Gnome : Switch to Workspace 3 and 4 using Keyboard Shortcut

by Mandar Vaze on February 13, 2009
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During my last post I discussed about assigning keyboard shortcuts to switch workspaces. At that time, I was unable to assign keyboard shortcuts to switch to Workspace 3 and 4. After little more trial and error, I was able to assign shortcuts for these.

Installing latest Gnome Do on Ubuntu 8.10

by Mandar Vaze on February 10, 2009
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If you are not sure what is Gnome Do, read my previous post on this topic. Ubuntu 8.10 repositories has older version 0.6.0.1 of Gnome-DO. This was probably released around October 2008 time frame when Ubuntu 8.10 was released. It has been several months since then, and Gnome DO has progressed nicely.

If you want to try the latest version of Gnome DO, which now comes with Docky, then read on How to upgrade to latest version.

Gnome : How to Assign Keyboard Shortcuts

by Mandar Vaze on February 7, 2009
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When I moved from Windows to Ubuntu, I was assuming that VirtuaWin keyboard shortcuts would work as is. To my surprise, there were no keyboard shortcut to switch directly to specific workspace. Right click on workspace applet didn’t help, since it only allowed me to configure number of workspaces. Off course, shortcuts to move to next workspace are defined as Ctrl+Alt+Arrow (Depending on specific arrangement it could be right, left , up or down arrow)

To define shortcut to move to specific workspace directly, you need to go to System->Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts. Select Window Management Category. Here one can define the shortcuts. There are entries for Switch to Workspace 1 and Switch to Workspace 2. But both are disabled. It is very easy to assign the shortcuts. Click on the row, and just press the desired key combination. On VirtuaWin, I was used to Alt+<num>, but that was already taken by Firefox to move to specific tab. So I decided to use Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2.

I was able to define shortcut for Workspace 1 and Workspace 2 (Since there are two workspaces defined in the default configuration). When I created additional two workspaces (2×2 matrix) I am unable to assign shortcuts to workspace 3 and 4. (For now I’m using Arrow based shortcuts to move between the workspaces)