42 Excellent GNOME Shell Extensions

5. Custom Hot Corners – Extended

This extension offers a huge collection of actions that allows you navigate and control the GNOME Shell environment and windows and launch applications and scripts not only through the corners and edges of your monitors, but also using the custom keyboard shortcuts.

Website: github.com/G-dH/custom-hot-corners-extended

6. Vitals

Vitals offers an easy way to monitor your computer’s temperature, voltage, fan speed, memory usage, CPU load, storage and more. It is an aptly named extension giving you all your essential system information.

The configuration options are particularly useful including the polling intervals, the option to select which sensors to show, and more.

Monitoring storage didn’t seem to work on our system. We’re not sure if this is an issue with the version of GNOME we’re running. Share in the comments section if this functionality works for you.

Website: github.com/corecoding/Vitals

7. Net speed Simplified

Net speed Simplified is the neatest network traffic monitor. We particularly like its clean user interface. There is plenty of customization to tailor the extension to your liking.

Website: github.com/prateekmedia/netspeedsimplified

8. 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, but would benefit from a few more options.

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

Next page: Page 3 – Desktop Icons NG, GSConnect, Recent Items, ddterm

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Dash to Dock, Arc Menu, OpenWeather Refined, Window-List
Page 2 – Custom Hot Corners – Extended, Vitals, Net speed Simplified, Clipboard Indicator
Page 3 – Desktop Icons NG, GSConnect, Recent Items, ddterm
Page 4 – Auto Move Windows, Places Status Indicator, Cronomix, Just Perfection
Page 5 – Top Panel Workspace Scroll, Picture of the Day, System monitor, Hanabi
Page 6 – Removable Drive Menu, V-Shell, Extension List, Frippery Panel Favorites
Page 7 – BlurMyShell, Burn My Windows, Coverflow Alt-Tab, PaperWM
Page 8 – Emoji Copy, Tiling Assistant, Hide Activities Button, App Menu is Back
Page 9 – WinTile, Colosseum, Impatience, Todoit
Page 10 – Panel corners, No overview at start-up, Caffeine, Luminus Shell
Page 11 – Lilypad Top Bar Manager, Dash to Panel, Tiling Shell

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