What does the Alt-Shift-Esc keyboard shortcut do?

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Accidentally I found this keyboard shortcut, Alt+Shift+Esc. It iterates over all open windows in current workspace with some Orange border.
I searched on the internet but found nothing about it.



So just wanted to know, what actually this shortcut is?
I am currently on Xorg Gnome ubuntu 17.10.










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    Accidentally I found this keyboard shortcut, Alt+Shift+Esc. It iterates over all open windows in current workspace with some Orange border.
    I searched on the internet but found nothing about it.



    So just wanted to know, what actually this shortcut is?
    I am currently on Xorg Gnome ubuntu 17.10.










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      Accidentally I found this keyboard shortcut, Alt+Shift+Esc. It iterates over all open windows in current workspace with some Orange border.
      I searched on the internet but found nothing about it.



      So just wanted to know, what actually this shortcut is?
      I am currently on Xorg Gnome ubuntu 17.10.










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      Accidentally I found this keyboard shortcut, Alt+Shift+Esc. It iterates over all open windows in current workspace with some Orange border.
      I searched on the internet but found nothing about it.



      So just wanted to know, what actually this shortcut is?
      I am currently on Xorg Gnome ubuntu 17.10.







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          From the GNOME Shell documentation:




          Alt+Esc



          Cycle through all open windows on a workspace.




          Adding Shift to a cycling shortcut usually just reverses the order (compare Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab).






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          • In my case (16.04, gnome) adding shift does not simply reverse the action. Instead, with alt-esc I can only change between the last two windows, only with shift I can cycle through all open windows.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 8:41










          • @SebastianStark since the behaviour you describe for Alt Esc is clearly different from the docs, either you're seeing a bug or the behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04 uses
            – muru
            Mar 28 at 8:46










          • @muru I don't think your second hypothesis (i.e. "behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04") is true, alt+esc does cycle through all open windows on a workspace here (Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME v3.26). So it seems either it's a bug or Sebastian somehow overrode the default behaviour.
            – pomsky
            Mar 28 at 8:58











          • Correct, something is different with my 16.04 installation (not sure what, I didn't override it), on another machine running 18.04 beta alt-esc behaves as described.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 9:30










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          From the GNOME Shell documentation:




          Alt+Esc



          Cycle through all open windows on a workspace.




          Adding Shift to a cycling shortcut usually just reverses the order (compare Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab).






          share|improve this answer




















          • In my case (16.04, gnome) adding shift does not simply reverse the action. Instead, with alt-esc I can only change between the last two windows, only with shift I can cycle through all open windows.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 8:41










          • @SebastianStark since the behaviour you describe for Alt Esc is clearly different from the docs, either you're seeing a bug or the behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04 uses
            – muru
            Mar 28 at 8:46










          • @muru I don't think your second hypothesis (i.e. "behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04") is true, alt+esc does cycle through all open windows on a workspace here (Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME v3.26). So it seems either it's a bug or Sebastian somehow overrode the default behaviour.
            – pomsky
            Mar 28 at 8:58











          • Correct, something is different with my 16.04 installation (not sure what, I didn't override it), on another machine running 18.04 beta alt-esc behaves as described.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 9:30














          up vote
          4
          down vote



          accepted










          From the GNOME Shell documentation:




          Alt+Esc



          Cycle through all open windows on a workspace.




          Adding Shift to a cycling shortcut usually just reverses the order (compare Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab).






          share|improve this answer




















          • In my case (16.04, gnome) adding shift does not simply reverse the action. Instead, with alt-esc I can only change between the last two windows, only with shift I can cycle through all open windows.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 8:41










          • @SebastianStark since the behaviour you describe for Alt Esc is clearly different from the docs, either you're seeing a bug or the behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04 uses
            – muru
            Mar 28 at 8:46










          • @muru I don't think your second hypothesis (i.e. "behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04") is true, alt+esc does cycle through all open windows on a workspace here (Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME v3.26). So it seems either it's a bug or Sebastian somehow overrode the default behaviour.
            – pomsky
            Mar 28 at 8:58











          • Correct, something is different with my 16.04 installation (not sure what, I didn't override it), on another machine running 18.04 beta alt-esc behaves as described.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 9:30












          up vote
          4
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          accepted







          up vote
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          From the GNOME Shell documentation:




          Alt+Esc



          Cycle through all open windows on a workspace.




