Zilence

Zilence is a GNOME Shell extension turning off notifications while sharing screen during a Zoom call.

It does so by:

• tracking presence of Zoom's screen sharing panel (seen at the top-center of the screen),
• switching "Do Not Disturb" setting accordingly.

Compatibility

This extension was tested with:

• GNOME Shell versions: 3.36, 3.38, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46;
• Zoom desktop app for Linux versions: 5.x.x, 6.x.x.

However, it may work with older versions as well.

Reporting issues

Please report issues on GitHub, providing:

• OS version (can be found in Settings → About → OS Name and OS Type),
• GNOME version (can be found in Settings → About → GNOME Version),
• Zoom client version (can be found in Zoom menu → Help → About Zoom)

and:

1. attaching extension logs since last boot:

   journalctl -b | grep -i zilence > zilence.log

   (the command above will save logs in zilence.log file)
2. or better yet, GNOME Shell logs since last boot:

   journalctl -b -o cat /usr/bin/gnome-shell > gnome-shell.log

   (the command above will save logs in gnome-shell.log file)

Building

To build the extension from source you'll need git and jq. You can install these using the following command:

sudo apt-get install git jq

Then run the following command in project's root directory:

./build.sh

In the same directory you'll find the zip file with packaged extension.