Sunday, September 23, 2018

Alt-TAB behavior in Ubuntu's Gnome Shell

Default behavior group TAB of the same app is a pain for me. Changing this to show all individual windows is as follows.

  • Open dconf-editor
  • Go to org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings
  • Move the value 'Tab' from switch-applications to switch-windows
  • Optionally move 'Tab' from switch-applications-backward to switch-windows-backward
  • If you want switch-windows to work across desktops, not just in the current desktop, you can also uncheck org/gnome/shell/window-switcher/current-workspace-only
  • Close dconf-editor
  • Press F2, then type r to restart Gnome.

The last step does not always appear to be necessary, but it should not hurt (especially since it does not close any of your running applications).

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