/gnome-shell-extension-wbe

Apply effects to windows being in background

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gnome-shell-extension-wbe

Apply effects on Windows in backgound (not focused).

  • Desaturation filter 0 to 100%
  • Brightness adjustment -100% to 100%
  • Contrast adjustment -100% to 100%
  • Blur effect
  • NEW: apply filters in Overview mode

Please report any bugs and/or feature requests here:

https://github.com/lviggiani/gnome-shell-extension-wbe/issues

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Credits: credits also go to Florian Mounier aka paradoxxxzero which I got the inspiration and some code hinting from. You may find his original project here:

https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-focus-effects-extension (please do not report any issues on this)

CHANGES:

Version 9:

  • Added support to Docky
  • Various translations

Version 8:

  • Apply filters to the Overview mode desktop

Version 7:

  • Fixed the issue causing troubles to other extensions (thanks to UshakovVasilii patch)
  • Do not blur any windows belonging to the active App

Version 6:

  • Skip aways above windows (Felipe Morales)
  • Skip vertically maximized windows (Felipe Morales)
  • Multilanguage support and German translation (Jonnius)

Version 5:

  • Fixed behaviour with child windows
  • Added suppor to other cases (e.g. Gimp in multi window mode)

Version 4:

  • fixed issue #6: implemented user preferences
  • bug fixes

Version 3:

  • fixed issue #1: Ability to exclude windows
  • fixed issue #4: Added multi-display support
  • tentative fix for issue #5: prevent destkop from being blurred (e.g. with conky). For this I need testing on gnome prior to 3.14 as I cant reproduce here.

Version 2:

  • fixed issue with Windows of the same application (added patch from Kevin MacMartin, thanks man!)