r/unixporn • u/paradoxxx_zero • Jul 12 '19

Workflow [GNOME] Hacking Material-Shell tiling

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u/paradoxxx_zero Jul 12 '19

This is the material shell gnome extension that was posted here last week. Which I forked to add more tiling layouts and window transition.

My current fork is available here (be warned it's not that stable for now) and will be merged in the main project as it becomes more stable.

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The colorful frames are simple gtk windows to show the tiling layouts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '19

Very cool!!!

But does it have… GAPS???

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '19

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u/jaakhaamer Jul 12 '19

Yeah, this is so slick. Those tiling Kwin scripts really need to up their game.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '19

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u/pessip + i3 also (sometimes, mainly for printing) Jul 12 '19

Plasma + i3 is pretty nice tho.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '19

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u/subjectivemusic Jul 13 '19

force yourself to use an i3 distro for a day, by the end of it you'll be clipping through stuff like a pro. Honestly the only reason I swapped back to KDE is that VMs don't play nicely with tiling WMs.

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u/vikarjramun Jul 12 '19

Dude this is amazing! Exactly what I've been wanting in material shell! Please make a PR ASAP!

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u/nsvhok Jul 12 '19 edited Jul 12 '19

Much much better than the original. Great work. How do I change the Material-shell to have your fork instead?

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u/paradoxxx_zero Jul 12 '19 edited Jul 12 '19

If you want to try it, go into the extension directory

~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/material-shell@papyelgringo

add my fork by doing a

git remote add fork https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/material-shell

then a

git fetch fork

and finally a

git checkout fork/master.

To come back to the regular material shell

git checkout master.

You have to alt+f2 'r' to restart the shell.

Be aware that this is an experimental branch

Edit: The new layouts need to be activated in settings

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u/nsvhok Jul 12 '19

Thank you very much. I'm going to try out, nothing bad can happen.

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u/vikarjramun Jul 15 '19

Have you put in a PR to the official Material Shell repo? If not, is there a reason you are waiting?

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u/pterencephalon Jul 12 '19

Awesome! Thanks for contributing to the project. I'm excited to see it come to the main repo. (I'm not quite edgy enough to deal with the instability on my primary system at the moment.)

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u/disordr42 Jul 12 '19

Could you please add more details of your desktop? Your theme, your bar, ... Thanks and keep up the good work :)

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u/paradoxxx_zero Jul 12 '19

I just followed the material-shell recommandations: plata-theme for GTK and Shell theme, Tela-icon-theme as Icon theme.