Aura Glass Transforms GNOME 48-50 With Apple-Like Blur on 5 Linux Distros
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Updated · ZDNet · Aug 18
Aura Glass Transforms GNOME 48-50 With Apple-Like Blur on 5 Linux Distros
1 articles · Updated · ZDNet · Aug 18
Summary
Aura Glass gave GNOME a dramatic glassy redesign in ZDNET’s test, adding frosted transparency, true background blur, adaptive accent colors and themed login screens.
GNOME 48, 49 and 50 support the theme on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch and CachyOS, with Wayland preferred and X11 limited to fallback blur.
Fedora 44 running GNOME 50 showed a noticeable performance hit in a virtual machine with 3 GB RAM and 2 CPU cores, though the reviewer said stronger hardware should mask most of it.
Installation takes about 5 to 10 minutes from the command line after installing Git, then walks users through options including 9 accent colors, transparency levels and optional extensions.