This sounds like an intentional design decision to me. But before we go declaring this bug as "Won't Fix", please report it to the Gnome developers to see what they say:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues Then tell us the new bug ID. ** Summary changed: - Activities show applications from the primary display only + Activities overview window spread keeps windows on their original monitors instead of bringing them together onto one ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1829124 Title: Activities overview window spread keeps windows on their original monitors instead of bringing them together onto one Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: I can't see and manage applications on 2 of 3 monitors using Activities. For example I started different application on all 3 monitors and run Activities. You can see on attached "Activities.png" screenshot what only an application from the primary display is shown. I set "Workspaces span displays" option in GNOME Tweaks but this doesn't help. If to use "Multi monitors add-on" it allows to shown individual activities for each display, but can't collect all applications from all displays together. This produce a serious problem if only the primary monitor is on, but some application was opened on currently turned off monitor. No way to move it to currently working monitor. Reproduced on Ubuntu 18.04.2. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1829124/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
