Toggle Pinned Apps

GNOME Shell Extension that adds keybindings for toggling native pinned applications.

Features

GNOME Shell comes with two sets of keybindings out of the box:

• activate (run-or-raise) the Nth pinned app e.g. /org/gnome/shell/keybindings/switch-to-application-1 (<Super>1)
• open a new window for the Nth pinned app e.g. /org/gnome/shell/keybindings/open-new-window-application-1 (<Super><Control>1)

This extension adds the third set of keybindings e.g. <Super><Alt>1 that use the following logic:

• if the focused window belongs to the app, minimize the focused window
• if the focused window does not belong to the app, activate the app (usual switch-to-application-X behaviour)

Motivation

There are at least two recent fully-fledged extensions that aim to achieve similar goals:

• https://github.com/aaimio/application-hotkeys
• https://github.com/jqno/gnome-happy-appy-hotkey

But I was looking for a simpler way to extend the native dash functionality and possibly upstream the changes into GNOME Shell itself.