[em-bee]

discovery of hotkeys can be a challenge. despite having used gnome for years now i only recently learned that i can switch windows with alt-esc instead of alt-tab, which is much faster when you have multiple windows of the same app or want to switch back and forth between to windows. and i only found this while searching for an extension that would make switching windows easier.

[nequo]

Unity used to show the keyboard shortcuts when you held the Super key:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/JDDku.png

To my knowledge, modern GNOME does not have this which is sad. There's this webpage instead:

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-keyboar...

[em-bee]

the thing is that i would not even have thought of looking there. i was at "switching windows is a pain, how can i make it better" which is not "is there a hotkey to switch windows differently, because why would i even consider that there are multiple ways to switch windows, especially with gnome that kind of has a reputation of removing seemingly unneeded features.

[nequo]

It does have that reputation but I've found it very usable.

"Half-maximizing" windows with Super+Left and Super+Right is very handy when I need to see things side-by-side.

Moving windows from one screen to another by pressing Super and doing drag-and-drop, and moving windows across workspaces with Shift+Super+PgUp and Shift+Super+PgDown are also convenient.

[em-bee]

oh, no doubt. i am still using it too. the reputation in this case was just misleading me. i simply need to research and learn more of these shortcuts