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This a Gnome Shell extension, which customizes the Overview, including always showing titles of all window thumbnails and setting the position of icons and titles, etc.

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Always-Show-Titles-In-Overview

This a Gnome Shell extension, which customizes the Overview, including always showing titles of all window thumbnails and setting the position of icons and titles, etc.

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Why I write this extention

Please read this post(Gnome 3.26: How to get the window titles in the activities view back?) and this comment below Gnome Bugzilla - Window picker layout improvements.

Features

Features Default Setting
Always show titles of all window thumbnails -
Always show close buttons of all window thumbnails off
Window titles position (Bottom, Center) Bottom
Move window titles to the bottom when fullscreen on
Move window titles to the bottom for video/TV players, like SMPlayer on
Show app icons on
App icon position (Bottom, Center) Bottom
Hide icons when fullscreen on
Hide icons for Video/TV players, like SMPlayer on
Tweak the window thumbnail active size increment (from 5 to 60) 15
Hide the background off

Gnome versions

Gnome version Branch Is default branch?
Gnome 40 to 44 gnome-40-44 No
Gnome 45+ gnome-45+ Yes

Settings

This extension has a Settings now, which makes it more useful:

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TODO

  • Remove the fade time when leave a window
  • Find a way to distinguish the selected window and the others. 1. Maybe I can find a way to increase the light of the highlight around the selected window. 2. Or I can find a way to reverse the color of the title and it's background of the highlight around the selected window. (Gnome-shell has this feature now by larging thumbnail when the cursor hovers over it.)
  • Be compatible with GNOME Shell v3.36
  • Wine-based application's window has no close button. Remove 'if (this._windowCanClose())' can fix this issue, but I don't know if it's a good idea. I see that Wine application has close button now.
  • Add Preferences for this extension for setting show or hide app's icon, changing title's position

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This a Gnome Shell extension, which customizes the Overview, including always showing titles of all window thumbnails and setting the position of icons and titles, etc.

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