Gnome top-left corner shows workspaces instead of Activities

General Discussion
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The top-left corner in Gnome contains a dash and dot that seem related to the number of workspaces instead of the usual “Activities”. The name of the foreground application never appears in the top bar. As a consequence, it is not possible to access the active application’s main menu. Clicking the dash-dot at the top-left corner opens the Activities overview as before.

This affects newly created user accounts with no gnome extensions, customizations or changes.

Is this affecting anyone else?

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The screenshots below show why I believe the “icon” at the top right is connected to workspaces:

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The activities have been replaced with dynamic workspaces icon. It is a new change with gnome 45.

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Yep, it’s by design, as @Kingfisher says. You may have to make recourse to Gnome extensions to move around or, at the very least, enable the active corner or whatever it’s called. I am very happy w/Dash-to-Dock myself.