[Clug-tech] Gnome keyboard shortcuts

Gustin Johnson gustin at echostar.ca
Thu May 27 16:23:56 PDT 2010


On 10-05-27 05:04 PM, Mark Carlson wrote:
<snip>
>>> 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

Yes, compiz is enabled by default now on Ubuntu (IIRC this has been the
case for the last couple of releases).

> 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.)

No argument from me here.  I am just glad it was reasonably easy to sort
out.

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