This extension was usefull back in the days, but now that Gnome has included a similar feature I didn't need it anymore. If you want to takeover the maintenance and the development feel free to open an issue to discuss that topic.

I will only continue to merge pull-request for translations, maybe bugfixes or new features, but I will not fix bugs or implement new features myself.

Dynamic Top Bar is a Gnome Shell extension that make the top bar transparent when no window is maximized.

You can download this extension with various methods:

• from Gnome website
• Using the latest release posted on GitHub https://github.com/AMDG2/GnomeShell_DynamicTopBar/releases
• By cloning the repo

Just past the [email protected] folder to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions then activate the extensions with Gnome Tweak Tool for example.

cp -r [email protected] ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
gnome-shell-extension-tool -e [email protected]

Might require a Gnome restart. Press ALT+F2 and type 'r' and hit enter.

Or you can use the install.sh script.

If you want to install this extension to the directory: '/usr', use the following command to pass in the parameters.

./install.sh root

If you want to install this extension to the directory: '$HOME/.local', use the following command.

./install.sh

Not all theme are compatible with this extension.

• If you are a theme developer please read the following paragraph.
• If you are a theme user and the extension seems broken please report the issue in this repository and to the theme developer

If your theme use images to style the panel look it won't be compatible with the extension without work.

The extension only style the background-color property of the panel. But your theme may use the following classes to detect when the panel should be transparent or gradient :

• dynamic-top-bar-transparency
• dynamic-top-bar-gradient