keyboard shortcut gnome-terminal (ctrl-tab) and (ctrl-shift-tab) in 12.04?

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Keyboard shortcuts in gnome-terminal (Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab) in 12.04 don't seem to be working. Is there a setting that I dont know of?

score 78 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 24 '17 at 01:40

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A way to configure this is by setting gsettings from the terminal itself (two commands):

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ next-tab '<Primary>Tab'
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ prev-tab '<Primary><Shift>Tab'

Source: the last comment in the bug report

answered Jan 24 '17 at 01:40

Francisco Presencia

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Exactly what I was looking for. Simple, effective, trivial to implement. This answer needs more upvotes. – Nickolai Mar 01 '18 at 03:19
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Fantastic, thanks. The option no longer appears in dconf editor (in 18.04) as I answered above, but this works. – apostl3pol Sep 11 '18 at 04:29
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This should be the accepted answer. Works in Ubuntu 19.10. – Ajith Natarajan Feb 11 '20 at 21:32
Works on Ubuntu 20.04, too! – bteo May 26 '20 at 07:26
Confirmed on Ubuntu 16.04. Excellent. – sugab Aug 08 '20 at 07:37
Somehow this didn't work but dconf did – k_g Aug 23 '21 at 19:09
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Works on Ubuntu 22.04. Thanks a lot. – Vahid Al Aug 01 '22 at 14:01

score 25 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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Use dconf Editor. If it's not installed by default you can get it with sudo apt-get install dconf-tools. The shortcut can be modified at Org > Gnome > Terminal > Legacy > Keybindings.

This works for me in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. Reference: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738325

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Oct 15 '16 at 21:51

apostl3pol

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This should be the accepted answer. – Parth Thakkar Dec 29 '16 at 10:33
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You can do this without installing anything using dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/next-tab "'<Primary>Tab'" and dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/prev-tab "'<Primary><Shift>Tab'" – John P Bloch Jan 20 '17 at 23:15
Just verified for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 works without any issues. – Anmol Tomer Jun 15 '20 at 20:36
This actually worked when gsettings didn't – k_g Aug 23 '21 at 19:09

score 18 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 30 '20 at 10:12

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Unfortunately assigning shortcuts with TAB key is a no go in Gnome (for whatever reason). So this will not work.

Reference: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123994 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/162000
Current discussion about the issue: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-November/msg00220.html

There is a way to do this in a hacky way, from the answer below type this in the terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ next-tab '<Primary>Tab'
gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Keybindings:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/keybindings/ prev-tab '<Primary><Shift>Tab'

edited Aug 30 '20 at 10:12

Francisco Presencia

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answered May 09 '12 at 21:01

Paweł Gościcki

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it is really uncomfortable to not have ctrl-tab. Thanks for that though, ive already learned to live without it. I should use ctrl-~ and ctrl-shift-~ now. – PnotNP May 09 '12 at 21:09
I tend to learn the native shortcuts and use those. So for gnome-terminal it's ctrl-shift-right & ctrl-shift-left – Paweł Gościcki May 09 '12 at 21:20
Another follow up https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-November/msg00220.html – Braiam Aug 28 '13 at 03:17
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That bug report says it's RESOLVED FIXED, yet the problem seems to exist. Was it just reported fixed without doing anything? – Rahat Ahmed Dec 11 '13 at 00:25
I have my caps-lock mapped to escape through the OS and then I use Ctrl+Esc for next tab, so on the keyboard I am actually pressing Ctrl+Caps Lock for next tab. – still_dreaming_1 Aug 04 '15 at 18:06
Really a shame that we have to use workarounds as described below, instead of just allowing to set this via the UI... – Mira Weller Nov 22 '17 at 18:34
The suggestions below work just fine and have more votes than this one. I feel like one of them should be the accepted answer. – tobias.mcnulty May 20 '20 at 14:43

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 16 '16 at 14:21

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Use Ctrl+PageUP and Ctrl+PageDown (annoying, but it is what we have).

answered May 16 '16 at 14:21

OmarOthman

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I tried setting Tab for mate terminal with dconf. org/mate/terminal/keybindings/next-tab. It works to change the setting with dconf but mate terminal thinks the shortcut is invalid for some reason. But Tab seems to work with gnome terminal. – Albert Veli Feb 26 '21 at 07:38

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 02 '21 at 09:58

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This may be a little heretic to do in gnome but you can install Konsole and have those shortcuts like so:

sudo apt install konsole

The shortcut Ctrl+Tab is set by default.

Note: Konsole is the KDE default terminal

edited Jun 02 '21 at 09:58

Zanna

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answered May 18 '21 at 21:01

jogarcia

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jun 02 '21 at 09:30

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Resetting the dconf to 'factory setting' might help sometime(At least in my case when my Ctrl+T was not working system wide)

dconf reset -f /org/gnome/

edited Jun 02 '21 at 09:30

AEM

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answered Feb 06 '20 at 04:56

Rahul

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chi chow · Answer 7 · 2020-02-06T06:21:11.370

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One thing very interesting I found days ago is that the gnome does:
- Ctrl+Tab Switch between different application
- Ctrl+`(The one above Tab) Switch between different windows of one application
Try this.

edited Feb 06 '20 at 06:21

answered Feb 06 '20 at 06:13

chi chow

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