24 Excellent GNOME Extensions (Updated)

Last Updated on June 12, 2023

This article has been superseded by 33 Excellent GNOME Extensions.

13. No Topleft Hot Corner

The top left hot corners functionality is one of those marmite features; you either love it or hate it.

Here’s a really tiny extension. It does one thing, but it does it well. The extension disables those top left hot corners. We won’t trouble you with a video of the extension in action.

This extension helps our workflow by stopping us accidentally triggering the hot corner. GNOME Tweaks used to include this functionality, but following its removal, No Topleft Hot Corner silently and stealthy steps into the breach.

The extension doesn’t stop you clicking on Activities or press the dedicated key to reach the overview.

Website: github.com/HROMANO/nohotcorner

14. you2ber

We couldn’t leave out a treat for video enthusiasts. you2ber is a GNOME shell extension for youtube-dl, a popular YouTube downloader. This extension helps to download media content from online video services and convert the download to an appropriate format.

Features include:

• Quality presets up to 8K Video (4320p) with audio.
• Audio extraction.
• Video tracks downloading.
• Subtitles downloading.
• Custom mixing audio and video formats.
• Clipboard support.

You’ll need ffmpeg and youtube-dl installed on your system.

Website: https://github.com/konkor/you2ber

15. Media Player Indicator

Here’s another multimedia extension. This extension is a media player indicator that controls any media player (providing they are MPRIS v2.1 capable). MPRIS stands for Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification, a standard D-Bus interface which aims to provide a common programmatic API for controlling media players.

It lets you control music from your GNOME shell. This extension controls several music players effortlessly.

Features include:

• 4 positions: left, center or right in its own menu, or in the system menu.
• Interactive indicator icon: scroll (next/previous), middle click (play/pause).
• Playlist support.
• Tracklist support.
• Shuffle and repeat support.
• Rating support (Not a part of the MPRIS specification, there’s limited support with player specific code).

Website: https://github.com/webmastak/gnome-shell-extensions-mediaplayer

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Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Dash to Dock, Arc Menu, Timezone
Page 2 – Window List, Drop Down Terminal X, OpenWeather
Page 3 – GSConnect, Switcher, Auto Move Windows
Page 4 – Internet Radio, ShellTile, Gno-Menu
Page 5 – No Topleft Hot Corner, you2ber, Media Player Indicator
Page 6 – NetSpeed, Clipboard Indicator, Workspaces-to-Dock
Page 7 – Places Status Indicator, Time ++, Coverflow Alt-Tab
Page 8 – Desktop Icons, Extensions, Activities Configurator