Isolate monitors

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In Zorin OS Pro 16.3 there is an option to Isolate Workspaces and an option to Isolate monitors under the Behavior tab for Taskbar Settings.

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In Zorin OS Pro 17 these options are not present. I can't remember if I did something to add them (I've had Zorin OS Pro 16.x installed for quite a while now).
I have 3 monitors and I need to be able to show only the running applications on each monitor. I want to show "Favorites" on my primary display only. This seems impossible without the isolate monitors option available, or am I missing something?

Was this option removed in 17?

Thanks for any help.

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These sound like options provided by the Zorin-Dash Gnome Extension.

Gnome developers have been releasing new versions of Gnome in almost rapid-fire succession since elevating to GTK4. This can make it tricky to maintain Gnome Extensions.

Zorin OS 16 used Gnome 3.38.

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Thanks Aravisian for the reply.

I just did a new install of Zorin OS Pro 16. I didn't install any updates yet and the Isolate Workspaces and Isolate monitors options are there in Taskbar Settings/Behavior.

Apparently they've been removed from Zorin OS Pro 17 for some reason.

Don't know why they would remove them.

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I was just looking at some of the differences between the two versions of ZorinOS and indeed it seems this has been removed entirely. I would also like to know why these options were removed; was it a design choice or to bring better support for Wayland?

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I mistyped earlier: I meant Zorin-Taskbar gnome-shell extension...
I place full blame on my brain.

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I'm hoping when the upgrade from 16 to 17 becomes available this ability to "Isolate monitors" doesn't go away.

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It very likely will. When you upgrade the Gnome Desktop, the extensions will need to be compatible with the Gnome Version.

I recommend creating a new thread / moving this existing thread to Feedback targeting this issue and gathering user input for support.

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Oh man, this is really making me second-guess going with Zorin... I liked the appeal of it and some of it's niche features, but I was also hesitant about it for running an older Ubuntu-base and worried about it's slow release cycle. This is something that I've been going crazy to try and figure out.

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I had the same problem and after searching for a while I managed to find the setting in 17. It's now in the settings app.
You need tp go to the multitasking tab and then the option is called application switching

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You are right! Thank you. This works great with multiple monitors. I can now show only the open apps on each monitor.

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For those in need of a visual reference when visiting this thread:

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Zorin OS 17 is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS release.
You may be thinking of the Ubuntu Interim releases which are unstable and very short term support.

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This helped me a bunch. I was about to go crazy, lol.

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