If you move workspaces in GNOME Shell (Ubuntu’s default desktop) using gestures, but find workspace background sliding alongside your apps distracting, a new extension can help. Created by CleoMenezesJr (Weather O’Clock), Static Workspace Background makes — as I’m sure you’ve guessed — the background a fixed point: it stays firmly in place. As it’s not (currently) possible to set a different wallpaper on each workspace, seeing the same wallpaper, albeit segmented by a vertical bar, slide by zoetrope-style distracts from the element which is different on each virtual desktop: the apps. Static Workspace Background GNOME Shell extension (v48+) affects a […]