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Bug 308152 - Shortcut for window menu
Shortcut for window menu
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 141418
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: window selector
2.10.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-06-18 04:09 UTC by Rodrigo Virote Kassick
Modified: 2005-07-27 15:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Rodrigo Virote Kassick 2005-06-18 04:09:54 UTC 
It would be good having a shortcut for activating the window menu. Keyboard
intensive users get upset needing to take their hands out of the keyboard to
access the menu and usually switch workspaces with shortcuts looking for some
specific window.
Comment 1 Teppo Turtiainen 2005-06-19 09:35:53 UTC 
Doesn't task switching with Alt+Tab accomplish the same thing?
Comment 2 Rodrigo Virote Kassick 2005-06-19 14:43:16 UTC 
No, it doesn't. Alt-Tab gives you a popup window with icons of windows **in the
current workspace** only. Besides, only the title of the window that would gain
focus is shown.

The window menu shows a windows opened in all workspaces along with their titles.
Comment 3 Vesa Halttunen 2005-07-27 15:38:35 UTC 
This would be a great feature. Alt-Tab is a completely different than the Window
Selector menu as stated above. By adding a keyboard shortcut for the menu would
make it comparable to the OS/2 Ctrl+Esc window list: it lets you view all the
window titles, select the one you want intuitively with cursor keys without
having to hold anything down. If you hit cursor up too many times you can easily
hit cursor down and then Enter to select the window you want.
Comment 4 Olav Vitters 2005-07-27 15:44:53 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141418 ***