ChatGPT Gnome Desktop Extension | Talk with ChatGPT from your menubar!
- EARLY VERSION WORK IN PROGRESS
This Gnome Desktop Extension adds ChatGPT to your desktop experience. Clickable icon in the menu bar to hide and show ChatGPT!
To-do & Info:
- Enable mouse-wheel scrolling (currently only keyboard-arow-scrolling is supported)
- Clicking within the extension window is buggy (Using keyboard navigation is recommended). This will be fixed.
- Add Gnome 43 support.
How to install:
- Make sure you have the
gnome-shell-extensionspackage installed. It allows you to turn on the Extension. - Place the
chatgpt-gnome-desktop@chat-gpt-gnome-desktopfolder in~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ - Restart Gnome with
Alt+F2then typer - Enable the extension inside the Gnome Extensions application.
- Restart Gnome with
Alt+F2then typeror Log out & Log back in to Gnome.
KNOWN ISSUES AND POSSIBLE FIX:
- Possibly not fully working on Wayland. Use Xorg.
Requiring WebKit2, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '4.0', but '3.0' is already loadedcan appear on Gnome 43.
On Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions, you can install the latest version of GTK 4 by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev
On Arch Linux and its derivatives, you can install GTK 4 by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo pacman -S gtk4
On Fedora, you can install GTK 4 by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo dnf install gtk4-devel
- Once you have GTK installed, you can then set the default version by modifying your environment variables. On Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, you can do this by adding the following line to your
.bashrcor.bash_profilefile:
export GTK_VERSION=4
You may also need to set the GDK_BACKEND environment variable.
export GDK_BACKEND=x11
You will need to restart your terminal or run the command source ~/.bashrc for the changes to take effect.
On other distributions, you may need to use a different package manager or set the environment variables in a different way.