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    Chrome OS 81 may get updated Alt+Tab improvement for Virtual Desks on Chromebooks

    Kevin TofelBy Kevin TofelMarch 25, 2020No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Virtual desks, introduced in the Stable Channel of Chrome OS 78, have gotten a ton of feedback. Most of it is good but there have been a growing number of Chromebook users not happy with the Alt-Tab keyboard combination.

    Why? Because Alt-Tab doesn’t switch between active apps on a single virtual desktop workspace on a Chromebook. Instead, it currently moves between apps on all virtual desks.

    The feedback has been heard and today Google introduced a code option to limit Alt-Tab behavior to only the currently active virtual desk.

    The new keyboard combination option will initially be/ hidden behind a flag, so you’ll need to enable it at chrome://flags#ash-limit-alt-tab-to-active-desk when it arrives. The change was just submitted for a merge request a short while ago with this comment on when to expect it:

    We are still considering the long term design of this behavior, but in the meantime, we’re exposing a `chrome://flags` flag to enable limiting Alt-Tab windows to the current active desk. The flag will be disabled by default. We intend to attempt merging back this change to M-81.

    As I noted earlier this week, Chrome OS 81 will be the next major release for Chromebooks in the near future. Chrome OS 82 will be skipped and the release date for Chrome OS 83 is currently a moving target.

    When Google decided to pause Chrome OS releases, the Chrome Engineering team said it would focus changes for Chrome OS 81 on security updates, so it appears that the team is making an exception for this feature request. I can definitely appreciate that and I’m sure those who submitted feedback do too.

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    After spending 15 years in IT at Fortune 100 companies, Kevin turned a hobby into a career and began covering mobile technology in 2003. He writes daily on the industry and has co-hosted the weekly MobileTechRoundup podcast since 2006. His writing has appeared in print (The New York Times, PC Magazine and PC World) and he has been featured on NBC News in Philadelphia.

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