Snap is a Gnome Shell extension which allows you to assign a keyboard shortcut to summon windows of an app.
Inspired by "Snap.app" - http://indragie.com/snap/
This extension uses Gnome Shell API, so it works in both Wayland and X.Org.
In order to build Snap you're going to need Node.JS and NPM installed
$ npm run buildOnce it has been built just copy whole folder into ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/snap@extensions.shell.gnome.org or create a symlink.
To use this extension you need to assign a keyboard shortcut to an app first.
Once you've done it you can summon all of the windows of the app by hitting that keyboard shortcut
In order to assign a shortcut you need to open extensions settings.
There are two ways to do it:
- using Gnome Tweak Tool - just open it, go to extensions, find Snap and open settings.
- using command line - just run:
Find Snap in the list and click settings icon.
$ gnome-shell-extension-prefs
You can add and remove shortcuts using settings UI.
- Click 'Add' button to add a new shortcut.
- Pick an app from the apps list on the left
- Click keyboard shortcut text entry
- Press keyboard shortcut you want to use
- Click 'Apply' button to save settings. No changes saved util you click 'Apply' button.
You can click 'Delete' button to delete a shortcut
NOTE: not all of the shortcuts are valid. Valid shortcut:
- Has exactly one letter
- Has one or more modifiers (ctrl or alt or super or all of them)
Just hit a shortcut you've configured and see how it summons windows of the app assigned
There are several limitations right now
As for now you need to reload gnome shell if you change shortcuts. In order to do so, do as follows:
- Press 'Alt+F2'
- Type 'r'
- Press 'Enter'
It won't kill any of applications you have running, it'll only reload Gnome Shell configuration.
Even though I designed configuration schema with this feature in mind, I haven't implemented it yet.