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Bug 596534 - Allow using arrow keys in Alt+Tab view.
Allow using arrow keys in Alt+Tab view.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 590563
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-09-27 20:28 UTC by Steve Frécinaux
Modified: 2009-09-28 13:43 UTC
See Also:
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Attachments
Allow using arrow keys in Alt+Tab view. (1.22 KB, patch)
2009-09-27 20:28 UTC, Steve Frécinaux 		none Details | Review

Description Steve Frécinaux 2009-09-27 20:28:53 UTC 
In some keyboard layouts, Alt+` is not usable as a complement to Alt+Tab
for window cycling in an application. For instance, BE keyboard layout
places ` besites <enter> and this char can only be accessed through the
use of AltGr, and this makes it a weird, worse-than-emacs key combo...

As an alternative and quick workaround, I propose to allow using arrow keys
to select applications and windows. Below is a patch to do just that.
Comment 1 Steve Frécinaux 2009-09-27 20:28:55 UTC 
Created attachment 144135 [details] [review]
Allow using arrow keys in Alt+Tab view.

This goes along with the allowed use of the mouse, and works around the
fact that the key above tab is not ` in all keyboard mappings.
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2009-09-28 13:43:03 UTC 
there's already a patch for this at the end of bug 590563

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 590563 ***