GNOME Finally Supports Ctrl+Tab For Switching Tabs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Finally Supports Ctrl+Tab For Switching Tabs

It looks like for GNOME 3.16 one of the early changes will be better keyboard support for switching tabs...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc5Njc

[Adriannho]

Phoronix: GNOME Finally Supports Ctrl+Tab For Switching Tabs

It looks like for GNOME 3.16 one of the early changes will be better keyboard support for switching tabs...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc5Njc

trivial...but nice to have.

[peppercats]

Nice, by 2020 I'm sure gnome will have an option to auto hide the panel.

[GraysonPeddie]

The previous tab switching sequence on GNOME was Ctrl+Alt+PgUp and Ctrl+Alt+PgDn.

LOL!!! That makes zero sense at all! GNOME devs who came up with that shortcut are making me laugh!

Ctrl+Tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Ctrl+Tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab
...

Switching tabs using keyboard shortcuts should have been the standard! And that would be changed in 3.16 for real!

[Delgarde]

Funny... until I read that bug report, I never knew you could use Ctrl+Tab to rotate through tabs in Firefox... I've always just used Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown instead.

Which, funnily enough, is the same key combination used for tab-switching in every other application I use regularly, including the Eclipse IDE, and Gnome Terminal. I don't know where this Ctrl+Alt+PgUp/PgDown business comes from... that certainly doesn't work in any program I can think of... not in Gnome Terminal, not Eclipse, not Firefox...

[tiuykor]

I switched to using CTRL+PgUp and PgDn to move thru tabs a few years ago because GNOME never supported CTRL+TAB. I had forgot all about CTRL+TAB because I got so used to CTRL+PgUp.

It would have been better use of GNOME's time to add these shortcuts instead (ala Unity): Super+1-0, Alt+`

I basically abandoned Gnome-Shell for Unity because of the above two shortcuts and the fact that Gnome-Shell does not merge titlebars when windows maximize.

[tiuykor]

Hey, GNOME, while your at it:

Fix Gedit's newtab shortcut. A newtab shortcut should be CTRL+T, not CTRL+N This needs to be changed more than adding CTRL+TAB.

[souenzzo]

CTRL+N can be NEW WINDOW
I really want a way to disable gedit tabs too.
Maybe, after this CTRL+TAB, epiphany can be an alternative to DRM'ed ff

[Delgarde]

Hey, GNOME, while your at it:

Fix Gedit's newtab shortcut. A newtab shortcut should be CTRL+T, not CTRL+N This needs to be changed more than adding CTRL+TAB.

That's a contentious one, because Gedit doesn't have a new-tab command at all - it has a command for creating a new document, and the standard shortcut for creating new documents is always Ctrl+N.

[zman0900]

It would be nice if they would add middle-click to close tabs like browsers and many other programs support.

Hey, GNOME, while your at it:

Fix Gedit's newtab shortcut. A newtab shortcut should be CTRL+T, not CTRL+N This needs to be changed more than adding CTRL+TAB.

I just opened gedit 3.12.2, then pressed ctrl-t, and I got a new tab...