Tiling Shell v18.0 | GNOME 51 support, right mouse button as activation key, keybinding to untile all the windows, bug fixes and more

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Release Strategy Update

Starting with Tiling Shell v18.0, the release strategy is changing! Tiling Shell has grown significantly over the years. It now supports GNOME 42 through GNOME 51, and every release requires extensive testing across multiple GNOME versions, desktop configurations, and features.

As a solo maintainer, thoroughly testing every feature has become increasingly time-consuming. Some features are also difficult for me to test directly because they require specific hardware or setups (for example, drawing tablet support).

From now on, new versions will first be published on GitHub as release candidates when they are considered feature-complete and nearly production-ready. This allows interested users to try new features earlier and provide feedback. Once the release has been validated by the community, it will be published on extensions.gnome.org.

Thank you to everyone who tests pre-releases and reports issues. Your feedback helps make Tiling Shell better for everyone!

How you can help

Testing is useful even when you don't find any issues. If you try a release candidate, please leave feedback and tell me:

• Your GNOME version
• Your distribution
• Whether everything worked as expected
• Any special setup worth to share (multiple monitors, drawing tablets, touchscreens, etc.)

A simple "Tested on GNOME 48 + Fedora 42, everything works fine" is extremely valuable because it helps confirm the release is ready for publication on extensions.gnome.org.

Grab the release candidate and share your testing results here!

The release will move to extensions.gnome.org after enough successful test reports across supported GNOME versions.

Release notes

• new: added support to GNOME 51
• fix: Since GNOME 49, fractional scaling (logical monitor layout mode) is enabled by default on Wayland and is no longer listed in mutter's experimental-features. The extension therefore assumed it was disabled and applied the monitor scale factor on top of the compositor's own scaling. At 150% scale this made the indicator menu, snap assistant, layout editor and tile previews 1.5x too big (the menu did not even fit the screen) and the window border too thick and misplaced. Thanks ScherbakovAl. Closes Bug: Snap Assistant appears too large at >100% display scaling on GNOME 50 #541
• new: added support for Right Mouse Button as activation key. This was one of the most requested feature, mainly because PowerToys from Windows does it and people love it. GNOME gave some technical challenges, but thanks to egme those were solved
• new: updated 🇮🇹 translation. Thanks albanobattistella
• new: updated 🇵🇱 translation. Thanks alewicki95 and septicwolf818
• new: updated 🇩🇪 translation. Thanks ChrisLauinger77
• new: updated 🇪🇸 translation. Thanks Pantareje
• new: added 🇷🇺 translation. Thanks NaumovSN
• new: updated 🇫🇷 translation. Thanks freemans32
• new: added support to GNOME 50. Closes GNOME 50 support #501 (This was already published when GNOME 50 came out, we are just including it in this release notes for the records 😃 )
• new: added keybinding to untile all the windows. Thanks RemyL
• new: added setting to allow changing the layouts of all the workspaces when selecting a layout in one workspace. Disabled by default, keeping the current behaviour. Thanks thameem-abbas
• new: Tiling Shell has a setting, normally disabled, to allow raising all the windows together when raising only one. In this update we are adding a second option to limit this raise-together behaviour to current display. Thanks timheide.
• fix: the Super key, when chosen as activation key, was no longer triggering tiling mode when dragging windows. Closes Super key activation broken in v17.3 #485. Thanks liuxiaopai-ai
• fix: disconnect some signals with the right ordering. Thanks brenjn
• fix: alt-tab race condition and signal handler leak. Thanks toabctl

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