4 Retro Effects Added to ‘Burn My Windows’ Extension

Despite the name, the Burn My Windows GNOME extension offers a grab-bag of different animated effects that play when opening and closing windows.

Alongside its namesake inferno effect echoing the the Compiz Fusion years are an assortment of other animations, spanning the gamut from superfluous science-fiction teleports through to mystical looking disintegrations, and “physical” effects like shattering glass.

Well, now we have even more choice as 4 brand new retro-style effects are included in the latest version of this brilliantly blingly bolt-on, which is rolling out as an update through the GNOME Extensions website this week.

The four new effects include Doom, which is ‘inspired by the legendary screen transitions’ of the original 1993 MS-DOS game of the same name:

4 Retro Effects Added to ‘Burn My Windows’ Extension

Pixelate, which reminds me of dismissing a dialogue prompt in a 16-bit RPG…

4 Retro Effects Added to ‘Burn My Windows’ Extension

Pixel Wipe, which starts from the pointer position:

4 Retro Effects Added to ‘Burn My Windows’ Extension
Note: the glitching is from the gif preview, not part of the effect

And Pixel Wheel which is so retro-y cool I can’t even:

4 Retro Effects Added to ‘Burn My Windows’ Extension

Pretty nice, huh?

As ever, Burn My Windows gives you total control over each effect. You can adjust things like animation speed, intensity, colour, spawn point, and more (controls obviously vary depending on the effect itself).

You can find the latest version of Burn My Windows on GNOME Extensions, or grab the source code from the GitHub repo for the effort.

Although Burn My Windows works with GNOME Shell 3.36 and above, some effects are only available on systems with GNOME 40 or later.

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