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When doing scientific computation, I need many figures, often >50. When I press super, I get Gnome overview where the titles are often not useful etc in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1 a small sample of my Gnome overview with many windows where you see that Figure 34: P... is not useful

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It would be really nice if the complete figure title was popping out when you move your cursor on top of the figure in Gnome overview.

OS: Debian 8.5 6 bit
Window manager: Gnome 3.14
Linux kernel: 4.6 backports
Hardware: Asus Zenbook UX303UA

Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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    does this help you? https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/529/windows-overview-tooltips/ – Lesmana Oct 17 '16 at 11:21
  • @lesmana I put `on` there from Firefox. Allowed the gnome site to install from the website. Still waiting but see no effect. I will restart soon. - - Feel free to make your comment an answer. - - Any other gadgets/widgets/... are welcome which could help scientific data analysis! Any ruler, angle measurer would be more more than welcome! – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Oct 17 '16 at 11:52

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this extension claims to do what you want: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/529/windows-overview-tooltips/

Makes the title of the window to display its full content when the mouse hovers over the window, in the activities view.

Lesmana
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  • I installed the application by Gnome extension website but I do not see its being activated. I restarted the system but nothing. In the browser, the extension is `on`. - - How can you test if the addon work? – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Oct 17 '16 at 22:35
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    I'm sorry I cannot help you further. I tried installing myself and it gives no error message but it also does not show up as installed. Based on the comments the author seems to have abandoned the extension years ago. Maybe this will help you: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions – Lesmana Oct 18 '16 at 09:22
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No supported solution exists in Gnome 3.14. Let's home the coming release of Gnome at Q1 2017 helps the situation.

Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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Another Gnome extension called Always Show Titles In Overview

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

Works in Debian 11 (Gnome 3.38.x).

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