How to disable Alt + ` (backtick/grave)
- Install the compizconfig-settings-manager
package
- The setting can be found in
Desktop,Ubuntu Unity Plugin,Switcher - Change
Key to flip through windows in the switcherfromdisabledto something else.
And the reason you can not find it: disabled means it uses alt+` so it is impossible to find if you did not already know where it is used for ;)
This is what worked for me
- Open a terminal and run
dconf-editor - Navigate to org > gnome > desktop > wm > keybindings
- Find
['<Super>Above_Tab', '<Alt>Above_Tab'] - Set it to
['disabled'] - This should free up that binding for you to use elsewhere.
(ps: I use alt-grave to switch back one application like you can in mac - works well for me and the setting for that is in dconf-editor under the same place
For those of you that don't know what a grave is, it is the key right above the tab key and to the left of the number 1 key it looks like this (`). It's also known as a backtick and is used in mark down and python as a comment like this
`code here`
```or in some markdown dialects, code here```