Bug#1032319: gnome-shell: Accessibility Regression: ctrl-alt-tab doesn't stay on top bar

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 03 Mar 2023 at 13:41:43 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote:
>In bullseye I could hit ctrl-alt-tab to switch up to the top bar, and then use shift-tab to get to the system menu and do things like turn on/off networking.

On Tue, 07 Mar 2023 at 11:11:47 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>On Tue, 07 Mar 2023 at 10:33:33 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> Would it be helpful for your use pattern if GNOME Shell had a specific
>> keyboard shortcut to open the system menu, bypassing the need to navigate
>> to the top bar first? I'm honestly surprised that it doesn't already: that
>> seems like an omission.
>
>I've opened <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6476>
>for this.

In the version of gnome-shell in trixie/sid, you can go directly 
to the system menu (or the "quick settings menu", depending who you ask) 
with Super+S. Super is usually the Windows key. It's no longer necessary 
to navigate to some other part of the top bar and then go from there.

I also can't reproduce the regression you reported: when I press 
Ctrl+Alt+Tab, I get keyboard focus on what used to be the Activities 
button (I'm not sure how screen readers announce it), and I can use the 
arrow keys or Tab and Shift+Tab to navigate across the top bar. But the 
regression was never reliably reproducible, so perhaps your system is 
behaving differently.

     smcv