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You can re-enable the minimize button using the Gnome Tweak Tool without too much trouble. Admittedly, I think that button should be enabled by default, and it
by u2328 14y ago
You can re-enable the minimize button using the Gnome Tweak Tool without too much trouble. Admittedly, I think that button should be enabled by default, and it is annoying to have to install a different package, but the option is available.
- JoshTriplett 14y agognome-shell doesn't have a minimize button because it doesn't have an application list for the window to minimize to; minimized windows just disappear. You can only find them in the activities overview or the alt-tab list. Also note that you can still minimize a window by right-clicking on the title bar and choosing "minimize"; you just don't have a button for it.
- snogglethorpe 14y ago> ...minimized windows just disappear. You can only find them in the activities overview or the alt-tab list. ... which is actually really cool. They're still very easily accessible (a single mouse-flip or keyboard sequence away), but completely out of sight when I'm not using them. The windows-style task-bar with 75 bazillion unreadable entries always seemed pretty annoying (and often unusable when any number of apps are open); Gnome 3 does things much more elegantly. That's one of the things I really like about gnome 3 / gnome-shell: it mostly stays in the background out of my way, but is quickly available when I want it.