I moved from 17.04 to 18.04 but there is a lot of changes in windows switching and workspaces. On 17.04 I had to use windows+S key to open all workspaces and then navigate via arrow keys to select. Plus each window was visible in its workplace, it wasn't accessible from other workspaces.  If I have two windows of terminal or code editor, I was able to open them via alt+tab long press and then I had to select the window between. Now it’s like press alt+tab, then press down key for selection between same application windows.  It’s extremely annoying, please suggest a solution.
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Currently if I hold ALT + TAB and then while still holding down ALT I press TAB I am able to go between applications in a little view and then when I release all the keys that application and all its windows come to the front.  And this is very useful, but I would like to know if there is a way of switching between individual windows with this keyboard shortcut in the same way rather than grouping windows with an application to switch to?  I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.
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I am looking for a clean and fast method to force GNOME in Ubuntu 14.04 to switch between active apps only on the current workspace when pressing the shortcut alt + tab.
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In Ubuntu 20.04, on the desktop, there is a number of actions I wish I could do, such as, by order of importance :  use keyboard shortcuts such as select all, copy / paste. use drag &amp; drop with icons deactivate the &quot;mouse over&quot; highlight, and restrict the clicking area to only the icon, not the surrounding square  To put it simply, I'd like to have the exact same features as offered by the desktop of Ubuntu 18.04 (probably related to a specific version of GNOME, and not Ubuntu itself). Am I missing something obvious here? I actually see no reason why those actions are removed or deactivated on the desktop, since they all work in any Nautilus window.
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Is there any way to move a window to another workspace by a key combination? For example, in Ubuntu I can do that by "Ctrl+Shift+->" if I recall correctly. In mac - only by mouse? It's not convenient.
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After 4 years of being a Mac user, there is only one thing that I still miss from the Windows world, and that is being able to switch with a single keystroke between all open windows in the computer.  What is the best app or utility, free or not, for accomplishing that?  I've used , but I never was completely satisfied with it. It's a bit slow and the switcher UI is not very pretty.  Do you know any alternative?    EDIT (2016): This question keeps getting views and upvotes after 6 years. When I asked this question in 2010 I was still transitioning from being a Windows user. Eventually, I got used to Mac OS X UI and nowadays I don't use any third party utility for managing app windows, just Mission Control and the native keyboard shortcuts. So, although this question is no longer relevant for me I hope it is useful to new Mac users making the switch (Including this comment).
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I use spaces for having multiple desktops, but often need to move a program from one space to another.  I am aware of the various ways to do that with a mouse:   Click-and-hold on the title bar of window and drag to edge F8 to show all Spaces and drag to desired location Click-and-hold on the title bar, and use Ctrl+# or Ctrl+Scroll Arrow   But have not been able to find a keyboard-only method. I use Linux for one of my primary workstations which has this ability and I would LOVE to use it with OSX as well.
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Is there a shortcut in Windows 7 to switch between windows in a given application only? I very much like this feature in OS X; what is its equivalent in Windows?
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Any idea how to have more than 2 workspaces on Ubuntu 18.04.1?
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I'm using two monitors with Windows 10 and I have a few windows open on each monitor. When I open the Task View (Win + Tab) I can only navigate between the main monitor's windows with keyboard (using arrow keys or the Tab key). I see the other display's windows on that display but can't figure out how to cycle through those windows with my keyboard.  Is there a way I can give focus to secondary monitor's windows in the Task View using keyboard?  To put it another way, how do I select the first item on the right monitor in the following screenshot using keyboard?
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Between Ctrl and Alt, modern keyboards have an abominable key: the 'Windows' key :P    By default, when this key is pressed alone it opens the Start menu. Many applications and a great number of games work in fullscreen mode, and if you press this key accidentally, most of times because you wanted to press the Ctrl or Alt keys, the application usually freezes for a while and  minimizes itself. If you are lucky, your videogame will pause, but sometimes it continues even when it is minimized.  Is it possible to disable the 'Windows' key?  It would be possible to show the Start menu with another combination of keys? I would like to keep combinations that use the Windows key working, like Windows+L, which leaves current session.
