Razzi's guide to Gnome

Gnome is the graphical shell that comes with Debian and Ubuntu by default.

Usually I use keyd to configure keybindings, but the most important keybindings can be configured without any external programs:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['altwin:swap_alt_win', 'caps:ctrl_modifier']"

You can also customize keyboard shortcuts directly in the Settings app under Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > View and Customize Shortcuts.

For example here are some of my window-related shortcuts:

appearance

I enable dark mode for Gnome in the Settings app under Appearance:

rightalt+space shortcut

In addition to using alt+tab to switch windows, I like having a keyboard shortcut for rightalt+space as well, this way I can use only my thumbs to switch windows (a very common action).

I tried to remap rightalt+space to alt+tab using keyd, but was only able to get it to switch between the 2 most recent windows.

Thankfully, Gnome has a way to switch between windows “directly”, which I have now remapped to alt+space (on my Macbook keyboard, rightalt is called Super):

source code

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell

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