Add No overview at start-up extension #23

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Mondrethos wants to merge 1 commit from no-overview-at-startup into main

Mondrethos commented

2026-06-29 22:59:04 +00:00

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Problem

On every cold boot, GNOME shows the Activities overview before extensions finish enabling. gnome-ui-tune ("Gnome 4x/5x UI Improvements") patches the overview and hooks its showing/hidden signals in enable(), so on that first boot the overview is already painted before the patch lands — it looks vanilla until you toggle the overview off and back on.

There's no native gsettings opt-out (GNOME maintainers declined to add one), so the fix is an extension that suppresses the startup overview. The first overview the user then opens is post-load, and the tweaks apply correctly.

Changes

recipes/gnome-base.yml — add No overview at start-up to the gnome-extensions install list (v23 supports GNOME 50).
files/gschema-overrides/zzz-monolith.gschema.override — add no-overview@fthx to enabled-extensions.

Behavior change

Cold boot now lands on the desktop instead of the Activities overview. This is inherent to the fix — there's no way to keep boot-into-overview and fix the race. Takes effect on a freshly built image.

## Problem On every cold boot, GNOME shows the Activities overview before extensions finish enabling. `gnome-ui-tune` ("Gnome 4x/5x UI Improvements") patches the overview and hooks its `showing`/`hidden` signals in `enable()`, so on that first boot the overview is already painted before the patch lands — it looks vanilla until you toggle the overview off and back on. There's no native gsettings opt-out (GNOME maintainers [declined to add one](https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-42-5-how-to-disable-activities-overview-on-login/15224)), so the fix is an extension that suppresses the startup overview. The first overview the user then opens is post-load, and the tweaks apply correctly. ## Changes - `recipes/gnome-base.yml` — add `No overview at start-up` to the `gnome-extensions` install list ([v23 supports GNOME 50](https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4099/no-overview/)). - `files/gschema-overrides/zzz-monolith.gschema.override` — add `no-overview@fthx` to `enabled-extensions`. ## Behavior change Cold boot now lands on the desktop instead of the Activities overview. This is inherent to the fix — there's no way to keep boot-into-overview *and* fix the race. Takes effect on a freshly built image.

github-actions[bot] commented

2026-06-29 22:59:11 +00:00

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🧪 Test this PR on a real install

Once the build checks on this PR pass, a signed test image is published for each edition. Pick the one matching your hardware and, from an existing Monolith install (which already has the signing policy), rebase onto it:

monolith-gnome

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/mondrethos/monolith-gnome:pr-23-44
systemctl reboot

monolith-gnome-nvidia

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/mondrethos/monolith-gnome-nvidia:pr-23-44
systemctl reboot

The tags are rebuilt on every new commit here, so rpm-ostree upgrade pulls the latest build. When you're done testing, return to your edition's released image (:latest).

The test tags stop updating once this PR is merged or closed.

### 🧪 Test this PR on a real install **Once the build checks on this PR pass**, a signed test image is published for each edition. Pick the one matching your hardware and, from an existing Monolith install (which already has the signing policy), rebase onto it: **`monolith-gnome`** ```bash rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/mondrethos/monolith-gnome:pr-23-44 systemctl reboot ``` **`monolith-gnome-nvidia`** ```bash rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/mondrethos/monolith-gnome-nvidia:pr-23-44 systemctl reboot ``` The tags are rebuilt on every new commit here, so `rpm-ostree upgrade` pulls the latest build. When you're done testing, return to your edition's released image (`:latest`). _The test tags stop updating once this PR is merged or closed._

TheDarkWizard referenced this pull request

2026-06-30 03:17:38 +00:00

Cut over to Forgejo (monolith-os) + rotate signing keys #24

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