Workspace Keyboard Shortcuts in Budgie

CheeseEBoi

Hello all, so I checked out the recent release in a VM and Budgie looks interesting to me (as an XFCE user). However, I can't seem to find a way to change the keyboard shortcuts for the workspace switcher. I prefer using SUPER+Left/Right for switching workspaces you can only set the vertical workspace keyboard shortcuts because the settings manager is copied from GNOME. How can I configure these shortcuts?

On another note, wouldn't it make more sense to have the keyboard shortcuts settings in the Budgie Desktop Settings rather in the Gnome Settings Application? I'm not sure if you can hide the keyboard shortcuts tab in the Control Center but it would certainly make more sense if Budgie is still being planned to keep both settings managers.

johano

CheeseEBoi Ctl+Alt+Left & Right Arrows works as @kevjon says.
I don't know if this can be changed (I find it works for me). You can set a shortcut to jump to a specific workspace, maybe that would help you. Win+1, Win+2, etc or something like that? (I like to use Ctrl+Alt+1, Ctl+Alt+2, etc). Below is my config note regarding this. Hope you get sorted.

Workspace shortcuts

The gnome keyboard settings allows setting shortcuts for 4 workspaces.

I have used Ctrl + Alt + <number on keypad>

How to add shortcuts for additional workspaces

Here's how to read how *dconf * manages the shortcuts:

dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-1

which will return, depending on what shortcut is set, something like this

['<Primary><Alt>KP_1']

Set new shortcuts

Here we add new shortcuts for workspaces 5 and 6

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-5 "['<Primary><Alt>KP_5']"

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-to-workspace-6 "['<Primary><Alt>KP_6']"

These will function although will not be shown in Settings/Keyboard Shortcuts

kevjon

I haven't found a way to change it either. In the keyboard shortcuts it says the shortcut should be Super + PgUp and Super + PgDn. That combo doesn't work and changing it doesn't work either.

Through google I found Ctl+Alt+Left & Right Arrows is the keyboard shortcut for changing workspaces but that isn't documented anywhere in the keyboard shortcut settings.

kevjon

Another option is to add the workspace applet to the panel. Hover you mouse cursor over it and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to switch between workspaces.

CheeseEBoi

kevjon Thanks, but I'm very keyboard driven and I would like the functionality of being able to use the arrow keys, but thanks for your efforts!

GermanTux

I have a silimar "problem" on a secondary machine (running Budgie) with adding shortcuts for ws5-8 and I would like a confirmation, if what I want to do is right.

To add my shortcut for

switching to a specific workspace (which is super+1/2/3/4)
moving a window to a specific workspace (super+shift+1/2/3/4),

do I have to edit the file at

/usr/share/gnome-control-center/50-mutter-navigation.xml ?

I suppose it will give me the shortcut key option in the shortcut app window and I can set a shortcut for it as usual?

Edit: ok it worked!