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Someone asked a very similar question in regards to window recovery for windows xp:   I'm using windows 8 (or 8.1 now). I run Dual Monitors. On Monitor 2 I sometimes have the input switched to something else other than the windows display (Mac or PS3). If there was a program that was displaying on Window #2 that does not have 'move' where I could potentially alt-space-m arrow keys. Is there another way to get that program to display on Window #1?  I tried right click on the program and doesn't seem to be anything there. I tried Windows Key and Arrows. I Tried right click toolbar and cascade.  I'm hoping this is a DUP or Softball question because this annoys the crap out of me.  Thanks!!
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I am quite proficient with the keyboard and try to only use the mouse when necessary. Given that context I was very familiar with the shortcut keys in MS Outlook 2003 and never needed to use the mouse to use that product. Now my company has recently upgraded to MS Outlook 2010 and I am finding it impossible to operate it without having to use the mouse. In particular replying to meeting requests with the old shortcut keys no longer seems possible.   I have held down the ALT key and sometimes it shows some shortcuts on the ribbon but this seems to be limited to ALT+H which tends to alternate between designating "Accept" and "Tentative" without any keys for the other options. Also as this appears to switch between "Accept" and "Tentative" one can't even use this consistently without first having to check what it means for each particular instance.  Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
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Much as I like Unity and Gnome, getting global keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks "right" is a source of continual frustration.  We have:   The "settings" dialogs for keyboard and mouse The ccsm tool with chainsaw-like ability to shred your system Unity tweaks (another obscure application) gconf-editor Kernel configuration to access consoles through Ctrl-Alt-Fx I don't know what else.   Recently, I tried to re-assign Super-L to lower a window rather than lock the screen for my 14.04 setup.  We already have Ctrl-Alt-L to lower the screen anyway, I don't need a second shortcut.  But after trying several tools to re-assign the key, I just gave up.  Several layers of assignment all implemented the "same" shortcut, but it isn't easy to figure out which one(s) are actually causing the system to respond as it is.  Without that information, it is hard to reconfigure.    This is a crazy-making setup that makes Linux harder to use than Windows for the average user: Too many arcane ways to set things up, and then a tangle of confusion trying to figure out why anything happens as it does.  How I long for the good old days of fvwm, the simple window manager that could assign any key or mouse click combination to do anything in any context, and the entire configuration was in a single .fvwmrc file! Using Fvwm as the only holder of system-wide shortcuts make life simple, but the multi-layer approach makes Microsoft's regedit seem simple!  It would be wonderful if there were a simple script that could search all the system and user-specific files for a keyword, and report where keypress and mouse-click events matching a pattern are configured.  Ideally, it would support a "universal" keypress and mouse-click description syntax or a GUI, and parse and match that in each of the many configuration files.  A bonus would be if the script could print out a suggestion how to manage the setting with the least potential for inadvertent misconfiguration (for example, helping the user avoid using ccsm when it isn't needed).
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I have just recently moved from MS windows to Linux, and it is great; but there is one thing that really bugs me, and that is the use of Ctrl+Alt+key instead of using Alt Gr+key.  When I program, it irritates me that often used buttons like curly-braces and square-brackets are not easily accessed through Ctrl+Alt+key. How do I change the behavior of Ctrl+Alt+key to do the same as Alt Gr+key?  As mentioned earlier, my keyboard has a Danish layout.
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I just did a clean install of 20.04 and I noticed that no key shortcuts for files manipulation work when my focus in on Desktop (not in Nautilus).   When I have copied a file to clipboard, I cannot Ctrl+V it to Desktop, when I click on a file on Desktop, I cannot Ctrl+C it, or I cannot Delete it with keys. Only ways to do it is either navigate to the Desktop folder in Nautilus, or right-click the file on the Desktop and copy/move to trash/paste...  Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, all the key shortcuts worked normally for me in 18.04.
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I loved the keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 (i.e. Win + &larr; moves a window to the left side of the screen), but I'm not sure on what some of the new ones might be for Windows 8.  What are all of the NEW keyboard shortcuts that I can use while working in Windows 8?
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In Windows 8, when Alt+Tab, the desktop would appear as an option to switch to at the end of the list of open programs (thus Alt-Shift-Tab helpfully took you right to the desktop).  In Windows 10 that desktop option is gone. Is there any way to get it back?  I know about Windows+D but Alt+Tab is just more convenient in my opinion. And  also has no desktop and is uglier.