Extensions / Widgets

24 Excellent GNOME Extensions (Updated)

Last Updated on June 12, 2023

This article has been superseded by 33 Excellent GNOME Extensions.


16. NetSpeed

NetSpeed

This extension shows your internet speed (both download and upload speeds) in the top bar. It’s a very convenient and unobtrusive way of tracking your download and upload traffic transfer rates.

By clicking the middle mouse button you can toggle the output to show the sum of download and upload speeds. And right clicking shows statistics per device.

Other options that you can configure are the timer (in milliseconds), the number of digits to display, set the label size, unit label size, and menu label size. With our GNOME desktop it’s necessary to increase the label size by a few points. You can also have the extension show the sum of the download and upload speed by default.

There’s internationalization support with translations for Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, and others.

Website: https://github.com/hedayaty/NetSpeed


17. Clipboard Indicator

Clipboard Indicator

This extension is a helpful productivity extension. Clipboard Indicator adds a clipboard indicator to the top panel, and caches clipboard history. It’s very simple and easy to use.

Features include:

  • Configurable history size.
  • Configurable preview size.
  • Change the refresh interval.
  • Define the maximum cache file size.
  • Option to cache only favorites.
  • Private mode.
  • Keyboard shortcuts – toggle the menu, clear history, go to previous entry, and go to next entry.

Website: https://github.com/Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator/


18. Workspaces-to-Dock

Workspaces to Dock

Workspaces-to-Dock is a GNOME Shell extension that transforms the workspaces of the overview mode into an intelligent dock. The dock is positioned and sized to maintain tight integration with the GNOME Shell.

Workspaces-To-Dock merges the favorites dash and the workspaces thumbnails into one dock for convenient application and workspace navigation/management.

The extension has bags of options, letting you fine-tune it to your specific preferences.

Website: https://github.com/passingthru67/workspaces-to-dock


Next page: Page 7 – Places Status Indicator, Time++, Coverflow Alt-Tab

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

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Petar
Petar
5 years ago

An excellent article!!! Many thanks ^_^

Dmitry Semenov
Dmitry Semenov
5 years ago

Another time save is launcher Argos, https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1176/argos/
so you can create your own launchers (scripts, URLs, apps) from top panel

I have links to Jira, internal development services of the company used, start/stop VPN, record desktop (screencasting) etc. You can define how often to query what to display in the drop down. Mine is set to 10seconds, therefore it changes statuses when my VPN is UP or DOWN….very nice extension.