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Useful commands for Development

• Open looking glass from bash

  gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval 'Main.createLookingGlass().toggle();'

• Reload shell from bash

  busctl --user call org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell Eval s 'Meta.restart("Restarting…")'

• Watch logs from extension

  journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell -f -o cat | grep "\[extensions-sync\]"

• External Libraries

  • Library bindings can be found in

    • /usr/lib/girepository-1.0
    • /usr/share/gir-1.0

  • To extract documentation from them you can use following command

    mkdir docs
    g-ir-doc-tool -l gjs /usr/share/gir-1.0/libxml2-2.0.gir -o ./docs

Documentations

• Devdocs - http://devdocs.baznga.org/
• GXml - https://valadoc.org/gxml-0.14/index.htm
• gjs examples - https://github.com/optimisme/gjs-examples/
• gjs helpers - https://github.com/satya164/gjs-helpers

Gist Structure

{
  "description": "Extensions sync",
  "files": {
    "syncSettings": {
      "content": {
        "lastUpdatedAt": "time",
      }
    },
    "extensions": {
      "content": {
        "extension1": {
          "schema1": "schema1 settings",
          "schema2": "schema2 settings",
        },
        "extension2": {
          "schema1": "schema1 settings",
          "schema2": "schema2 settings",
        },
      }
    }
  }
}