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.