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Hi. I switched to Mandrake 9.2 (and KDE 3.1) partly because KDE wouldn't run under Debian (Knoppix) on my particular laptop and I had set my mind on using KDE. But now I find a feature very important to me to be missing and I need your help.

I used Gnome and Icewm for a while. And with both, I could cycle through tabs (e.g. in Galeon, Firefox or Opera) using the Ctrl+Tab shortcut, the same I had been using in Windows. I can't find a way to get KDE to act the same way, since it uses the Ctrl+Tab to cycle through desktops as default. And although there are plenty of options to be configured in the Look'n'feel shortcuts section (some of them pretty absconce, maybe because of my partially translated to Spanish version) relative to navigation through windows and desktops, none seems to address navigation through tabs. There must be a way to change this default setup. Could someone tell me how to do it? Many thanks in advance.

I'd hate to discard KDE for this one reason, but I cannot do without my Ctrl+Tab shortcut to navigate through tabs.

Thanks Seb, but you didn't understand my question.

Alt-arrow goes forward and back through visited pages within the same tab, I want a keyboard shortcut to jump from one tab to the other.

<<Try changing the shortcut keys.>> I tried, but in Looknfeel keyboard section there seems to be no options to change (or add in this case) shortcuts meant to navigate through tabs (as opposed to navigating through desktops or windows).

I badly miss (and need) these two shotcuts in KDE:

Ctrl-Tab to jump from one tabbed window to the other.
Ctrl-F4 to close a tabbed window.

Please help me.

Many thanks to all of you for your help, but I get the eery feeling I'm living in a parallel universe, because none of your pointers work for me.

Seb, please tell me exactly where do you have an option to configure tabbed browsing? In Kcontrol > Accessibility > Keyboard shortcuts, I have looked everywhere and can't find it. In Global shortcuts, I find nothing about tabs, neither do I in Applications shortcuts.

Ctrl-arrow (a very clever and elegant shortcut, BTW) must be a KDE thing, because it does work... but only in Konqueror. Neither Mozilla, Galeon, nor Opera budge.

Ctrl-. and Ctrl-, don't work. Neither do Ctrl-] and Ctrl-[. I've tried in Konqueror, Galeon, Mozilla and Opera. And even if they worked I wouldn't use them. Talk about awkard shortcuts! I have a Spanish keyboard: , and . are the same as in the English one (but what about French, Arab, Ukrainian typists?); as for [ and ] they are only reachable with AltGr.

Since I disabled the default Ctrl-Tab to cycle through desktops, I can use it to cycle through tabs but only in Opera. I also disabled the default Ctrl-F4 (go to desktop4), but I can't get it to close tabs and am stuck with Ctrl-W which I hate since I used that shortcut for other matters.

Is there a way to get it right through the command line tweaking some config file? Or should I drop KDE altogether?

Thanks for your help and patience.

Urraca [KDE 3.1 Mandrake 9.2]

Oh my, looks like I'll have to upgrade (khotkeys didn't launch). I'll give Mandrake 10 and KDE 3.2 a try then. Hope it solves the problem. Thanks again for your help. I'll be back with some stupid question soon enough.

Urraca