Add shortcut for switching window instances of an app

Bug #1509410 reported by Matiss Treinis
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Pantheon Dock
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Bug Description

Currently there exists two options to switch between window instances in dock:

- mouse scroll;
- right click;

It would be really nice if we could have a keyboard shortcut for this as well.

Tags: improvement
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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

OP, can you suggest a shortcut? Maybe elaborate on what you mean a bit more?

Changed in pantheon-dock:
status: New → Incomplete
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Matiss Treinis (mrtreinis) wrote :

The problem is, that it requires mouse interaction to switch between windows of a single application. Consider the scenario:

- Open Scratch
- Open another Window of Scratch

At this point both instances utilize same icon in the panel, hence you can switch windows either by ALT + TAB iterating thru all windows, by mouse scroll on Scratch icon or Right click on Scratch icon in panel.

My suggestion is to add a keyboard shortcut to switch between windows of a specific Application - for example, switch between only windows of Scratch.

The shortcut afaik most commonly used for this is "Alt + Backtick/Tilde" or whatever is above Tab in current keyboard layout.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Pantheon Dock because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in pantheon-dock:
status: Incomplete → Expired
Changed in pantheon-dock:
status: Expired → New
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