Extension Manager

A native tool for browsing, installing, and managing GNOME Shell Extensions

^{Written with GTK 4 and libadwaita}

📋 Features

The tool supports:

• Browsing and searching extensions from extensions.gnome.org
• Installation and Removal
• Enabling and Disabling
• Updating in-app (See 'Known Issues')
• Screenshots & Images
• Ratings & Comments
• Translations (add your language!)

If there's something you'd like to see, contributions are welcome!

⚠️ Known Issues

Extensions are not being updated

Updates do not work out of the box on GNOME 40 and certain older versions of GNOME 41 and 42 unless the official GNOME Extensions app is also installed. See here for details and a simple workaround: Wiki Page

💬 Community

We now have a matrix room for Extension Manager.

Join and say hello! https://matrix.to/#/#extension-manager:matrix.org

💻 Installing

Flatpak is the recommended way to install Extension Manager.

You can get the latest version from flathub by clicking the button below. There may also be independently-maintained packages available for your distribution.

Third Party Packages

You may also be able to obtain Extension Manager from your distribution's package manager. Note these packages are maintained independently and thus may differ from the official version on Flathub. Please report any issues experienced to the package maintainer.

🌐 Translations

Extension Manager has been translated into several different languages. Ideally, the program will respect your system language out-of-the-box. However, you may need to take some additional steps in order for flatpak to recognise your chosen locale. The following workaround may work for you:

Set the languages you wish to use explicitly (e.g. en for English, es for Español):

# Optionally add --user if installed in a user prefix
flatpak config --set languages 'en;es'

Then update:

flatpak update

Now Extension Manager should respect your system language.

⏰ Using Unsupported Extensions

GNOME Shell will not load extensions that were not designed for your current version. You can override this behaviour by manually disabling GNOME Shell's version check. Extension Manager will respect this preference and allow you to use unsupported extensions fully.

Note that unsupported extensions will likely not work as intended and may introduce instability to your system. The version check should therefore be disabled at your own risk.

Turn off the version check and allow unsupported extensions:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation true

Use the default setting and return to safety:

gsettings reset org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation

🔨 Building

The easiest way to build is by cloning this repo with GNOME Builder. It will automatically resolve all relevant flatpak SDKs automatically.

Extension Manager needs the GNOME 43 SDK in order to build.

Dependencies

Extension Manager depends on the following libraries:

• gettext
• gtk4
• libadwaita
• libjson-glib
• libsoup
• blueprint
• text-engine

On Debian-based distributions, the required dependencies can be installed with the following command:

sudo apt install blueprint-compiler gettext libadwaita-1-dev libgtk-4-dev libjson-glib-dev libsoup-3.0-dev libtext-engine-dev meson

Building From Source

meson setup _build
ninja -C _build
ninja install -C _build