When will fedora add minimize button as standard? It should be standard since like 30 years ago, what is wrong? It is like a BMW were signal lights are optional. Things like not having a minimize button is why 99,9% of all people hate linux.
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Welcome to fedora, that is the best Linux joke I’v ever heard 
So tell me now, how can I help you?
The gsettings command has the option to change the button layout and add the minimize and maximize buttons.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":minimize,maximize,close"
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And use Alt & Tab to maximize it again.
If you have more than one Window from an application open, you can use the Arrow keys, while using the Alt & Tab to select the window you like to use.
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The question should rather be: “When will Gnome add minimize button?”.
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Also, if you’re uncomfortable with terminal commands, you can install Gnome Tweaks, and under the Windows menu activate additional titlebar buttons.
It’s worth noting that this is an intentional design of GNOME.
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Minimize is rarely useful in my opinion, but you can right click on the title bar and click Hide if you want.
It’s generally better to move the window to a different workspace instead.
There are many, many, many previous discussions about this scattered across the internet; you can likely find longer and better explanations with a search engine if desired.
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@catanzaro, you probably came from Mac to Linux? A Windows user, who had this since ever in the top-bar, is missing it. When I changed to Linux I always moved to the right top corner with my mouse because my “Brain Muscles” where trained so. Also when I use mac based Themes, first thing I do is to change the controls from the left to the right side.
Our habits are guiding our actions.
What catches more my attention on this topic is the fact of the simple way, with a provocation and exaggeration, the OP catches our attention and we start to defend our beloved “Desktop Environment” 
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Gnome tweaks has contained this fix since the change was made. I seem to recall the maximize and minimize buttons have been gone by default since long before gnome 40 was released, about Fedora release version 34?
Some thinks that more people should switch to Linux but for 95-98% of people it is not possible because Linux fails in the very basic of needs. If devs can’t see that than it is not hard to see why Linux is not a wider used OS system among regular people. The most basic things in Linux in general is a nightmare to get going, example getting the right Nvidia firmware, get the OS to remember which is your main screen (Not the vertical one), minimize buttons, monitor of cpu performance and temps and the list just goes on and on.
The minimize button is in the top right Corner in windows 10, don’t understand what you refer to.
Yes trying to wake you guys stuck in what seems to be a very little circle and raise your heads and look what is beyond your narrow borders.
Linux and Fedora have such huge potential to be good, to be a competitor to Windows. I hope one day that it will become that.
Thanks, after 1-2 hours and after Chatgpt failed to give me a simple solution I finally found a youtube video who showed how to install Gnome Tweaks in an easy way. I would like to get the buttom task bar to show when draging the mouse pointer to the buttom but as it was not something I found in Gnome Tweaks, then I don’t know if I dare to get stuck in another potential nightmare.
No one who regularly uses any disto of linux wants it to look exactly like nor act like windows. Only the sheeple who cannot stand change have this attitude. There are many distros and many differing desktop environments. Some are similar to windows, most are not.
A question here without the accusing attitude would have given you an answer as soon as the post was read.
Questions here with a reasonable attitude, admitting that you are new and unfamiliar with the OS, will get answers quickly. An attacking attitude as shown in the OP will quickly turn members off to the idea of assisting users with an abrasive attitude.
This is a helpful community to members who are friendly.
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A pair of commas could help
A Windows user, who had this since ever in the top-bar, is missing it.
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Minimize button is function and not something that define or differentiates Windows and LInux, a strange hill to want to fight for.
I alredy solved the problem when posted here. I wanted to ventilate the frustration and anger Linux and Fedora gives me on a regular basis. Most people probably just go back to Windows and format the Fedora partition. I wanted to show why regular people finds it difficult to switch to Linux, that maybe in some future it will become a better experience.
Here is a Video to help aid you in the Gnome Journey :
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Thanks I will look at that. Wonder why basic things can’t be a toggle switch in the settings if devs decides to remove basic things, but I guess that is another question.
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I guess your search that took 1 - 2 hours did not show this (the first link in the google search)
It is a simple toggle switch as shown.
I made the commas to see what I mean and also, I answered to a comment somebody else made.
I now have a better understanding how Gnome wants you to think and I support the reasoning behind their approach. They want you to use several desktops instead of minimizing windows and such. They also wants so that the desktop is as minimalistic as possible, that is a good thing in general. Maybe will get used to working with Gnome in the future.
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That’s right, several Workspaces so that everything has it’s workspace. Which integrate well with using Keyboard Shortcuts and smooth transitions between them.
Exactly
While I love GNOME and I’m happy with its design principles, you might want to give KDE Plasma (another desktop environment, available as a Fedora spin) a try. It resembles more to Windows than GNOME does.
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Just a little addition: there isn’t any “desktop” in Gnome.
Traditionally the “desktop” is like a table where you place things, like icons or application windows or “panels/bars”(including widgets, applets, etc).
That is the reason why the “full screen” application is quite wrong on the “desktop” like in reality you don’t cover your whole table with the thing you are using, just an area and other things aren’t “under” it, they are placed around.
The “minimize” button and the “taskbar” are a bit like a drawer of your table.
Now Gnome basically replaces the idea of a table with the idea of a smartphone.
You are forced to use application full screen on the smartphone because the screen is small. So you cannot have different things all visible and accessible in the same time like placing them in a table, instead you “page” between “sessions”.
Now the real question is about “multitasking” or if we need to do/view more than one thing a time.
The classical example is the Tiling Window Manager whose idea is to have multiple windows each with an application running so you can view all them in the same time.
On the other end there are things like “conky” that sit on the desktop doing basically nothing useful. Besides, most of the elements of the desktop are seldom used, like you don’t open the menu when you can place an “accelerator” on the taskbar to open an application. Same goes for icons, it is an old bad habit of Windows users to fill the desktop with icons they don’t even remind what are linked to.
Anyway, the “Tiling Window Manager” is pretty much the opposite of Gnome, that wants you to see a single window a time, full screen. Yes, you can have multiple applications in each Gnome “virtual desktop” or “session” (I don’t know the exact term) but the general idea is to “page” from one application to the other like on smartphones.
Probably if my workflow required multiple windows side by side i would not use Gnome because it lacks the proper functions for that.
Edit: workspaces.
Here is the word.
way to go…you just destroyed your future on a linux forum.
over a decade with gnome, never missed it.
gnome.
this had to be said.
like moi 
geez, anti-climax.