When enabling Alt+Shift for input source. The Alt+Ctrl+Shift+[Arrow] shortcut used to move a window between workspaces doesn't work anymore.
Is there's something that should be done ?
This applies to any distro using Gnome 3, not specific to Fedora
After searching with no luck, I have seen the configurations of one of my friends on his Ubuntu+Gnome 3 installation using dconf-editor.
Turns out, the problem was in using "Modifiers-only switch input source" in Gnome Tweaks Tool option which I think calls the following command
setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle "us,ar"
and that conflicts with the gnome moving window between workspace shortcut
in both ways, you need to open gnome-tweak-tool and disable "Modifiers-only switch input source" then
just run the following command
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-input-source "['<Alt>Shift_L', '<Alt>Shift_R']"
install and open dconf-editor.
Press Ctrl+F and write "switch-input-source" or navigate to org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings and look for the same key.
Double click on the key and change it to
['<alt>Shift_L', '<alt>Shift_R']</alt></alt>
This means I will use the Alt+Left Shift and Alt+Right Shift to switch the language
This way, it will work nicely with the Alt+Ctrl+Shift+[Arrow] shortcut
Edit 1: add gsetting command
I hit the same problem on Debian without any configurations changed. There the default key-combo for Move window one workspace up changed to Shift + Super + Page Up. For moving between workspaces both Ctrl + Alt + Up and Super + Page Up works.
hi Go to Settings =>> Keyboard =>> Shortcuts =>> Typing and change to what you need
That's why I did, I changed "Switching to another layout" to "Alt+Shift" then the Alt+Ctrl+Shift+[Arrow] shortcut I use to move a window between a workspace doesn't work anymore.
AFAIK, no. You should either use a different key combination for changing input source, or set a different key combination for moving windows.
I used to set the same combination on ubuntu before I try to fedora and both were working well with each other, I think there's something missing to be done but I don't know what is it.
I don't know. maybe that works in Unity. Anyway, have you changed the default Gnome keys for moving windows? Notice that recent Gnome versions have decided to use "Super" key (win key) instead of "Alt" for most tasks, and the default key combination to move a window to above/bottom workspaces are "Shift+Super+PgUp" and "Shift+Super+PgDown". You can modify them to use Up/Down arrow keys instead of PgUp/PgDown.
Using Super instead of Alt would solve your problem. I don't know if you can use Alt.
it is allowed using Super and Alt , however I thought that maybe the problem, so I tried to change it throught dconf but I found out that it is configured to use both the shortcut. Open org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings" using dconf and look for keys move-to-workspace-*
Sorry, I don't understand your point. As I said, using Alt+Shift+etc. is unlikely to work correctly in Gnome Shell as far as I know. If possible, it would need some special configuration. Anyway, personally I found using Super convenient enough so I've never tried to get Alt+Shift+etc working for shortcuts while Alt+Shift is being used for changing keyboard layouts.
I mean the default shortcut in gnome 3 for moving the window across workspaces for example upwards is both Shift+Super+PgUp and Alt+Shift+Ctrl+Up , but enabling Alt+Shift for the language change conflicts with the Alt+Shift+Ctrl+Up, however I found a work around, please check my answer above.
Asked: 2014-08-17 09:55:38 -0600
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Last updated: Jan 14 '15
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