SNOWY

Make you festive mood with falling snow on your GNOME DE system

Installation

GNOME Extensions website (recommended)

Build from source

1. Download and build extension

git clone https://github.com/ExposedCat/snowy.git
glib-compile-schemas snowy/schemas

2. Add extension to system

mv snowy ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/snowy@exposedcat

3. Restart shell

• On X11: restart shell
1. Press Alt+F2
2. Type r
3. Press Return
• On Wayland: logout and login again

Configuration

GUI settings are still in development (contribution is highly appreciated), but you can tweak nearly everything using gsettings command:

  gsettings --schemadir \
  ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/snowy@exposedcat/schemas \
  set org.gnome.shell.extensions.snowy \
  GSKEY VALUE

To see list of current settings values use following command:

  gsettings --schemadir \
  ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/snowy@exposedcat/schemas \
  list-recursively org.gnome.shell.extensions.snowy

Here GSKEY is GSettings Key of setting and VALUE is setting value.
All available tweaks listed here:

Description	GSettings Key	Default value
Snowflake icons list	flake-icons	❅,❆,❄
Minimal size of snowflake	min-size	20
Minimal size of snowflake	max-size	30
Snow falling interval in ms (less = higher drop rate)	interval	2000
Minimal snowflakes number per one fall	min-flakes	1
Maximal snowflakes number per one fall	max-flakes	5
Minimal snowflakes falling duration (in ms)	min-fall-duration	3000
Maximal snowflakes falling duration (in ms)	max-fall-duration	6000
Minimal snowflakes rotation angle (in degrees)	min-rotation-angle	15
Maximal snowflakes rotation angle (in degrees)	max-rotation-angle	45
Maximal snowflakes number on the screen (max-flakes restriction). Re-enable extension to apply	flakes-limit	30

License

Snowy Gnome Shell extension is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.