Switching between windows with scroll wheel on Ubuntu Dock

Question

I would like to switch between windows using the scroll wheel of the mouse over each app icon in Ubuntu dock, as we could do in Unity, but apparently this doesn't work in Ubuntu 17.10.

Is there a way to enable it?

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Related: How do I enable 'minimize on click' on Ubuntu dock in 17.10 and later?

Solution

Open Terminal and run

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock scroll-action 'cycle-windows'

Comments

[user246185]

Yes, it still works after reboot.

[Amir Karimi]

Why there is no GUI support! not even by tweaks tool.

[Amir Karimi]

UPDATE: Installed the origin gnome dash-to-dock extension, now I can edit the settings. Are they (gnome dash-to-dock and ubuntu dock) just sharing the settings or they're basically the same!

[pomsky]

@AmirKarimi Ubuntu Dock is a fork of dash-to-dock extension.

[Amir Karimi]

@pomsky Do you have any idea why there is no settings button available for Ubuntu Dock in tweak like what is there for dash-to-dock?

[user2342558]

It works also in Ubuntu 18.04. But in the GUI Editor dconf the cycle-windows option is'nt listed and isn't showd as current option.

[nodws]

Ahhh Finally! Thanks, been working like a savage for weeks! lol

[Mahdi]

Tested on Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) and worked.

[Ethunxxx]

Tested it on Ubuntu 20.04 and works like a charm.

[funicorn]

It seems working for a switch from one app to another. However a more useful and logical feature seems to be switching among multiple windows of that same app above which the mouse is scrolling, isn't it?

[pomsky]

@funicorn Sounds like there's something wrong in your setup. The question and the answer are completely about switching between windows of the same application, there's nothing regarding switching applications.

[Milan]

I ran the command in my Ubuntu 18.04 and didn't get any error. However, it's not working! Could you please let me know any possible fixes? Thanks in advance!

[pomsky]

@Milan Try the detailed Solution 1 part from this answer posted to a similar question.

[Milan]

@pomsky apologies for the late reply. But for that Solution 1, I have to install Dash to Dock, right? Is there any other way to achieve this switching without installing Dash to Dock?

[Milan]

@pomsky thanks again for your reply. Yup for get method, it's showing that scroll-action has already been set to 'cycle-windows'. This had not been working previously. However, I don't know what happened... after installing Dash to Dock, I disabled it using Tweak Tools app, and now I can scroll!! Thanks again for your time and prompt replies :)

[pomsky]

You'll get the No such schema “org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock” in pop_os, but it's highly unlikely in a standard Ubuntu 20.04 installation. Ubuntu comes with the 'Ubuntu Dock' extension (fork of dash-to-dock) by default, hence the schema is present. On the other hand pop_os doesn't come with any such extension. In this aspect pop_os and Ubuntu are very much not the same.

[calocedrus]

You are correct, the schema was only for pop_os, edited to reflect your remark. And I had installed the extension manually.