Ubuntu – Shortcut to rename workspace in Gnome

gnomeworkspace-switcherworkspaces

You can "right-click => Preferences" on the Gnome workspace switcher to rename the workspaces.

I'm wondering if it is possible to configure a keyboard shortcut to trigger renaming the current active workspace.

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Use dconf-editor from Terminal, navigate to gnome>desktop>wm> and then set workspace-names to

 ["Internet", "Oracle", "Gimp", "PHP"]

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The only way I have found to modify the keyboard shortcuts for workspaces 5 and up in GNOME Flashback, is through a shell using the dconf command.

$ dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-1
['<Primary>F1']

Here I read the shortcut setting for the first workspace, to get an idea about the syntax to use when setting values for the missing shortcuts. I'm using CTRL+ F1 myself.

To add shortcuts for the remaining workspaces, just modify the value returned above to match the workspace number, and use dconfto apply them:

$ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-5 "['<Primary>F5']"
$ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-6 "['<Primary>F6']"

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