42 Excellent GNOME Shell Extensions

33. WinTile

WinTile is a hotkey driven window tiling system for GNOME that imitates the standard Win-Arrow keys of Windows 10, allowing you to maximize, maximize to sides, or 1/4 sized to corner a window using just +.

It also supports:

• 1-5 columns for standard or ultrawide monitors.
• 1-5 rows for standard or ultrawide monitors.
• Mouse preview and snapping for placing tiles.
• “Maximize” mode, which adds/removes GNOME animations.
• Ultrawide-only mode allows 16:9 screens to use separate row/col counts.
• Portrait screens will automatically swap columns and rows.
• Adding gaps around tiles.

Website: nowsci.com/wintile

34. Colosseum

This extension is for the sports fans among you. It lets you view live scores for your favourite sports teams.

The extension supports the major European football tournaments including the English Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and UEFA Champions League.

American sports fans are catered for too with live scores for games from the MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL.

Website: github.com/sereneblue/gnome-shell-extension-colosseum

35. Impatience

Impatience is a simple extension which speeds up the GNOME Shell’s animation speed.

36. Todoit

Todoit is a basic todo list, but it might be all you need.

Features include:

• Add/remove/copy tasks.
• Toggle tasks progress.
• Toggle with a shortcut (Alt+Shift+Space).
• Focus on a specific task (moves the task to the top and highlight it with a background color).

Website: github.com/wassimbj/todoit-gnome

Next page: Page 10 – Panel corners, No overview at start-up, Caffeine, Luminus Shell

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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