GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 170549
Keyboard Shortcuts for Focusing Windows on a Workspace
Last modified: 2005-03-16 22:59:24 UTC
It would be great if Metacity could provide keyboard shortcuts for selecting windows on a workspace. Assuming I have 7 windows open on a give workspace, and I want to focus the 5th window, there are two ways I can go about it. I can use the "Alt - Tab" keyboard shortcut to cycle among windows, or I could use the mouse to focus the window in question from the tasklist. The "Alt - Tab" technique gets tedious and cumbersome when a user has several windows open. The mouse, well, the mouse requires excellent motor and aiming skills. :-) In addition, keyboard shortcuts are sometimes more efficient than using the mouse. This is especially true for laptop users. I wish to kindly request adding keyboard shortcuts to Metacity to enable users focus windows based on their positions in the tasklist. "Ctrl - 1" could be used to focus the first window, "Ctrl - 2" the second, "Ctrl - 3" the third, and so on. I think this will be an improvement over the "Alt - Tab" and mouse aiming methodologies. :-) Thanks for a wonderful application.
I suggested something like this a while back, I don't know if I ever opened a bug. It requires some UI design. My original thought was that you could push alt+tab which would label the windows with numbers/letters, at which point pushing that number would focus that window. We can't use ctrl+number as a global always-active shortcut, too conflicting.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97725 ***