# Sticky Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Tab keys when switching between multiple EVE clients (Proton 5.0-9)

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**Category:** Linux\
**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sticky-ctrl-alt-shift-tab-keys-when-switching-between-multiple-eve-clients-proton-5-0-9/271117 "2020-10-02T19:38:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Erwin\_Madelung](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/erwin_madelung/32/414551_2.png) [@Erwin\_Madelung](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Erwin_Madelung)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sticky-ctrl-alt-shift-tab-keys-when-switching-between-multiple-eve-clients-proton-5-0-9/271117/3 "2020-10-15T19:10:31Z")

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Hi Rykar Rin,

it seems that it’s better to use the “switch between windows from the same application” shortcut. according to [this site](https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/shell-keyboard-shortcuts.html.en) it’s under alt + ` (the key above tab for most english keyboards) for ubuntu. If you use xfce4, it would be super + tab as default though (super is the linux name for the windows key). This was also described in [this comment](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/anyone-running-multiple-clients-having-trouble-switching-focus-between-clients/5370/3). If you should “get stuck” though, the approach described in [this other comment](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/anyone-running-multiple-clients-having-trouble-switching-focus-between-clients/5370/10) worked for me too.

I also tried [EVE-O Preview](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-o-preview-v5-0-1-fua-was-wrong-multi-client-preview-switcher-2020-06-01/4202). The preview part worked in compatibility mode but the client switching didn’t properly. I described that in the comments there too. It would be nice, if you could try it too and give feedback there. More systems to test would probably help.

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