Click on it to access the click action settings. Scroll down a bit until you find click-action. Once installed, launch Dconf Editor and go to org -> gnome -> shell -> extensions -> dash-to-dock. You can find and install Dconf Editor in the Ubuntu Software Center. So be careful while using this tool because it works with a single click and changes are applied immediately. I avoid recommending it because one wrong click here and there may screw up your desktop settings. It is a powerful tool that allows you to change many hidden aspects of your Linux desktop. You can do the steps mentioned above using a GUI tool called Dconf Editor. If you do not like the click to minimize behaviour, you can set it back to default using the command below: gsettings reset .dash-to-dock click-actionĮnable click to minimize on Ubuntu using the GUI tool You can test the minimize on click behaviour immediately after it. No need to restart your system or anything of that sort. gsettings set .dash-to-dock click-action 'minimize' All you need is to copy and paste the command below into the terminal. Open a terminal using the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut or search for it in the menu. I recommend this way to ‘minimize on click’ even if you are uncomfortable with the command line. This method is for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and newer version users with the GNOME desktop environment. Enable click to minimize on Ubuntu using the command line (recommended) I’ll show both the command line and the GUI methods here. In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to enable click to minimize on Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04. So what? Customization is one of the main reasons why I use Linux and this behaviour can also be easily changed. In my opinion, this should be the default behaviour but apparently, Ubuntu doesn’t think so. Perhaps this GIF will better explain the click-on-minimize behaviour on Ubuntu. This may bother you if you expect the application window to be minimized on the second click. If you click again on an application icon already in focus, the default behaviour is to show previews. When you click on an icon in the launcher, the application window appears in focus. The launcher on the left-hand side of Ubuntu is a handy tool for quickly accessing applications.
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