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I need the alt-tilda combination for my IDE's (by JetBrains), however Ubuntu insists capturing this combination for in-app windows switching.

Tried following several guides (both ccsm and dconf-editor), however this combination still remains captured by Ubuntu.

Anything else I can try in order to finally disable it?

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  • It worth mentioning that it worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04, and even carried to previous installation of 16.04 during upgrade, however same steps stopped working for me on a fresh install.
    – SyRenity
    Commented Feb 14, 2017 at 18:38
  • did you ever find a solution? It seems like there are many keyboard settings that you need to change on Ubuntu for keyboard centric IntelliJ to work cleanly. Maybe someone should create a script for this?
    – Gary
    Commented Aug 8, 2017 at 18:00

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Reset to default
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For Ubuntu mate 16.04:

In menu: System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard Shortcuts

Find a group "Window management", then there is an option "Move between windows in an application, using a popup menu".

Change it to something like Shift+Ctrl+Alt+A

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  • It's similar for Gnome in Centos 7.5. In gnome-control-center it's labled Devices > Keyboard > "Switch windows of an application" ** note that you MUST set the hotkey to some combination (e.g. something long like alt + ctrl + shift + pause, or something you do not use). If set to 'disable' it will, for some reason or another, still proc. Just glad to have it gone, thanks for your insight Artem L.
    – Hunter Frazier
    Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 22:51
  • Same as @HunterFrazier's comment, on Ubuntu 20.04 the shortcut is called "Switch windows of an application" too and must be set to something else
    – Paolo Fulgoni
    Commented Aug 11, 2021 at 17:14
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For CentOS 7.4 Linux and more recent versions, probably:

Confirm what ArtemL and Hunter Frazier said. This saved me a lot of time. I have to start "gnome-control-center" from a terminal window, then Devices > Keyboard > "Switch Windows of an Application" has to be set to something. On my CentOS-7 machines, the option default is indicated as "disabled", but it is in fact, still active. Specifically, I changed it to "shift-ctrl-alt-w". This solved a serious problem where an old APL application, running inside an emulator (DOSbox) was not able to use the APL "diamond" character, generated by the "alt-~" (alt-tilde) sequence. On CentOS-7, there is no "System / Preferences ...", and the "Tweak" tool is of no use for this. Thanx for posting CentOS info.

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