Using the whole screen on Asahi Linux with GNOME
Mon 21 September 2026 — download

On Apple's M-based laptops, the webcam is living in a notch on top of the screen, which Asahi Linux works around by making the usable screen size smaller, so that the notch is hidden in a black bar. But since I paid for the whole screen, I'm going to use the whole screen!

The main obstacle here is that GNOME puts the clock on the center of the top bar, where it'll be hidden by the notch. Fortunately, a dnf install gnome-shell-extension-frippery-move-clock will install an extension to allow moving it to the right of the bar:

Telling the kernel to skip the hack is a simple matter of adding apple_dcp.show_notch=1 to its command line, by adding it to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable in /etc/default/grub, running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to update it, and reboot.