Shadow Settings

The settings hiding in the shadow of your system

Shadow Settings dynamically discovers and surfaces hidden GNOME desktop settings that are not exposed in the standard Settings app. It scans your system at runtime to find settings specific to your GNOME version and installed components.

Features

• Discovers hundreds of hidden GSettings keys automatically
• Organizes settings into logical categories (Desktop, Appearance, Windows, Input, Privacy, Power)
• Search across all discovered settings with Ctrl+F
• Reset any setting to its default value
• Three distinctive Art Deco visual themes (Gotham Night, Gotham Day, Wayne Manor)
• Lid-close action controls (native build only, requires logind)

Install

Flatpak (recommended)

flatpak install flathub io.github.matrixshader.ShadowSettings

Build from Source

Dependencies

Fedora:

sudo dnf install vala meson gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt install valac meson libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev

Build and run

meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir
./builddir/shadow-settings

System-wide install

meson setup builddir --prefix=/usr
meson compile -C builddir
sudo meson install -C builddir

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Credits

Made by Matrix Shader