Gridgets — Release Notes
Gridgets is a grid-based desktop widget extension for GNOME Shell. Snap clocks, weather, system monitors, notes, music, and more onto a responsive desktop grid, then drag, resize, and style each widget independently.
Supported GNOME Shell versions:
45,46,47,48,49,50.
Features ✨
- Grid Desktop Widgets — Snap widgets to a clean, responsive grid; drag, resize, and reposition each widget freely.
- Built-in Widgets (via the Store):
- Weather — Standard, Minimal, and Forecast layouts with current conditions, temperature, and hourly forecasts.
- Music Player — Compact and wide layouts showing currently playing media with album art and controls.
- Time & Date — Digital clock, multi-city World Clock, and a monthly Calendar.
- Media — Image / animated GIF widgets and crossfading Image Slideshows from a folder.
- System — System Dashboard (CPU, temperature, tasks, network, RAM), System Monitor (CPU/RAM), and Network Speed tracker.
- Productivity — Pomodoro Timer, Quick Notes (markdown sticky notes), Clipboard History, Command Launcher (bash scripts), App Launcher (up to 8 apps), and a rotating Quotes widget.
- Panel — Screen Time tracker and a Store Panel Button for quick widget access.
- Individual Styling — Customize colors, fonts, border radii, and border widths for every widget.
- Theme Presets — Gruvbox, Catppuccin, Nord, Tokyo Night, Solarized, and Dracula color themes.
- Global Settings — Grid columns, global font family, default weather city, multi-monitor target, and more.
- Resource Efficient — Uses a single background polling loop to keep CPU and battery usage minimal.
Installation 🚀
- Download the latest release zip:
gridgets@rebatnaath.github.com.shell-extension.zip - Install:
gnome-extensions install --force gridgets@rebatnaath.github.com.shell-extension.zip
- Restart GNOME Shell (log out/in on Wayland, or
Alt+F2→ron X11). - Enable:
gnome-extensions enable gridgets@rebatnaath.github.com
Configuration ⚙️
Open the Extensions (or Extension Manager) app and click the gear icon next to Gridgets to configure the grid, appearance, and individual widgets.
Known Issues ⚠️
- Weather widgets overlay image has rounded corners by default. The overlay image behind weather widgets is rounded by default; this is not currently configurable.
- Music player sometimes does not show thumbnails. Album art may fail to render at certain times (e.g. depending on the media provider or playback state).
- Calendar widget custom corner radius only applies to the bottom corners. The top corners of the calendar widget are not affected by the custom border-radius setting.
- Some widgets have inconsistent font scaling. A few widgets do not scale their fonts correctly relative to the global font size setting.