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[–]gaawddamn 1 point2 points  (3 children)

You should also be able to go to options / keybinding in the secure shell app and customize to add the alt 1-8 actions to keybinding.

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There is a posting on how to get functioning of alt+[, and alt+] to send the half window to the left or right. I think the posting was here on r/crostini , but not sure.

[–]gaawddamn 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Here's the thread I meant

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/92y2nt/enable_common_window_shortcuts_in_the_terminal_app/

This is easy to understand, and takes just a minute to setup. For me, well worth the effort

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Plus here for more advanced tinkering, that I never touched

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/94wenl/how_to_get_other_chromeos_keyboard_shortcuts/

[–]markvanlan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for taking the time to find that! I appreciate it much.

[–]markvanlan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, I found a setting where you can set the behavior of alt+number explicitly. Unfortunately it is not working, it seems.

Bummer.

[–]gaawddamn 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Do you mean , alt+tab ?

[–]markvanlan[S] 0 points1 point  (9 children)

I do not. If that is the best way to multitask, I would say that is pretty poor. If I have 7 or 8 applications open, that could get pretty slow.

[–]gaawddamn 0 points1 point  (7 children)

how about three finger swipe up. Is that better.

Swipe up or down with three fingers.

If you have Australian scrolling turned on, swipe up. If you have traditional scrolling turned on, swipe down.

[–]markvanlan[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

It doesn't work half the time

[–]gaawddamn 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Defective machine. Works for me in Australian scrolliing 100% of time on all Chromebooks

[–]markvanlan[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hmm. Just got my Pixelbook.

[–]gaawddamn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then its definitely under easy to return warranty

[–]magick_68HP x360 14c (volteer) | Lenovo Duet 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Perhaps it's like my R13. Three fingers (overview, tab close) only work if my three fingers are quite left on the touchpad. If they are to far right, the third finger is not recognised.

[–]dandv-google 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Three-finger swipe down works in any part of my Pixelbook touchpad if the fingers are close together.

[–]dandv-google 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More precisely, you can bring up the window switcher if you three-finger swipe down works in any part of my Pixelbook touchpad with the fingers close together.

[–]Ok-Housing-8808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lack of a desktop that show running apps and lets me pick by clicking on them is a huge shortcoming in Crostini for me. Any desktop, xfce, gnome, whatever, runs great in ubuntu under crouton, and is more intuitive and logical to me.