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Let's say that I have 26 open windows in Gnome (specifically, Cinnamon 3.8.8). I want to efficiently navigate through all of them and perform a single task in each. How do I accomplish this? Alt-Tab and Alt-Tick have the behavior of going to the previous window, so if I'm on A and I hit them once then I'm B, but hit them again and I'm on A rather than onto C. You have to hit them successively more times to get to the later windows, which just doesn't work at all.

Instead, I want to be on window A, press a keyboard shortcut, be on window B, press the shortcut again, be on window C, etc. In other words, I want to navigate through the windows showing on my desktop taskbar in exactly the way I use Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to navigate through tabs within an application.

How do I accomplish this? I'm on Debian, for what it's worth, but I don't think that should affect the answer.

Ben McIlwain
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a little late but it's been a while I was seaching for the same thing as you, and sometime ago saw I wasn't alone when I found your question. I didn't find any way to do that on Cinnamon, so I coded it myself.

There is this PR which make some preparations for this functionality https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pull/10490#issuecomment-988231077

And the full code is here: https://github.com/alefpereira/cinnamon/tree/gwl-add-hotkey-to-cycle-apps

It's not integrated yet, but I hope they'll accept this change soon.

Cycle App Forward/Backward hotkeys

Alef Pereira
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