micheleg
Gnome 41: Clicking on app icons switches to other app windows too.
The click action is set to "cycle through windows" belonging to the clicked application. This is the default setting.
I opened two windows in Files (Nautilus) and click on the icon repeatedly...
It switches between the two open windows, but it also randomly switches to my Text Editor and Brave Browser windows.
Where do you find these settings in GNOME 41? I would very much like my Super+(0-9) keys to cycle through app windows, but they don't currently do that.
@akaihola Install the GNOME "Extensions" app, it lists all your extensions and lets you open the config GUI for them. :)
I can't reproduce this locally, but I've pretty much refactored a lot the part handling the nautilus windows, so please check once that lands.
It mostly happens with chrome/brave desktop apps. If you click any of them repeatedly it will end opening a random opened application.
Had the same issue on dash to panel: https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel/issues/1570. It is caused by the AppSwitchAction gesture that fires every 4 rapid clicks on an AppIcon. We added a temporary workaround, but seems like a Mutter fix is coming: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1907
@charlesg99 Huge thanks for finding and letting us know about the core issue! I wouldn't have suspected a Mutter bug! :)
@3v1n0
- OS: Fedora Workstation 36
- GNOME-Shell: 42.2
- Mutter: 42.2
- Dash2Dock: git master version built manually today (2022-June-05).
I've got like 30 windows of different apps open, and I've spam-clicked on Files and Text Editor (the new GNOME app) and Terminal, and they all work properly. I tried clicking quickly and slowly and gradually slowing down/speeding up the clicks. And it still always correctly sticks with the same app's windows now.
So I think that the bug reports charles found, have been fixed in new versions of GNOME.
Can at least 1 other person try to confirm that it's fixed for them too? Then we can close this ticket. :)