          Adding Shift to a cycling shortcut usually just reverses the order (compare Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab).






          share|improve this answer












          From the GNOME Shell documentation:




          Alt+Esc



          Cycle through all open windows on a workspace.




          Adding Shift to a cycling shortcut usually just reverses the order (compare Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab).







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          • In my case (16.04, gnome) adding shift does not simply reverse the action. Instead, with alt-esc I can only change between the last two windows, only with shift I can cycle through all open windows.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 8:41










          • @SebastianStark since the behaviour you describe for Alt Esc is clearly different from the docs, either you're seeing a bug or the behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04 uses
            – muru
            Mar 28 at 8:46










          • @muru I don't think your second hypothesis (i.e. "behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04") is true, alt+esc does cycle through all open windows on a workspace here (Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME v3.26). So it seems either it's a bug or Sebastian somehow overrode the default behaviour.
            – pomsky
            Mar 28 at 8:58











          • Correct, something is different with my 16.04 installation (not sure what, I didn't override it), on another machine running 18.04 beta alt-esc behaves as described.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 9:30
















          • In my case (16.04, gnome) adding shift does not simply reverse the action. Instead, with alt-esc I can only change between the last two windows, only with shift I can cycle through all open windows.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 8:41










          • @SebastianStark since the behaviour you describe for Alt Esc is clearly different from the docs, either you're seeing a bug or the behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04 uses
            – muru
            Mar 28 at 8:46










          • @muru I don't think your second hypothesis (i.e. "behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04") is true, alt+esc does cycle through all open windows on a workspace here (Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME v3.26). So it seems either it's a bug or Sebastian somehow overrode the default behaviour.
            – pomsky
            Mar 28 at 8:58











          • Correct, something is different with my 16.04 installation (not sure what, I didn't override it), on another machine running 18.04 beta alt-esc behaves as described.
            – Sebastian Stark
            Mar 28 at 9:30















          In my case (16.04, gnome) adding shift does not simply reverse the action. Instead, with alt-esc I can only change between the last two windows, only with shift I can cycle through all open windows.
          – Sebastian Stark
          Mar 28 at 8:41




          In my case (16.04, gnome) adding shift does not simply reverse the action. Instead, with alt-esc I can only change between the last two windows, only with shift I can cycle through all open windows.
          – Sebastian Stark
          Mar 28 at 8:41












          @SebastianStark since the behaviour you describe for Alt Esc is clearly different from the docs, either you're seeing a bug or the behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04 uses
          – muru
          Mar 28 at 8:46




          @SebastianStark since the behaviour you describe for Alt Esc is clearly different from the docs, either you're seeing a bug or the behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04 uses
          – muru
          Mar 28 at 8:46












          @muru I don't think your second hypothesis (i.e. "behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04") is true, alt+esc does cycle through all open windows on a workspace here (Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME v3.26). So it seems either it's a bug or Sebastian somehow overrode the default behaviour.
          – pomsky
          Mar 28 at 8:58





          @muru I don't think your second hypothesis (i.e. "behaviour changed after whichever version of GNOME 16.04") is true, alt+esc does cycle through all open windows on a workspace here (Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME v3.26). So it seems either it's a bug or Sebastian somehow overrode the default behaviour.
          – pomsky
          Mar 28 at 8:58













          Correct, something is different with my 16.04 installation (not sure what, I didn't override it), on another machine running 18.04 beta alt-esc behaves as described.
          – Sebastian Stark
          Mar 28 at 9:30




          Correct, something is different with my 16.04 installation (not sure what, I didn't override it), on another machine running 18.04 beta alt-esc behaves as described.
          – Sebastian Stark
          Mar 28 at 9:30

















           

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