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nimrod

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Thursday, August 12th 2004, 2:52pm

configuring desktop switching

I switched to KDE from Gnome recently. In Gnome, desktops could be switched by using cntl-alt-<arrow key> combinations, and it worked nicely. KDE uses cntl-tab to sequence through the desktops, which is not so convenient. On my machine at work, I was somehow able to configure KDE to do cntl-alt-<arrow key> switching, but I can't reproduce it on my machine at home. I'm tired of hunting around -- does anybody know how to do this?

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Thursday, August 12th 2004, 5:45pm

Re: configuring desktop switching

Not an answer to your question, but did you know you can switch to desktops directly using Ctrl-F1, Ctrl-F2 and so on?

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Thursday, August 12th 2004, 9:57pm

Re: configuring desktop switching

Thanks for that tip. I can try that method out. It looks better for me than cntl-tab.

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Friday, August 13th 2004, 12:09am

Those are all default settings. KDE lets you change those shortcuts.

Go to "Control Center->Regional & Accessibility->Keyboard Shortcuts->Global Shortcuts->System->Navigation" and you will have a series of "Walk Through Desktop*" items that correspond to the actions you need.

By the way, look to the other shortcuts because you can learn (speaking for myself) a lot with it.

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Friday, August 13th 2004, 5:57am

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Go to "Control Center->Regional & Accessibility->Keyboard Shortcuts->Global Shortcuts->System->Navigation" and you will have a series of "Walk Through Desktop*" items that correspond to the actions you need.
Yes, of course! I had searched for them in that place but was too blind to see them. ;-)