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How can I disable the GNOME alt tab popup? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by jumponboard@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I use paperwm and when I cycle through windows, I don't want to have the popup. I just want to cycle through them.

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

There's a GNOME extension called "Just Perfection" that may be exactly what you're looking for. It let's you hide/disable pretty much any visual thing you can think of.

[–] sjens@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There is a shortcut to switch windows directly that defaults to alt+esc

[–] jumponboard@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

thx. unfortunately that does not work with paperwm because it does not bring the window into view.

[+] dukatos@lemmy.zip -14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Use gnome as is. If you need something you can configure, use Kde Plasma.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

There are lots of ways in which modified GNOME is an excellent experience 😅

Its good to acknowledge that lack of customization is a central tradeoff of its design, but if they don't know whether what they need is possible, it's entirely valid for them to ask. Telling them not to do what they need and use something else seems unlikely to be a helpful contribution to the discussion.

For all they know there's an easy way to do exactly what they need, or a well maintained extension that will fill their usecase perfectly. From other replies it seems like they may have already gotten a really useful answer

[–] dukatos@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The problem is that gnome breaks extensions all the time. I gave up customizing it just because of that.

[–] Shalade@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

This, relying on third party developers just to have basic UX options like Dash to Panel, only to be broken by GNOME updates is insane. The fact that they allow extensions in the first place is great but they really dont care about user experience in the modded realm when they push huge breaking changes from version to version.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The best choice if you need to customize things is to not use gnome.

The gnome team does not want you to change things, they want you to use it as is. They go out of their way to be obtuse and stubborn.

Trying to cope and claim gnome is worth using at all if you don't like vanilla gnome is cope of the highest order and actively just going to hurt people by making them suffer though a shit experience.

Use the right tool for the tool for the right job. Gnome is not a multi tool stop trying to make it one.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just to clarify, not the person who downvoted you.

I'm a non technical user and have been using a plethora of extensions since my very first install with GNOME 😅. I use extensions to make it work currently as a media center, as well as just adjusting various aspects of the user experience.

I have a wonderful experience with customized GNOME, it serves me extremely well quite frankly. If I, a fairly non-technical (by linux standards) art and design nerd am having a great experience customizing things, I think it's safe to say other people might also get value out of, and be happy with GNOME after having made some adjustments.

I generally stick fairly close to the original ux these days, but I've straight up never used or wanted to use GNOME with no extensions or modifications. Which from hearing other people talk about it, I think is actually extremely common 😅

[–] gi1242@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've used both and completely agree.

i used fvwm for some 20 years. but when I switched to Wayland, I had to change window managers. I tried gnome first because it was the default on more distributions. works great as long as u use it as is . any customization is hard and needs gnome tweaks or some other extension...

kde plasma was just as light weight and completely configurable

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ironically lightweight KDE runs worse on my 2010 laptop than GNOME does. KDE is sluggish and GNOME is peppy like a modern laptop. A dev type explained to me that GNOME fetches everything that's needed for a function and caches it ready, where as KDE does lazy loading? Where it only loads what it immediately needs and knows what to load next when needed. And with my older system and slow processor grabbing this from memory with GNOME preloading is faster than KDEs method.

[–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does that laptop have an SSD?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Yes

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Can you even disable the alt-tab popup on KDE Plasma?

I know there are different task switchers and you can download custom ones. But not sure if there is a way to just cycle windows with alt-tab directly instead getting a task switcher.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can uncheck this checkbox:

System Settings → Window Management → Task Switcher → the second checkbox, next to the dropdown for selecting the visualization

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 3 days ago

I love KDE.

They're not afraid to add settings, unlike the gnome team.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Yeah. It's KDE, there's a setting for that.