The 2 Wallpapers GNOME extension changes wallpaper when apps open, letting you fake blurred window look in apps that support transparency – clever!

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A new version of the GNOME desktop environment has been released with new default video and document apps, Lock Screen features, and more - exciting!

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When Ubuntu 25.04 made Papers its default PDF viewer rather than keep shipping Evince, it did so knowing that the expectation was that upstream GNOME would do the same — now it has. The GNOME 49 Alpha release will ship Papers as a GNOME Core App, replacing Evince (also, as I reported back in May, Totem is replaced by Showtime in GNOME 49, and Manuals replaces Devhelp in the core-devel-tools set). For app swaps in GNOME development releases, they must be made them before the first alpha. The nature of development means decisions get made early but tentatively. If testing […]

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GNOME devs plan a 'big cleanup' of code related to background wallpaper handling in GNOME Shell, which would result in the removal of several features.

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