kazysmaster/gnome-shell-extension-disable-unredirect

Disables unredirect fullscreen windows in gnome-shell to workaround https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767397

(bug, when clicking on full screen windows goes through to windows underneath).

This also happens to fix screen tearing in full-screen windows.

Install

From Gnome extensions website

extensions.gnome.org

From source

Download this extension from GitHub and extract it into the appropriate location:

ext=~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions; mkdir -p "$ext" && cd "$ext" && curl -LkSs https://api.github.com/repos/kazysmaster/gnome-shell-extension-disable-unredirect/tarball | tar -xvz --wildcards --strip 1 "kazysmaster-gnome-shell-extension-disable-unredirect-???????/[email protected]"

Then press ALT-F2 and enter r and press enter to restart gnome-shell.

Then in Firefox visit extensions.gnome.org and enable the extension under "Installed Extensions".

If you don't see the extension you might have to add your version of GNOME shell to this file (located at ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/metadata.json).

gnome-shell-extension-disable-unredirect's Issues

Add license

Hi,
I want to package this software for Arch Linux. It is required to add a license in order to properly distribute packages. In this simple case I suggest using MIT license or GPL3.

Extension stops working after some time

After gnome has been running for some time, the extension stops working, requiring to disable and enable it again to make it work again.

Readme.MD install command should include a mkdir to create the extensions folder

mkdir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions

I hadn't installed any extensions on my computer yet, and since that folder did not exist, the installation didn't work correctly. You should add this to the install command to cover all the bases.

Add GNOME 46 support

GNOME 46 is now available on some distros, could you please update the extension to work on them? It will probably just require changing the metadata.

Gnome 40 support

When this extension will support Gnome 40?

Gnome 45 support?

Hello there and thank you for this extension!

Are there any plans to support the upcoming Gnome Shell, version 45?

Unfortunately, because of esm modules, the updated extensions can only work with gnome 45. Here you can find the port guide.

Thanks!

PS: I see that you also have some other extensions. I also use the Lock Keys one. The Gnome 45 support question applies to rest, as well, I guess 😅

Any reason not to add this to extensions.gnome.org?

There's this similar extension:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1445/fix-fullscreen-tearing/

that's currently broken in 3.32 and includes a button which doesn't seem useful. From the code this does just what is needed. Why not submit it to the site?

Thank you so much for making this extension

I had this issue with the cursor disappearing in full screen flatpak game apps in a wayland session in Endless OS 5.
This extension fixed the issue thank you!

gnome 42 update

This extension is no longer loaded after gnome was updated to version 42. In games in full screen, i could no longer see my mouse again. I manually edited metadata.json located at: ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/ and added a 42 to the file and logged out of gnome and logged back in, and it still works as expected and fixes the issue.

The extension should probably be updated, since it appears that gnome still has the problem and the extension still fixes the issue.

Thanks for the great extension.

Not working anymore

With the recent update to Gnome 3.30 on Arch Linux the Meta.disable_unredirect_for_screen command no longer exists. Do you know if it has been renamed or is that it for disable unredirect.

Thank you.

Point to updated bug report in README

Pointed bugs in README and extensions.gnome.org page are already tagged as resolved... could the updated reference be added?

Thanks!