Allow scrollwheel to cycle through windows

[futwick]

In Unity's dock, the mouse scrollwheel can be used to cycle through multiple windows of a running application quickly and efficiently. The dock in 17.10 should follow the same behaviour (it is an option in Dash to Dock).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[François Glais (franglais125)]

I guess this bug is about making the option available from the GUI. In any case, for people that want to try it, you can set it by running:

dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-dock/scroll-action "'cycle-windows'"

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Coming from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/+bug/1730199 I've recently noticed there is one wheelmouse action available on artful dock by default : on the « applications » icon, it allows you to change workspace, which is very convenient ( no more need for the ugly activities button )

François, I can see in dconf editor a scroll-switch-workspace which does not seem to work if enabled ( default behavior ) or I don't understand what it's supposed to do. I've set it to « off » and can't see any difference.

Beside that if I set « cycle-windows » then no more workspace switching by wheel mouse on « applications » icon. Whatever I set for scroll-switch-workspace.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

Thanks François, this command did enable the feature for me:

dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-dock/scroll-action "'cycle-windows'"

Any features that the Unity 7 Dock has by default, should also be default in Ubuntu's GNOME dock in my option. It took a lot of effort to get those default features into the Unity 7 dock, so by default put them also into the Ubuntu Unity Dock, so that effort does not have to be repeated. I don't think you'll get many complaints if you make this default. Someone who doesn't want this could just simply not use it and be happy.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/+bug/1825971

So yes, the heart of this bug report, is making this feature default. Thanks for the cryptic work-around though.