{"id":43555,"date":"2023-01-09T07:26:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T07:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=43555"},"modified":"2024-05-07T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:30:25","slug":"new-window-focus-animation-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/01\/new-window-focus-animation-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Try out GNOME’s New Window Focus Animation in Ubuntu\/Fedora"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE 2024: The Focus Indicator is NO Longer available! See the GNOME Discourse page<\/a> for more about it.<\/b><\/p>\n

Gnome, the default desktop environment in Ubuntu & Fedora Workstation, is going to replace the app menu with a new window animation, for indicating window focus.<\/p>\n

Meaning it will remove the app menu for current window, in the top-bar beside ‘Activities’ button. Because, it’s always confusing users who are new to GNOME.<\/p>\n

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Gnome to remove app menu, instead using a window animation<\/p><\/div>\n

Instead, when switching workspaces, closing a window, or pressing Super + Tab<\/i>, it will perform a short animation on newly focused window.<\/b> As the GIF below shows you, it’s a window animation that scales up the window and then scales back, indicating that the window is on focus.<\/p>\n

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The downside so far is that it’s missing the behavior to indicate the process of launching a large or slow application …<\/p>\n

How to Install the new Window Animation<\/h3>\n

The new function is available so far as a Gnome Shell extension called “Focus Indicator<\/b>“, for testing purpose in GNOME 43. Meaning users of Ubuntu 22.10<\/b>, Fedora 37<\/b>, Arch<\/b> and Manjaro<\/b>, etc., can try it out by following the steps below.<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> For Ubuntu 22.10<\/b>, firstly search for and install Extension Manager<\/b> from Ubuntu Software.<\/p>\n

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Install Extension Manager in Ubuntu 22.04+<\/p><\/div>\n

2.<\/b> Then open the tool, and navigate to ‘Browse’ tab to search and install ‘Focus Indicator’:<\/p>\n

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For other Linux, just use ON\/OFF switch in this web page<\/a> to install the extension.<\/p>\n

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Configure the Window Focus animation<\/h3>\n

After installed the extension, use either Extension Manager<\/b> or Gnome Extensions<\/b> app to open the configuration dialog. Then, you can set the scale up\/down delay, animation duration, scale factor, and so forth.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 2024: The Focus Indicator is NO Longer available! See the GNOME Discourse page for more about it. Gnome, the default desktop environment in Ubuntu & Fedora Workstation, is going to replace the app menu with a new window animation, for indicating window focus. Meaning it will remove the app menu for current window, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-43555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gnome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}