Signal-desktop: Feature Request: Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down to switch to next conversation
As far as I know, one can only change the conversation by clicking on the conversation in the list.
It would be awesome to be able to do this with a keyboard shortcut as well.
Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab are common ways to switch tabs in a browser.
As the conversations can be seen as tabs, I would suggest adopting those shortcuts.
Going to the next open conversation in the list with Ctrl+Tab
Going to the previous conversation in the list with Ctrl+Shift+Tab.
Currently those shortcuts do nothing.
Version 0.1.3 (I do not know how to update, maybe another issue)
Arch Linux
Edit: Signal just updated and this is still the case in Version 0.1.4
Edit 2: Adjusted title. See comment below.
He-Ro
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Okay, it seems like extensions are not allowed to grab certain key combinations.
Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab seem to be two of them https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands.
Please correct me if this is not the case.
Another idea would be to use Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down.
But I do not know, if those shortcuts would be limited to the signal app or the whole chrome browser would react to them.
He-Ro
on 16 Dec 2015
[I commented wrong information, sorry]
mammuth
on 16 Dec 2015
I would love this feature as well ( to be able to switch between conversations on some predefined hotkey combination)
pmalek
on 2 Jul 2016
I would suggest Alt+1, Alt+2, Alt+3, for quick switching between conversations as well as Alt+Up, Alt+Down for going between above and below conversations. I like Alt because that's the same key combination for selecting individual tabs in the main browser as well.
Allowing users to set custom ones would be wonderful as well. :-)
cwmke
on 7 Jul 2016
Telegram Desktop and Microsoft Outlook are both using Alt+Arrows for switching conversations/mails.
mc-suchecki
on 27 Mar 2017
Slack and Facebook Messenger also use alt+↑ and alt+↓ to switch between conversation threads (on mac at least). Would love to have those in Signal Desktop too.
erickrawczyk
on 1 Nov 2017
It seems that alt+arrows works, it would also be great if alt+number and/or alt+j/k (for vim) worked
fourstepper
on 26 Nov 2020
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I would suggest Alt+1, Alt+2, Alt+3, for quick switching between conversations as well as Alt+Up, Alt+Down for going between above and below conversations. I like Alt because that's the same key combination for selecting individual tabs in the main browser as well.
Allowing users to set custom ones would be wonderful as well. :-)