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In MATE (at least as shipped with Ubuntu 17.04), by default, Ctrl-Alt-{Left/Right/Up/Down} switches workspaces. Thus this shortcut is unavailable in applications.
In the "Keyboard Shortcuts" (mate-keybinding-properties) application, this shortcut is not listed. (Probably because it is handled by the underlying window manager Marco.) How can it be disabled?
I tried putting together a cheat sheet or reference card. After exploring various possibilities I ended up doing the following:
TL;DR - stick to using prefixes where available, e.g. ctrl+a in tmux, ctrl+o (Dvorak)/ctrl+s (QWERTY) in vim and irssi. This seems to have the least consequences and be somewhat cross-platform-friendly.
You can use Witch to select and raise only specific windows.
This would usually focus the second window in creation order:
set text item delimiters to linefeed
tell application "Google Chrome"
reopen
do shell script "sort -n <<< " & quoted form of (id of windows as text) & " | sed -n 2p"
tell window id (result as integer) to set index to 1
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Google Chrome"
perform action "AXRaise" of window 1
end tell
do shell script "open -a google\\ chrome"
set frontmost to true and activate would also raise other windows. set index to 1 doesn't actually raise the window, but it makes it appear as window 1 to System Events, which can AXRaise it. See this answer for different ways to assign shortcuts to scripts.
This would select a window by the URLs of tabs:
tell application "Google Chrome"
repeat with w in windows
tell w
repeat with t in tabs
if URL of t contains "google" then
set index to 1
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
end tell
Best Answer
You can use:
gsettings set org.mate.Marco.global-keybindings switch-to-workspace-left disabled gsettings set org.mate.Marco.global-keybindings switch-to-workspace-right disabled gsettings set org.mate.Marco.global-keybindings switch-to-workspace-up disabled gsettings set org.mate.Marco.global-keybindings switch-to-workspace-down disabledThe names of those (and many other) settings can be found here (in somewhat unreadable form): https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/blob/master/src/org.mate.marco.gschema.xml. The command for changing shortcuts is described very shortly in https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/blob/master/README.