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I would like to switch between windows using the scroll wheel of the mouse over each app icon in Ubuntu dock, as we could do in Unity, but apparently this doesn't work in Ubuntu 17.10.

Is there a way to enable it?

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pomsky
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Open Terminal and run 

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock scroll-action 'cycle-windows'
pomsky
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For those who get the message (pop_os 20.04):

No such schema “org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock”

The solution is a longer:

gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com/schemas/ set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock scroll-action 'cycle-windows'

Explanations:

I've manually installed my dash-to-dock directly in the ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions, which is where the schemas directory is located. It has to be specified explicitly.

Usage of gsettings:

gsettings [--schemadir SCHEMADIR] set SCHEMA[:PATH] KEY VALUE

Set the value of KEY to VALUE with Arguments:

  SCHEMADIR A directory to search for additional schemas
  SCHEMA    The name of the schema
  PATH      The path, for relocatable schemas
  KEY       The key within the schema
  VALUE     The value to set

To list the current KEYs and their VALUEs:

gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com/schemas/ list-recursively org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock

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