Quick Close in Overview

GNOME shell extension for quickly closing apps in the overview.

Features

• Middle click to close: Just hover over the app you want to close in the overview, and middle click. The mouse button that will trigger closing can be adjusted in the settings.
• Alt+F4 in the overview: When triggering the close action (typically Alt+F4), the focused window will be closed. This can be turned off in the settings.
• Adjustable rearrange delay: After closing an application, GNOME will wait a bit before rearranging the remaining windows. This extension allows configuring that delay.

Building

Make sure gettext is installed on your system and the gnome-extensions executable is available on your PATH (It is typically bundled with gnome-shell).

Afterwards, simply run make to build a zip suitable for submission to EGO.

make install can also be used to install the extension for the current user.

Packaging

# Build
make pack

# Install
make install-system PREFIX=/usr

For a successful build, these binaries need to be present:

• gnome-extensions
• glib-compile-schemas
• unzip

Translations

If you're interested in contributing a translation, import the translation template file under src/po/template.pot to your favourite po-editing software and create a *.po file under src/po.

To update all existing translations after changing the code, run make po. To regenerate only the template.pot file, run make pot.

Debugging

• journalctl -f --user is your friend.
• make install && dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --nested --wayland allows for quick prototyping without having to log out and back in every single time when running under wayland.
  • For Gnome 49+, this becomes gnome-shell --devkit, which needs mutter-devkit to be installed.
  • Running dbus-run-session -- $SHELL and then make install && gnome-shell --devkit inside the spawned shell can make for a much faster debugging cycle.
• make install, then Alt+F2, r and Enter allow for quick prototyping under X11.