On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:01:43PM +0100, Aljosha Papsch 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
It's a design pattern of the GNOME Shell. Switching between windows work application based, not window based. Which means, if a Webbrowser is opened and two Shells, you won't switch between the shells but between Firefox and the last focused shell. You can get back the old behavior, though. Just install gnome-shell-extensions-git from AUR.
No, you misunderstand me. No matter what two windows I have, whether they are two different applications or not, I still see the same behaviour. I also see the same behaviour when switching between two windows of the same application (using alt+` on my machine). /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay