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I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME Shell 3.18.5.
I have just switched from XFCE to GNOME, and I am used to pressing Alt+Space and then C to close a window, Alt + Space and then X to maximize, etcetera. But in GNOME, I can't press those keys for those actions, because they aren't underlined:
and I have to scroll through with the arrow keys or click. Is there a way to enable those shortcuts?
Open a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T keyboard shortcut and try executing this command to fix the problem:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings close "['<Alt>F4']"
This command will set Alt-F4 as the default binding for closing the window. Then you should use the regular Ctrl-W to close tabs.
After the command, try testing it. Hope this will help
I just stumbled upon the answer...
Apparently Gnome Terminal is different from "normal" apps and has accelerators turned off by default? (Why is this?)
Anyway, the solution was to go to Edit menu -> Preferences -> General and enable the "Enable mnemonics" checkbox.
Also curious, why are they called mnemonics in this case but accelerators" in the official help documentation? Perhaps a consistent naming should be adopted to make it less confusing? I'd vote for "mnemonics" now that I'm aware of that term (I'd never heard of it before today); "accelerators" has too many other meanings.
Best Answer
I find that is easy to remap the GNOME shortcut to achieve the same thing, but mapping 3 keys is unsupported of you use the space key, it appears, so there are two options that I know:
The first is remapping the close window command; currently in “Ctrl + Q” or “Alt + F4” to “ Alt + C”. You can do this by going to Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard and then scrolling to the Close window command, then remapping the command, then again, you can only type two keys. Do the same to maximize window, to “Alt + X”