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Search Light
A GNOME Shell extension — personal fork
A GNOME Shell extension that takes the apps search widget out of the Overview. Like macOS Spotlight, or Alfred.
About this fork
This is a personal fork of icedman/search-light, intended to be installed from source rather than from extensions.gnome.org. For now it only fixes some of the issues needed to make the extension GNOME 50 compatible — more changes may land later. On top of upstream's GNOME 50 support, it addresses the code issues raised in EGO review #70331:
- No compiled GSettings schema shipped (the shell compiles it itself on GNOME 45+)
- No GTK/Gdk imports reachable from the shell process
- Unused source files removed
- Complete teardown in
disable()(signals, actors, monkeypatches, overview search widgets) - Preferences window cleans up its settings listeners and D-Bus proxy on close
Supported GNOME Shell versions: 48, 49, 50 (see metadata.json). For older shells, use the upstream branches (gnome-47, g44).
Features
- Popup search box
- Colors, background, borders customization
- Blurred background (requires imagemagick on the system to generate the blurred image)
- Multi-monitor support
Easy install
One command — downloads, installs, and enables the extension for the current user:
curl -fsSL https://git.salix.host/salix/searchlight-fork/raw/branch/main/install.sh | bash
Then log out and back in (required on Wayland; on X11, Alt+F2, r, Enter also works) and press Ctrl+Super+Space.
Installing from source
git clone https://git.salix.host/salix/searchlight-fork.git
cd searchlight-fork
make build install
make build compiles the GSettings schema locally, and make install copies the extension to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/search-light-fork@salix.host/.
Then enable it:
gnome-extensions enable search-light-fork@salix.host
On Wayland you must log out and back in before the shell picks up a newly installed or updated extension (on X11, Alt+F2, r, Enter also works).
To update after pulling changes, run make build install again and re-login.
If something misbehaves, check the shell log:
journalctl --user -b 0 | grep -i search-light
Keybinding
Ctrl+Super+Space (change it in the preferences page). Super is the Windows logo key, or Command on a Mac keyboard.
Credits
- icedman — the original extension (buy him a coffee)
- Blur-My-Shell for background blurring code