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Keyboard shortcuts in gnome-terminal (Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab) in 12.04 don't seem to be working. Is there a setting that I dont know of?

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Reset to default
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A way to configure this is by setting gsettings from the terminal itself (two commands):

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ next-tab '<Primary>Tab'
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ prev-tab '<Primary><Shift>Tab'

Source: the last comment in the bug report

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    Exactly what I was looking for. Simple, effective, trivial to implement. This answer needs more upvotes.
    – Nickolai
    Mar 1, 2018 at 3:19
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    Fantastic, thanks. The option no longer appears in dconf editor (in 18.04) as I answered above, but this works.
    – apostl3pol
    Sep 11, 2018 at 4:29
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    This should be the accepted answer. Works in Ubuntu 19.10.
    – Ajith Natarajan
    Feb 11, 2020 at 21:32
  • Works on Ubuntu 20.04, too!
    – bteo
    May 26, 2020 at 7:26
  • Confirmed on Ubuntu 16.04. Excellent.
    – sugab
    Aug 8, 2020 at 7:37
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Use dconf Editor. If it's not installed by default you can get it with sudo apt-get install dconf-tools. The shortcut can be modified at Org > Gnome > Terminal > Legacy > Keybindings.

Screenshot of dconf Editor

This works for me in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. Reference: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738325

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  • This should be the accepted answer.
    – Parth Thakkar
    Dec 29, 2016 at 10:33
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    You can do this without installing anything using dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/next-tab "'<Primary>Tab'" and dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/prev-tab "'<Primary><Shift>Tab'"
    – John P Bloch
    Jan 20, 2017 at 23:15
  • Just verified for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 works without any issues.
    – Anmol Tomer
    Jun 15, 2020 at 20:36
  • This actually worked when gsettings didn't
    – k_g
    Aug 23, 2021 at 19:09
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Unfortunately assigning shortcuts with TAB key is a no go in Gnome (for whatever reason). So this will not work.

There is a way to do this in a hacky way, from the answer below type this in the terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ next-tab '<Primary>Tab'
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ prev-tab '<Primary><Shift>Tab'
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    it is really uncomfortable to not have ctrl-tab. Thanks for that though, ive already learned to live without it. I should use ctrl-~ and ctrl-shift-~ now.
    – PnotNP
    May 9, 2012 at 21:09
  • I tend to learn the native shortcuts and use those. So for gnome-terminal it's ctrl-shift-right & ctrl-shift-left
    – Paweł Gościcki
    May 9, 2012 at 21:20
  • Another follow up mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-November/…
    – Braiam
    Aug 28, 2013 at 3:17
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    That bug report says it's RESOLVED FIXED, yet the problem seems to exist. Was it just reported fixed without doing anything?
    – Rahat Ahmed
    Dec 11, 2013 at 0:25
  • I have my caps-lock mapped to escape through the OS and then I use Ctrl+Esc for next tab, so on the keyboard I am actually pressing Ctrl+Caps Lock for next tab.
    – still_dreaming_1
    Aug 4, 2015 at 18:06
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Use Ctrl+PageUP and Ctrl+PageDown (annoying, but it is what we have).

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  • I tried setting <Primary>Tab for mate terminal with dconf. org/mate/terminal/keybindings/next-tab. It works to change the setting with dconf but mate terminal thinks the shortcut is invalid for some reason. But <Primary>Tab seems to work with gnome terminal.
    – Albert Veli
    Feb 26, 2021 at 7:38
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This may be a little heretic to do in gnome but you can install Konsole and have those shortcuts like so:

sudo apt install konsole

The shortcut Ctrl+Tab is set by default.

Note: Konsole is the KDE default terminal

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One thing very interesting I found days ago is that the gnome does:
- Ctrl+Tab Switch between different application
- Ctrl+`(The one above Tab) Switch between different windows of one application
Try this.

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Resetting the dconf to 'factory setting' might help sometime(At least in my case when my Ctrl+T was not working system wide)

dconf reset -f /org/gnome/
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