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Raffael
Asked: 2014-10-13 02:15:25 +0800 CST

Choose Window with Keyboard from GNOME Activities?

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Just recently I switched from Unity to GNOME and I must say I (mostly) very much enjoy it. For example the Activities menu is pretty fancy - I reach it usually by using the Super-Key: The activities menu will show the various open windows.

Now my question is - how can I select a specific window using a keyboard shortcut instead of having to choose one with the mouse?

> gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.10.4
gnome

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use a extension from GNOME Extensions. One extensions that should be able to do this is 'windowNavigator'. Once installed (you may need to restart the shell with Alt+F2 and then r, or by logging out and logging in again), you can press Alt whilst in overview, and select a window by pressing the number on the keyboard shown in its corner:

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