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Bug 671507 - Create Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut for advancing through tabs in System Monitor
Create Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut for advancing through tabs in System Monitor
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-03-06 23:33 UTC by Nick
Modified: 2012-07-22 20:42 UTC
See Also:
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Description Nick 2012-03-06 23:33:37 UTC 
Please create a Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut for System Monitor.

Ctrl+Tab should work to advance the input-focus through the tabs that reside at the top of the system Monitor application.
Comment 1 Robert Roth 2012-07-22 20:42:34 UTC 
Unfortunately this is blocked by bug 123994: some accelerators, like tab, ctrl+tab, shift+ctrl+tab are reserved for gtk for changing focus, so they can not be used as accelerators.
That is why bugs asking tab changing with ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab in several applications (gnome terminal, nautilus) have been marked as WONTFIX or NOTABUG ("In fact, this has been explicitly rejected every time it's come up; see e.g. epiphany bug 122467 (+ some non-marked dups), gnome-terminal in bug 123994, gedit bug 314646, empathy bug 586831, nautilus bug 597096.") As GNOME System Monitor is part of GNOME as a whole, I would say this is also a WONTFIX, and if GNOME as a whole changes this gtk hardcoded limitation, I will be happy to add this to GNOME System Monitor. Until then, you can use CTRL+PgUp and CTRL+PgDn, the builtin shortcuts to change to the next/previous tab of the notebook.