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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 15-Nov-2025 06:54:55 JST Børge

   Am I correct in thinking that Ctrl + Tab and Super + Tab does the exact same thing in Gnome?

   Seems like a waste, no? I feel like it would be more logical for Alt + Tab to switch between just the open apps in the current Workspace and Super + Tab switch between all open apps? Or Super + Tab switch between all open windows, not just apps.

   Thoughts?

   #gnome

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 08:59:59 JST Børge

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     • Rob O'Hare

     @rohare Thank you! I don't care as much about the settings you can change as I care about good defaults. And Having those two doing the exact same thing seems like a waste of defaults to me, when there's so many other good ways to switch between windows that we don't have default shortcuts for.

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     Rob O'Hare (rohare@troet.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 09:00:00 JST Rob O'Hare

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     @forteller Yep, they do the same thing:

     $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-applications
     ['<Super>Tab', '<Alt>Tab']

     And there's a setting to (always) switch between open apps in a workspace:

     $ gsettings get org.gnome.shell.app-switcher current-workspace-only
     false

     Not sure if you can have Super + Tab switch between windows in the current workspace though.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 09:55:11 JST Børge

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     I opened an issue about this over on the #Gnome GitLab, in the hopes that someone might want to discuss if we could use this limited resource of sane default keyboard shortcuts better: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8833

     Please add your thoughts! :)