adityasah2004/notchnux

NotchNux is an extension for the GNOME desktop environment on Linux that replaces the plain clock at the top of the screen with a small animated pill, similar in style to the notch on newer Mac laptops. Normally it just shows the date, time, battery level, and small icons when your microphone or camera are active, but it changes shape depending on what you are doing, such as scrolling a song title across it while music plays or expanding into a banner with buttons when a notification arrives. Clicking the pill opens a larger dashboard with several tabs. There is a music player tab that controls any compatible media player, a weather tab with current conditions and an hourly forecast, a webcam tab for previewing and recording video or audio, a calendar tab pulling events from your GNOME account, a notification history tab, and a file shelf where you can drag in files and quickly send them to a paired phone or other device. A system tab shows live CPU, memory, disk, and network usage along with quick toggles for things like sound and airplane mode. The whole dashboard can be recolored to match any accent color you choose, and individual tabs can be reordered, hidden, or turned off entirely from a settings window. Installing it requires GNOME Shell version 45 through 51 on either Wayland or X11, and an optional set of GStreamer plugins if you want the webcam recording feature to work. After running the included install script, you need to reload GNOME Shell, either by logging out and back in on Wayland or restarting the shell with a keyboard shortcut on X11. Settings are stored as a plain JSON file rather than requiring any special schema installation. It is a young, actively developed project released under the MIT license.