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How do I switch to the next window (NOT the most recent one) in Gnome/Cinnamon?

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Let's say that I have 26 open windows in Gnome (specifically, Cinnamon 3.8.8). I want to efficiently navigate through all of them and perform a single task in each. How do I accomplish this? Alt-Tab and Alt-Tick have the behavior of going to the *previous* window, so if I'm on A and I hit them once then I'm B, but hit them again and I'm on A rather than onto C. You have to hit them successively more times to get to the later windows, which just doesn't work at all. Instead, I want to be on window A, press a keyboard shortcut, be on window B, press the shortcut again, be on window C, etc. In other words, I want to navigate through the windows showing on my desktop taskbar in exactly the way I use Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to navigate through tabs within an application. How do I accomplish this? I'm on Debian, for what it's worth, but I don't think that should affect the answer.
Asked by Ben McIlwain (353 rep)
Jan 27, 2020, 04:10 AM
Last activity: Dec 7, 2021, 08:21 PM