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I've been using gnome-shell and I really like it. I was wondering though if it's possible to somehow get gnome-shell to display the full name of an application in the activities->applications browser if the name is too long. For an example of what I mean:

Full name isn't shown

I have two icons for Battle for Wesnoth in the Games filter. Both of them apparently have names too long to display entirely and end in "...". Is there a way to either tell gnome-shell to display the names or to have them appear as a tooltip or something?

Dason
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  • This question looks like it could also be relevant in cases of long filenames, etc. – Knowledge Cube Nov 02 '11 at 17:29
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    I played around with the gnome-shell.css (/usr/share/themes/[your-current-theme]), after I copied that to /home/user/.themes. There is a section called Apps where you can change the grid size of the grid on which the icons are aligned - if you make that bigger (change contact grid entry accordingly) you will see more. There is even more possible but that all kind of workaround. Unfortunately I do not know enough about CSS to add a pop-up or something when hovering the icons. – cuichi Nov 09 '11 at 08:56
  • Add it as an answer. You'll at least get an upvote from me and if nobody else responds you'll earn the bounty. – Dason Nov 09 '11 at 14:04
  • Ok, I will do so eventually. But maybe I can come up with a better solution - just need some more time. – cuichi Nov 10 '11 at 12:25
  • Alternative - try another desktop environment, e.g. Cinnamon or Xfce show full names because they have the "windows start menu" design, you can search all over the internet - one of nice lists: https://linuxconfig.org/8-best-ubuntu-desktop-environments-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux – jave.web Nov 20 '19 at 07:18

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I played around with the gnome-shell.css (/usr/share/themes/[your-current-theme]), after I copied that folder to /home/user/.themes. In the gnome-shell.css is a section called Apps where you can change the grid size of the grid on which the icons are aligned - if you make that bigger (change contact grid entry accordingly) you will see more.

I also tried to find how the pop-ups, like on the overview sidebar, work - however I could not find that. Seems like that has nothing to do with CSS.

Jorge Castro
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