I can't find where this shortcut is defined. How can I disable it?
3 Answers
This is what worked for me
- Open a terminal and run
dconf-editor
- Navigate to org > gnome > desktop > wm > keybindings
- Find
['<Super>Above_Tab', '<Alt>Above_Tab']
- Set it to
['disabled']
- This should free up that binding for you to use elsewhere.
(ps: I use alt-grave to switch back one application like you can in mac - works well for me and the setting for that is in dconf-editor under the same place
For those of you that don't know what a grave is, it is the key right above the tab key and to the left of the number 1 key it looks like this (`). It's also known as a backtick and is used in mark down and python as a comment like this
`code here`
```or in some markdown dialects, code here```
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1What is the actual rule called in here>? As I can't find it linked to the commands you are saying Feb 13, 2017 at 11:18
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Anyone managed to sort it out on Ubuntu 16.04? Worked fine for me on 14.04 and also migrated to 16.04 on upgrade, however stopped working on a fresh install– SyBerFeb 14, 2017 at 18:36
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Did a cross-question at superuser.com/questions/1178633/…, if someone wants to earn points.– SyBerFeb 14, 2017 at 18:37
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1Wish I could upvote my own post.... I use this every time I install Linux Aug 11, 2017 at 7:16
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- Install the compizconfig-settings-manager package
- The setting can be found in
Desktop
,Ubuntu Unity Plugin
,Switcher
- Change
Key to flip through windows in the switcher
fromdisabled
to something else.
And the reason you can not find it: disabled
means it uses alt+` so it is impossible to find if you did not already know where it is used for ;)
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This isn't working for me with Ubuntu 12.04. I gave it another key. I've ticked the "Enable Ubuntu Unity Plugin". I've rebooted. But it doesn't respond to the new key and Alt+~ still functions.– TergiverDec 27, 2013 at 19:52
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1This does work for me in 14.04 to stop the default window switcher from using alt-grave. But in order to then use alt-grave for something else (the static window switcher) I also had to use @codenamejames' answer below. Thanks! Nov 18, 2015 at 20:25
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(in fact, after using both this answer AND @codenamejames answer, I still couldn't get alt-grave to work as static-switcher prev window. It was still bound to some 'unity switcher prev window on this workspace' action. So I did this answer over again, for every action on the unity plugin switcher's tab's list of keybinds. That seems to have nuked it.) Nov 18, 2015 at 21:29
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Caution: in my settings, this wasn't disabled, but rather, was assigned to a key that was already bound to something else. Mar 14, 2018 at 3:32
Or as a one-liner:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-group "[]"
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1Thanks! For those wondering, this is basically the same answer as the one from @codenamejames but quicker :) Sep 29, 2021 at 8:46