A GNOME Shell extension that displays the current workspace name in the top panel with inline editing and per-workspace styling.
- Shows the current workspace name in the panel
- Double-click to rename a workspace inline
- Single-click to open a menu with:
- Workspace name editing
- Background and text color customization
- Bold toggle
- Per-workspace or global style scoping
- Style reset
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via Extensions Manager, or from source.
# Clone and link to GNOME Shell extensions directory
git clone https://github.com/a31labs/gnome-named-workspaces.git
ln -s "$(pwd)/gnome-named-workspaces" ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/named-workspaces@a31.at
# Compile the schema
glib-compile-schemas schemas/
# Restart GNOME Shell (X11: Alt+F2 → r → Enter, Wayland: log out and back in)
# Then enable the extension
gnome-extensions enable named-workspaces@a31.at
glib-compile-schemas schemas/
zip -r named-workspaces@a31.at.zip \
metadata.json extension.js prefs.js stylesheet.css LICENSE \
schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.named-workspaces.gschema.xml