Ubuntu – How to 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?

Best Answer

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):

It also provides the window-preview-on-mouse-hover feature:

_{(source: official GitHub page)}

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I found a way to do that:

Open a terminal and install wmctrl:
```
sudo apt-get install wmctrl
```

Create a shell script named show-desktop.sh (I put it in my home folder)

gedit ~/show-desktop.sh

place this code in there:

#!/bin/bash
status="$(wmctrl -m | grep "showing the desktop" | sed -r 's/(.*)(ON|OFF)/\2/g')"

if [ $status == "ON" ]; then
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else
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and make it executable:

chmod +x ~/show-desktop.sh

Create a file show-desktop.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications/ folder:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/show-desktop.desktop

Add this text and save (don't forget change the value on <your user>):

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Show Desktop
Icon=user-desktop
Exec=/home/<your user>/show-desktop.sh

Open the dash, search for show desktop and add it to the favorites.

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Open Terminal and run

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock extend-height false

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gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock extend-height true

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