Full Screen Preview

This GNOME Shell extension offers following features:

• Buttons to switch to left and right workspace
• Shows index of active workspace (click it for overview)
  • You can hide it (preferences/settings)
• Hides "Activities" button
  • You can turn this off (preferences/settings)

Supported GNOME Shell versions: 42, 43, 44

Installation

Use GNOME Extension Manager (or browser extension or any other tool) and search for "Workspace Switch Buttons"

OR follow these steps

• Download this repo, name the folder "workspace-switch-buttons@rajan-31" and move it to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

• Restart the GNOME Shell

  • For Wayland

    Logout and log back in

  • For X11

    Press alt + f2, type restart and press enter

• Run the command gnome-extensions enable workspace-switch-buttons@rajan-31

Feedback/Contribute

Feel free to create an issue if something is not working correctly. Any PRs are welcome.

Devlopment

Resources

https://gjs.guide/extensions/

https://gjs.guide/guides/gobject/basics.html#gobject-construction

https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/

https://gnome-shell-extension-examples.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gsettings1.html

Quick Reference

• Create new GNOME Shell Extension

  gnome-extensions create --interactive

• For testing, start a nested GNOME Shell session

  dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --nested --wayland

• Compile settings schema

  glib-compile-schemas ./schemas

• [no use in latest version] Copy settings schema to glib-2.0/schemas & compile

  sudo cp org.gnome.shell.extensions.workspace-switch-buttons.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
  
  sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

• Zip it zip ../[email protected] *

• Symbolic Icons /usr/share/icons/Yaru/scalable