Useless Gaps is a GNOME Shell Extension which for aesthetic purposes, adds "useless gaps" around windows.

This extension is intended to be used with Gnome's original Grid functions. These functions are simple but very useful for most users.

The gaps will appear when a window is Tiled Left Super + Left, Tiled Right Super + Right or Maximized Super + Up.

Better not use this extension together with a specialized tiling extension like Forge, gTile or Tactile.

• Gaps size is configurable
• Create useless gaps around maximized windows
• Create useless gaps around left and right split windows

After upgrading gnome-shell often complains about incompatibility issues. This is caused by version requirements set in src/metadata.json.

You can install the extension manually by cloning the repo and then run

git clone https://github.com/mipmip/gnome-shell-extensions-useless-gaps.git
cd gnome-shell-extensions-useless-gaps
./install.sh local-install

The update the metadata.json with the Gnome version you are running.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/mipmip/gnome-shell-extensions-useless-gaps/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

The idea of having useless gaps come from window managers like AwesomeWM and DWM.

The extension maximize-to-empty-workspace served as a great example of how to listen to and act on maximized signals from mutter.

You may need to restart GNOME (Alt + F2, r) before you see Shortcuts in your list of extensions