The workspace switcher popup doesn't provide previews by default. Is there any way to enable them? The Workspace List that shows up on the right when super key is pressed does have preview.
Shell – Showing thumbnails or some kind of preview in the Gnome workspace switcher popup
gnome-shellgnome3workspaces
Best Answer
You could do that via a
gnome-shell
extension:workspace-switcher-popup-thumbnails
Download the zip file and either use
gnome-tweak-tool
to install it or extract the archive and move the resulting directory tonote the name of the extension directory (it has to match the
uuid
inmetadata.json
) then inside that directory, edit themetadata.json
and replace3.8
with yourgnome-shell
version, e.g.save, restart both
gnome-shell
(Alt+F2 then r) andgnome-tweak-tool
and use the latter to enable the extension: