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@parvezrob parvezrob released this 25 Sep 12:05
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v0.9.0
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The first public release of Jade Shell: Omarchy's look for the GNOME you already have. It's a beta. Everything it changes is recorded and can be undone.

Install

wget -qO- https://jadeshell.app/install | bash

Open the Terminal app, paste this line and press Enter. Don't download the files below by hand: the command checks your system, verifies the download and sets up your desktop, which a package installed by hand doesn't. It asks for your password once, then log out and back in once. The Welcome page opens at that first login: pick a theme, glass, icons, the Omarchy keymap and your weather city.

Needs GNOME 50. Tested on Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04. Atomic desktops (Silverblue and friends) aren't supported yet.

What's in it

  • 22 themes from Omarchy, dark and light, in a picker in the top bar (Super+Ctrl+Shift+Space). One click re-colors GNOME Shell, GNOME apps, Ptyxis, Kitty, Ghostty, Alacritty, VS Code, Neovim, btop, tmux, Starship, Obsidian, Vicinae and Claude Code.
  • A dock with magnification, genie minimize and bouncing launches, drawn on frosted glass and smooth on high refresh rate screens.
  • Tahoe icons in full color, folders in the theme's accent. They come with the package.
  • A redrawn top bar in the style of Omarchy's Quattro bar: numbered workspaces, weather by the clock, one icon family for every status icon, and Claude Code and Codex usage as one icon.
  • The Jade Menu (Super+Alt+Space): a keyboard menu for apps, capture, toggles, style, setup and the system.
  • Clipboard history, a screenshot card (Edit, copy Text, Pin), a color picker, copy text from screen and read QR codes.
  • A network panel: ping, DNS, a speed test and Wi-Fi sharing by QR code.
  • A system monitor, notifications behind a bell, a shortcut sheet (Super+K) and frosted glass for the bar and menus.
  • The Omarchy keymap, optional and fully reversible.
  • JetBrains Mono as the monospace font of GNOME and your terminals, as in Omarchy (unless you already chose one).
  • The Jade Shell app: every setting in one searchable window.

Undo

  • jade theme undo walks back theme switches, one at a time.
  • jade restore puts your desktop back as it was: extensions, keys, settings and configs. Your own edits are kept.
  • Remove it with the same install line plus bash -s -- --uninstall.

Known limits

  • The first install needs one logout, because GNOME loads extensions at login.
  • GNOME Software can't list Jade Shell yet. Updates come through dnf, apt, the installer or Jade's own update notification.
  • Not yet tested on real Intel GPUs. Wi-Fi was tested through a simulated access point.
  • Ghostty recolors live on a theme switch, but a window already open keeps its old title bar colors until you open a new one.
  • Please report anything odd at https://github.com/parvezrob/jade-shell/issues, with jade doctor output.

Thanks

Themes, templates and usage collectors come from Omarchy by DHH and Basecamp (MIT). The Tahoe icons are MacTahoe by Vince Liuice (GPL-3.0). Jade Shell is an independent project, not affiliated with Omarchy, Basecamp or GNOME.

Checksums: SHA256SUMS below. The installer checks the package against it before installing.

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