Use arrow keys when switching applications with super + tab

When you switch Applications with Super + tab you can cycle forwards by holding down super and pressing tab. And you can cycle backwards by holding super + shift and pressing tab.

But is there a way to configure it so that you can use the arrow keys (left and right) while holding super to cycle backwards and forwards through the applications?

Mac OS has this feature and I can't stop doing it! It's quite quite handy :)


You can add Super+Right and Super+Left as keybindings to switch through the Alt+Tab task switcher with following commands:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-applications "['<Super>Tab', '<Alt>Tab', '<Super>Right']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-applications-backward "['<Shift><Super>Tab', '<Shift><Alt>Tab', '<Super>Left']"

These keybindings are by default assigned to tiling the windows left and right, so you may want to change these keybindings, or at least disable them:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter.keybindings toggle-tiled-left "['']"
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter.keybindings toggle-tiled-right "['']"

To reset to defaults, replace "set" by "reset" and leave the final argument off in the above commands.