Minimize open window by clicking on icon

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Hi,

I know it from Windows, if you have a window open (for example Firefox) and you click on the icon again, then the window minimizes.
On Ubuntu this is not the case and I didn’t find anything in the settings.
So, is it possible to set it up so that the window minimizes when I click on the icon (like it is on Windows)?

Thank you for your help :grinning:

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What version of Ubuntu are you using?

What is the default desktop?

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Oh sorry, I have forgotten that. I am talking about 24.04 and GNOME :grinning:

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I’m going to give you the biggest tip you can possibly get when using any Desktop Environment in a Linux-based operating system:

Don’t expect it to act like Windows. Workflows will have to be adjusted, and there’s a (slight) learning curve. :slight_smile:

Cheers!

(Edited since I was wrong about the Ubuntu Dock as there is a way to make this work as kindly mentioned by @ogra )

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It is possible to turn this on (at least on my 24.10 system here, but I guess it might have been around in 24.04) by going to the extension manager app, open the settings of “Ubuntu Dock” and under behavior there is a pulldown for “Click Action” (German UI here so i’m translating on the fly, things might be called slightly different) … It defaults to “focus” but you should be able to pick “minimize”

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I did not find that on 24.04

However, this works:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'minimize'

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You could also use Lubuntu instead :wink: In the default configuration, this works with Openbox. I don’t see it, but I’ve had several other folks say it has a sort of Windows look, so maybe you’d feel more at home.

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Just offering an alternative:-
The extension dash-to-panel allows the application to minimise when the launcher icon is clicked.

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If you like the window list in the Windows taskbar, there is a GNOME extension for this type of window list, which you can install by:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions

Note that this Ubuntu package contains multiple GNOME extensions, not only this window list one.

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Hi!

Thank you to you all for your suggestions!

It worked with the GNOME Extension Manager as well the gsettings thing :+1:

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