Feature request: make Alt+Tab combination processing special

[peskovsky]

Good day, I ran into the annoying issue while using far2l in Linux Mint 22.04 LTS (Cinnamon edition). Thing is that far2l (as well as its ancestor Far Manager) is extremely useful with its Ctrl+Fn* / Alt+Fn* key combinations. Some of these hotkeys are already used by the desktop environment. So DE intercepts these key combinations and far2l doesn't receive them. I really don't want to change all these combination as I use them outside of far2l. Far2l already provides the workaround for this problem: you can use Options -> Input Settings -> Exclusively handle hotkeys that include -> Left Ctrl / Left Alt. Everything works like a charm with this WA. However there is still a single combination of "left Alt+Tab" / "left Alt+Shift+Tab" that I would like to be processed by DE instead of far2l itself, so that I could easily navigate to other applications. On the vanilla Linux Mint you can press "left Alt+Tab" twice - and the DE will switch to another application. However the commonly used patch with the fixes for xorg (https://launchpad.net/~nrbrtx/+archive/ubuntu/xorg-hotkeys; fixes the ability to use Ctrl+Shift+arrows / Alt+Shift+Tab combinations without switching the keyboard layout by Ctrl+Shift / Alt+Shift) somehow disables this option. Another way to switch out is to use "Win+Tab" or "right Alt+Tab". Thing is that I still have a zoo of Windows machines, and it would be really comfortable to use a single combination for switching:-(.

I undestand that the issue is a really low priority one, but it would be really cool if you'll manage to make some special rule for Alt+Tab / Alt+Shift+Tab in the "Input settings" section or just exclude this combination from the Input Settings rules.

Thank you so much for your attention!

[elfmz]

There re some technical difficulties to implement this, however note that far2l treats Win key as Alt so you may use it instead.

[peskovsky]

There re some technical difficulties to implement this, however note that far2l treats Win key as Alt so you may use it instead.

Good day, As I mentioned above, that's the way I use now:-).

Should I close the issue or I'd better leave it at the very bottom of backlog?

[elfmz]

let it be here, i also want this)