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First of all it might be worth mentioning that I moved my taskbar to the bottom of the screen instead of the left side.

Let's say that I am currently running an application like firefox. If I try to use the taskbar (dock is the Ubuntu term I think?) and I click slightly below the icon, it turns into drag mode instead of just maximizing/minimizing the application window that I clicked on.

Why is this? Is there a way to turn this feature off?

With this system I have to be so conscious every time I use the taskbar of where my cursor is at the time of clicking, whereas in Windows 10 if you click on/slightly below the application icon in the taskbar, it will always minimize/maximize the app. Is there some way to make the taskbar function in the same way it does on Windows?

But it gets worse. If I start dragging the taskbar icon, it will ALWAYS drag the icon if I click on it a second time, even though I just did a simple left click on the icon. I can't figure out for the life of me what it is expecting me to do? Unless I just close the application and restart it, I can't use the taskbar at all to minimize/maximize. It will always just keep dragging the icon instead of just maximizing the app.

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  • Slightly longer click on app icons in the dock works same as a right click by design. Perhaps something related to that? A short video sounds like a good idea.
    – pomsky
    Jul 3, 2018 at 2:13
  • I got into this bug too but cannot yet understand how to replicate it. A bug report should be filled if not already.
    – Valentas
    Nov 19, 2018 at 7:35
  • I noticed this beaviour since Mint 18 and now 19. I know that everything is fine if I leave the taskbar on the left side. As soon as I put it to the ground I have this hand that is kept in drag and drop while clicking on things in the taskbar. After two to four clicks the desktop will then crash on me. But I have no clue why this is happening. I just found this: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/240850/…
    – peterling
    Jan 6, 2019 at 12:06
  • @peterling I was able to reproduce it with taskbar on the left side.
    – Vadim Kotov
    Apr 13, 2020 at 11:41
  • Temporary workaround for me - restarting Gnome Shell (askubuntu.com/questions/100226/…)
    – Vadim Kotov
    Apr 28, 2020 at 8:33

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This still happens. Even when using Dash to Panel.

When it happens, I click the icon and the preview comes up. Without moving mouse off, click again and the right-click/context menu comes up. Without moving mouse off, click again and the window min/maximizes. It then works as normal, until I accidentally drag again.

Has anyone found or filed a bug for this, yet?

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