Do Not Disturb While Screen Sharing Or Recording Gnome Extension

Automatically switches on the "Do Not Disturb" mode while screen sharing or screen recording. As soon as screen sharing/recording is over, "Do Not Disturb" mode will be switched back off.

Do Not Disturb mode stops notifications from appearing on your screen to let you focus on your work. Notifications may contain sensitive content that you might not want to show to everyone while you're screen-sharing.

Note that screen sharing will toogle "Do Not Disturb" only on Wayland sessions. X11 is not supported! However, screen recording toggle will work on both Wayland and X11.

It is likely that not all screen recording apps will trigger the extension to do its job. The extension was tested with the Gnome built-in screen recorder.

Configuration

You are able to configure the following options:

Contributing

In case of problems, it's a good idea to open an Issue. If you know how to fix it, open a Pull Request!

Local Development

To run the extension locally "from sources":

git clone [email protected]:marcinjahn/gnome-do-not-disturb-while-screen-sharing-or-recording-extension.git
cd gnome-do-not-disturb-while-screen-sharing-or-recording-extension
npm i
npm run build
npm run linkdist

The last command will creae a soft link at ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected], which allows you to enable the extension on your system (e.g., via Extensions Manager).

Anytime you change anything, rebuild the extension with npm run build, and restart the session:

• on Wayland, log out and log in (I know, it's painful),
• on X11, open "Run a Command" dialog (Alt + F2), type "r" and press Enter