It’s an extension for Gnome-Shell. It works as a reading guide for computer and this is really useful for people affected by dyslexia. It works great in helping children focusing to read very well, it marks the sentence that they are reading and hides the previous and the next one. It's already used in education projects at schools, it puts the attention on screen but it's also really useful for programmers and graphic designers who want to check their works.
Features:
- horizontal strip: function to a reading guide on the screen.
- vertical strip: this is really useful for graphic designers who want to check if their margins and indentations line up properly when displayed on the screen.
- focus strip: try it :-D;
- strip preferences: color, transparency, size.
- profile: try it :-D;
- Install from gnome extensions site;
- Install via git:
# First clone the git repository
git clone https://github.com/lupantano/readingstrip.git
# install extension
cd readingstrip && make
After cloning the repo, the extension is practically installed yet disabled. In order to enable it, you need to use gnome-extensions-app - find the extension, titled 'Reading Strip', in the 'Extensions' screen and turn it 'On'.
You can activate/deactive with Super+Ctrl+space, Super+space or click on icon panel.
cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
# height 1:100, default = 2
gsettings --schemadir schemas/ set org.gnome.shell.extensions.readingstrip height 2
# opacity 1:100, default = 35
gsettings --schemadir schemas/ set org.gnome.shell.extensions.readingstrip opacity 35
# color-strip rgb(0,0,0): rgb(255,255,255), default = rgb(246,211,45)
gsettings --schemadir schemas/ set org.gnome.shell.extensions.readingstrip color-strip rgb(246,211,45)
- Preferences: strip's color like default color theme;
- Preferences: add focus mode;
- Preferences: add blur on not focused window
- Preferences: add vertical stripe;
- Preferences: add shortcuts change;
- Preferences: user profile (color, opacity, etc);
- Preferences: change cursor icon;
- Preferences focus mode: resize (h x w), color;
- Daltonism features;
- Preferences: hold on/off the strip;
- Duplicate strip;
- Preferences: color button;
- Preferences GUI;
- Preferences: profiles;
- Language: 🇮🇹, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇺🇦, 🇧🇷, 🇷🇴
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