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This a Gnome Shell extension, which customizes the Overview, including always showing titles of all window thumbnails and setting the position of icons and titles, etc.

Home Page: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1689/always-show-titles-in-overview/

License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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Always-Show-Titles-In-Overview

This a Gnome Shell extension, which customizes the Overview, including always showing titles of all window thumbnails and setting the position of icons and titles, etc.

Why I write this extention

Please read this post(Gnome 3.26: How to get the window titles in the activities view back?) and this comment below Gnome Bugzilla - Window picker layout improvements.

Features

Features	Default Setting
Always show titles of all window thumbnails	-
Always show close buttons of all window thumbnails	off
Window titles position (Bottom, Center)	Bottom
Move window titles to the bottom when fullscreen	on
Move window titles to the bottom for video/TV players, like SMPlayer	on
Show app icons	on
App icon position (Bottom, Center)	Bottom
Hide icons when fullscreen	on
Hide icons for Video/TV players, like SMPlayer	on
Tweak the window thumbnail active size increment (from 5 to 60)	15
Hide the background	off

Gnome versions

Gnome version	Branch	Is default branch?
Gnome 40 to 44	gnome-40-44	No
Gnome 45+	gnome-45+	Yes

Settings

This extension has a Settings now, which makes it more useful:

TODO

Remove the fade time when leave a window
Find a way to distinguish the selected window and the others. 1. Maybe I can find a way to increase the light of the highlight around the selected window. 2. Or I can find a way to reverse the color of the title and it's background of the highlight around the selected window. (Gnome-shell has this feature now by larging thumbnail when the cursor hovers over it.)
Be compatible with GNOME Shell v3.36
Wine-based application's window has no close button. Remove 'if (this._windowCanClose())' can fix this issue, but I don't know if it's a good idea. I see that Wine application has close button now.
Add Preferences for this extension for setting show or hide app's icon, changing title's position

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always-show-titles-in-overview's Issues

Error loading extension

Hi. First of all, thanks for developing this extension!

I was eager to try it out, but I haven't been able to get it working. Installing it either via the Gnome Shell Extensions website or manually (downloading the extension version 8 for gnome-shell 3.36) have both led to this:

When I hover over my cursor over this exclamation mark I get the message "Error loading extension".

I dug a little deeper into the logs and this is what I found:

May 22 23:13:55 surface-linux gnome-shell[3845]: JS ERROR: Extension [email protected]: ImportError: No JS module 'windowPreview' found in search path
    @/home/pesader/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:14:23
May 23 10:54:09 surface-linux gnome-shell[3836]: JS ERROR: Extension [email protected]: ImportError: No JS module 'windowPreview' found in search path
    @/home/pesader/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:14:23

Additional info:
gnome-shell: 3.36.7
distro: ubuntu 20.04

Thanks again for developing this!

Gnome 40 compatibility

Thank you for your work on this. I share your concern about Jetbrains IDEs.

Did you plan to support Gnome 40?

Support for Gnome 45

This extension needs to be updated to work with Gnome 45. Most extensions are broken due the new standard.

Fedora Workstation 33 - moving mouse into a window makes all titles disappear

Overview can't be closed when started on 2nd screen

With the latest version on extensions.gnome.org, the overview can't be closed any more by pressing ESC or SUPER key.
I found, that this only happens when the overview is started on the 2nd screen (e.g. by pressing SUPER).

Current versions:

Extension "[email protected]" 17
GNOME Shell 40.5
Ubuntu 21.10

Feature request: Show in App Grid

Having the option to apply these features also to the window previews in the App Grid would make the extension even better for me since I use the App Grid a lot.
Btw, thank you for making this extension.

Hovering make the other titles disappear

When you hover over one window, the other titles disappear. That happens especially when you switch desktop: if your cursor happens to land on a window instead of an empty space, you never see the titles of the other windows.
(Ubuntu 18.10 up-to-date)