sashinexists / material-shell

New shell for Linux as Gnome Extension following the Material-design guidelines. Proposing a performant and simple opinionated mouse / keyboard workflow to increase daily productivity and comfort

Material Shell

A simple, productivity oriented GNOME Shell replacement that provides an innovative and automated mouse and keyboard workflow which aims to be faster and easier to use and creates a great user experience.

Made by following the Material Design guidelines - a solid baseline that allows us to provide an aesthetically pleasing and highly accessible interface.

The project is based on my earlier work on Material Awesome.

Read more about the workflow and Material Shell

Demo

Discord

Get notified about updates and join me on the Material Shell Discord!

STATUS: BETA (expect bugs!)

REQUIRES: gnome-shell >= 3.34.0

Installation

1. Download the extension. Depending on your distribution, there are several ways to acquire it:

Distribution	Install via	Command
Arch Linux	AUR	yay -S gnome-shell-extension-material-shell-git
Fedora	DNF	sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-material-shell
Others	source	git clone https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/material-shell@papyelgringo

(We appreciate package maintainers! If you would like to make a package available for your distro please submit a PR so it can be added here!)

2. Reload GNOME Shell:

• On X.org: Hit Alt+F2 and type the command r
• On Wayland: Log out and back in

3. Open gnome-tweaks and activate the Material Shell extension OR enable it using

gnome-extensions enable material-shell@papyelgringo

Workflow Hotkeys

Some hotkeys might already be used by GNOME Shell - please check your keybindings first.

Desktop navigation

• Super+W Navigate to the upper workspace/category.
• Super+S Navigate to the lower workspace/category.
• Super+A Focus the window at the left of the current window.
• Super+D Focus the window at the right of the current window.
• Super+1, Super+2 ... Super+0 Navigate to specific workspace

Window manipulation

• Super+Q Kill the current window focused.
• Super+[MouseDrag] Move window around.
• Super+Shift+A Move the current window to the left.
• Super+Shift+D Move the current window to the right.
• Super+Shift+W Move the current window to the upper workspace.
• Super+Shift+S Move the current window to the lower workspace.

Extra Hotkeys

• Super+Space Cycle the tiling layout of the current workspace.
• Super+Escape Toggle the UI of Material-shell, like a Zen mode.

Recommended Additional Configuration

• GTK and GNOME Shell theme: Plata Theme
• Icon theme: Tela Icon Theme

Uninstallation 😢

We're sad to see you go. Before you uninstall, leave us some feedback by opening an issue - it will be very helpful in improving Material Shell.

1. Open gnome-tweaks and disable the Material Shell extension OR disable it using

gnome-extensions disable material-shell@papyelgringo

2. Delete the extension directory.

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