A material tiling shell replacement for GNOME Shell to simplify your workflow and accelerate your productivity.
The project is based on my earlier work on Material Awesome. This GNOME Shell extension provides a performant, opinionated mouse/keyboard workflow and follows the Material Design guidelines.
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- Clone the project to the gnome-shell extensions folder:
git clone https://github.com/PapyElGringo/material-shell.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/material-shell@papyelgringo- Reload GNOME Shell:
- On X.org: Hit
Alt+F2and type the commandr - On Wayland: Log out and back in
- Open
gnome-tweaksand activate theMaterial-shellextension OR enable it using
gnome-shell-extension-tool -e material-shell@papyelgringo- You can choose to install using the Arch Linux User-Community Repository (AUR) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-material-shell-git/
Assuming you're using yay:
yay -S gnome-shell-extension-material-shell-git
- Reload GNOME Shell:
- On X.org: Hit
Alt+F2and type the commandr - On Wayland: Log out and back in
- Open
gnome-tweaksand activate theMaterial-shellextension OR enable it using
gnome-shell-extension-tool -e material-shell@papyelgringoSome hotkeys might already be used by GNOME Shell - please check your keybindings first.
Super+WNavigate to the upper workspace/category.Super+SNavigate to the lower workspace/category.Super+AFocus the window at the left of the current window.Super+DFocus the window at the right of the current window.
Super+QKill the current window focused.Super+[MouseDrag]Move window around.Super+Shift+AMove the current window to the left.Super+Shift+DMove the current window to the right.Super+Shift+WMove the current window to the upper workspace.Super+Shift+SMove the current window to the lower workspace.
Super+SpaceCycle the tiling layout of the current workspace.Super+EscapeToggle the UI of Material-shell, like a Zen mode.
- Get Plata Theme as the GTK and shell theme
- Get Tela Icon Theme as the icon theme
