GTK4 #Development

Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language

Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments.

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

To illustrate just how utterly boneheaded #GNOME UI design has become, I present you with Geary.

1. This is the minimum size of the window. If I make it any narrower, the email portion will disappear and the email list will expand to cover the entire area.
2. But! You say, you can use the column dividers, to resize the individual columns, right? Nope, the GNOME/Geary people think you should not be able to resize the columns manually like you could before. No explanation, just fuck you.
3. So. Much. Whitespace. The amount of whitespace wasted in Geary is absolutely batshit insane. This window could present the same amount of information while taking up half the screenspace and still be 100% clear and usable.
4. Related to 3, no options to change density or other options to reduce this whitespace hellscape.

This one fucking email client takes up nearly my entire 2x 4K display. I can't believe we let these people define the 'default' Linux desktop and let them get away with it.

As a long-time XFCE-user I can fully subscribe to the conclusion of this article: »non-GNOME GTK desktop environments need to work together to formulate an answer to the onslaught of libadwaita and the GNOME-ification of GTK. […] If they don’t, there won’t be an XFCE in a few years. What’s the point in developing XFCE if you’re at the mercy of whatever choices GNOME makes?« https://www.osnews.com/story/139512/linux-mint-non-gnome-gtk-desktop-environments-need-to-work-together-in-the-face-of-libadwaita/

#GNOME #XFCE #GTK #libadwaita

Tired of the default look? Check out how you can customize the top panel on GNOME:

https://itsfoss.com/customize-gnome-top-panel/

#linux #gnome

Fedora Linux 40 is HERE! Check out all our latest variants for desktop, server, and more.

New features include:
* @kde Plasma 6
* @gnome 46
* Fedora Atomic Desktops (rebrand for Silverblue et al)
* PyTorch / ROCm
* And more!

Learn more and try Fedora 40 today! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Gnome #KDE

ignoring state files, it's usually a mess for WM without DE.

Many Linux/WM developers don't follow convention over configuration...

I recently tried #hyprland, which is currently the only WM/DE in stable #NixOS with wayland fractional scaling support.

And, I spent so much time to get just some bar/panel working, that was ugly and very limited in functionality compared to #GNOME shell (I used before.- very nice) or KDE, or XFCE.

I ended up switching to #KDE and NixOS unstable.

I do most of my #screenshots with the default tool from @gnome. Sometimes, however, when I like to highlight elements, I prefer to use #Shutter. 🔗 https://shutter-project.org

Today, I accidentally came across this older article from @itsfoss and learned, you can actually also use @GIMP for taking screenshots. (file > create > screenshot)

It''s pretty cool if editing is necessary since it opens the image in #Gimp.

👉 https://itsfoss.com/take-screenshot-linux/

#linux #opensource #gnome #libregraphics #foss #itsfoss

GNOME 46 is out now with experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/gnome-46-is-out-now-with-experimental-variable-refresh-rate-vrr-support/

#GNOME #Linux

GNOME pulls in experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support for GNOME 46 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/gnome-pulls-in-experimental-variable-refresh-rate-vrr-support-for-gnome-46/

#GNOME #VRR #Linux

Just sharing some love for Planify, a todo list and planning application for #GNOME that supports both Nextcloud and Todoist sync

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.alainm23.planify

Install Planify on Linux | Flathub

Forget about forgetting things

^Flathub

Hey Fedi! We're hosting a panel at SCALE 21x with some of the major players in the Linux desktop ecosystem to discuss where we go from here, any big ideas you want us to discuss?

Here's our list as of now: https://outline.fyralabs.com/s/8f1ce882-0760-4041-97e8-2dca17ddb8bd

And the abstract: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/where-does-linux-desktop-go-here

Post your ideas in the replies!

#foss #linux #oss #opensource #gnome #kde #stardustxr #stardust #vanillaos #xdg #scale21x

Watched the last episode of TechOverTea by @BrodieOnLinux , with Georges Stavracas, a great lead dev in Gnome, Wayland, you name it. The amount of shiite and harassment he, and many other FOSS people have to suffer is simply staggering. And no, it's not 'them', it is from the 'free and opensource community'. It's by us. Think about that and let it sink in. We have to do better for them and act, no coffee talk. As a true community.
https://youtu.be/cOzTz6GQ64E?feature=shared

#foss #gnome

GNOME Developers Suffer Constant Harassment

GNOME is by far the biggest target of harassment in the FOSS space but it's by no means unique to GNOME this happens to basically every project with any noti...

^YouTube

Tech Over Tea: Wayland & Portals Are The Future Of Linux | Georges Stavracas
Starting from: 01:16:20

Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/Wayland--Portals-Are-The-Future-Of-Linux--Georges-Stavracas-e2bolnv

Media file: https://anchor.fm/s/149fd51c/podcast/play/78451903/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2023-10-10%2Fd9758469-0b47-af29-fdd3-6920c96946c0.mp3#t=4580

Georges talks about online bullying issues faced by GNOME devs

@BrodieOnLinux #GNOME #OpenSource

And I think he hinted towards the Funding for Accessibility stack too 😉