Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3, a bug?

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:08:50PM +0200, Christoph Glaubitz wrote:

On Mon, 2 May 2011 16:37:47 +0100 Magnus Therning wrote:

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This is such a basic issue that I refuse to believe I'm the first to bump into this behaviour. Hence I ask here first for some help.

I recently upgraded to Gnome3 and switching between windows with alt+tab is rather broken for me. Here's why I say that:

1. I make sure I have two non-overlapping windows on the screen at the same time. 2. I position the mouse pointer in one of the window. 3. At this point I can't switch focus to the other window with alt+tab.

Basically I have two options:

1. Move the mouse pointer so that it's not in any window, then I can use alt+tab. 2. Move the mouse to switch focus.

Neither of these is very convenient.

Does anyone recognise this?

/M

Are you using focus follow mouse? $ gconftool-2 -g /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode sloppy

Indeed I was.

If you switch this to "click", you are able to switch via alt+tab or alt+^, again. But it's really hard to get used to "click" after more than a decade of using sloppy :(

Yes, changing to click sorted me out, but as you say it's hard to get used to. Even harder to get used to is the clunky WM ;-)

Seems to be a known upstream bug for quite a long timenow: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597190 and there is also a new dup for this bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647232

btw. Seems not to be a gnome3 problem only, since Ubuntu 11.04 with unity has the same problem if you use "sloppy".

That's disappointing; that it has been know for long and still is unfixed. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay