Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5146
On Fri, 03 Mar 2023 at 13:41:43 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > In bullseye I could hit ctrl-alt-tab to switch up to the top bar, and then > use shift-tab to get to the system menu and do things like turn on/off > networking. > > On bookworm, that doesn't work. ctrl-alt-tab does announce "top bar", but > when I release it, I'm dropped back into whatever application I was in. This seems like upstream issue <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5146>, which was apparently a regression in GNOME 42. On the upstream issue, a bug reporter mentions that to reproduce the bug, you need two things: the focus mode needs to be set to "sloppy focus", and there needs to be at least one window open on the current workspace. That suggests some workarounds: either set the focus mode to the default click-to-focus, or use Ctrl + Alt + arrow keys to move to an empty workspace. By default, GNOME Shell keeps one empty workspace available: after the change from vertical to horizontal workspaces in GNOME 43, it's the one on the right. If click-to-focus is suitable for your workflow, the focus mode can be reset to the default with this command: gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode (I don't know why this regressed, and upstream don't seem to have any ideas either.) smcv
