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Re: Alt+Tab+Down-Arrow is inefficient

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From: Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:51:32 +0800
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On 21/02/2012 11:06, Colton Allen wrote:
> We should replace the Alt+Tab+Down-Arrow with *Alt+Tab+Mouse-Down/Mouse-Up.
>  *Alt tabbing is done with one hand so why should I remove my hand from my mouse
> at all?  It seems like an awful lot of arm movement.  The mouse-wheel could
> definitely be utilized to great effect with that feature and really make the
> process more intuitive.

Isn't Alt+Tab+Down-Arrow the same as Alt+`? (grave key, the key above tab).
Afaik both Unity and GNOME Shell use the same set of keybindings for expanding
the application entry into window entries.

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Loong Jin

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Alt+Tab+Down-Arrow is inefficient
From: Colton Allen, 2012-02-21