[arch-general] Gnome 3, a bug?

[Christoph Glaubitz]

Hi Magnus,

On Mon, 2 May 2011 16:37:47 +0100
Magnus Therning <magnus at 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
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