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Bug 652617 - allow relative selection of workspaces from keyboard with windowsNavigator extension
allow relative selection of workspaces from keyboard with windowsNavigator ex...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 742581
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: extensions
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-06-15 05:03 UTC by John Heidemann
Modified: 2015-03-18 23:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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make pageup/pagedown do workspace up or down from with overview (1.75 KB, patch)
2011-06-15 05:03 UTC, John Heidemann 		none Details | Review

Description John Heidemann 2011-06-15 05:03:51 UTC 
Created attachment 189956 [details] [review]
make pageup/pagedown do workspace up or down from with overview

windowsNavigator improves keyboard navigation in the overview.

Control-1, -2, -3 currently select an absolute workspace.
But some people don't think in terms of absolute workspaces,
they'd prefer to go to the next or previous workspace.

This patch makes pageup/pagedown do that---workspace up or down.

The goal is to make more functionality work inside the overview
from keyboards with "obvious" keys.

(Ideally, IMHO, the overview would also support tab/left-tab like the tab menu, but that's another patch.)
Comment 1 Maxim Ermilov 2011-06-17 11:27:56 UTC 
<cntrl> + <alt> + <up>/<down> already do this.
Comment 2 John Heidemann 2011-06-17 17:54:27 UTC 
Agreed, Maxim, ctrl-alt-uparrow also changes workspace.  (One can also use the mouse to click on the workspace panel, or drag a window off the screen edge, or...)

The goal of this patch is to support more *obvious* keys, like ones that don't require three different figures at once.
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2015-03-18 23:58:10 UTC 
We want this in gnome-shell itself, not in an extension.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 742581 ***