Hi Magnus, On Mon, 2 May 2011 16:37:47 +0100 Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
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 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 :( 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". -- chris