allow to map shortcut Ctrl-Tab to switch tabs

[kenden]

Currently the key Tab is reserved by Gnome and cannot be used as a custom shortcut.
Maybe, as mate-terminal is not an official Gnome project, it is possible to work around this?

See this page for reference to:

• the gnome-terminal bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123994
• the discussion that goes with it: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-November/msg00220.html

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[monsta]

I see Firefox has that and Ctrl-Shift-Tab for switching tabs, so unless we'll find some actual limitation, we might implement it in mate-terminal as well.

[bl0ckeduser]

The functionality is already there, you can use ctrl-pageup/ctrl-pagedown to cycle between tabs. it should be trivial to change it to ctrl-tab

[kenden]

Ctrl-pageup requires 2 hands, ctrl-tab is pretty standard to switch tabs.

[raveit65]

Another shortcut is alt+1, alt+2, etc for switching tabs.

[eshepelyuk]

How to enable this feature ? Using Ubuntu 18.04 and Mate 1.20 - I can't set Ctrl+Tab from keybinding screen

[alexarnaud]

@eshepelyuk are you talking of the keyboard shortcut screen of mate Terminal ?

[eshepelyuk]

yes

[monsta]

Currently there's no option in GUI. You can use dconf-editor or gsettings command-line tool.

$ gsettings get org.mate.terminal.global ctrl-tab-switch-tabs
true