Active Window Indicator

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Highlights the active window with a customizable top bar.

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Active Window Indicator

An extension for Cinnamon Desktop that displays an animated customizable indicator bar on top of the currently active focused window.

Features

Adjustable line height, width percentage, and corner slants.
Customizable start and end colors for gradient.
Color animation with adjustable speed slider.
Custom button to quickly restart Cinnamon.

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2 Comments

ΛΝDΗΣΣ-4 days ago

this is good extension... but i have a request to put an "exclude" for some app, because some of the app i used doesn't have title bar, when there is an active indicator but not on the title bar, it looks out of place... thanks

mbeeltje-2 months ago

This is a nice extension that fits a true need, especially for people using dark mode. One "bug" that I noticed is that if an active window is below a non-active window (this is common when using "Sloppy" for windows focus mode (System Settings -> Windows -> Behavior -> windows focus mode), the active window indicator artwork fully shows even if the active window isn't fully shown, resulting in the active window indicator artwork crossing in front of the top (and non-active) window.