dsh-plugin-desktop

The DSH-desktop-for-Linux desktop shell has traditionally relied on fragile workarounds—sniffing webRequest POST bodies, decompressing zstd session files—to read the current session and estimate usage. dsh-plugin-desktop, the official companion plugin, runs inside the dsh service process and exposes those internal states through stable HTTP endpoints, letting the desktop shell drop those hacks entirely.

The plugin also injects two in-page enhancements into the Web UI: a full context menu covering sessions, workspaces, content editing, links, and the input box, plus a Pin Session feature that lets you right-click any session and lock it into a dedicated pinned section in the sidebar. All event semantics are aligned exactly with dsh event streams, so the numbers the desktop shell sees always match the source.

Conscious of keeping the plugin dependency-free, it installs by simply copying a directory with no network access or build tooling required. Its host-facing interaction is confined to three adapter functions that try multiple shapes and degrade gracefully, a practical response to the dsh plugin API remaining undocumented. It is well suited for anyone running DSH-desktop-for-Linux who wants more reliable session-state reads and a richer desktop interaction layer.