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Bug 585674 - Allow use of ctrl-tab to switch to next tab
Allow use of ctrl-tab to switch to next tab
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123994
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: Keybindings
2.26.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-13 19:22 UTC by Rohan Dhruva
Modified: 2009-06-14 07:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26


Description Rohan Dhruva 2009-06-13 19:22:33 UTC 
Most applications supporting tabs either use the ctrl-tab or ctrl-pagedown shortcut to switch to next tab. Hence, even though it makes sense that the default shortcut to switch to next tab is ctrl-pagedown, I would like to change it to ctrl-tab. Similarly, I would like to change the default shortcut for "switch to previous tab" to ctrl-shift-tab.

Other information:
This wouldn't be a bug if I could actually do what I stated above. However, when I go to Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts, click on the existing shortcut to enter a new accelerator, it just does not recognize that ctrl-tab is pressed. There is no way to set "switch to next tab" to ctrl-tab and "switch to previous tab" to ctrl-shift-tab.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2009-06-13 19:30:06 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 123994 ***
Comment 2 Mikael Ståldal 2009-06-14 07:22:40 UTC 
The stubborn Gnome Terminal developers has decided that this is not a desirable feature.

For those of us who thinks otherwise, it's possible to configure the old trustworthy xterm to act quite like Gnome Terminal with Ctrl-Tab tab switching:
http://www.staldal.nu/tech/2009/01/10/how-to-use-ctrl-tab-in-gnu-screen/
Comment 3 Rohan Dhruva 2009-06-14 07:36:03 UTC 
Thanks Mikael I will go through that article. Also, if you read the linked duplicate report, the developers have said that it's not possible to implement it due to GTK restrictions, it is not deemed as an "undesirable" option. However, there are ways around this too, I hope gnome-terminal developers implement this feature.