Dock prevents Search switching to some apps in different workspaces
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
While the Ubuntu Dock extension is active, searching for certain applications on the overview screen and pressing Enter does not switch to them if an instance exists on other workspaces. Notably a few GNOME Apps such as Nautilus and gedit. From the programs I've tested:
- Pressing Enter on Nautilus, gedit and Firefox does nothing, not even close the overview nor switch to an open instance.
- Pressing Enter on Thunderbird switches to it properly.
- Pressing Enter on KeepassXC gets you a notification and clicking it will switch to it.
- Pressing Enter on Terminal opens a new instance on the current workspace instead of switching to an existing one if one exists on another workspace.
If the dock extension is disabled, searching for a program and pressing Enter behaves as expected, that is, the program becomes focused and is switched to.
Edit: After some more testing, it only happens if either "Include applications from the current workspace only" or "Include applications from each monitor only" options are activated in Control Center > Multitasking > Application Switching
I apologize in case that wasn't well explained, if there are any doubts, I'll attempt to record a video of it.
Ubuntu: 22.04.01 LTS
Ubuntu Dock: 72~ubuntu5.22.04.1
gnome-shell: 42.5-0ubuntu1
Running on Xorg.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: gnome-shell-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-58-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jan 16 20:04:47 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-09-12 (126 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Thanks for the bug report. It sounds like there might be multiple issues here.
To start, please disable dock auto-hide (if enabled) so that we can rule out bug 1979096. Please then update the bug description with the main issue that remains after that.