GNOME Shell Extension - Blur Me

A GNOME Shell extension to blur:

Applications | Dash | Overview | Dash | Panel | Onscreen Keyboard | & More!

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A GNOME Shell extension that adds a blur look to different parts of the GNOME Shell, including the top panel, dash and overview.

Functionalities:

• blur dash with opacity prefs
• blur panel
• blur overview
• blur appfolders
• blur workspaces separation
• change lockscreen blur settings
• change appgrid's folders background blur intensity
• choose between static blur (generated once) and dynamic blur (generated each frame) for panel blur
• change performances settings

This extension is guaranteed to be compatible with the following extensions:

• Dash to Dock (from dash blur switch)
• Dash to Panel (from panel blur switch)
• Window List (from dedicated switch)
• Hide Top Bar (from dedicated option)

Screenshots

Blurred Overview:

Blurred Top Panel:

Preferences:

Known bugs

Note

This extension can be buggy, as the gnome-shell's blur implementation is quite flawed in some ways.

To entirely remove artifacts from the top panel, you can use static blur with the appropriate switch, use static blur.

Moreover, if you don't use static blur, selecting no artefacts in the settings allows the blur to regenerate itself a lot better, at the expense of CPU time (but cannot currently tell the difference, less than 0.5% CPU on my middle-range i5)

Selecting another profile might be enough (especially if you have disabled animations and/or windows borders), feel free to test!

List of bugs

• artifacts on blurred parts gnome shell bug
• some apps may become transparent, a weird issue...
• cannot create rounded blur (so no rounded dash-to-dock, or panel corners, ...)
• overview blur is transparent on second monitor when using Wayland, sometimes :(
• etc (see in issues)

If you find other bugs, please report them!

Advanced

Install from source

To install the latest version (though maybe unstable), use the makefile:

git clone https://github.com/ckissane/blur-me
cd blur-me
make install

And restart GNOME Shell if needed.

Force overview blur update

In case you have problems with your dynamic timed wallpaper not being updated due to using third-party process to change the wallpaper, you can force the overview blur to be updated with the command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-opacity 99 && gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-opacity 100

Versions support

The current extension supports these GNOME Shell versions:

• 41 -- master branch
• 40 -- master branch

License

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.