Whenever I open a single folder and if I click on the Nautilus icon in the dock, it doesn't minimize it. Is there a way to do this?
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1As I understand you want to minimise when there is a single window of the application but want to show thumbnail previews if there are more than one windows. In that case run `gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'minimize-or-previews'` instead of the command mentioned in the answer below. – pomsky Jun 13 '20 at 17:22
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Hello @pomsky thank you very very much for your useful comment. If i could minimize multiple folders, it would be fantastic (e.g. first click on nautilus to see preview, second click to minimize/maximize). – Gennaro Arguzzi Jun 13 '20 at 19:01
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This is a great feature for ex-Windows users. Sometimes you click an icon by mistake and want to quickly minimise it. This happens by default in Windows (version 10) and I had missed the feature on Ubuntu until activating the function after reading this question. – Disproportionate Sep 22 '21 at 14:23
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If you mean 'minimize on click', you can activate this feature by running the following command:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'minimize'
After running this command, whenever you click on the icon of the folder/application, it will be minimized.
Here is a demo:
If you want to go back to the default settings, run the following command:
gsettings reset org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action
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1i noticed that if i run your command, i can't see the folders preview...is there a way to preserv this feature? – Gennaro Arguzzi Jun 12 '20 at 16:03
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1Well, that's the bad side of this feature. However you can overcome this problem by clicking on the top left of the screen. Normally you should have an icon or something called **Activities**, once you click on it, it will give you a preview of the opened apps. – singrium Jun 12 '20 at 16:04
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