Add keyboard shortcuts for launching separate instances of applications
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Fix Released
|
Medium
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
The existing keyboard shortcuts in Unity (Super+<key>) are pretty awesome.
Right now they match the effect of clicking on a launcher icon, but there is no way to use the keyboard to reproduce the effect of doing a mouse middle click to launch a new instance of an application.
It would be great to have additional shortcuts (e.g. Super+Shift+<key>) to match the existing middle click functionality of launching separate app instances.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.4.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
Date: Fri Feb 25 11:04:18 2011
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.6 → 3.6.2 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.6.2 → 3.6 |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Adding an ayatana-design to get some designer's feedback. However, IMHO, I think it's not really needed, as it's only shortcuts and shortcuts are for "the most used functionality".
If you want to open a new instance in the keyboard, you need to Alt + F1, navigate to the needed item and click space.