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 Tue, 07 Mar 2023 at 11:11:47 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Tue, 07 Mar 2023 at 10:33:33 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
Would it be helpful for your use pattern if GNOME Shell had a specific
keyboard shortcut to open the system menu, bypassing the need to navigate
to the top bar first? I'm honestly surprised that it doesn't already: that
seems like an omission.
I've opened <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6476>
for this.
In the version of gnome-shell in trixie/sid, you can go directly
to the system menu (or the "quick settings menu", depending who you ask)
with Super+S. Super is usually the Windows key. It's no longer necessary
to navigate to some other part of the top bar and then go from there.
I also can't reproduce the regression you reported: when I press
Ctrl+Alt+Tab, I get keyboard focus on what used to be the Activities
button (I'm not sure how screen readers announce it), and I can use the
arrow keys or Tab and Shift+Tab to navigate across the top bar. But the
regression was never reliably reproducible, so perhaps your system is
behaving differently.
smcv
