Q:

How to stop opening an application exit you out of the Activities Overview?

I often need to go into the Activities Overview and open many applications so it is rather annoying if every time I click to open an application I am taken out of the AO and to that application, though this is useful on some occasions, I would prefer to stay in the AO and whatever part of it I am in.
Can this be done? Perhaps there is an extension to achieve this? Preferably I would like to be able to SHIFT click or something on an application in order to open it but not take me out of the AO, so that it is easier for me when I don't need it.
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20.

A:

There is already such functionality to do this, simply CTRL+CLICK an item (e.g.: application, file, etc) in the Activities Overview in order to open it but not to also close the AO.

