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Cameron
Asked: 2018-04-20 07:28:20 +0800 CST

How can I hover over icons in Ubuntu Dock to see all windows of one application?

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I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME 3. How can I show all open windows of a certain application using the sidebar (aka Ubuntu Dock)? Right now I have to right-click and select "all windows" to see my other open windows.

Is there a quicker way to do this?

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3 Answers

  1. I am not aware of any window-preview-on-mouse-hover feature, but you can activate previews of open windows on

    • Primary mouse button click by running

      gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'previews'

    • shift+click by running 

      gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock shift-click-action 'previews'

    • Middle mouse button click by running 

      gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock middle-click-action 'previews'

    • shift+middle mouse button click by running 

      gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock shift-middle-click-action 'previews'

    (To find out all possible options for an action, run 

    gsettings range org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action

    and so.)

    As a side note, a GNOME extension called Dash to Panel puts the application icons to the top bar (and provides an option to move top bar to bottom):
    enter image description here

    It also provides the window-preview-on-mouse-hover feature:
    enter image description here
    (source: official GitHub page)

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  2. For Ubuntu 20.04

    gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action minimize-or-previews

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  3. Not your exact problem but did you try Dash to Dock ?

    https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/

    If you click on Behaviour you can select Show Window Previews when you click on an app in the dock, if you have two instances of the same app a preview of both will appear (instead of having to right click on an app)

    https://i.imgur.com/yjDxzgG.png

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