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L. D. James
Asked: 2018-12-11 02:36:07 +0800 CST

How to change the behavior of clicking on grouped apps in launcher

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On one of my computers, clicking on an Icon on the launcher that has multiple application grouped will toggle between opening all the Windows in the group, or minimzing all the windows in the group.

On all the other computers, when there is more than one item on the icon, it will bring up the list and allow the user scroll through the icon list and click on just one application.

Does anyone know how to change this behavior to the default, whereas it will bring up the list if there is more than one icon in the group, and toggle restore/minimize when there is only one in the group?

You can see this list with a sequence of keystrokes:

  • right click the icon
  • click all windows
  • click the application instance from the list
gnome-shell ubuntu-dock 18.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can use gsettings to achieve your goal

    If you run 

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

    you should see different outputs for two different cases you mentioned, for example in the first scenario it should give minimize whereas in the second case it should be previews.

    To set the preferred option as per the output of the command above, run 

    gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'YOUR-PREFERRED-OPTION'

    In particular, to achieve your goal, run 

    gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'previews'
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  2. You can user dconf editor GUI tool to update these changes easily

    sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install dconf-editor
dconf-editor

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