CTRL+ALT+Up is intercepted by some window managers

[turt2live]

linux mint cinnamon, at least

[ghosty-be]

linux mint cinnamon has the following keybindings overlapping:
keyboard -> shortcuts -> general ->
"show the workspace selection screen" is bound to ctrl+alt+up
"show the window selection screen" is bound to ctrl+alt+down
(for now replaced up and down by pgup and pgdown so it does not interfere with element)

[SimonBrandner]

I like the idea of avoiding these overlaps but I am not sure we can always avoid them... I see configurable shortcuts as the only solution which would actually solve the problem, otherwise, we might run into another overlap. What's the dev team's view on this?

[t3chguy]

Configurable shortcuts is definitely desired, I don't think its on the immediate roadmap however

[ghosty-be]

yeah configurable shortcuts would be awesome as I could remap whole thing to work more irc style then too :)
(just use up and down instead of ctrl + alt + up or down for example)
The current up or down shortcuts for example are actions I rarely need... repeating a command however (especially when working with bots, trying to fix a typo) are far more relevant...

[SaschaCowley]

Ctrl + Alt + <arrow> also interferes with table navigation in NVDA (screen reader).

[c7hm4r]

From my intuition, Ctrl + Alt + … shortcuts refer to functions of the OS or the window manager.

[c7hm4r]

What about Ctrl + <arrow>?

[t3chguy]

That's a standard text navigation shortcut https://www.howtogeek.com/115664/42-text-editing-keyboard-shortcuts-that-work-almost-everywhere/

[c7hm4r]

Oh, good to know. Though, will Element ever have the concept of editing paragraphs? – For the purpose of editing chat messages, I think it suffices to navigate to / select lines using (Shift +) <arrow>.

[c7hm4r]

Related: #10733