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Bug 170549 - Keyboard Shortcuts for Focusing Windows on a Workspace
Keyboard Shortcuts for Focusing Windows on a Workspace
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97725
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.10.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-16 11:03 UTC by Mystilleef
Modified: 2005-03-16 22:59 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Mystilleef 2005-03-16 11:03:25 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.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2005-03-16 22:41:28 UTC
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.

Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2005-03-16 22:59:24 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97725 ***