{"id":7383,"date":"2017-12-23T16:52:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2017-12-23T16:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:52:44","slug":"snow-on-gnome-desktop-with-gsnow-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/snow-on-gnome-desktop-with-gsnow-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow on Gnome Desktop with Gsnow Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the command line tool xsnow does not work any longer, Gnome 3 users can use an extension called &#8216;gsnow&#8217; to make desktop snow.<\/p>\n<p>Never installed a Gnome extension? You may first read this <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/install-gnome-extensions-ubuntu-17-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to install tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After installed required libraries, you can either install &#8216;gsnow&#8217; from <a href=\"https:\/\/extensions.gnome.org\/extension\/1156\/gsnow\/\" target=\"_blank\">extensions.gnome.org\/extension\/1156\/gsnow\/<\/a>, <\/p>\n<p>or search for and install it via Ubuntu Software:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-softwarecenter-600x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-softwarecenter-600x439.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-softwarecenter-450x329.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-softwarecenter-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-softwarecenter.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>To start or stop snowing on desktop:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Once installed the extension, start or stop snowing by clicking on the little <b>snowflake<\/b> icon on top-right system tray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snow-desktop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snow-desktop-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snow-desktop-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snow-desktop-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snow-desktop-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/snow-desktop.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Turn On\/Off gsnow extension:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Search for and install &#8216;Gnome Tweaks&#8217; in Ubuntu Software. The tool offers a tab for managing installed Gnome extensions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-extension-600x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-extension-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-extension-450x225.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-extension-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gsnow-extension.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the command line tool xsnow does not work any longer, Gnome 3 users can use an extension called &#8216;gsnow&#8217; to make desktop snow. Never installed a Gnome extension? You may first read this how to install tutorial. After installed required libraries, you can either install &#8216;gsnow&#8217; from extensions.gnome.org\/extension\/1156\/gsnow\/, or search for and install it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1516],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-snow-desktop"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","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=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}