lidfx
GNOME Shell extension that folds and blurs your live Linux desktop as you close the laptop lid.
Details
- External ID
- 1375717753
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- lidfx
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.05976172175249808
- Tags
- accelerometer, compositor, glsl, gnome, gnome-shell, gnome-shell-extension, hid, javascript, laptop, linux, linux-desktop, mutter, ubuntu, wayland
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:17 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:17 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- gnome shell extension for folding and blurring the desktop on lid close
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic GNOME extensions use JavaScript/GJS, interfacing directly with Linux IIO kernel sensors, HID hardware registers, and real-time Wayland blur shaders is complex systems programming.
What it would actually take: The stack comprises GJS (GNOME JavaScript), Clutter/Mutter scene-graph APIs, custom GLSL blur and folding shaders, and udev/C rules reading from `/sys/bus/iio/devices` or HID driver interfaces. The hard part is synchronizing frame-perfect display matrix transformations and GLSL distortion with noisy physical sensor data while preserving input event coordinate transformations on Wayland. It requires Linux kernel hardware interface understanding and deep Mutter compositor internals knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 292 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #279 of 293 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Hinode · hn · 2026-08-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- A real Omarchy Linux desktop in your browser · hn · 2026-09-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- openbendy · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- linux-gnome-duo · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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