Comments on: I hate tabs

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:12:34 +0000

@Sharninder What is the key combination to make gnome-terminal loop through the tabs?

Also, I tend to exclusively use the keyboard when writing, but often end up using the mouse for everything else.

@Azeem Yes, same here.

By: Vineet Gupta

Vineet Gupta — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:26:28 +0000

Oh yeah, I meant ⌘ not Control. My bad.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:08:49 +0000

On OS X ⇧⌘{ and ⇧⌘} is pretty much standard.

By: Azeem

Azeem — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:57:47 +0000

I always have to remember the CTRL + TAB to switch between tabs in Firefox.

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:41:26 +0000

gnome-terminal does loop ... I've been using that for a number of years now.

Also, since I tend not to use mouse as much as possible, I don't have the same requirement as you. I can use both hands for moving between tabs and so the ctrl+pg down/pg up combination works fine for me. That said, you should look at reconfiguring the apps the keyboard mapping for apps that you use frequently.

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:47:54 +0000

@Praval True, but continuously shifting my right hand between the mouse and the keyboard is not pleasant.

@Pradeep I wasn’t referring to browsing, it’s about tabs in general … Yeah, I should try remapping the keys to something easier.

@Sandeep Standardization is possible for the keyboard shortcut, but will those keys be conveniently placed on the keyboard like the Alt-Tab combination?

@Neel I have also mapped Caps lock to Ctrl in the past, it was useful. I really like your mapping idea – Win+Tab for windows, Alt+Tab for tabs. Should try this!

@Sridhar If I want to switch to a previous tab, I should calculate what number it is? No way I’m doing that

@Vineet Sad but true.

By: Vineet Gupta

Vineet Gupta — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:48:24 +0000

Don’t forget that Microsoft ridiculed the idea of tabs, hence they (tabs) failed to become a standard in Windows desktop world in contrast to Mac world where Control+Shift+{ or } is pretty standard way to switch tabs.

By: Sridhar Iyer

Sridhar Iyer — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:33:30 +0000

I use gnome/wmii.. both of them use Alt-1,2,3.. to move between tabs (firefox, pidgin, gnome-terminal, etc.. its a standard thing).

By: Neel

Neel — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:29:47 +0000

Although it’s somewhat controversial, I prefer to add CAPS as an additional control (or swap Ctrl and CAPS if you really need the latter), it seems to make a huge difference (well, at least on emacs ). The main issue with this is that I am too used to it now, and any first attempt at a “Ctrl” on other keyboards inevitably triggers the caps lock

Inside a terminal, use screen? Outside of it, I’d say try to remap the shortcuts. For some time, I’d in fact re-mapped the global Alt-tab to Win/Super/Cmd-tab, and cycl’d through tabs with alt-tab. It was quite conveinent, although I was still lost at keyboards that didn’t belong to me!

By: Sandeep Sreenath

Sandeep Sreenath — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:25:51 +0000

I totally agree that switching tabs is difficult. But sometimes I feel that tabs are absolutely necessary, otherwise things will get messed up! I think the best solution for this problem would be to configure all applications to use the same shortcut keys. Hopefully there will be an application like KWallet which will manage these things for us!