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Installing a Gnome Desktop Extension in Ubuntu

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Installing a Gnome Desktop Extension in Ubuntu

To distract myself from England’s ongoing woes at the Cricket World Cup, I’ve been playing the simple-yet-addictive London Tube Map Memory Game .
Having not taken the tube for a few years now, it’s proving something of a challenge.
It doesn’t help that they’ve added quite a few stations recently.
Another test of my memory occurs on those rare occasions where I want to terminate a frozen window on my Gnome desktop.
There’s an excellent utility called xkill which does the job…and which I can never remember the name of !
Fortunately there is a Gnome Shell Extension which will add an icon to the gnome-panel at the top of the screen so
it’s only a mouse-click away…

Let’s start with a quick look at xkill in action :

My Versions

Before we go any further, it’s probably a good idea to confirm which versions of Ubuntu and Gnome I currently have running.

For Ubuntu itself :

cat /etc/release
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS \n \l

…and for Gnome…

gnome-shell --version 
GNOME Shell 42.9

Installing Extensions Manager

One way to manage Gnome Shell Extensions is to install the appropriately named Extension Manager.
To do this, open a Terminal and run :

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

Once installed, you should then find Extension Manager in Activities :

Extension Manager application found in the Gnome Activities search

Open it and you’ll see

Extension Manager initial screen showing installed Gnome Extensions

Click the Browse tab to search for extensions

Search Tab of Extensions Manager showing extensions available for download.

I know that the Extension I want is called Force Quit and the author is megh. Extension Manager can’t find the Extension by it’s name, but it does if we search for the author

Results of a search for

Clicking the Install Button and confirming when prompted causes the extension to be installed and activiated.
We can now see it in the Activity Bar :

Let’s give it a try

Well, that’s one less thing to remember.
Back to ignoring the cricket !

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Author: mikesmithers

Back in 1993, I discovered that I could get paid money for doing fun stuff with computers. Over the years, I've specialised in Oracle Databses as a developer, a DBA and sometimes, an architect. It's my evil alter-ego - The Antikyte - who writes a blog about my various technical adventures. Yes, that is his Death Star parked in the Disabled Bay. I currently live in the South-West of England with Deb, my long-suffering wife. View all posts by mikesmithers

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