What does this extension do?

Show controls and information of the currently playing media in the panel.

Features

• Customize how the extension looks
• Disable elements you don't want
• Invoke different actions in many ways through mouse actions
• Basic media controls (play/pause/next/prev)
• Other media controls (loop/shuffle)
• And more...

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Notes

• Supports GNOME 3.36 (beta), 3.38, 40 and 41.

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Known issues

• If you have installed the extension from extensions.gnome.org, there will be some padding and icon size issues with some themes as reported here. To fix it run this command and re-login.

cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/ && curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cliffniff/media-controls/main/player.js && curl -OL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cliffniff/media-controls/main/stylesheet.css

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Screenshots

How to install

Install from extensions.gnome.org

OR

Fedora

dnf install gnome-shell-extension-mediacontrols

Arch Linux (AUR)

yay -S gnome-shell-extension-media-controls Stable release

yay -S gnome-shell-extension-media-controls-git Build of the main branch

Other distributions

Install from source

• Download and extract the zip file in the releases tab
• Rename the extracted folder to [email protected]
• Move it to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
• Enable the extension in the Extensions app or type gnome-extensions enable [email protected] in the terminal