GNOME Shell plugin that shows a preview of another window (like picture-in-picture on a TV)

• Left-mouse drag: move preview window
• Right-mouse drag (or ctrl + left mouse drag): resize preview window
• Scroll wheel: change target window
• Double click: raise target window
• Shift + F12: toggle preview window (this can be changed or disabled in preferences)
• Ctrl + scroll wheel: adjust opacity

You can install the latest official release through extensions.gnome.org. This should be fine for most people.

To install the development version, clone this repository locally and create a symlink to the Gnome Shell extensions directory. If you cloned miniview into MINIVIEW, this would look like

ln -s MINIVIEW ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]

After that just restart Gnome Shell. If you're in Xorg you can just hit Alt+F2 and run r, and if you're in Wayland you have to logout and log back in.

Thanks to these awesome folks!

• @antielektron
• @jonnius
• @amivaleo