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Can the Activities Manager Be Configured?

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davidhillman
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Can the Activities Manager be configured? Specifically, to have smaller thumbnails for each Activity?

Even on my 4K screens, the Activities Manager only shows 7 thumbnails at a time. Now, I really like Activities, and on some systems I have more than 7 of them configured. On those systems, 7 thumbnails are displayed, and the user is forced to scroll that thumbnail list to find the others. This is inconvenient and inelegant. It would be very nice if:

a) the Activities Manager automatically adjusted its size to fit all of the Activities on the screen. On high resolution screens, far more than seven could be displayed.

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b) the Activities Manager was configurable so that a user could scale down those thumbnails manually, in order to fit all of their Activities on the screen.

Obviously a) is not the current implementation. I have searched quite a bit, but have been unable to find anything regarding the possibility of b). If that exists somewhere, please let me know -- thanks.
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Mamarok
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You are actually talking about the Activity Pager, not the Activity Manager which has no thumbnails.
FWIW, right click on it will show you the options you have. If I set it to vertical the thumbnails are very small, due to the fact it is in the Panel and therefore limited by the height of the panel, but I only use 3 Activities.
I presume you have it as a widget on the desktop. Try setting it in an additional Panel on the side?


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We are talking about the slide-out Activity Switcher applet thingie, not a pager widget.
It looks like the panel thumbnail may be hard coded. if it is a qml widget, it might be editable, but I have no idea if it is, yet.


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davidhillman
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Mamarok wrote:FWIW, right click on it will show you the options you have.


As noted by the previous respondent, you are talking about a different feature. Right-clicking on the "slide-out Activity Switcher" does nothing at all.

Thanks to both, though.


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