Re: Push or simulate a Alt+Tab event to keyboard

[Felipe Borges <felipeborges gnome org>]

Hi Dario,

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 12:41 PM Dario Lesca <d lesca solinos it> wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 03/03/2020 alle 12.06 +0100, Felipe Borges ha scritto:
>
> Instead of emulating the key-press events, you could attempt to call
>
> the switcher directly.
>
>
> Check how GNOME Shell constructs the AppSwitcherPopup and use it
>
> directly in your extension.
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/master/js/ui/windowManager.js#L1986
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>
>
> That seems to be instantiated in Main.wm._startSwitcher.
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>
> Thanks Felipe for reply, but I'm not a programmer.
>
> I have take a "Hello Word" example extension and I try to understand how to modify it, but it's difficulty 
> for me

No worries. I am glad you are trying.

I wrote here https://gitlab.gnome.org/snippets/1033 a snippet showing
how to present the Alt+Tab dialog when pressing a button in the
topbar. I hope it helps you get started.

Cheers,
Felipe.


> I shall be glade If you can explain me in detail how to I can do this job
>
> Let me know, if you can.
>
> Many thanks
>
> --
>
> Dario Lesca
> (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 31 Workstation)
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