[Clug-tech] Gnome keyboard shortcuts

[Mark Carlson]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
> On 10-05-27 02:29 PM, Mark Carlson wrote:
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
>>> Does anyone know how to switch the gnome-keyboard shortcuts alt-tab and
>>> ctrl-alt-tab?  I want to switch their behaviour (specifically I want
>>> alt-tab to cycle all apps regardless of the workspace they are "on").
>>>
>>> Under "System" -> "Preferences" -> "keyboard Shortcuts" I see the
>>> alt-tab shortcut, but not the ctrl-alt tab shortcut.
>>>
>>> Man do I ever hate Gnome sometimes (by sometimes I mean most of the time).
>>
>> On F11, ctrl-alt-tab ("Move between panels and the desktop, using a
>> pop-up window") is two options below ctrl-tab ("Move between windows,
>> using a pop-up window")
>>
>> What do you normally use ctrl-alt-tab for?  I usually use
>> shift-alt-tab for cycling through windows backwards.
>>
> I don't use ctrl-alt-tab as I find that combination awkward.  The Ubuntu
> default binds ctrl-alt-tab to the behaviour I want from alt-tab.  At
> least under Ubuntu alt-tab limits itself to the application on the
> current workspace.  This does not suit my workflow and so I wanted to
> change alt-tab to cycle between applications on *all* workspaces.
>
> It seems that that to do this I need to make changes to the compiz
> settings and not the gnome keyboard shortcuts.  Confusing and weird.

Wow, that is weird.  Is compiz is enabled by default on Ubuntu?  If
so, then having the keyboard shortcuts in two different places seems
to be a very bad idea (not to mention CCSM not being installed by
default.)

-Mark C.