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The one thing I really like about Unity is the ability to switch between the windows with Super + [1-9]. Is there a similar functionality in Gnome 3/Shell?
by ch0wn 15y ago
The one thing I really like about Unity is the ability to switch between the windows with Super + [1-9]. Is there a similar functionality in Gnome 3/Shell?
- rbanffy 15y agoI hate that. I had a ton of Emacs shortcuts mapped to Super combos... Now I need a keyboard with a Hyper key...
- sciurus 15y agoI use Unity every day at work and Gnome 3 every day at home. There are two things about Unity that make me like it a lot more than Gnome 3: 1) The window placement. Since in both Unity and Gnome 3 you can't replace the window manager, having some measure of tiling built in is a necessity. In Unity you can manually tile windows using the Ctrl-Alt-Numpad keys. Gnome 3 just has the much more limited "aero snap" feature. From what I've seen on the mailing list, there's interest by outside developers in adding tiling to Gnome 3 but it won't be easy. 2) The fixed workspaces. I like to have a fixed number of workspaces on a grid so I can place certain windows on specific workspaces and easily switch to them. Unity allows this. Gnome 3 dynamically creates and destroys workspaces, and it lays them out on a line. This eliminates a lot of the value in workspaces for me.
- thristian 15y agoIn Unity you can manually tile windows using the Ctrl-Alt-Numpad keys. Gnome 3 just has the much more limited "aero snap" feature. If you mean 'make windows neatly line up against each other', try holding Shift while you're dragging a window around in GNOME 3. This is an old feature of Metacity from GNOME 2, which Compiz (Unity's WM) only approximates.
- wavded 15y agoI have seen a plugin on WebUpd8 for this functionality in Gnome Shell but don't have the link ATM.
- dimitar 15y agoThere is a plugin which can switch windows with the alt key in the activities view.