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Making Alt+Tab switch only the windows on the current screen

May 30, 2021

I connect an external display to my laptop and makes the external display as the primary display. In the laptop screen, I usually keep only Slack or any other messaging applications. And I also make use of multiple workspaces in the primary display. When I use Alt+Tab to switch between windows in the current workspace, Slack also pops up in the list of tabs that I can switch to. This is annoying because, most of the times I may need to keep pressing Tab to get the window that I wanted.

So, I started searching for some solution and I found this Gnome Shell Extension. This will allow us to restrict the windows to be switched to only the the windows present in the current screen.

Here's the project's repository:

GitHub - mmai/Current_screen_only_on_window_switcher: Gnome extension - limits the windows shown on the switcher to those of the current monitor
GitHub - mmai/Current_screen_only_on_window_switcher: Gnome extension - limits the windows shown on the switcher to those of the current monitor
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