[GNOME3] Selecting window in activities overview with keyboard

[rickhall]

I may be in the minority, but I actually like Gnome 3...it allows me to work in a pattern similar to what I've grown accustom to on the Mac.

One question I had, though, is when you switch into the "activities" overview screen and all of your windows are shown in an Expose-like fashion, is there any way to use the keyboard to select which window you want or is this only possible using the normal alt-tab shortcut when NOT in the activities screen?

Seems like it would be fairly obvious to allow the user to use the arrow keys and enter to select a window in the activities overview screen, no?

[markus39]

yum install gnome-shell-extensions-windowsNavigator.noarch

Keyboard selection of windows and work-spaces in overlay mode.

Allow keyboard selection of windows and workspaces in overlay mode:
when you hold the ALT key, a number is assigned to each window
(displayed in the top left corner) and you can then press the number
to switch to that window:

[rickhall]

Thanks. After logging out and logging back in, it worked as described. Seems like keyboard navigation in the overview screen should be enabled by default, since they claim that Gnome 3 is so great for keyboard navigation. Of course, it still seems like using the arrow keys to highlight the desired window and <enter> to select would be more intuitive to me, but this is better than nothing.

[markus39]

I' m sure such a extension will surface eventually. Gnome 3 is young and it is amazing there is already a small selection of extensions.

Gnome 3 is very plain and not customizable out of the box, but with extensions it is is possible to completely change the behaviour of Gnome-shell,
I think we will see some real innovations of using a desktop in a couple of months.

The era of applets will look very old and restricted when the extension building hits off.