How to disable Alt + ` (backtick/grave)

Question

I can't find where this shortcut is defined. How can I disable it?

Answer 1

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

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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``` 

Answer 2

• 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 switcher from disabled to 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 ;)

Answer 3

Or as a one-liner:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-group "[]"