Go To Last Workspace

Extension for the Gnome Shell to quickly toggle between the two last workspaces with a single key (Super+Escape).

It installs a keybinding which defaults to <Super>Escape. Repeatedly pressing the shortcut key causes the active workspace to toggle between the last two selected workspaces.

NOTE: This latest version v12 of the extension only supports Gnome 45.

Installation

For latest release supporting Gnome 45:

Use GNU make:

make install

To just pack/build the extension without installation

make build

For Gnome verions 3.28 to 44:

Grab the extension from Gnome Extensions
Manual : Grab the latest release and unzip to .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/

Adjusting the shortcut key

From extension version 6 it is possible to change the shortcut key using an extension preferences window.

Alternatively, to change the default shortcut run something like this:

gsettings --schemadir $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/schemas \
set org.gnome.shell.extensions.go-to-last-workspace shortcut-key "['<Super>Tab']"

Older Gnome versions (manual extension installation)

If you by some reason need run this awesome extension on ancient Gnome 3.20, e.g. on Ubuntu 16.04, please use the following instructions:

Go to your user local extension directory:

$ cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions

Remove the extension if it exists:

$ rm -rf ./[email protected]/

Clone source code:

$ git clone https://github.com/arjan/gnome-shell-go-to-last-workspace.git

Rename the cloned repo to correspond the extension UUID:

$ mv gnome-shell-go-to-last-workspace [email protected]

Pick an old working revision:

$ git checkout 6c82ffa82b869e6a97928709788f9a68b38369fa

Set the default hotkey:

$ gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/schemas set org.gnome.shell.extensions.go-to-last-workspace shortcut-key "['<Super>Escape']"