GEM - Gnome Extension Manager

gem is a command-line tool written in bash to backup and manage your Gnome extensions and their configs.

Installing

Install GEM manually with make

• First, download and install git and make usnig your package manager.
• Then, clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/gohny/gem

• Change current directory to gem:

cd gem

• Install:

sudo make install

Install GEM with AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gem

Using AUR helper such as yay or pikaur

• Simply install the gem package using your AUR helper.

• yay:

yay gem

• pikaur:

pikaur -S gem

Manually, using makepkg script

• Install git:

sudo pacman -S git

• Clone the repo from AUR:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gem.git

• Change current directory to gem:

cd gem

• Install:

makepkg -si

Uninstalling

Using make

• If you're missing repo files, clone it again:

git clone https://github.com/gohny/gem

• Change current directory to gem:

cd gem

• Uninstall:

sudo make uninstall

AUR

• Uninstall gem with pacman:

sudo pacman -Rsnu gem

Usage

gem [-E|h|i|I]

Options:
  {-E} - Export extensions and their configs.
  {-h} - Display this message.
  {-i} - Soft import. Import extensions and their confings from selected backup, maintaining extensions you currently have installed.
  {-I} - Hard import. First remove all extensions you currently have installed, then import extensions and their confings from selected backup.

Backups and backup files

Backups are stored in your home directory, inside the .gem directory: ~/.gem/backups/

Backups are named by their ID which is determinated by the date and time of backup creation.
The format is year-month-day_hours-minutes-seconds e.g. 2023-12-12_13-37-04

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Created by Gohny