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Questions tagged [gnome-dash]

For questions about using the applications dashboard, also called the Dash in Ubuntu 17.10 and later.

The purpose of this tag info is to cleanup possible confusion about the Dash in Ubuntu 17.10 and later which is shown below.

In Ubuntu 17.10 and later the Unity Dash has been replaced by the GNOME Dash, which is commonly called the Dash and is accessed by clicking on the Show Applications icon at the bottom of the Dock (at the bottom left corner of the screenshot). Unfortunately the tag has been appropriated as a synonym of the tag, so a correct tag for Ubuntu 17.10 and later does not exist, even though it's still basically the same Dash.

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Dash in Ubuntu 18.04

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What's the difference between dash and dock?

I've seen a lot of talk about the Dash to Dock extension, but I'm really struggling to see the difference between dash and dock. As someone who also has extensive experience of Mac, it seems the OSX dock has almost exactly the same functionality as…
Andy
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how to find whether an app is a snap or a flatpak or a native app "in terminal"?

I have installed both flatpak and snap versions of several apps (I sometimes even have appimage and deb file of some other apps installed too) to find which one works better for me. Now I want to remove all other versions and keep the one I have…
Masoud Borbor
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Make super key trigger ubuntu-gnome-desktop start menu under budgie

I'm an avid vanilla ubuntu user (19.04) I've recently switched to budgie desktop environment. after some tuning using the "Budgie desktop Setting" app (which is basically "Tweaks" such as "gnome-tweaks", but for budgie, I've gotten rid of Plank and…
tatsu
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Duplicate dash on gnome panel

I installed ubuntu 20.04 2 days ago, but yesterday I started having this weird bug where I get a duplicate dash. It started happening more frequently. Usually when I log out and log back in it comes back to normal, and even if I simply ignore it, it…
André Filipe
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make dash open windows on the monitor you click from

On ubuntu 20.04 (with gnome), how do you control where a window will open when an application is launched from the dock? I'm using dash-to-dock and have the dock on both monitors. Some applications (like the terminal) seem to always launch on the…
David Richardson
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Customize Super + N Behavior

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME. When I hit Super+1, the first program in my left favorites bar, aka Ubuntu Dock (in my case, Firefox) starts up. If I hit Super+1 again, it switches to the existing Firefox instance. I would like it to start a…
Silvio Mayolo
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Trying to Change the Show Apps Button in GNOME

I know there are similar questions to this already however I've followed them and I'm still experiencing some trouble. I'm trying to theme the show app grid icon in the dock with this icon…
Lennon Stanfield
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Change Dash to Dock setting on Ubuntu 18.10

I prefer to have Dash to Dock minimized, so I use a command dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-dock/extend-height false. The problem is, when I tried this command in the new Ubuntu 18.10 installation, it didn't work as expected and…
Stasia Trubitsyna
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GNOME Dash-to-dock feature not show running apps

It shows the favorite applications, and properly shows the orange dotd on the left of the running ones, but not the running ones if they are not favorites. From dconf-editor, org->gnome->shell->extensions->dash-to-dock->show-running is set to on.…
bobon123
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display only recent items in gnome dash

It appears that with 22.04, the dash can only display ALL apps. It was previously possible to display RECENTLY USED. Is this option still available?
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Trying to de-folder all applications in my dash menu

Please can anyone suggest to me a "Applications' folder Management" tool ?? i wanna to de-folder all applications(remove all folders and view applications separately) in my dash menu... Please note that I can't de-folder every application manually…
Zorono
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Make fonts smaller in App menu or make them multi-line

Hope this question was never asked before. When I press 9 dots menu icon on Gnome app drawer it opens up the big icon app menu which is ugly and okay. But the problem is app titles are big as well. For example I have LibreOffice. All I can see is…
ProPlayerMaxUltra
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How to add the LibreOffice StartCenter to the dash

Fresh install of ubuntu 20.10. The LibreOffice-applications, Writer, Calc, Math, ... can be easily added to or removed from the dash. How can I add the LibreOffice StartCenter to the dash? I opened Writer and closed the document => The StartCenter…
Bernard Decock
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How to "always-hide" dock in Ubuntu 19.10?

In Ubuntu 19.10 there's automatically converted GNOME's dash to dock. And, configuration: "settings -> dock": offers only option "Auto-hide the Dock", "GNOME Tweaks": can't configure any extension about dock. However, I need to hide it always,…
kravemir
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18.04: How do I make my apps "overlap" in Dash to Panel

In Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Firefox has two application icons instead of one. One just launches Firefox, and the other is the open application itself. How do I make it only have one icon? System info: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3…
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